Hi Everybody,
My name is Ann and I have a wonderful love story to share! It all started when I met Michael on the internet!
You can start reading from the beginning of my whole story by starting down below. It will tell you how we met and how I ended up in Canada. Or you can browse the different pages below by clicking the buttons below that will take you to the pages of that year in my life in Canada since I moved here from Belgium in April 2000. Enjoy!
Page 1 of Part 1 of my Love Story
I met Michael in September 1999 on the Internet! I placed an ad on the net at one of those penpal-relationship services to find someone to write with. Actually my ad was just for to see what kind of reaction I would get, not so much to find someone. I didn't mind having more friends from all over the world. But of course I thought to myself: "Hey, you never know". And boy, I can tell you that it was the best thing I ever did, as Michael was one of many guys who sent me a message and wanted to get to know me!
For some reason Michael’s respond to my ad attracted me, so I wrote him back. I also wrote 2 other guys back that sounded quite interesting, one was from Australia but living in Belgium and the other one was in Australia somewhere (not sure what city). Michael is from Canada (New Westminster, close to Vancouver) and I am from a little village in Belgium (called As, close to Genk), which is in Europe! Well, we started off as friends, send pictures to each other and tried to get to know each other by e-mail by asking each other A LOT of questions! Strange you might think, but no…this is a very good way to get to know each other the way we are! Of course there are also people who just pretend! But we didn't mind going for it and taking that risk. It was not the case with us, we told each other everything very honest from the beginning.
I totally forgot about those other 2 guys I was supposed to write back, as Michael was such an interesting person. I e-mailed those other 2 guys to let them know I got to know a very interesting person (Michael) and that I wanted to concentrate on him. I never heard from those 2 guys again and could fully concentrate on writing to Michael. It didn't take long before we fell in love and started to express our true feelings in our e-mails. Each time I knew Michael was going to write I felt a billion of butterflies in tummy and felt so happy. And each time I read his e-mails I would get all warm inside and had that special feeling I had never felt before.
Michael and I were getting stronger feelings for each other and that showed in our e-mails. Michael told me that he fell in love with me and one day he e-mailed me and asked if he could call me sometime? He wanted to hear me on the phone. Oh yeah, of course he could. So, I gave him my phone number and he gave me his. We made arrangements by e-mail so I would be home when Michael would phone as there is a 9 hour difference between us. The day was there that Michael was going to phone me. I was sooo nervous and excited, you can’t imagine!
Then the phone rang and so much went through me, you can't believe it. I picked up and heard the loveliest voice on the other side, which gave me butterflies in my stomach. Oh, it was so nice to talk to him and to hear his voice. We talked for 2 hours about all kinds of things…we just clicked. From then on we phoned each other every week and talked for an hour or 2 on the phone. Everything went just great between the 2 of us even though we never met!!
After a while Michael said he still had 3 weeks of holiday left that he still had to take! He asked me if he could use those 3 weeks to come to Belgium to visit me and to see with whom he fell in love! I didn’t know what to say, I was so flattered when I he said he wanted to come and visit ME! Of course I wanted him to come and visit me…I was so excited. Not too long after that he phoned me up and said he booked his trip and will be coming from the 4th of December 1999 till the 21st of December 1999. The only thing that I had to take care of was to find him a nice hotel and that I would pick him up at the airport! That would be no problem! My parents were actually very happy for me, I was surprised and at the same time very happy. They even suggested that Michael could stay at our place, but since I had to work it would be better for him to stay in a hotel close to the center of the city.
I graduated as a nurse in September 1999 and started working on the 1st of October 1999 as a nurse. I had a contract for 6 months and then I would get another contract for 6 months. That’s why I have to work when Michael is coming…I just started working and can’t take any holidays yet. But I had a few days off during the week and could take some hours off here and there. I would make sure I could spend every moment I was off with Michael. I was looking forward to his stay soo much, you can’t imagine. After a few sleepless night of excitement the day was there that I had to go to the airport to pick up Michael! All kinds of feelings and thoughts went through me. I felt excited, nervous, happy, at the same time I felt scared and insecure.
Michael and I at my parents place when he was on holidays in Belgium
You see, we knew each other from pictures, talking on the phone and e-mails, but you actually don't know how it will be in when we are faced person to person?? We both had such high expectations about our first meeting and boy was I ever scared that it would turn out totally wrong, that I wouldn't meet Michael's expectations. What if he wouldn't like me? What if we can’t get along? What if he is not there? But I thought, we just have to try it and we’ll just have to wait and see what happens. If it doesn't work out, least we will know and try to make the best of it.
Well, no more time to think about all that, as it was time for him to come out of that gate where I was waiting. He told me he had the same running shoes on as he had in some of his pictures that he sent me and he was going to wear a yellow jacket with blue in it. He could be there any minute now, I was just so impatient and nervousyou can’t imagine. I even started calling another guy that walked by Michael as he had the same shoes on and a yellow and blue jacket! I must be going crazy...he's plane didn't even land and I thought it was him already. Haha, I was just worried that he might just walk by me. I think I was just too excited and couldn't wait to see him. Oh my god, there he was…he came out of the gate where I was waiting. I saw him before he saw me, and he looked even better than he did in his pictures. I saw him look around, first he looked to the left and didn't see me yet...then he looked and finally he noticed me and he smiled at me with that gorgeous smile…I was just melting where I stood. We looked at each other and just knew that this was it. Boy, it was the greatest moment of my life!
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