N'ọnwa Machị afọ 1938, Balink kwagara mba Amerịka, bụrụ nwa amaala Amerịka, ma rụọ ọrụ dịka onye ntaakụkọ n'akwụkwọ akụkọ Dutch bụ "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 nke Oké Osimiri North nke 1953
Ọ dị mma. Balink bụ onye na-eme egwuregwu tennis amateur.