Yannani

My scariest travel experience.

I am currently in Norway, seeing my family. I arrived yesterday night after a bit anxious travel experience, which I will tell you guys all about.

So the day started as any other day. Wake up, eat breakfast and then start packing and tidying the apartment before I had to leave. I decided to take the tram this time, which would bring me straight to the central station. I took one of them electrical scooters to the tram station. When I arrived I saw a huge amount of people already waiting since it was in the middle of rush hour. The tram arrived and I barely made it on since it was so full. I even missed my original train because the tram had to spend almost 3 min on each station to let people on and off.

Fast forward to the airport. Thankfully the plain had been delayed by 20 min so I got time to make it through the security and get something to eat. Then began the boarding process and this is where the true story begins.

My seat was 25A which meant that I was sitting next to the window, which I was really happy with. There was one guy sitting in the seat next to the aisle, but he moved after we had taken off to sit with his friends. I was all alone on that row until a guy came along and sat down. He briefly asked me if it was okay for him to sit there and I just nodded “yes”. Then halfway through the flight I took out my earbuds for a moment and that’s when he suddenly started a conversation with me.

He first asked where I was from and then after I said I was from Norway he started continued and asked if I was born an raised there. At this point I was already starting to feel really anxious. I am very much an introvert and also have social anxiety. I also tend to overthink a lot which made me start to worry if this guys was checking me out for something scary. I started to panic and just said that I was born and raised in Norway, which isn’t really true. I was adopted from China at a really young age, but in that moment I just wanted to be done with the conversation. Then the guy proceeds to ask me about my parents. He asked if they were from Norway too and I again just said “yes” followed up with a “why” since I was really starting to wonder what that had to do with anything. He look at me with disbelief and mumbled something “you look different” which is fair since I did technically lie to him about my origin. At that time I just turned my head and quickly put in my earbuds again.

For the remainder of the trip was feeling quite on edge. Multiple questions were rushing through my head such as “maybe he choose me because he is into Asian girls” “is he going to follow me as soon as I get of the plane?” “is this where I get kidnapped?”. As I stated earlier I overthink ALOT. I even started to feel a bit nauseous from the whole situation. Even though the chance of him being a bad guy was 0.0000000001 %, in my head the number doesn’t matter. I end up mostly over focusing about the fact that there is still a chance. Thankfully I later discovered that he was traveling with his wife and kids, which made me feel a bit at ease and realised that he potentially only talked to me because the kids were busy and he was probably just board.

When the plane landed I still waited until he had gotten off the plane before I walked off. The rest of the trip was alright. I thankfully didn’t have any more strangers talking to me. Regardless I will still say that this is the scariest I have been when it comes to traveling alone. It is one of the things I am must afraid when it comes to traveling alone.

I arrived safely at my family’s home at around 11:30 pm. Had a small chat and headed straight to bed.

Today was quite a chill day. Woke up, made breakfast and then headed out for a small walk around a really nice water. It’s a place where I have been multiple times back when I was living in Norway. I have even been there with my school. The weather was nice, a bit chilli, but I like that.

After that my mother and I headed to the pharmacy to get some items and then it was off to the hair dressers and get my hair cut. I showed the lady my reference photo and she began cutting. The end result was really amazing and I have decided that this will my go to hairstyle from now on. I showed the result to my friend and she loved it as well.

The rest of the evening is just spent, eating dinner and watching some tv with my parents, then have my daily talk with my boyfriend and then off to bed. Tomorrow is also going to be a bit of a busy day with different appointments.

Hope you all are having a nice summer so far and I’ll update you again tomorrow ^^

A nice end to a wonderful week.

Yesterday was the day my parents headed home. We didn’t do anything besides trying to get to the airport as soon as possible, but something interesting happened.

So the day started very abruptly with me getting a call from my mother telling me that I had to try to get to their hotel withing 45 min. So I literally jumped out of the bed, got dressed and ran out the door. Thankfully there wasn’t any trouble with traffic so I made it bang on 12:30. The first thing we did was ordering a taxi to the central station where we were going to take the train to the airport.

When the taxi came we loaded all the baggage and sat us in. We started talking Norwegian and suddenly the driver was like “You guys from Norway?” and my mother responded with “Yes, how did you know”. It turned out that the driver had family living in Oslo and therefore could understand and speak a little bit of Norwegian and I just thought to myself, what are the chances for that to happen. So we had a really nice conversation with the driver in Norwegian, which I wasn’t expecting.

After we got the the train station we just bought our tickets and headed down to the platform. Since our train was delayed by 10 min we had enough time to just walk at our own pace. Not a lot happened the rest of the day. It was mostly just walking and waiting. We did have a lovely last lunch together at the airport where I went with a dish called “Vol-au-vent” which was quite tasty. Then it was time to say hug my parents goodbye. I asked them to send me a message when they had arrived at home and then headed home. I just made it on time to start my stream at 6pm.

I was planning on just doing my standard 6h, but when it was midnight I thought I was so close to finish my Elden Ring run by defeating the final boss, but little did I know that it would take 2.5h alone to just defeat one guy. After my stream I just chilled on the sofa before heading to bed.

But it was really nice to spend this time with my parents, as I mentioned earlier, it was the first time my parents visited me since I moved out. Ever since my dad was diagnosed with ” pulmonary fibrosis” traveling was a no go up until last year, so it was really great to be able to show them around and have them see for themself how and where I live. It was on the list of things I would love for my parents to take part in together with my wedding and the potential birth of their first grand child. I will be visiting them this summer because my cousin is going to baptise her child on the 9th of June which I am looking forward to, but that was it for this week.

I hope you guys enjoy the posts and everything and I’ll see you next time ^^

Tourist train and 2 lovely dinners.

Yesterday I met my parents in the city together with my boyfriend. The plan of the day was a simple, yet nice one. We would start our day with taking a small tourist buss around the city and then later in the evening they would come over to my apartment for the first time since I moved.

The day started really chill and relaxing. We planned meeting up at 2 pm at Grote Markt in town. When we met up with them they were in the middle of buying tickets to a small tourist bus which would take us around town with an audio guide. We drove along the cannal, through the mini china town, past the lovely central station and through the diamond streets. Almost every place had a small explanation or story attached to it and even I learned a thing or two about the city. It was a really lovely and sunny day too which was a nice change from Tuesday’s weather.

After the mini bus tour we headed into the Cathedral so just see the enterior and and such. It was really huge inside and had lots of lovely paintings and artifacts. Everything we did took about 2 hours.

Then my boyfriend and I headed to the store on our way home to just buy some food for dinner. We had invited my parents over for raclette, so we bought different meats and veggies they could choose from. They arrived at around 8:30, because they had some trouble with the taxi’s.

The evening starter with a very small tour of the apartment, just showing them each room. Then we sat down for some cheese and cracker for starters while we just talked until we eventually moved over to the dinner table where we had set up the raclette maker. As for food we had some sausages, burgers, chicken, mushroom, aubergine, potato’s, beef skewers, a salad, cheese and some bacon. We defiantly did not eat all of it, but we did to my surprise finish the entire aubergine. It was apparently the star of the dinner. The dinner lasted until almost 11:30 pm. Then it was ordering a taxi for my parents and that was the day.

Really nice and relaxing and it was very nice to be able to show my parents where I live. It has always been on the list of things I want my parents to take part of. Other things on that list are wedding and birth of their first grandchild, but that is further down the line. I just hope my dad is strong enough to experience all those things. It does sometimes worries me that he won’t due to his condition, but it was nice crossing one thing off the list.

Fast forward to today. We were planning on going to the botanical gardens, but my dad did not have a really good night, so he was sleeping for the majority during the day. So today I just went a bit of shopping with my mum, she sponsored a new outfit for me. Then it was back to their place until we all headed out to a small and cute restaurant called ‘t Hofke. The restaurant was quite hidden in a small alleyway and it even took my boyfriend 10 min to find it because he was going to meet us there.

The food there was amazing and much better than the dinner place we went to the first night. For starters I had some snail and then some more beef. My boyfriend had a shrimp croquette and Duck. And my parents had salad, snails and beef as well. The people there were really nice and even took a lovely photo of all of us. We sat around and had some lovely conversations until it was time to leave, because my dad was feel quite tired today. They are leaving tomorrow so most of the day is going to go to them traveling and explain more of the central station. I said I would join them to help out with the bags and after that the visit is over.

Now I’m just relaxing again on the sofa while boyfriend is playing some Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

Family meetup came with museum visit and juicy stories.

Today for the first day I met up with my family and I was not expecting the things that they had experienced so far on their travels. Been here less than 24h and already had a run in with the police.

The day started as normal. I woke up, took a shower and picked out what to wear. I had already scheduled with my parents that we would meet up outside of the MAS museum in town at around 1 pm. It was really great seeing them again and it did feel kind of weird heading in to town knowing that I would be meeting them there.

We spent most of our day at the museum. There were in total 10 floors, but we didn’t have the time nor the energy to visit them all. The staff there were really nice and helped us out with the elevator when we needed it. We saw 3 different exbitions; first one about the prehistorian columbian times, second about homes and third one about the WW2. My favourite I would say is the home one. It was unlike anything I have seen before.

The exebeition was about what differnt people associate with the word “home” and what made their them feel like home. There was a small video where they showed differnt living situations and ask the people about their thought. I felt I learned quite a lot which I liked.

After we were done at the musesum we took a taxi back to where my parents are staying and I got to see there hotell room or should I say mini suite. We started looking for places to eat which ended up being quite the challenge because the place needs to have comfortable chairs, preferably padded so that my father can sit comfortably. All the places we looked at had small wooden chairs until we finally found an Italian one which looked nice and wasn’t even that far away from the hotel.

We made our reservation at started getting ready. The place was nice and the people there were also really nice. For food I ordered “Aubergine with tomato sauce and mozarella” for starters and a “Entrecote with veggies and potatos” as my main course. My parents had aspargus as their starter and as their main dish my mum had scampi while my dad had squid.

During the dinner my parents told me a story how they had a run in with the police.

After they arrived yesterday with their boat curise, they headed into town with some of the other people, just to do some sightseeing. On their way home in the cab they came upon a problem. The road that the taxi need to drive to get to the boat was closed off. They tried to look around, but found no solution. Then they asked a police man who was standing near by and he aparently answered very rudly “No you can’t drive here, it’s against the law”. The driver tried to explain that my dad was handicapped and need a direct as possible acces to the boat, but the police man didn’t seem to care.

After a while they found a small road would lead straight to where the boat was, but it was partly on the “no driving” area. The taxi driver takse responability and goes there anyway and when my parents steped out of the taxi to get on th boat they same police mane approached them and this time he was angry. He started yelling at them telling them how they have now broken the law and that he will be speaking to the manager of the taxi driver to issue a punishment. He went on to saying that the cruise boats are suppose to dock next to the fort and not where it was currently staying. My parents told the curise manager to which he responded with “We tried, because we also want to be stationed by the fort, but we weren’t allowed by the people in charge”.

Then today as they were leaving the boat they saw multiple turist busses parked in the so called “No driving” zone.

So there you have it. That was their little run in with the police. It’s hard to determin who was right or wrong in this situation without knowing the full picture, but in my opinion I think the fault lies with multiple people. It was just an intersting story in general.

When the food arrived I was already quite hungry. My food was tasted really good. The aubergine was nice and soft, perhaps a bit too soft for my liking, but not a big deal. The entrecot was really tender. Sadly my parents did not have the same experience. For my mum the tiger prawns were aparently tastless and quite soggy and for my dad the octopus wasn’t directly bad, it just was as tender as he hoped.

After we were done eating we called it a night. I followed them to their place and then proceeded to head home.

I am now just sitting on the couch, writing this post while my boyfriend is playing on the switch. Tomorrow is going to be another full day with my parents and they are even coming over to our place to eat dinner and watch a movie.

Spring Cleaning before family visit

After 2 years I finally did a spring cleaning of my apartment and 7.5h later it was looking like a normal living space 😀

I know it’s been a while since my last post and this might be a weird one to write about, but here we are xD

So my family is visiting us this week. Although I do see them once a year it’s mostly me traveling back to Norway as I have written about in previous posts because my father wasn’t allowed to travel out of the country before last year due to his health condition. Last year they visited England again after almost 2 years, so they planned a trip to come and finally visit me here in Belgium. The started their trip in Amsterdam and are taking a boat cruise down to Antwerp where I live and are arriving this evening.

Therefore I decided to tidy up and clean our apartment, because it was quite messy. We rarely have visitors over so the mess tends to pile up quite a bit after time. So yesterday I woke up at around 12:30 pm and immediately started on the first room aka the kitchen. Most work was to gather all the trash around the apartment and throw it away and doing the dishes. Then it was over to the living room which didn’t take too long. After that it was time to head over to my “gaming” room which really needed a thorough clean because I had tossed a lot of things on top of the spare bed that need to either go in the trash in be put away. Last room was the bedroom which mostly involved laundry tasks aka folding and putting away the clean clothes. My boyfriend was doing the bathroom and the toilet room and after a total of around 7.5h the apartment finally was starting to look half decent.

When we finally called it quits for the day we decided to order out as a small reward. So we ordered kebab. I ordered one with lam, feta and bacon in a regular pita bread and one lam with feta in a Turkish bread. While we ate we just sat in front of the couch and watch some anime and headed to bed to too late afterwards because we were both feeling quite tired after an entire day of cleaning and tidying.

Today I had my last stream before the mini vacay. I decided to try my luck in League of legends ranked and I was actually blessed by riot today. Played total of 6 games where we won 4/6 and after that I won 2 ranked TFT games where I ran the exact same comp

I am really looking forward to meet my parents tomorrow and show them around the town and also the place where I have been living for the past 2 years.

Catching up with family

Yesterday my boyfriend and I went over to his mom’s place together with the brother and his family to eat dinner. We had a really nice time, but some of the conversation topics were quite interesting to say the least xD

We started by heading over to the brother’s place like we always do, because they always drive us. I had a small chat with them, catching up on how their holiday was etc. I told them about starting to go to the gym and my boyfriend talked about which game he has been playing lately. The drive is not that far so it only takes us around 15-20 min.

When we arrived at the mother’s place we said our hellos and gave everyone a hug each. We got there a bit earlier just to hang out before dinner. The brother had bought a couple of mini games such as mini Pool, mini table football, mini basketball, and Mikado from Flying Tiger. It was quite fun, and my boyfriend’s nephew also joined. The nephew even found 2 of the missing pool balls that had gotten stuck inside, which was quite funny because the brother (aka nephew’s father) had also been looking for them but gave up and put it away.

After a couple of hours, the stepdad went out to pick up the grandmother and then we got ready to eat. We had Raclette, and the brother had bought a huge variety of meat. We had sausages, mini burgers, bacon, slices of steak, schnitzels, chicken, and so much more. We could safely say that after dinner, we were all quite full. We had just about enough space for pancakes ^^

During dinner, the mother brought up the fact that she wanted another grandchild and was trying to make jokes about when my boyfriend and I would start trying. We also talked about glow-in-the-dark dildos and waterproof vibrators because apparently the wife of the brother has a store and was trying to talk up her products. Needless to say these topics were a bit awkward and weird, but the family seemed to have fun talking about them xD

We headed home around 8 pm, which I was REALLY happy about because I was already feeling quite tired after all the food and waking up earlier than usual. All in all, despite the convo topics during dinner, I did have a nice time.

I hope everyone else had a lovely weekend and I will see you in the next post ^^

Happy New Year Everyone!

First of all, I’m sorry for not posting here for the past 6 months. I planned to create posts several times and even took the photos for them, but I just totally forgot, and now it’s the new year.

Nothing unusual has happened in recent months. To sum it up: Nathan and I tried Korean BBQ for the first time, I visited the place where Nathan’s dad lives for the first time, Met up with my friend, streamed a lot, attended a work dinner, cut my hair short and explored both the Christmas markets in Antwerp and Brussels.

I think the highlights these past months was Korean BBQ and go bowling up with my friend, because those were both new experiences where I had a lot of fun.

When it comes to the new year I do have some goals or just things that I would want to improve in general:

Create more TikToks, Reels and Youtube video of my content.
Remember to post updates on my blog.
Speak more Dutch to become more comfortable
Be better at applying for jobs
Going back to excersising
Cook more dinners

I will try my best to uphold these goals, but I won’t beat myself over it if there are some things I don’t manage to do before the next year starts. I am quite exctieded and feeel somewhat motivated, but that might just be the New Year vibe talking xD

I hope you all have had a wonderful holiday weither you celebrated or not and I wish you all the best for this new year to come.

BBQ party with the bitches and homies

This weekend met up with some friends for an amazing BBQ party. We had a lovely time with bunch of jokes and wholesome moments. Even some spicy ones xD

The agreed to rent a place on a small campiste in the Netherlands. All I had to do was to get my ass on the right trains. Thankfully this time the distance was shorter, so I only needed to change train one time. My friend picked me up at the station and we head to the place. When we arrived everyone else were already there.

The people I met up with are a group that I have gotten to know online through either games or streaming. I had met some of them before like Nacho_gal, Joouwx and Pinbals. It was my first time meeting my friends Difan and Mr.Moopie. They were really nice ^^

We got to know each other a bit and then we two of us headed to the store to buy the food and drinks. We got some sausages, burgers, bacon and chicken scewers. Mr. Moopie had bought two small grills for our food. We just hung out, ate food and had a lovely time all together.

I had to leave a bit after 8 pm because I needed to catch the train home. I didn’t want to take the very last one in case I would get stuck again xD Three of the people were staying over, but I wanted to take things slow and decided to not do it this time around. My friend Pinbals drove me to the station and I had to run because I only had a couple of minutes. I managed to get on the train with 1 min to spare.

I got home at around 11pm and spent the rest of the night streaming until around 6 am before I headed to bed ^^ It was really nice to finally meet more of my online friends and I’m definitly looking forward till next time.

A huge loose for public transport today!

Today we were heading home from Germany. That shouldn’t be too hard, right? Well I’ll just tell you this. It’s was one of the most annoying and frustrating travel experience I have had.

We woke up really early because our train was planning on leaving at 6:33 am from the neighbour town. Thankfully our friend was able to drive us. By following this route we would be home at aroun 1 pm. We got there with like 10 min to spare and all is well. We sit down on the train, look up at the monitor and it still says that the train is on time and then it starts driving. Around 15 min later we suddenly stop to let a train from the oppisite direction through and then suddenly after that the monitor changes to say that we will be 13 min delayed, which was just the beginning of our annoyance.

We arrive at Frankfurt and walk as fast as we can towards the other platform just in case our train was still there. As we take walk anot the platform we see just see the conductor walk onto the train and the doors shut. The really frustrating part was that the train even stood there for like two minute before driving off. So we look up alternatives and qickly figure that we need to head to an another big city called Köln Messe/Dautz so that we could take a quick train to Köln Hbf. On that route the exact same thing happens. Waiting for opesite train and we miss the exchange. We do manage to get a anoter one quite quick which still gave us a chance to get the direct train from Köln Hbf. We get on, arrive at the station try to run as this time, but constantly gets stopped by other people and MISSED the train AGAIN by a hair!!

At this point we are REALLY frustrated. We don’t like spending time on traveling so the longer it takes the more annoying it gets. Nathan also has to work tomorrow and didn’t want to spend all day on just traveling. We decided to wait 1h for the next direct train instead of taking an earlier one that had 3 different changes. We got something to drink from Starbucks, sat down, relaxed and got our grocerie shopping done since there was nothing better to do.

We get on the train and make it to Brussels with some odd stoppes that weren’t even mentioned on the timetable. When we got of we even realised that we had stopped at Brussels Noord instead of Bruxelles Midi, which was good cus that is closer to home. The we hopped on our last train and even took us one step CLOSER to home than what the other ones that we usually take do. Got of the train and onto the bus. After that it was only a short walk which felt like it took forever. A bit over 2h delayed we were FINALLY home!! We went from 1 pm to 3 pm and we were both just exhausted since we had woken up before 6.

Today was defintly just a big loose when it came to transport. My friend suggested that it the reason might have been becasue Germany is missing insanly amount of people right now, but we learnt that next time if we go by train we should take the on BEFORE our original plan and just basically expect delays and include that into our planning. Now we are just chilling, gaming, updating everything and stuff like that before we will be heading to bed, maybe a bit earlier that usual.

Tomorrow everything goes back to normal. I’m quite excited to be back to streaming and gaming. I have missed that part of the vacay the most. We did a bit of gaming at my friends place, but nothing can compare to using your own pc.

The debut of Brownie Cake

Today was our last day here in Germany. Our plans were escape room and then end it with a nice bbq.

Our day started by walking the dogs. Since it was raining we just walked around town. When we got back we almost left imidietly to the neighbour city.

The place was called “Stage Escape” and our theme was backstage theme. Long story short, our band aka Brownie Cake was about to go on stage, but then we suddenly got locked up by a crazy fan and we have to get out before our support band was finished and we had to go on stage. We had 1 hour

The quickly figured out that we needed a bunch of sheet music. There were like 4 cases with different combinations that all needed to he unlocked and then contained new music. It was really funny experience especially since my friend got hung up on a clock thinking it was important, but got told at the end that it was only to confuse her 🤣 We were almost made it out. We had 1 min overtime.

On our way home we stopped by the store to buy some hair colour and snacks. Then when we got back our friend who cut our hair the other day can back and we started the process of bleaching and colouring my hair. I went for a red colour and decided to have it like “Nezuko” (my favourite anime character) has it basically only doing the ends on the back hair.

Then it was finally time to start the bbq. We grilled some sausages, bacon and steak. We ate it together with some potato salad and variety of sauces. It was tasted really good and its been a while since I had bbq. The dogs also enjoyed it and kept us company even though they mostly sat by the table hoping for some food and sometime they got lucky.

The rest of the night was spent gaming and just hanging out. We are heading home tomorrow at 6 am in the morning. The train tip is 5h30 min which means we will arrive in our city at around noon.

It was been a really great vacation. Got to spend some quality time with my family and also with my friend. We did a lot of fun things, but I’m looking also really looking forward to get back home and be able to game and stream again.