A walk at night

I took those pics during a walk with a friend tonight in my beautiful city.

We got snow!!

Yahoo!!!!! Early this morning when I had to get my bike to get to work.... this was what I found!!! Snow! yesyesyes! This is the first little snow, more is coming! Jelous already? Okay I have to admit, I kind of was frozen when I finally reached work this morning, 25 minutes freezing temperatures and snow is kind of of cold if you have to cycle to work :) But I sure loved it!

We're crazy!!

Meet my roommates! (as you can tell, the bottle of wine is still closed, and we kept it that way. We can have fun without!)

We just have a blast!

And we are sweet ofcourse, what else can we be.

hugging!

A little break

Hey there,

Just a little picture of my farfaraway cousin and me drinking some coffee/tea together while enjoying a day off! Finally! Boy am I tired! Anyway, I thought the picture is cute so I share.

My dancing little Eva

Look at the little 2-year-old girl in the brown skirt, with the white sweater and the little brown boots and the beautiful blond hair. She is my niece, Eva. Today in church she was dancing and loved it. Hit play and enjoy.

Hilda in Switzerland

Hey hey all of you! It was about time to put some new pics on my blog wasn't it!
Anyway, As you all know, I started my new job in a city called Dordrecht which is close to Rotterdam. It is a bueatiful city by the way but pics of that will follow later some day.
I went for my work, with all the clients to Switzerland for a work week. We had to go on a survival with them, climb up some mountains, and the clients had to follow their program. Which we had to organize alltogether. We had church services and at least 20 people got safed! wow! God touched a lot of lives, broken people, He healed, He delivered, He comforted. It was amazing to see what God was doing in that place. He, ofcourse, did not skip me. It was a good time, I worked long long days and it was good. So, from my time up there, some pics!
This is me taking a break while half the way on the mountain I was climbing.

There sure were a lot of nice things to see in Switzerland. This lake is in Vallorbe. The place we stayed.

Yes I went all the way up! Through the trees and rocks, not through this steep part ;)

This river came out of the mountain. I was really wondering how that happens, till I went into the mountian, through some caves and found out there were underground rivers and lakes. It was beautiful.

Those are all mountaintops... pfew! It is high!

I gave me poor feet a break in a valley.

Hey! They have a Starbucks in Switzerland! Darn them, why there and not in The Netherlands? Too bad I had no time due the busy schedule to get over there and get a coffee :(

This is the place we stayed with all the staff and all the clients.


And this is a cave, and I went in that small thing. This is what I saw when I looked to the opening of the cave while staying inside. scaarryyy!

what a wonderfull life

well, I am pretty sure it has been ages since my last update.
Sorry people, have no new pictures yet. All good things...come slow. Nah, thats not right, some good things come slow.
Anyway, to keep you all updated.
I started my new job a week ago! And I sure love it.
I work with people who have addictions. They are in our organization to get rid off their addiction ofcourse and they get therapy for all the issues that come with it or that caused it. The part of the organization where I work, takes care of people who just got in, and still use medication to be able to live without their drug or alcohol.
It is tough for them because they live in an what we call closed organization. (doors closed, no leave without permission and at first no leave at all unless with a social worker) I think it is a good program we work with. And most important of all, it is a Jesus based organization.
I see a lot of broken and damaged people, I will be and already have been in some situation that are physical dangerous because of agressive clients. But I sure do love the job.
God is doing a great work in those who call upon Him. And that is an awesome thing to see.
Next week we we all go to Switzerland (to the mountains) for a work camp/week. We will go on survival for two days and most of all, we will go after God alltogether. I think it is going to be an awesome week.
Thats all the information for now. You all be blessed!

My big brother :)

Finally finally I have a picture of my younger, but big brother :) I love him very much, like all me other brothers and sisters. For the Americans...he wears wooden shoes. But he told me he wears to different ones because he drove over them with his van..oops!

Paintball with da girlz!

Toooooday! we played paintball with da girlz! It was a blast! Look up for the pic where my mission was to shoot the president with paint.... but where was she? And why are there bullets flying around my ears? After I got rid of the bodygoard....it became a little scary.. and than I ran out of bullets. I would be such a bad soldier.

Down here are my friend Ciska and me preparing to be enemies.

We are both very dangerous. (Ciska left, I'm at the right)

Yeah here is the mean team! Can you find me? I'm, behind the girl with the yellow ribbon.

After playing paintball we went out for dinner. I was exhausted and still have some bruises. Sweet memories :)

Dutch pics for my American friends :)

Well, as I promised, here are some dutch pics. I was traveling by train (last picture) when I saw this beautiful sunset. Too bad the window of the train was so dirthy... anyway, just enjoy. And for the people that don't know.... the first picture is a windmill.

swimming

Today I went for a swim with my sister and niece. We all love to swim, especially this little one! In the first picture she is spitting out some water which she just drank out of the pool...goofy girl

Feeding the ducks

Hey :)
I was lucky today, we are babysitting Eva, my niece. Who I ofcourse missed a lot when I was in the states. So today we went to feed the ducks. Although Eva was very interested in the bread herself too. (the pictures are made in the village my parents live, I am raised there) Do I have to explain something about the temperature outside or do you think it is clear? :) coooollll.

Back in The Netherlands

Hey friends, family and collegues,

I arrived in The Netherlands yesterday. It was a long boring delayed trip but to see my family was great! Look at the pic and see my happy meeting with my sister when I just arrived at the airport. see the happy tears :) Well, why don't you see for yourself!

Canada met Eefie :)

Canada avonturen

Eindelijk heb ik dan wireless high speed internet verbinding en kan ik mijn foto's van mijn avonturen in Canada op mijn blog zetten. Ik zit nu op Boston Airport. Mijn vliegtuig heeft vertraging en daardoor ga ik mijn laatste vlucht ook missen. Nachtje hotel dus. In ieder geval, hier foto's :)

Met mijn neven en nichtjes zwemmen in de rivier die lekker snel stroomt :)
Bloedzuigers en blackflies gegarandeerd.

En nog eens zwemmen, dit keer in Magic Mountain :) Met mijn zus, neven en nichten en vriendinnen :)
Dit is Richtje, mijn nichtje :) Ze is gek op klimmen, rennen, babbelen en op Harold, Jojo, Douwe (neven), op haar Oom, en op haar Heiti & memmie.

En dit is Marten, mijn neefje:) Hij is gek op meisjes ookal zegt hij dat ze stom zijn :) Hij vind Case International de beste trekkers en John Deere komt op de tweede plaats vind hij.

Raften met mijn zus, en neven uit Canada. De golven waren 4 meter hoog en het ging er nogal ruig aan toe. GAAAFFFF!

Tjah, hier waren we nog droog.

Ik probeerde op een fair in Brookfield, Canada, een prijs te winnen....

Oops... niet gelukt dus.

Gaat die vrouw voor me langs rennen wanneer ik net dat pijltje wil gooien!