Thursday, March 25, 2010

My Specifics and More Health Insurance


I am a 24-year old woman from Danville, California. I grew up in California but have visited Mexico, Hawaii and the East Coast. 2 years ago I met Bryan, an American whose father is a Dutch national. One night Bryan romantically claimed my first European trip. 5-months later, I was on a plane to Holland and my life changed forever. I didn't go to the coffee shops, in fact I just passed right by them because for me Holland wasn't about the legal marijuana. I had absolutely no interest in it. I explored the whole of the country and had amazing native tour guides at that. We visited Madurodam, (www.madurodam.nl) a miniature replica of all of Holland, the Apenheul, (www.apenheul.com) a monkey zoo where the monkeys are not limited to cages but roam freely around the grounds and of course we explored a bit out of Holland, to Germany and France. Upon my return to SFO I was happy to be home, but three weeks later after getting back into the American swing of things and I was ready to return to Holland.


I was set a year later to move there with Bryan. When we spoke with his father about it though, he wasn't ready for us. "Try to wait a year and then Ill probably have work for both of you then. The economy is really bad everywhere, and its no better here." Disappointed Bryan and I still talked about moving to Holland for a few months. I had even applied to some schools in Amsterdam and Utrecht. Things got hard though, Bryan couldn't find a job here in the states and stresses from my family made me angry with him about it. We broke up.

7-months later, Bryan's mom, who I was still very close with, called me. I was traveling from Oregon to Chico so I missed the call. When I returned her call 10-minutes later I was informed that she wasn't home due to Bryan being involved in a car accident which she needed to bring him home from. I was told I could call back in about 20 minutes and they would be back. I was worried about Bryan. When I called back she told me that they would be in my town later that week and wanted to see me. I told her I would try to work it out and that we could stay in touch but asked more about the well being of Bryan. This was the night we reconnected, I spoke with him until 4 am when my train arrived in Chico. January 1st Bryan moved back into my house, and tried to transfer from the Best Buy in Carson City to the one here. That plan didn't pan out as expected and the job search continued.



The end of January, almost a year to the date, Bryan's dad calls us up and asks how we're doing, where Bryan is working. When Bryan tells him that he isn't working but has a good prospect Dutch says, "Well if you are still wanting to move up here, I might have some work for you soon." I just about jumped for joy and lost my breath. A week later, Bryan had a job with Verizon as a Flex-tronics Tech. He was given about 2 weeks before he would go to training in LA and three days previous to leaving, his manager calls and says the position is closed indefinitely. This brings us to today.



And I'm still searching for Health Insurance....



Because it is 21:49 and I want to go to sleep soon, I'm not going to research tonight.




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