Gastgezin (Host Family)

My host family just got back from their vacation, so I have moved out of my welcome family's house and into the one I am to spend a year in. It's quite nice, I have the 2nd floor to myself, which is just fine with me! The nearby shopping center is great, there's a bookstore, a library, a grocery store, a flower shop... I need to check that out more later. So I'm going to be taking the tram to school. That'll be new. I'll have to walk a bit after that, because there isn't a stop next to the school, but there's one close by next to a shopping center. The school is too far away to bike to at the moment, because I'd probably get lost, but maybe later I can bike there.
By the way... by now you have probably figured out that I absolutely loooove stroopwaffels. Well guess what? There's this guy who sells stroopwaffels in the shopping center I have to walk through to get to school everyday. The smell of fresh, warm stroopwaffels every morning before a long, hard day at school??? Ohh, the agony!
In other news, I went to an amusement park today called Efteling. It was cool, it reminded me of Disneyland, but there weren't huge roller coasters. It's aimed more towards little kids, so there's a magical fairy forest and a scary haunted house really wasn't that scary... except that it was so dark that I couldn't see where I was going at all and ran into some guy who I also couldn't see.
I've been pretty tired lately, I don't know why. Probably because so much has been happening: moving, settling in, starting school, making friends, speaking Dutch, figuring out what needs to be done... what I'm getting at is I just want to sleep more. Eight hours just isn't enough anymore.
Well, I hope all is well with you, your family, and your year (whoever you may be). I wish you the best in life, love, and happiness, because it's not fair for me to have all three and you to have none. If you ever need anything, shoot me a message.
PS: I had my first English class on Friday. I was impressed! These kids are really smart! They're learning words like "conquer"and "understatement". Also, the teacher played an English CD in which these people talked about their relationships with their parents, and their accents were so thick, I sometimes couldn't even understand them! I told the teacher that, and this kid said, "Dat is niet goed," (That's not good). I thought that was pretty funny. They sometimes look at me when the teacher asks a question, but I'm not about to give the answer, for two reasons: 1. I already know English, so I may as well give someone else a chance, and 2. I don't know WHY English is the way it is, I just know how to speak it! Well, that's all for now.
Tot ziens,
Emily