No!

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Maybe the one new thing I have been trying to master over the last few weeks, is saying ‘no’. No to people wanting to visit right now (sorry!), no to going to my brother’s 30th birthday party (mea culpa!), no to guys trying to sell me a selfie-stick (sorry not sorry), no to boys and […]

Want to feel like an idiot?

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For whoever thought moving abroad is easy, let me kill your dream: it. is. not. I knew it on beforehand and being here has shown it even more so. It ain’t easy, but I never expected it to be, which helps a lot when the days are not so sunny and bright. Trying to build […]

Swimming

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Tonight after class I walked with a classmate to a large grocery store. We chatted in Italian (she’s Japanese), our ways parted in the store and after stocking up on cookies, licorice (Dutch will be Dutch…) and chocolate I walked home. Rain was pouring down and I realized that this was the happiest I have […]

i Primi Giorni

Enjoying drinks

So here I am. 4 Days into my Avventura Fiorentina. Leaving my city, home for almost 8 years, car, friends, family behind was the weirdest thing in the world and didn’t fully sink in until much later, when I was alone in my new apartment. It’s a lovely cosy place and now that I have […]

One more month…

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From my 5th floor apartment I look out over all the little lights of the city, on a rainy Saturday evening. I’ve lit some candles, have some music playing and my mind wanders of to all the things that have happened to me over the past few months. There have been so many unexpected encounters, […]

Andiamo!

River Arno Florence by dawn

It was almost 10 years ago that I came to Firenze for the first time. I wanted to learn Italian and decided to make Firenze my home for a few weeks during the summer of 2008. I’d had a couple of rough months and just wanted to indulge myself in everything Italy and Firenze in […]