Entering community life

After having spent 4 weeks on Carlos his finca, the time had come to move on to community life with my friends at La Catalina. Lotje had been gone for about 2 weeks, to get the gearbox fixed, which in the end didn’t need fixing because that had already been done 1.5 ago… It had …

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Looking back on the year

The year 2020 has come to an end, and endings always make me reflect back on the journey. I’ve always spent Christmas with my family and fortunately this time was no different. And just like the past years, new years’ was spent with my Aunt. Here I am again, in Vaals, closing and beginning the …

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Covid reunions

Wow, my time in the Netherlands was a very welcome change of everything. Everything is so green!!! I arrived in proper Indian summer temperatures, so that was a very smooth transition. My plane arrived early (yes really) and my sister came to pick me up. It felt so good to see and hug her and …

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Love and dynamics

I have been wanting to write this story for a while now, but up to now it didn’t want to be written. I felt too caught up in all my mental stories and emotions and too much in the process still. Not that I’m not in the process anymore (is there ever going to be …

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