Adventures of an American Registered Nurse and her family immigrating to the Netherlands.
Watch as we navigate our new life in Rotterdam, as we have never lived outside of Indiana, or traveled outside of the United States! We can't wait to see what our future holds in our new home!
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What kind of e-bike is that, please?
Echt goed gesproken Nederlands!! Respect
A few months have passed an I'm curious how you are doing. Do you have a car now? (with a parking spot) I look forward to an update. I'm sure many others do as well. Wishing you all the best ;-]
Hoe gaat het met jullie?
Great update, such a wonderful adventure for you and your family. The time off here, and in most of Europe is mandatory, they see it as part of the health care requirement, they also find workers are more productive when they get more time off. Yes, we had the same difficulty with our marriage certificate, my husband said it would have been easier if we were just registered partners. When we moved here (The Netherlands) 7+ years ago, I decided to retire as a nurse, because of my age, I was soon to be 60, it just seemed too much to go through for such a short time. We were fortunate enough my husband's employer organized a lot of the INS paperwork for us, so we didn't have the same stress you have had. We are in Amsterdam, and love it here.
I "studied" Spanish there for 6 months, but that was 44 years ago. I lived at a 30 minute drive from Vught and went twice a week. Useful? No. First they asked me where I was going and I told them Mexico. Apparently that kind of Spanish was not on their menu. The first day in Mexico I had breakfast and ordered "zumo de naranja". The head waiter had to come over and explained that I wanted "jugo de naranja". Total failure. So I got myself a Mexican girlfriend (later my wife) and learned Mexican Spanish in 3 months. I've been living in Mexico for 43 years now.
I love to see the video of this so nice lady, I would like to try to go to Regina Coeli school and if I go I must to thank this lady. Grazie
Wowwww, je bent echt veel verder gekomen!!!
Nobody mentioning the badass jump? He aced it! 😎
And very nice and beautiful video 👍
You make progress... nice to hear...
Ok, de nonnen van Vught! Famous institute indeed!
Right, the housing market in NL is slowly cooling but it's a crazy shitpit!
You guys have a lot of Dutch practice to do! LOL!!!
I like that little cutie with her fietsenrek at front! LOL!!!! I suggest you go to a decent dentist to get that fietsenrek fixed!
She is only 6.5, and her 2 front baby teeth just fell out. She will get her adult teeth soon. I don't think she will have a fietsenrek when they grown back in.
@@daring2godutch673 but for now she definitely has a fietsenrek! LOL!!!
@@Beun007 🤣
Search Flappie- youp van "t hek.👍🏻
This was simply lovely to watch!
There is a bicylcle path that runs between the two rows of windmills at Kinderdijk, but I seems to me you've attempted to approach the windmills at the wrong spot. I think you've entered the side road called 'Overwaard', where you should have entered the side road called 'Nederwaard', which is just one intersection before/to the west of where you've attempted.
I think we will try to do this again without so many detours. Lol. The whole day was pretty much a big detour, but we had a nice time!☺️
@@daring2godutch673 What map app did you use? I prefer OpenStreetMap, it has a way more complete and much clearer indication of foot and bicycle paths than (car centric) Google Maps.
Super lovely video. Thanks!
Hi guys, such a beautiful video!😊
Would you recommend Living in Linden and commute to work in Rotterdam ?
That seems very far away, so I wouldn’t recommend it.
Looks like you had a lot of fun on the bike! You certainly picked a day with nice weather as well. Thank you for taking us along for the day! Your knowledge of the Dutch language is definitely expanding. I understand the difficulty with so many similar sounding vowels. Just give it time and keep practicing. Confidence will come.
Knap werk voor je Nederlands! Ik zeg altijd dat mensen in het begin lekker veel fouten moeten maken, maar ik heb je niet op heel veel fouten kunnen betrappen. Je snapt wel wat de onvermijdelijke uitkomt gaat zijn, hé? Nu willen we een video van je zien die helemaal in het Nederlands is :)
Ik kan het proberen, maar het kan zijn dat je een uur moet lijden terwijl ik probeer te bedenken wat ik moet zeggen om mijn gedachten uit mijn hoofd te krijgen.🤣🤪
@@daring2godutch673 Ik spreek behalve Nederlands ook Duits, Italiaans en Engels en ik ken dat gevoel maar al te goed. Toch moet je jezelf precies in dat soort situaties brengen om dat probleem uiteindelijk te overkomen en creatiever te worden je te uiten in de betreffende taal! Geen zorgen om het lijden, dat komt wel goed.
You look fragile, so I'm sending virtual hugs. Yes,. the language is hard, but the culture is a threshold too. It will come, in time. If you had moved within the US from one state to another there would be a learning process too. Getting to know the local memes (like the song Flappy), get a feel for what motivates people and what they deem normal, it is always hard. I think eventually you will be really happy here, but adjusting is a hard process, always. I *am* glad you miss nursing when you see people doing what you want to do. That feeling is universal and will help you a lot getting through the rough parts of moving and adjusting. And your daughter will help too. The Netherlands is very much aimed at family, and I'm convinced she will grow and that will help you adjust too.
Mnemonics: Neigh-Bor -->nearby-buur Plural: buren (buurmannen/vrouwen). Your buren together are your-->buurt (quarter) (Aan)kopen= to buy Verkopen=to sell Sell-sold-sold Verkopen-verkocht-verkocht Te koop: To buy Verkocht: has been sold Your doing great!!
Really a fantastic video. Bit long though. But the scenery so close to a metropolitan like Rotterdam speaks so much more than words. It reflects everything The Netherlands is really about and not vloggers that make videos of what is already in the brochure of the Dutch Tourist agency, completed with hagelslag, stroopwafels and haring. I wish more expats would put videos like this online. And as a very important tip: kids in The Netherlands all learn to swim at a young age with so much water around. It is absolutely necessary that you do the same as fast as you can. Kids will love swimming lessons anyway. She might have learned to swim already but lessons here are somewhat different and certified as well. In the Netherlands, there is always water somewhere close and you cannot keep an eye on your child 24/7. It is a very important skill and a tremendous (p)ease of mind. And your question about the mosquitos... We do not use aerosol for that. It is just a fact of life. Hard to avoid it on a bike on a windy day anyway. Just don't cycle with your mouth open🤪. Mosquitos (=muggen) are seasonal anyways. At home you can use a cream (non Deet) or a repellent on citrus basis. Just be careful with the 'Aedes albopictus" mosquitoes, known as "Tijgermug". They have a white striped body and can cause dengue (known as "knokkelkoorts" in The Netherlands) and seem to appear more and more these days although they are not local, inherent to The Netherlands and still pretty rare. Most are not infected with the dengue bacteria anyway so no need to panic. A lot of Dutch put a "Citroen plant" in the window or close by. I think it is officially called "Pelargonium graveolens" and can be bought in most flower and garden shops. It deters the mosquito from smelling the human body odor.
En een oude Zündapp op het pont (the one that is towing later). Memories....
meerkoet , that;s what the bird is called.
Dat was leuk! Zomaar een uur lekker zitten kijken! Dankjewel! Somewhat confused about the back seat configuration of your bycicle (although I'm dutch). No need to explain, just show it for a few seconds in a future video. Thanks again! :)
I would guess it's a Decathlon Elops R500 longtail e-bike.
Radwagon4🥰 we love it
Nice HK shirt!!
It is not a crow and not a raven, it is a jackdaw, or in Dutch een kauw of kauwtje.
THAT NOT RELAXED CYCLING ,WITH THAT STUPID E-BIKE
Take a chill pill mate
You are not the answer to all definitions my friend...
IS SHE LEARNING TO SWIM ,YOU NEED THAT WITH ALL THAT WATER. !!
She took lessons in the US, and is also taking lessons here.
I'm so proud of y'all. I can't wait until me and my wife move to Germany and get to experience living a whole new way. Such an adventure ❤
GREAT JOB! I will be moving to Netherlands in September (Rotterdam) after spending 8 years in China. I have been looking at immersive/intensive programs myself. I am so happy to see such improvement after a week. My parner is Dutch (I'm American) and I want to dive into the language like I did with Chinese. Thank you so much for sharing your journey! I'll be subscribing and looking forward to seeing more progress from you .
Lovely trip & video.
The bird is a meerkoet
I enjoyed this but can you forgive me for skipping through it because an hour was a bit long.
Just this once😂😝
I’m Dutch, and I visited Kinderdijk for the first time in 2020 (I thought it was perfect giving it was nice and quiet during the pandemic- locals enjoyed it too, the lack of hordes of tourists). I honestly never realised that it’s super close to where I was born (Dordrecht- recommended! It has beautiful old architecture just like Amsterdam but it’s way less touristy, and not focused on tourism, dr*gs and pr**titutes). If it wouldn’t be flooded with tourists every year I’d enjoy visiting it regularly haha
Kinderdijk area is a beautiful fairytale place for princess Elyse. At moments the big city gets too much for you, you know where to go. It’s nice to have the variation between the big energetic city and the calm and serene countryside. ❤❤❤
Goed gedaan! Ga zo door met je Nederlands. Je dochter zal wel sneller gaan, maar dat geeft niet. En meegebrachte boterhammen op de fiets, Nederlandser kan niet, haha. "verkocht" means "sold". It is an irregular verb. Sorry.
Isn't it wonderfull that you can ask your little daughter how to pronounce words in the correct way in Nederlands ?
Yes! She is awesome!❤
wonderful *😘
It's a pain in the donkey when you have wind blowing in your microphone. ;-)
Sorry!🙈🤪
@@daring2godutch673 You don't have to apologise, I just pointed out a simple fact. PERIOD
Wat spreken jullie geweldig Nederlands zeg! Echt heel goed 👍