Hello friends and family!
Time for an update. We have some major news to share…. (drumroll)… we are leaving Yellowknife and going back to the Netherlands in July…
We needed to make a decision about what we were to do after the summer and after some careful deliberations we made our decision.
Although the prospects for work for Bas look good, he still doesn’t have a job offer for a teaching position next year; therefore, it will be very difficult for him to get his work permit in order in time for the new school year. Besides that, Judith hasn’t been able to apply for her work permit either, since we haven’t heard about the outcome of the Labour Market Opinion yet.
Rather than having the decision made for us – by not granting us the work permits on time, we’ve made the decision ourselves; the result is that we’ve decided to go back to the Netherlands… We have mixed feelings about this situation, but we think it is for the better. We can focus on our careers back home and look back at two amazing years in the North of Canada. We will miss many things and many people here in Yellowknife, which has become our second home.
There will be a lot of things to take care of (selling and shipping our belongings, etc.). Therefore, Judith planned to spend her last month in Yellowknife off, so she can take care of the things to do, while Bas can finish the final weeks of the school year in reasonable peace and quietness. Consequently, Judith has just resigned and her last day at Kellett Communications will be June 3rd.
We’ve booked our flight and will be arriving in Amsterdam on July 23. However, we will leave Yellowknife July 1st, because we’re planning a road trip in Eastern Canada (Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Quebec) before we leave Canada. Lots of things to look forward to.
Let us know if you have any questions. For now, we leave you with some more pictures of this amazing place…