Hello all, welcome to my travelblog on I Am Made In!

Hofplein Rotterdam

The coming months I’ll be travelling and working abroad for most of the time and through this blog I’ll keep everyone up to date. I’ll be posting all my entries in English. These coming months means much to me, it’s like a dream come true and I’d like to share it with all of you. I hope to see some reactions from you, I’ll appreciate that.

Those who know me a bit better, know that travelling has always been one of my dreams. As a kid I was always interested in other countries, languages and cultures but I didn’t had the opportunity to travel much. But I’m happy to have the opportunity now.

Some of you know that since the end of May I’ve been working many extra hours on the railcatering (on the train between Amsterdam and Brussels), beside teaching Geography in the mornings. I did it of course to save extra money and tomorrow will be my last day working there. It has been hard the last few weeks but I’m happy that I did it.

Rotterdam city

At the end of this week I’ll leave to Copenhagen, Denmark, where I’m going to stay just for a few hours. Later I’ll catch the train to Falkenberg, little town in southwestern Sweden where I’m going to visit Tommy, a Swedish friend.
After that I’ll spend 3 days in Stockholm and then fly to Rome, Italy. I’ll stay for about 18 days in Italy, visiting some parts of the country and also visiting Luca & Lucia, two friends near Venice. In Rome I’ll meet up my an Aruban friend called Mike, who’s studying there for 1 month.
After this I’ll spend 4 weeks working on a camping in Croatia for a Dutch travel organization. Doing this I’ll get a part of my money spent on the earlier trips back.

After Croatia I’ll probably go to Ukraine, where a Curacao-friend is working now for almost 1 year already and he invited me to come over for a few days in Kyiv. And depending the situation, if posibble I’ll go as well near Barcelona, Spain where a Dutch friend of my lives (Paul) and a Curacao-friend (Jean-Paul) will be spending 6 months for his practices in Valencia.

Dia di Bandera Curacao-flag hanging out of my room

In September and October I’ll be in Holland for a few weeks, working at my present school (just looking over a few students) for about 3 weeks to save some extra money.

The biggest challange though will be Australia. The plan is to go around mid/end October there and to spend a few months working & travelling there. They’ve granted me the Working Holiday Visa already, which allows you to travel & work in Australia for 12 months.

Meanwhile I’m finishing to clean my room, pack everything and Thursday I’ll move all my stuff to my sister in Vlaardingen. In the meantime I’ll stay at her place (in sept. and oct. while I’ll be for a few weeks back in Holland). If everything goes as right, I’ll go back to Curacao for good by July 2008.

Anyway, this was my first entry. Take care all!!!