DIVERSE CITY

Wat heb ik toch een leuk leven! Even een kort berichtje als teken van leven hier vanuit Rotterdam! Het is allemaal super chaotisch maar oh...zo leuk! Super tof team, mooi huis, gaaf project en bijzondere mensen ontmoet en natuurlijk een super baan! Hier boven zie je wat foto's van mijn teamgenoten! Latersssssss

Dutch Delight

My dear friends, I have made a hard but wise decision. I'm turning my Fountain of Delights into a dutch blog. Sorry for all my faithfull viewers (not sure how many there were left anyways...) but I am planning to keep an online diary on my new life as a youth worker in Rotterdam. Knowing myself well enough, it is rather unlikely I will keep 2 sites up to date so I've decided to choose for the dutch version. You can always learn dutch or just look at the photos or we can keep up to date by email. I will send the occasional email to keep you all up to date as well! xxx

The summer is Magic! Magic!

There's always a song for everything. After weeks and weeks of rain and thunder storms we finally passed the 30 degrees this weekend. Summer has finally come: it's time to celebrate! Party on! This is my one of my favorite summer songs. I was singing it in Scotland and noone knew the song. What a shame and you can't enjoy the summer fully if you can't sing along with this hit...just my humble opinion... So here's a wee link so you can listen to the happy tune on YouTube. Just listen and don't bother watching the clip. The summer is magic, you have to imagine! Oh oh o! The summer is Magic!

Business Chick

I'm still alive! Life has been so busy lately that I haven't had the time or the energy to write a new blog. Here's a wee short one. As most of you know, I walked on Scottish soil again a few weeks ago. It was wonderful. I will hopefully put some photos on my blog soon...if my phone will do what I tell it to do! More details soon!
Now an update on life here in Dutchland. Have moved back with my parents for 2 months till I start my new job in Rotterdam. For now I'm working in Amsterdam largest sky scraper in the business heart of the city. Don't even ask how I got here... So much fun to see all these fancy posh business men wearing expensive suits and getting picked up by their personal chauffeur. I'm finding it all quite hilarious! The job is all to do with computers, bit boring...but with some fine tunes and fun collegaes we can overcome that. Added a picture of my new hot spot for the coming months. Aafke...the business chick...

Revival!

Just got back from an amazing weekend! Every year we have this huge christian conference named Revival with over 50.000 visitors in Holland. This year was my first time! A whole weekend filled with lots of singing and great speakers. My favorite speaker was David Pawson from England. Learned so much and it was so good to praise God with all those thousands of people around you. So many different people, with varied church backgrounds all joining hands to praise Him. That's how it should be! Sunday afternoon was very special. The whole day it was rainy and cloudy but when we had the sing-in which was in the open air, the clouds rolled away and the sun was shining again! You can only stand in awe when you see over 40.000 people singing His praises and celebrating Life! Below is a photo of the big tent which fitted over 10.000 people. The major gatherings where in that tent. What more can I say; simply amazing! Believe or not...I actually enjoyed camping! Now we did have this amazing tent I would like to call the Tabernacle. It was huge and beautiful. It's the white creamy one behind the caravan. The pretty one. I slept like a baby and my tent mates were so much fun! All in all I had a blast!

A new chapter...

Do you know that song: Only You?
Only you can fill my deepest longing
Only you can breathe in me new life
Only you can fill my heart with laughter

Only you can answer my hearts cry

Life with God is exciting, exhausting, excilerating and a lot of it is waiting in expectancy... But waiting for Him is worth it! A new chapter in my life will commence in a few months time. I got offered a job to work for the Youth for Christ in Rotterdam! It doesn't have anything to do my study or work at the moment but hey...neither did working for the Abernethy Trust and that turned out to be a very special chapter in my life.

I've only got a few more days of work left and I am moving out of my appartment next friday morning. Strange to leave that all behind again. But change is good! First thing first ofcourse so I am flying to Scotland friday evening! Holiday celebrate! Then I just need to find a job for 2 months and on the 1st of September I will take off again in a new city, a new job and a new life... But I know He fills my deepest longing, will breathe in me new life, fill my heart with laughter and answer my hearts cry. What more can a girl ask for?

Left my heart...

...in bonnie wee Scotland! The Highlands are calling me and I can only answer! So I just booked my tickets and I'm coming back in a few weeks. On the 1st of June to be exact! Will wonder around for about two weeks. I just can't wait to catch up with everyone and experience the beauty of Scotland once again. Oh boy, I wish I was going tomorrow! You know how your heart can sometimes ache and long for something you really love. Well I think Scotland is on the top of that list! I've only got a few more weeks of work left. Finishing on the 31st of May, so what better way to start unemployed life than to go on holiday! First I'm going to Glasgow, then travelling to my favorite valley in the world; The Spey Valley! Will visit Ardeonaig for a few days (the Mamma Mia Queen is coming...better watch out!), might go to Aberdeen too. Oh I don't know and frankly I don't really mind. Just coming to relax, unwind and gear up for a new chapter in life!