00:00Hello, hello, guys. And thanks for watching a new video. Next week I'm going to start vlogging again.
00:08But this week, guys, I don't know how fast life can change, but life can change very fast.
00:17I moved to another house, to another city, and I've got a baby.
00:24When she was seven weeks old, we moved to this house. Oh my goodness. I am so freaking grateful.
00:38And also because in the Netherlands you have two types. Well, you have like three ways of getting a house.
00:49One, you buy it, but not like in Uganda. When you have in Uganda enough money, you just buy it
00:57almost cash.
01:00But in the Netherlands you can borrow money from banks to buy your house.
01:07But to borrow those money from the banks you have to earn a certain amount of money and you have
01:11to prove that, etc.
01:12There are lots of rules. But there is also another way of getting a house.
01:19You can also rent a house. And then you have two types of rent.
01:25We call it social rent. That will be probably a better English word for this.
01:31And you have particular rent. I used to live in particular rent.
01:37Particular rent is higher. You have to earn three times the rent.
01:45But everyone can just join it as long as you earn three times the rent and you can prove that,
01:50etc.
01:51Social rent. You have to earn also an amount of money. But in this case, it's the other way around.
01:59You can't earn that much. If you earn too much money, then you are not allowed to join the social
02:05rent part.
02:08And there is a waiting line. Depending on how long you have been registered, you are going higher in the
02:16ranking.
02:17So I was registered in 2017. That's eight years ago, I had to think.
02:25But since my boyfriend is here living in the Netherlands, I could register him together with me.
02:31And that meant that our both incomes went combined. And then they look at your income and they say,
02:39okay, according to your income, you are allowed to react on these kinds of houses.
02:44Since he didn't earn that much in 2024. Because they always look in the past.
02:50And he was just here for one month. And he worked here only for one month.
02:54Which is logic. Because when you just live here for one month, it is what it is.
02:59So they only looked at that year and he worked here for one month.
03:03And then they put that income above my income. So we were low income.
03:09And we had priority. Because that's kind of the good system in the Netherlands.
03:13If you have low income. Sometimes in the Netherlands, you can rather earn too low than medium.
03:23If you earn medium wage, then you're screwed. Because like I said, you can rather earn not enough.
03:33Then you get a lot of money from the government. But as soon as you earn more,
03:38then all the money from the government is going away. And at the end, you earn the same.
03:44Or you get the same amount of money. But yeah, the good thing is, of course,
03:49when you earn more and more and more, then you also have more possibilities to buy a house, etc.
03:56So like I said, there is like one line that you should cross and then actually get above that.
04:06Because otherwise, you're screwed. Since we also have a kid, we were also allowed to
04:13or you get also higher in the ranking of having a house with a garden or a backyard, I should
04:20say.
04:21We have now a house with a backyard,
04:26three bedrooms,
04:27two bedrooms and an attic where you see me now. And the attic is going to be our office.
04:35Downstairs will be the bedroom of us, of course, the baby, get an own bedroom.
04:41And we have a walk-in closet and a bathroom. And then we have a living room, a kitchen and
04:48the backyard.
04:50It is insane. And I am beyond thankful that it went so fast. It was also really stressful,
04:59because to be honest, I was planning to go online way more. Yeah, way more earlier. I thought,
05:07Oh, I'm alive again after my C-section. I feel good. And then the moving came and we had to
05:16fix this whole house. There had to be a new floor in it. We had to paint some walls. We
05:24had to put some
05:25wallpaper. And to be honest, not every room is already finished yet. We decided to move it already
05:32in and do the rest one by one. Just, yeah, one at a time. We can't spend time and money
05:42on moving so
05:43much in all in once, but we have to do it, like I said, one by one. But yeah, it's
05:52insane. I'm still so
05:55grateful of how we got this house so fast after I gave birth. And because she was not even one
06:03month,
06:03she wasn't even one month old. And I got the message of the social rent organization, like,
06:13Hey, are you still interested in this house? Because you have to react online. And I was like, uh, yeah.
06:21So yeah, it's a really nice neighborhood. I know a lot of people who live in this neighborhood.
06:26Um, yeah, it's, it's really great. There is like a small play garden in front of our house where when
06:35she's older, she can also play. And that also reminds me of my youth. I always used to just go
06:41outside, play around with my friends. And actually I met most of my friends from just the neighborhood.
06:49So yeah, I hope that will also be like that for her. And yeah, I'm going to be back. I'm
06:59going to
07:00vlog again, uh, as a family in this beautiful house. Um, I want to bring you with me when we
07:08do
07:08something with the house like painting or, nah, soon there will be a closet with drawers for her
07:17coming because her old one couldn't go upstairs. So we had to buy a new one and the one we
07:25bought
07:25for her, or actually we got for free that is now in the kitchen. To be honest, it's a great
07:32closet for
07:33in the kitchen. So I don't complain. So yeah, I'm going to take you with me in this lifestyle and
07:41in
07:41this box. And of course we still want to go to Uganda also as well, because don't think that
07:49since we are now a happy family here with our house in the Netherlands that we never come back to
07:53Uganda.
07:55Hell yeah. I hope at least before her first birthday that we can go because of course she has family
08:02there. The plan is to go as soon as possible, but I am afraid that possible is
08:12some maybe six, no, maybe seven or eight months waiting
08:23with pain in my heart.
08:26But hey, yeah, I hope you will enjoy the videos in the Netherlands with all jobs around the house.
08:34Oh, I'm even a little bit sad. I realized more and more that, you know, a lot of people always
08:40think that I love Uganda because I love him. And that's, this was like one, but I realized more and
08:49more that it is two things.
08:51I love him and I love Uganda because he is here. So it's not that I'm fine now, like, oh,
08:59he's here.
09:00Fine. We are happy family here. No, there is also a piece of me that's desperately wanted to go
09:11to Uganda. And especially when the weather is here.
09:16Not so nice. Okay, before I start to cry, I want to thank you for watching. And I hope you
09:24liked the video.
09:26Please put a thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe, share the video with whoever you want. And I hope to
09:33see you in the next video where I'm going to, yeah, doing whatever I want. I have a busy week
09:42full of
09:43appointments, not about the house. Well, there is one appointment about the house. I have to deliver
09:50the keys. But in the weekend, I have nothing to do. So maybe I can do something fun. And there
09:57will be
09:57coming some stuff for my baby. Oh, and last thing to say, my boyfriend is not a fan of the
10:06camera. So
10:07yeah, I keep him out of the picture. And also, as the Ugandans will say, our baby. Although I love
10:18to
10:18show my baby to everyone. On the other hand, I don't want to show her because internet is wild.
10:29And I know that I can earn good money with my child. That's really hard to say. But it is
10:39the truth.
10:39When you have like a child, companies come to you, sell things and the fuse goes up. And I know,
10:48but I don't want to use my child for that because I don't know if she likes the camera. Maybe
10:54one day
10:55she will come to me and say, mom, why didn't I been shown in the camera all that time? Because
11:02I also
11:02want to protect her because nowadays random people can just take shorts out of your video. And that
11:13ends up on the dark web. So for example, you film your kids in swimming suits or whatever. People just
11:22can take that moment and put it on the dark web. And I definitely don't want that for my kids.
11:32So yeah, those are the two biggest reasons that I don't want it. First, she didn't choose for this.
11:40So maybe when she is older and she wants it, then that's another thing. But for now I say, no,
11:48I keep her for private. And if you ever meet me in the wild and you see me with my
11:53daughter, say hi.
11:56But like I said, I'm not going to film her because of her privacy. And also, yeah,
12:02because of you never know what people do with videos of her. So yeah.
12:09Thanks for watching. And I hope to see you next week. Bye bye.
12:13Bye bye.
12:13Bye bye.
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