I feel like I'm living in a dream. This may be because it's 1am, or it could be my jet-lagged/sleep deprived brain. Or it could be the fact that I just can't believe I'm back in Australia for good. Have I really just finished living in the Netherlands for 11 months? It feels like I'm just getting ready to go and live there. My time in the Netherlands feels like it went very quickly and that I really wasn't there for that long. Has it really been so long since I've seen Adelaide and all the lovely people here? It feels like I saw them all last week, yet I still miss them terribly.
As I start settling back into Australian life, I can't help but think that I'm only here for a short time. I feel like I'm on holiday and will soon be heading back 'home' to the Netherlands. I guess that I felt more at home and settled in NL than I thought I did. I just can't help thinking that I'll wake up in my little loft bed in my Dutch appartment and get ready to catch the tram to, well anywhere. I keep thinking that I'll be hearing Dutch all around me and that I need to be prepared for whatever the weather will throw at me. At least that last bit's a little true still. Seeing as it's winter (my third in a row!) in Australia, I do have to be ready for cold, wind, rain and even sun. But that's beside the point. I will have to adjust to my 'old home' being my 'new home' and it's a little strange at the moment. Well what can I say, I've only been back in the country for a day!
As I set up my room at my parent's house, I have to start looking to the future and stop dwelling too much on the past. I've had my year in the Netherlands and now I'm back in Australia and I need to start living my life here. I'm so glad for the opportunity that I had to spend that year in NL and I can't believe it actually happened! Yet again I went after what I wanted to do with my life and made it happen (of course with God's help!). Now I wonder what God has in store for my future!!
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