Ellen In Amerika!"MY EMIGRATION TO AMERICA AND MY ADJUSTMENT TO LIFE IN CALIFORNIA SINCE SEPTEMBER 2008"

Again it has been a very long time since I wrote here. I do not know why, but I am not so inspired lately. When I started to blog, I did it to share my life here with my family in the Netherlands and keep them updated with my new life here in the States. After about a year, I decided to write in English, mainly because some of my American family in law were reading this post and surprisingly, also people from around the world who did the effort to read my posts through Google translate. It has been a joy to discover that I had readers with whom I am staying in contact and who became my blog buddies.

Most of my family and friends back in Holland are now so adjusted to the idea I live on the other side of the world, it is not that exciting anymore to read about my daily life, and with most of them I am in close contact (email, phone) anyway.  I have to admit, I like to write. I always had that. At school I had great grades for essays. (My mom said I had lots of imagination.) I am not saying that I will stop writing this blog, but I have the feeling it becomes less interesting to write about my daily life for the outside world. I am still very, very excited that I live in this great country with the best husband ever. I feel a part of this country. When we were celebrating the 4th of July at the College campus with thousands of Americans, I felt secretly I was one of them. I sang the National Anthem loud and did the Pledge of Allegiance as well. So what is going on now, makes me immensely sad; that the two political parties here can make such a mess and refuse to do their job! Disgusting!! Sorry…… I had to say that…..

Anyway, things are going very well here. Last weekend we had 5 members of my family in law visiting here, and it was a blast. I got to know them a bit during our family reunion, and now we were able to intensify our new family bond. We went to Santa Barbara and visited the mission, the pier and we went shopping. Three Teenage girls and two moms shopping…poor dads  :-)

So for now I say goodbye!