That's my new Dutch cell phone number, without the last four digits, as this is a public blog. Don't panic, friends, this does not mean that I am here for good, it's just a great way to be able to oh, communicate, while I'm here. It's prepaid, and it's pink! What else does a girl need?
I got said pink cell phone in the Spijkenisse city center when I met Camilla, Sander's (Xander's best friend) girlfriend from Norway, for lunch on Tuesday. My first social outing in Holland without Xander! Lunch was fun, then she showed me where she got her phone. The guy in the cell phone store was very funny and spoke English. I find the Dutch to be generally very funny and sarcastic. Then, to celebrate the Dutch sense of humor and my new pink cell phone, I went shopping at H&M. And scored, big-time. I don't know if it is because the stuff isn't as picked over (the Europeans have had H&M longer than we have in the US) as it is in America, or if they actually have better stuff. Anyway, a successful trip to Spijkenisse.
So Xander was staying at the base on Tuesday night because he had an exercise the next day and had to be ready to go at 5:30 AM. So I Skyped with my mum, ate leftovers, and watched television dramas which was a nice change from bad sitcom reruns like the Nanny and Dharma and Greg, Xander's usual weeknight viewing. It's a delight. Xander and I also chatted that night and he told me that he was going to be on exercise the last three weeks of September and I might want to go home before that to the US, lest I be lonely while he was gone. And I initially thought that was probably a good idea. But as I watched TV on Xander's couch and saw the sunset from his windows, I really felt at home here. And thinking about leaving him now is just too much, I just do it. So I have decided to leave my ticket at the end of September for now, but I'm likely going to stay into October. I'm not sure what I will feel like in a month or 6 weeks, but right now, I can't even think about not being with Xander...
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