Dutch Immersion Camp?

We couldn’t travel over summer half term in early June because Veronica had to study for her IB mock exams. If I had suggested to Ashlynn that she use the break to attend a Dutch language camp, she would have laughed. Ironic that she ended up learning Dutch at a three-night modeling camp.

Despite being turned away from Fresh Model Management, she applied to attend Fresh’s Model Camp 2014 and was accepted. The camp took place at a group accommodation site outside of Utrecht. After encountering detours and making many wrong turns in a Greenwheels car from the closest train station, I finally managed to get her to the camp almost 30 minutes late. We dropped her stuff in her room with three sets of bunk beds, and she went to meet the other 39 girls.

She met a few of the girls online before the camp and was happy to meet them in person. Everyone was quite accepting of her despite her poor Dutch language skills. Some of the girls played translator, but she found that she understood more and more over the three days.