A few days of pictures
Trip Start
May 17, 2008
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Trip End
Aug 24, 2008
Doetinchem,
Netherlands
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
This past weekend Mike & I were supposed to go on a day trip with one of my co-workers, but due to the bad weather forecast we decided to postpone it a weekend. This decision, however, didn't come until Friday, so we didn't have much time to make other weekend plans! But it really ended up being all right; it was nice to have the weekend to just slow down and catch my breath.
On Saturday morning I slept in, and then Mike & I went to the market. This is only the 2nd time that I have been to the market; It's in town, and just on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and seeing as how we travel on the weekends I have not been around much to go to the market! But Saturday we were able to go & stock up on fruits, vegetables, bread, cheese, etc
A castle in Lag Keppel
. Then in the afternoon I went on a bike ride through Doetinchem and the neighboring town Lag Keppel. I saw a couple of castles, and some other parts of the town that I hadn't been to before. On Saturday evening I just watched a movie.On Sunday Mike & I went to church in the morning, and in the afternoon went to Mike's co-worker's house. We spent the entire afternoon / evening at their house and didn't get home till around 10:30 pm. This co-worker is married to a women from Tennessee who has been living in Holland for about half her life, but still visits the states often. We had a really great conversation, and we encouraged to hear about God working in their lives. Our area of the country is not very religious and we have not had too many good conversations with others about Christianity, so it was really encouraging to hear about their faith.
Tuesday morning the professor from Calvin College who arranged the internship for me, Professor Nielsen, came over to my work and spent some time meeting my supervisor & boss. I gave him a little presentation about my job, and he thanked Thomassen for taking me in for the summer. I really enjoyed seeing a familiar face from back home. Then in the evening Mike & I were really spoiled because Prof. Nielsen took us out to dinner! We do not go out so often because dining out here is really expensive (our dinner was about $100) and takes forever (people can sit 2-3 hours easily) so it was a real treat to go out. And it was also nice to get to sit down and get to know Prof. Nielsen better.
Tonight, Wednesday night, we played some volleyball in the back yard after dinner, so I took some pictures of that as well. Enjoy!
--Nate
Comments
Castle Viewing
Hey Nate --
Please add castle-viewing to our must-do list for next month's adventure. And, I'm undecided about the $100 meals, but for certain vollyball is not on my top 10.
See ya in approximately 3 weeks.
-- Dad