Episode 264 - Evie Wentink

Um, what was surprising about coming here? Like you have some picture, right? You have some vision for your life.

You want to do better.

You want to, you know, like you said, you wanted to, you know, you were adventurous.

You wanted to kind of venture out.

What was the view of America kind of prior to coming over just in general in check? And then when you got here, you have some expectation on how it's going to be.

Maybe you think it's all 90210 with palm trees everywhere or something like that.

But like, what was surprising about what was, you know, I'm always fascinated by the difference, you know?

Yeah.

So, I mean, if I were to tell you my story, how I actually got here to play by play, you would be like, wow, that was really wild.

Like I, you know, I was a nanny.

Like I came here as a nanny to kind of learn the language, help the family explore and go home.

That was really the plan.

If you can imagine, I'm 18 and one month old.

And now my daughter is in college and is 18 and she's on campus.

So, you know, it's kind of makes sense.

That time period worth reliving to see what place I was at.

I arrived at the JFK airport and I am sitting there waiting for someone to pick me up.

And guess what? Nobody is coming for hours.

Like it wasn't like you see the signs, you know, like people coming off the plane.

None of that.

And at that point, I didn't know what to think.

I don't remember.

I wasn't panicking.

I was just trying to kind of like, all right, this is going to be fine and believing that things were.

Anyway, at some point, someone showed up and it was a long way from JFK to New Jersey and to kind of get home.