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....
A short while back I wrote an article criticizing the lack of education on sexual harassment and healthy boundaries at the University of Amsterdam and other universities in The Netherlands. This post is a little update on where things are now, and what organizations and...
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...
Hey, have you ever heard about POPOS of SF? Privately-owned public open spaces (POPOS) are publicly accessible spaces in forms of plazas, terraces, atriums, small parks, and even snippets which are provided and maintained by private developers. The only thing is that there places are neither obvious...
Howdy from Texas! My goal during the exchange semester in San Francisco is to see and visit as many places in the US as I can and now, after almost four months I can say that I have seen quit a lot. My last adventure was...