A full day...

A full day....

11:06 am

Lots to do today, I will  sort out my map 'important mail' in my Hotmail, to look what's done and what still has to be done. I like it when everything is in order. At 2:00 I have a dentist appointment, I can go by train and spent six Euro or I hop on my bike and keep the six Euro in my wallet. The last option seems a good idea, although it will be a long bike ride. It's a 45 minutes ride from here to the dentist, cause I still have my old dentist in Nijverdal, I will take my time and enjoy what's around me. Option two it is then.

This morning with the coffee break the staff gave us some cleaning chores first, everyone was doing something. It's a good thing for the people here, so that they can get used to do things. Once they get a job, they have to full fill aswell duties, it's one of the things Humanitas stands for, to get you back in society. I was tired though, and thinking of the bike ride what I have planned today it made me think twice. But I cleaned some of the things, I cleaned the men's toilet in my section, and wiped/swiped the kitchen and dinning floor.

There is an issue about the men's toilet in my section, apparently there is someone who can't aim rightly in the toilet. I have seen dirty toilets before but this is different, it's insane and I can't believe what I see. drops all over the floor even the door, (Sorry!) Everyone is complaining about it, but they can't find a solution for the problem. We know who it is, and we clean it everytime but after 10 minutes, it's dirty again. Sigh! 

4:08 pm


I just got back from my bike ride and the dentist appointment, the weather was nice on my way there . The sun was shinning and 8 degrees above zero feels nice, not bad for a winter month, right? I arrived way to early for the appointment, I had to wait 45 minutes, I talked a while with the dentist assistant. I know her well, cause I have been a patient there for many years with this dentist. We talked about Canada, and a bit about the break up, I could tell she was concerned. I told her that I'm feeling a bit better now, better then a month ago. 


The assistant asked me just before I went to Canada for the first time if I was sure I wanted to go, I told her, YES! She grabbed then 10 tooth brushes from a dresser and she told me, "Here take that with you, it's for the kids!" That was nice of her, she told me today that she will be traveling this year to Canada, for the Indian summer. I could have asked her If I could come with her and drop me of in Barrie or Mississauga, LOL! but I didn't. It was time for my treatment, and I took a seat on the dentist chair. 

I thought they were only getting out my fake filling and replace it for another filling, but they did a second filling aswell. The tooth was hard to reach and I had to relax. Not so easy tough with so many stuff they put in your mouth,  A drill, 3 cottons, 2 spit suckers, and a screw thingy. I nearly choked in one of the cottons, LOL! I catched it with my tongue and gave it to the assistant. The pain is not so nice but the thing what most worries me is my tongue and the drill, those two things just don't get along. 


After an hour I was done, and my mouth had cramps and felt dry, my next appointment will be the first of March. It started to rain a bit when I cycled back, and I went a bit faster towards home, kinda weird to say 'home,' still. I can't think of another name to call it. My place? I will call it home for now, though it doesn't feel like home. The rain was okay, it didn't rain that much, as soon I got 'home' it rained harder, thank God! It was a long ride. 


There is one thing that worries me, sometimes it pops up. I would like to visit Saf and her kids by the end of the year, or maybe the end of the summer, but I don't know if the Canadian border will let me in the country. The customs already asked me alot of questions when I arrived the first and the second time, the third time was much easier. If you come to Canada as a visitor, you are alowed to stay for six months, then you have to leave. 


The first six months I stayed, I nicely went back to Holland for a month and came back to Canada.  When I returned to Canada I bought a return ticket, just to be sure the customs will let me trough. Cause my ansd Saf's  plan were that I stayed for good. (I can stay again for six months, though after the six months we will see what we do, we will find a solution, Saf told me. When the six months were over, we were busy with other things and didn't think of a solution. 


And yes, in the end I overstayed the permitted six months big time!  Almost a year! You can see the stamps in my passport with the dates and the year. When I will travel to Canada again by the end of the year, they will maybe see the stamps and refuse my entrance to the country. Just because I overstayed the six months. I know I won't stay for good, cause I will be on a visit. I will surely return to Holland, but they don't know that, and I have to come up with some good reasons.


I have been researching the net a bit, just to get some information. I checked on Canadian forums, and the comments there are all mixed up, some say, "Sure, if you follow the rules, you can come in." and some say, "No, cause you overstayed the six months, the customs will get  suspicious." If I have some time I will do some more research, cause imagine when I will land in Canada, and the Canadian border refuses me, and sent me back. I don't want that! 


Further research is needed...