“Isn’t there a Scottish girl arriving too?”
I guess I better explain the title first before I go any further.. a few nights ago I was standing chatting ( in Dutch ) to a few other students in halls, talking about our courses and some Erasmus students that are arriving soon. I mentioned there would be a Dutch girl arriving as well as students from Spain and Portugal and that’s when it happened. “Isn’t there a Scottish girl arriving too?” .. yeah, that would be me. You see, I’m fluent in Dutch. I lived there for 7 years between the ages of 9-16 and it’s not something I talk about a lot - this I’ve come to realise over the past month when I have told people about Belgium and that I can speak the language, which has come to almost everyone’s surprise. It’s not that I don’t want to talk about it or that I avoid the subject, it’s just not something that comes up in conversation very often and I’m not the type to gloat either. I have been told before, by Dutch people, that I don’t ‘sound’ Scottish when I’m speaking Dutch and I...