immigration

A week before X-mas eve. I got the books in house to read. Then snow blizzard can come. Hopefully the food distribution centers won't strike. That would spoil X-mas dinners for those who eat at home.

A colleague of mine goes to France with the holidays until new year. She was raised there. Originally she comes from Turkey, but her parents went to France. Later when she got married they moved to The Netherlands. And now she 's back to the place where she went to school, the heartland of Les Vosges. The old folks there understand German. It's a kind of no-man's land. The Rhineland which soil was battleground for a thousand years or more.

Another colleague I spoke came from the west of Turkey. He came 30 years ago to The Netherlands. The Netherlands were the promised land he told me. Friends of him told that. So he followed his dream to be rich one day in the promised land. His classmates have better lives than he has he told me. That aches, he better could have stayed. Some of classmates are lawyer or doctor and have much luxury and of course a different life style than here in The Netherlands. We live more in house, even in summer and certainly in winter. But the colleague has a house on the West coast of Turkey so why should he complain? I could say he is becoming very Dutch.

I found out that in 1980 we became an immigration country. Only in 2006 we were an emigration country again. That's the population explosion we had. On secondary school I learned The Netherlands has 15 million citizen and suddenly there were 16 million.

The Dutch always have something to complain about. If not there is always the weather. Today we've had a lot of snow. In the middle of the day we've had a white blanket covering all. December is cold till now. Maybe it will last until X-mas.