being back from 'home'

Posted on 15/7/2009 at 15:28 - Post Comment

DUTCHWOMANABROAD

wednesday july 13th 2009

i spend a great two weeks with the boys in holland. we did some great things, p.e. the museum of avation history in lelyveld (www.aviodrome.nl), loads of swimming since the weather was good. visited all the cousins-twice-around-the-corner. when we left we took the nice weather with us. today it seems like holland in the fall, it has been raining cats and dogs this morning and now it's cloudy and humid. so i got a bit into the 'holland-feeling': baked an apple-crumble pie and read some dutch magazines while being draped on the sofa with a cuppa. i talked to a friend yesterday during a bit of tennis and we must have been a pain in the ..... for the people next to us, but we just had sooooo much to tell after being away. she had been away for two weeks like me. she is french-swiss and she expressed that she could find herself very much in one of the first pieces i wrote about being away from the roots. she is not always so happy being here, also misses things, ecc. and she said "i was happy to be 'home' after two weeks travelling about". and for the first time in years i can say the same. i looooved being back home, but i feel now that my life is very much here in switzerland. how come my feelings have changed? i do not know the answer. but still, looking already for a ticket to go to holland again by myself in october. i feel the need to go once without my family, so i will be able to do a bit more of sightseeing, visiting friends, do just things i like.