Best Gift Ever!

So I just got home from Italy today and checked my e-mails for the first time in a few days before I board another plane tomorrow to finally depart for the States. I begin to scavage through my cluttered inbox and noticed a wonderful surprise from none other than the great Jason Taylor. I click the link knowing that such a message is surely going to send me laughing if not having to force me to pick my face up off the ground because he rocked my face off once again. Anyway, this e-mail revealed a great gift. A gift so great I thought I should share it with you all. He began a new blogsite http://ifihadbeenmacgyver.blogspot.com which is dedicated to understanding how great life would be if we were in fact MacGyver. It is a must to check out:-) Thanks again Jason, you have kept me updated on all things MacGyver while I have been away and then you top it off by introducing such a groundbreaking website to the world! I am pretty sure life is downhill from here:-)


Also, I am thinking of finishing my packing here and just thought I would share the music that has made my trip. For all of you who have not experienced Big and Rich I suggest you get plugged in. Their song the Big Time has pretty much been my theme song for the semester. Also, as weird as it may sound, Alan Jackson's song Little Bitty reminds me of the Netherlands, come and visit and you will know why!:-) There is a bunch of others thrown in there. Some Jack Johnson, Damien Rice, James Blunt. But those two songs I believe capture my experience here wonderfully.

I guess this is probably my final blog entry from accross the ocean. It is sad to have to leave. To have to say goodbye to the Vissers and the place which has become a sort of second home. Despite the fact that I don't know the language, I still feel oddly at home in this land. I will miss it. I really don't have words to put to my feelings right now. I guess the only way I have to describe it is that right now I feel very similar to when I left the states to come over here. I was so sad to be leaving the people I knew and loved. To leave the life which was so familiar. It isn't that I have no desire to return home. I miss my family and friends terrebly, but I know that I will miss it here as well. I will miss it horribly. I will never forget what the Visser family has given me by opening their home and family to me for the past 4 months, and they will stay with me forever. My experience here has been indescribable, and I really don't know what else to say about it right now. I still can't believe my time here is done. It seems like the world turns so fast and before long the time has slipped away and you are left holding the memories. I will update more when I get back home. I'm not sure what about, but if you wish you can keep on checking back although I can't promise you adventures and pictures quite as exciting as in the past 4 months!:-) I Love you all.
Signing off from the Netherlands
-Dustin