THANKSGIVING Aah, Thanksgiving had finally arrived! Why had we been looking forward to it? Because we had been planning out Thanksgiving dinner since March, 2010!! That's when our good friends from Everlife came to Holland and brought some extra friends over, including Mr. David Browning. From the beginning, he invited us to join his family for a real American Thanksgiving dinner. And we took up on his offer. BUT before we share the story of this Thanksgiving di...

HALLOWEEN "TRICK OR TREAT!!!"...which unfortunately, we were unable to do, because our Halloween party was one day before actual Halloween (which is also the trick-or-treating day, October 31st). However, the party was GREAT! Caroline's (VISA) parents were kind enough to open their home to us, international students. However, before we went there, we all met up at our usual meeting point: the Wilder Tower on campus. This meant, walking all the way from...

FALL BREAK: NEW ORLEANS Finally, finally, finally…..fall break had come! For us this meant: NEW ORLEEEEAAAAAANNNSSSSS!!! YEAH! So time for a loooooooong blog…get ready! We went with 8 other people and had rented two cars. After a long wait, we were on our way at 4.15pm and had a 7-hour drive ahead of us. Us, Joe, Peter and Nhat were sharing a car. We were driving a pretty fancy silver Chevy, which is basically the common car brand here. The thing about dr...

RETREAT WEEKEND: TWIN LAKES, MISSISSIPPI! It actually has been a while ago, but we love to share this story with you and we are actually really busy in the States so we like to take this opportunity to let you know more of what we did in our retreat weekend. This amazing weekend was from 1-3 October in Twin Lakes, Mississippi and it was one of our best trips evvuuurrrr. Jesper didn't thought it would be that interesting, unlike Lena, but we decided to go anyw...

NASHVILLE WEEKEND: HANGING WITH OLD AND NEW FRIENDS In the weekend of September 25/26, we went to Nashville. Armed with our German friends Joe, Martin and Peter, we set ourselves for a 3-hour trip. First: getting our rental car. A very exhausting process of waiting, checking our details, driving in a gorgeous Cadillac to another location to pick up our car and finally getting the car…we were planning on leaving for Nashville at around 10.00am, but eventually w...