Author Archives: laraebold

It’s sometimes hard to find time to get enough exercise each week. Of course, I bike about 20 minutes back and forth to school each day. I also try to run between 5 and 10 km a couple times a week, go to yoga once a week, and go to boot camp once a week.Continue reading “Moving / fitness”

Friday was Valentine’s Day, a day that is not very important to me and that I think unfortunately has become overrated over the years. In the U.S. many of my friends with children and my sister were frantically baking treats and cutting out paper hearts and putting glitter on them for all the children inContinue reading “An expat’s love story”

Aside from the downtown, it may be worth checking out the Havenkwartier; this means harbour quarter; it’s an old harbour along the river that used to be used mainly for industrial purposes but the area has become a hip and trendy place to live and there are some nice restaurants and other venues. For example:Continue reading “Harbour quarter, music, coffee, beer”

The website I am Expat can help you with questions you might have whether you are here to study or here to stay for awhile. They also have social media pages on Facebook. https://www.iamexpat.nl/ Saxion’s Facebook page Posts are in English and there are posts about upcoming events (for example, they recently posted about ChineseContinue reading “Expat resources”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.