Home, yet homesick

I was just watching a tiny spider crawling across my pillow and I thought to myself “meh, in Australia our spiders are heaps bigger than that”. Then I remembered that I am in Australia now. It doesn’t seem real.

I still say alsjeblieft when I pay for things, but now it is kinda under my breath. It makes me a bit sad to think that I won’t be back in Holland for some time, and then probably for only a few weeks. There are a lot of things I miss, I guess the non-human part of gezelligheid is so obviously missing here. I wish there were terrasjes for me to sit and enjoy the beautiful 21

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