Why yes, we do live on the island :) Does your boyfriend live here too? And yes, we traveled extensively when I was a kid, from age 4 to 12. We then settled down in Holland. For my parents it was "back home" again, but for me it wasn't. I have never seen Holland as "home", though I can feel *at* home there. When I first came to Vancouver Island, we took the sea plane from Vancouver harbour to Victoria harbour, and as we flew the plane turned south and gave us a beautiful view of Strathcona and the more northern regions of the island. I broke down right then and there, and cried "I'm home!". That was the first time in my life that I ever felt that I was home, that I'd come home. And after 9 years it still feels that way. This is home. We went back to Europe in 2006 - to Holland and the UK where my husband's family lives - and even though it was nice to see the relatives again, we both felt even more that Van Isle is "home".
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Date: 2008-08-21 09:22 pm (UTC)And yes, we traveled extensively when I was a kid, from age 4 to 12. We then settled down in Holland. For my parents it was "back home" again, but for me it wasn't. I have never seen Holland as "home", though I can feel *at* home there. When I first came to Vancouver Island, we took the sea plane from Vancouver harbour to Victoria harbour, and as we flew the plane turned south and gave us a beautiful view of Strathcona and the more northern regions of the island. I broke down right then and there, and cried "I'm home!". That was the first time in my life that I ever felt that I was home, that I'd come home. And after 9 years it still feels that way. This is home. We went back to Europe in 2006 - to Holland and the UK where my husband's family lives - and even though it was nice to see the relatives again, we both felt even more that Van Isle is "home".