by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 12, 2022 | My Blog, Personal Reflection
A while back, I believe sometime in 2016 I realized that I was not a very happy person and that I was a very lonely person. And for the first time I actually questioned that and asked myself if this was how I wanted to live the rest of my life. I realized that my...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 12, 2022 | Life in Belize, My Blog
January 21 Life in the jungle: I started my morning continuing and hoping to finish digging my waterline trench. I did get a pleasant surprise when I dug up a Mexican Burrowing Narrow-mouthed toad. And I did not get far into my morning when it started to pour rain. ...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 12, 2022 | Life in Belize, My Blog
January 15 Life in the jungle: I was pretty productive most of the day. I went into the bush and checked and found along my one property line for on old PVC pipe waterline and an electric wire that was used to run a water pump when we pumped water from one of the...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 12, 2022 | Life in Belize, My Blog
January 9 Life in the jungle: Because of how rough our road is getting, Derrick had to walk down our road. Derrick came to install the plycem (plywood/cement mix wall boards) on my basement storage rooms. I should mention Wayne (the other Belizean living on the...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 12, 2022 | My Blog, Personal Reflection
I was bullied almost everyday of my life from grade 1 to grade 12. I was even bullied when I was 37 years old (but that’s another story). I am not entirely sure if there is a connection between trust and being bullied but I had virtually no friends throughout...
