My Dutch Language and Culture course took a trip to the “Open Air Museum” in Arnhem to learn more about the Netherlands of yester-year…
The Netherlands is a wet place… All those canals require ‘cleaning’ hence this very specialized boat.
In the rest of the world December 5th is just a normal day, but not here in the Netherlands:
Awhile back some friends and I decided to take advantage of a deal on 1 day unlimited travel train tickets. We traveled to Utrecht, The Hague, and Rotterdam, it was an amazingly fun and interesting day.
This post is actually quite old but it took me a long time to get all the photos for it to upload…
Here are some photos of my trip to The Hague. As Alexandria (the girl in a couple photos) and me, are both Gilman Scholars we where invited to the US Ambassadors house to meet the US Ambassador to the Netherlands. Unfortunately the ambassador had to fly to Brussels for an ‘emergency’ meeting so we where not able to meet her. We did still have a good time and got to see a little bit of Den Haag, an amazing city to which I plan to return to more fully explore it.
I’ve got some breaks from school coming up and decided that I should put them to good use, so I’m taking the time to explore the world more and to get some relaxation.
On the 15th of December I fly from Dusseldorf(Germany) [it’s just accost the boarder and cheaper than flying from the Netherlands] to Krakow(Poland). I’ll be staying at a hostel in Krakow and exploring Poland. Then on the 24th I fly from Krakow to London where I stay until the 29th when I fly back to Dusseldorf. From Dusseldorf I’ll take a train or bus back to the Netherlands so I have some time to study before finals.
After finals it’s time for a reward, a break from the cold and rain of the Netherlands, I’ll be enjoying the Sun and the Sand in Agadir Morocco, from the 13th to the 23rd. Amazingly my flight from Dusseldorf there and back only cost 60 Euros in total. Unfortunately there are no hostels in Agadir however I was able to book a nice hotel on the beach for about the same price as a Hostel!
It’s official winter is here, most every day is cloudy and rainy, but some days are still sunny and nice. Some friends and I decided to take advantage of one such day and go for a walk in a local park.
My Dutch Language and culture course took a trip to a local cheese shop. Almost as educational and delicious 
I’ve been so busying meeting other students, and with school that its been awhile since I got a chance to post. So here’s an update with lots of photos…
Here are some more photo’s of Arnhem. The tiny washers… and an Australian named Peter who crashed on my floor till he could get let into his room.
Time now for a few more photos:
Lunch and laundry, I really have no idea what I’m eating it’s essentially a puffy fried sausage…
Frikandellen what ever it is it's tasty
Shared Kitchen... it looks so much less disgusting than it really is..
Doing laundry in the machines here is expensive, and the machines are tiny, so I’ve been hand-washing my cloths…
Lots of cloths drying...
