Anita
"I felt like there was more freedom to be what I wanted to be here in the United States."
Intro
Anita grow up in Groningen in the Netherlands. She was born in 1963 and her favorite holiday is Sinterklaas. In Sinterkaas you will give someone a gift, like a candle but there will be a very small piece of paper or something in the candle and that will give a clue where the other gift is. She has two sisters that are 8 and 11 years older then her. Anita speaks five different languages: Dutch, English, German, French and Russian. She knows Dutch and English fluently and she knows a little French, German and Russian.
The official name of the Netherlands is Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands is located in Europe. The population of the Netherlands is 17.02 million people. The Netherlands use Euros as their currency. The Netherlands capital is Amsterdam. The government is a monarchy and the ruler is Willem-Alexander and he is the king.
Anita traveled to New Jersey when she was 8. As an adult, Anita went to Russia to study for a year. Then she went to Boston and then moved to New York City after that. Then she moved back to the Netherlands and then to Vermont.
1972
When Anita was eight years old her family went America. Her father did a sabbatical in New Jersey and Anita went to school there for that year. There were a few different things from where in The Netherlands was from then from New Jersey. It was much hotter in New Jersey then The Netherlands, the grass was very coarse, there is TV during the day and all kinds of candy that the Netherlands did not have.
1995-2010
Anita moved to Boston MA and a few years then to New York city. She met her husband there. She and her husband moved to the Netherlands for nine years. She had two kids in the Netherlands, a boy and a girl.
2010-2018
Her family moved back to the USA, in Vermont. Both her kids have dual citizenship and she has a green card. Anita works from home. She travels about two times a month, once for work and once to go see her mom in the Netherlands.
Immigration Process
Anita got her first green card in 1995 when she when she moved to Boston and New York. When she moved back to The Netherlands in 2001, she had to give up her green card because she was no longer living in the United States. When she and her family wanted to move back to the United States, she had to reapply for her green card, which she got in 2010.
School
Anita grew up in The Netherlands and when she was eight she did a year of school in New Jersey because her father was there doing a sabbatical. Then she returned to the Netherlands. She returned to the US for her freshman year in college, then back to The Netherlands for the rest of college. She studied physics. Also while she was in college, she went to Russia for a year to study.
Anita today
Interview and web page by Emmitt H.