We arrived in the Netherlands on Thursday, May 15 but did not get internet access until last week. Things move more slowly here than in America! Now that we're settled in and online, we hope to record some of our adventures and observations here in our blog, as a journal for our family and friends, and for ourselves in future years.
So far, we're enjoying our new life in Deurne, the Netherlands. Josh is busy working at the John Deere factory in the town of Horst, and I am learning to love being a "huisvrauw" (housewife) and starting to look for freelance scientific editing work.
We're enjoying our new church, Trinity Church Eindhoven, which is a medium-sized English-speaking Anglican congregation. The congregation is very international, with members from England, Austria, India, China, Thailand, the Netherlands, Columbia, the US, Australia, New Zealand, several countries in Africa, and countless other places.
In the month we've been here, we've already been able to take several day-trips on Saturdays. We have seen the famous Keukenhoff gardens in the Netherlands, as well as Dusseldorf and Cologne, Germany, and Bastogne, Belgium. We're looking forward to more trips. The Netherlands is one third the size of Iowa, so everything (including other countries) seems very close.
We hope you'll check out our blog as often as you like--and leave a comment or send us an email! We'd love to keep in contact with all our friends and family back in "the States."
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