Exactly 3 weeks ago, I arrived in the evening at the airport in Faro. It feels like much longer ago because we have done a lot lately. Unfortunately, 2 weeks of vacation was not an option.. the Dutch mentality of rolling up sleeves and continuing was also present here. That's what you get when you work with a Dutch family!But I have absolutely nothing to complain about. I am now in my bedroom and I think I am alone for the first time in 3 weeks. Because this family has really involved me in everything, I love it, I feel completely at home. I am completely myself and I do not shy away from anything and that is a good sign. I think we click well together, I can chat and work with everyone and I think that is very important. Everyone is nice and straight, so you know exactly where you stand. No complaining afterward if someone does not like something you will find out soon enough, I like that mentality.

I'm almost ashamed of it, but this weekend I'm going to tell you about.. is 2 months ago (A)But! I want to post it anyway ..It is Saturday, June 1st and we are free!! We all crawl out of bed late after a busy week. Worked a lot. Probably this is the last free Saturday we are going to get, the three of us are lying on the roof terrace in the sun, it is already around 1 pm and we still have to eat, but are not looking forward to anything. Zé short for José only wants one thing. ''Black Pig''.

What has happened a lot, it cannot be described in days ... weeks ... months, I have absolutely no sense of time, time flies and at the same time, some days are beautiful and so long.

Here I am, again with many suitcases around me .. I am not going back to the Netherlands, NO. I'm not there yet, I will continue my adventure in Portugal. I am at this point not very happy with this plan because it's all soooo emotionally loaded. Two weeks ago, I left my house in Ferragudo and a day later submitted my resignation.

It is going fast, but what have i done a lot already. The first week in my new town, in my new house, with new housemates, was quite tough. If everything is new and you have nothing to hold on to, and you only have yourself ... which was not exactly a lot for me since I was quite in ruins. But i have to build something from scratch again. Fortunately, the people around me are very sweet, neighbors, on the street, at work and my roommates are the best! I live with 2 French men and 1 Belgian / French girl. We connect well from the start, I am grateful for that. It is a nice house, clean, neat and we are respectful with each other. All my suitcases are unpacked and it feels a bit more like my room, with the cards and photos that I have brought from the Netherlands and received in between, it feels like there are always friends and family around me.

Hello on board of 2020

Now sitting at my desk in my bedroom in Lisbon which is currently also labeled as my office. I think about this weird time with Covid-19. A worldwide disease that is affected by young and old, healthy and weak. Which touches many lives and ruined many futures. It is also a period of commitment, commitment with your housemates, with your partner ore family with which you live and now you are forced to communicate your life, 24/7 with these people. Hopefully Full of love with so much time together or maybe annoyed with a lot of irritation. But also a time when you have never felt so connected to the rest of the world, No country that is skipped. One country with even more sick or dead than another, where we look at a top 20 and more at large and small countries that are all hit so hard and mercilessly by this unreal situation. Friends of mine all over the world, Italy, France, the USA, Germany all of them in the same scary surroundings. It is unreal but true.

Well, here we go. I ended my previous blog with “hopefully I will write the next blog from my new room in Almada” .. Guess what! =)