Just what more can I say?! Leuk!

There aren’t many things in life which make me just sit back and think WOW! But I’ve found one that ticks EVERY box and then some...

Now you can criticise BA all you want but I had a lovely free lunch and a whole row of seats to myself. BEAUTIFUL!! Getting over that excitement, I realised that I had arrived in the Netherlands, on time and full of the jitters and the ‘OH MY GOD, THIS IS IT’ factor. Now, if you’ve never travelled to Amsterdam’s Schiphol, you won’t know the sheer size of it all. It has FIVE runways and is the 3^rd busiest airport in the world. The only downside to this is that if you land on the furthest runway from the terminal, you have a lovely 15 minute taxi ride in the plane until you get off. Now I don’t want to be picky, but I could be halfway back to the UK in that time. Although it truly is an amazing journey over hectic Dutch motorways and, well, it just takes forever! I just wanted to get off!

Once successfully manoeuvring through to the baggage reclaim, the dream had begun. Everything was going swell. After all, everything is in English first, and then Dutch. Lovely. NO! What are they doing?! Train to Utrecht Centraal Station was easy-peasy. After a brief nervously muttered words to a rather large security bloke asking how I can get to my pick up point, I was off to the 55^th summer course in Woudschoten. LEUK :)

This is where the amazement really does kick in. This isn’t a youth hostel. It is about as far away from that as you can possibly get. We’re talking 4 stars (albeit they are hammers on the sign). Tea, coffee, juice and everyone’s favourite guilty pleasure – BISCUITS – all just openly available. I’ve reached my dream life.

Brilliant. Then we get to the lunch. YUM. The snacks in between and then the dinner.

FOOD WATCH

I have no idea what I was eating but it was delivered to me by a smiley smiley waiter so I just ate away. The dessert was just out of this world too!

Oh we had a test too. Results tomorrow to see which group I shall be in!

Apart from that I’ve played Romania’s youth table tennis champion (I lost), I’ve met Germans, Americans, a Belgian, Indonesian, South Africans and a Pole! I’ve spoken German, Dutch and a mixture of the two and by and large avoided English.

Het gaat goed.

Tot straks

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