Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Na March 1938 Balink kwagara United States, ghọọ nwa amaala, ma rụọ ọrụ dị ka onye nta akụkọ maka akwụkwọ akụkọ Dutch kwa ụbọchị, "de Volkskrant". Ndepụta ndị mmadụ e mere na United States na 1940 na-egosi na ya na nwunye ya, bụ́ Lydia, bi na Queens, New York. Site na New Jersey na afọ iri na abụọ na-eto eto, Lydia so Balink rụọ ọrụ dị ka odeakwụkwọ ya. N'afọ 1948, o bipụtara akwụkwọ gbasara mmekọrịta ọha na eze na akụnụba nke Caribbean, "My Paradise is Hell". N'afọ ndị 1950 o guzobere ma dezie magazin, "The Knickerbocker", akwụkwọ e dere maka ndị Dutch America. Magazin ahụ nyere aka n'ịhapụ onye ọkpụkpọ bọọlụ bọọlụ Dutch, Han Urbanus ka ya na ndị New York Giants zụọ. Urbanus jiri ahụmịhe a mee ka ịkụ bezbọl gbasaa na Netherlands. N'afọ ndị 1950 kwa, Balink duziri kọmitii maka William the Silent Award for Journalism. Na mbido 1953 ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye isi nke Holland Flood Relief Inc., nke nyere aka ịhazi ọrụ enyemaka n'oge idei mmiri ahụ.
Iju mmiri nke Oké Osimiri North nke 1953. Balink bụ onye na-eme egwuregwu tennis amateur.