This post is about the first time I left Europe. I went with my uncle to Bonaire for 10 days during autumn break. We left on Friday and came back on Sunday. Normally my aunt would go with my uncle but she couldn’t because of medical reasons. So I took her place. I needed to buy a new plane ticket because hers was not changeable. I bought it with another airline because it was much cheaper. That also meant that I had to travel alone. It was a 10 hour flight. We stayed at a B&B from people of the diving club. They moved from Belgium to Bonaire a couple of years ago and own a villa. They have a dog that became instantly my friend. Bonaire is a Dutch island in the Caribbean Sea. Everyone speaks Dutch but pays in dollars, which is very funny. Bonaire is famous for diving so that’s what my uncle did. I don’t dive so I was snorkelling while he was diving. I got to swim with turtles. That was one of the prettiest things to see and do. On my birthday we went to the Goto Lake and saw a lot of beautiful animals. It was so cool that I took selfies with flamingos on my birthday. We saw birds, eagles, pelicans, lizards, salamanders, geckos, lobsters and crabs. Donkeys and goats just stood in the middle of the road. We also saw parrots next to our villa if we got up early. We also hung a lot by the pool. It was so hot in Bonaire that we only wore our swimming suits most of the time. Sometimes we needed to lie down on the bed in our room with air conditioning. Make sure you protect yourself from the sun with sunscreen because I was already burned on the first day.