'I remember sweating my ass off and having the feeling of being disoriented. Was I coming from the east or from the west and damn why is my maps not working so I can check it out. Just keep the ocean on the left hand side and you will find it. It is an island, you really can't get lost.
I found the place where everyone was to enthousiastic about. I took a seat at the bar. The bartender looked at me and asked if I was there for only drinks or also for food. I answered that I was there for food and ordered my drink with it. I was eating alone at the bar and I wondered if my whole experience would turn out that way. Alone at the bar. How wrong was I with that'
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The weekend engagement topic hosted by @galenkp is actually a cool one where people will be writing about their firsts. This could be about meeting their partner for the first time, having a first pet or abroad their first abroad experience. So much to choose from, because I can make 1000 stories about all of these topics. But we are sticking to being abroad this time.
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When I first moved to the Caribbean I was shocked about how open and welcoming people were and how eager they were to take your alongside with them and invite new people they hardly know to their bbqs. It was a refreshing thing compared to our Dutch culture where everyone has their own little group and does stuff with that group. New to this one? Heck, integrate for a year mayeb before you can expect an invitation to the house if you are lucky.
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So after my alone-at-the-bar experience on the first day being jetlagged and wondering what I had gotten myself into I drove around the island the next day and was so pleasantly surprised about how beautiful everything was. The combination of mountains and azurblue seas was absolutely stunning and it was crazy to think I would call this place home for the next couple of months.
My first random contact was a dude on the beach who told me he was a DJ and I could always tag along with him. Up until now I don't know if this was bullsh&t and if I would be tricked into a date-rape or that this was a genuine invitation. Both would totally be possible.
But with my first week of work I immediately got an invitation from a female colleague to join her on a boat in the weekend and I was surprised to the fullest. Someone I had only known for a day gave an invitation to tag along? I thought it was so welcoming and fantastic and I was super enthousiastic. Another colleague asked if I wanted to join to a salsa bar that seem week in the evening.
From that moment on the social started to go and this literally only took a week.
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I was baffled on how easy this all went. I guess the one thing that you need is to actually go somewhere and maybe not alone (because this gives a wrong idea) and from there on if you have a tony bit of social skills it will all be fine.
It is funny how this totally worked in the Caribbean and now I am living back in Europe I kinda fell back into the not being so welcome to new people again. I am aware of this and try to actively work on this. I try to go to the new students and take them along, ask them about their personal lives, make them laugh and defrost for a bit.
But taking them along with me in the weekend on a boat? Nehhh, I guess I wouldn't do that. But what is the difference between the Caribbean and here than? That difference is my own mindset.
I've never been to the carribean, but the way I grew up was not to much different from what I read ... I guess it's because I grew up in a very small village with a culture that everyone knows each other, or has to know each other.
Maybe that is the deal indeed. That coming from small villages people are more open and welcoming to each other? Could be for sure, in the big city it is all more a passing by kind of thing.
But damn hetty, whenever the crypto gods throw their wrath on you, you really should take a peek there. Beautiful stuff!
Caribbean mush have been beautiful experience!
I also heared that people on islands like that are much more open, for example Shri lanka that my first girl friend had relatives on it.
That mush have been an amazing place to save memories, specially alone, who wouldn't accept a boat invitation. :)
Who wouldn't accept a boat invitation indeed, especially when you are new new haha.
People tend to be very inviting which really is something we should and could all use a bit more in our normal life. Working on it!
I don't have a boat, but your welcome to sLOVEnian's bbq when we're be able too haha
I see that what you/we do to ourselves or treat ourselves, is what were doing to the world/everyone around us.
Energy, vibrations, frequency :)
Ah fun to see another Dutchie here! I have never been to the caribbean parts of the kingdom, but would love to go!
Euj more Dutchies! Lemme give ya a follow there.!
It is so funny we are all part of that same kingdom while these islands are so different compared to the mainland. If you ever have a chance to go and visit there, just do it because these places are beautiful.
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