The last couple of days literally felt like holiday. I spent most of the time in the pool or tanning in the garden considering that it has been over 25 degrees every single day. I've been settling in, unpacked my bags and tried to adapt to this new way of life.
On Sunday I went to the beach together with Lauren and her sister Nicole. This was quite an experience as there were many people selling things on the beach like coke and ice cream. They would then say all these little jingles like, 'A cokie for your oukie' and 'A lolly to make you jolly'. They would randomly talk to you and say that their ice cream comes from Iceland and the Coke is magical. The beach is very different from our beach. You can see mountains in the distance, the san is white and the waves are enormous. The only thing which reminds me of Holland at the beach is the temperature of the water which is surprisingly cold. At night, all the exchange students came to my temporary home for dinner which was really nice to hear how they survived the first few days. Lourents had a sunburn already from being at the golf course for 3 hours.
On Monday, Lauren had organized a "small" welcome-get-to-know party which turned out to become much bigger. This was a great idea seeing that I could meet some girls already so I wouldn't have to follow Lauren around the entire first day of school. Today we went to school to pick up Lauren's school books and meanwhile she showed me around the school. We'll find out tomorrow how it is to actually go to school here, my first SCHOOL DAY!
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