Leah @ Oppositeocean

LATEST ARTICLES ( 25 )

• Let’s See If I Remember How to Do This…

  

  It hardly seems necessary to explain my recent lack of posts since the reason is the same as it has been in the past when one of my mysterious absences comes... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Learning Dutch is Silly.

  Maybe when you read the title of this post you thought I was going to go on about how silly it is to learn a language that so few people speak and that is not s... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Eating, Reading, and Listening.

  

  Life hasn’t been too eventful in the last weeks… so I’ve decided to give you all a little run-down of the mundane but hopefully mildly interesting goings-on as... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• #VisitGent

  Visit Gent, The Ghent tourism office, has launched a fun new tourism campaign. It’s no secret that I feel really lucky to live in such a beautiful city and... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• What the Future Looks Like.

  

  During the last weeks I’ve been adjusting to a new schedule at university and attempting to get everything organized to pave the path for another semester of... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Curious Case of the Disappearing September.

  

  A favorite from the September photos. September of 2013 is in the running to be the swiftest September of my 27 years. It has passed me by at an unbelievably... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Oh Relief, My Flighty Friend.

  Very happy to announce that my friend, relief, has once again made herself present in my life. She came sweeping in today as I finished my last exam. Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hiatus

  I bring you this very quick message to announce that OppositeOcean will be very quiet in the coming weeks. I’m taking a little hiatus from the blog to focus on... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Musical Trivia

  What do Belgians know about Americans? Well… if you watch Belgian TV you might think it’s only The Simpsons (another post about the Belgian addiction to The... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• An Introduction to Belgian Beer

  

  It’s been a long time now that I’ve been wanting to write a post about Belgian beer. After all, this blog is mostly about Belgian culture and my experiences wit... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Instagram Video for Flanders in Seconds

  Ghent is in the process of gearing up for the Genste Feesten which will start tomorrow. The Gentse Feesten is a 10 day cultural festival held in the city of... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dutch, the Mythical Unicorn of European Languages.

  

  Let’s be clear, unicorns unfortunately do not exist and neither does Dutch, my friends. Perhaps you’re saying “no way” and typing “does Dutch really exist”... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 EXPAT, LANGUAGES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Nature Finds

  

  Since we came back from our little getaway in France, things have started to go back to normal. The weather has been beautiful in Belgium and the flowers in... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• 6 Seconds of Saturday in Ghent

  On Saturday we into the city during the afternoon. We needed something from one of the shops in the city center and the afternoon was sunny so we decided to go... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• 5 Major Differences Between Belgium and the US

  

  It’s hard as an American living abroad to not always compare Belgium to my home country or vice versa. I try not to present things too much in this way on the... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Getaway in France

  

  We just returned from a week in the south of France. It was a beautiful place to relax and get away from all the responsibility in Belgium. Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• 10 Things I’ve Learned About Studying at a Flemish University.

  

  On Tuesday I finished my last exam of the semester and it already feels like I’ve been done for weeks even though it’s only Friday. Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2013 EXPAT, SCHOOLING, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dutch Words I Can’t Keep Straight

  

  There are a few lot of words in Dutch that I just can never seem to get right. This list is really a running one, as I always seem to be forgetting things, or m... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2013 EXPAT, LANGUAGES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pursuing Poppies

  

  I love flowers, all kinds really. Big fragrant peonie blooms; tiny delicate buttercups; and even the bright yellow ones adults spend a lot of time trying to... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Broken Brain

  

  I had another broken brain moment the other day. Which is nothing new, really, but unfortunately this one happened during an exam. Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION