I’m a sucker for inspiring quotes that make you gag slightly, but also have a solid truth in them. So here I go, life is both about getting to know yourself but mostly about creating yourself. And that is what most of us are doing...
For the past three months, I’ve been feeling like we moved from one holiday to the next: the house decorations in my street changed from ghosts, spiders and baby dolls on nooses (no, I’m not kidding) for Halloween, to fields of pumpkins for Thanksgiving. Now...
It is strange sometimes how you meet the people who, expectantly, start to mean a lot to you. When I talk about how I met my friend Marcel, people often awkwardly laugh. And I can’t blame them. In fact, I sheepishly laugh along with them....
It is strange sometimes how you meet the people who, expectantly, start to mean a lot to you. When I talk about how I met my friend Marcel, people often awkwardly laugh. And I can’t blame them. In fact, I sheepishly laugh along with them....
When I skype or facetime with my friends and family at home, I have to tell them so much. I am not that much of a texter, so the only news that they get from me is when I we make these phone calls. They...
The end of the semester is approaching, it is incredible how quickly time has gone by. Four months ago, on the 9th of August, I arrived with my pineapple suitcase at SFO, not knowing what to expect, but determined to make the most of what...
Is American student life very different from the student life that you had in Amsterdam? Many people from home ask me this question. I think it is important to become aware of the differences because if studying would feel exactly the same as studying in...
My previous two blogs were about the start of my cycling trip. The following three days, my friend Anja joined me. It was a lot more fun and a lot easier to cycle together with someone. Spending an entire day on your bicycle with nobody...
Before I started on my five day cycling adventure, I wanted to ‘upgrade’ my bike that I bought from craigslist. So I dropped by a cycling shop to get the gears, the brakes and some other stuff checked. The guy from the shop looked at...
I’m a little late with writing about my cycling adventure… I remember that on one of the days of orientation, when all international students were gathered in the great lecture halls, we were asked a specific thing that we wanted to do or accomplish for...