Sooner or later every exchange student will find himself in a situation in which everything becomes just too much. I haven`t had many of those moments, but it happens to everybody.
You are just tired. Tired of people who say to you -Je moet proberen- which means -You must try this-. You would like to have once in your life something easy, something familiar, that belongs to you. You are tired of new strange food, difficult language and expressions, weird behavior, tired of everything.
And you will wonder why the hell you came to the Netherlands, and why the hell you ended up in Zeeland.
Those moments won`t last long, if you take the initiative and make things better.
Thursday, 4 June 2015
Thursday, 26 March 2015
5 things you`ve got in your room if you are an exchange student
If you are an exchange student, those are the things that you are most likely to keep in your room:
1# You surely have a stockpile of food. Probably cookies, Nutella, croissant (for the most fancy ones) a frozen cow, pizza, pasta and salami, will help you to survive those moments of hunger in which you would be able to eat the whole kitchen alone. There are two kinds of exchange student: the ones that in the middle in the night, while the host family is asleep, sneak out their rooms and go and grab everything they can find in the fridge. And there are the ones with the stockpile of food, settled just next to the bed. Cause everybody knows, exchange student often are lazy.
2# You`ve got a flag of your home country, maybe with the signatures and messages of friends and random people you have met in your way till here.
3# You`ve got a diary or some kind of book, where you write what happens to you, or complain about the weather, the school or your host country.
4# You probably also have a flag of your host country, and some kind of tourist souvenirs that you bought in the first weeks of your exchange year. And now you look at them with contempt, cause now you are almost a native in your host country, who needs souvenirs??
5# Pictures, letters, memories received from your friends back in your home country. You probably spend some time during your exchange looking at them, and thinking about some great time that you have had with those people. You know, distance makes the heart grow fonder...
1# You surely have a stockpile of food. Probably cookies, Nutella, croissant (for the most fancy ones) a frozen cow, pizza, pasta and salami, will help you to survive those moments of hunger in which you would be able to eat the whole kitchen alone. There are two kinds of exchange student: the ones that in the middle in the night, while the host family is asleep, sneak out their rooms and go and grab everything they can find in the fridge. And there are the ones with the stockpile of food, settled just next to the bed. Cause everybody knows, exchange student often are lazy.
2# You`ve got a flag of your home country, maybe with the signatures and messages of friends and random people you have met in your way till here.
3# You`ve got a diary or some kind of book, where you write what happens to you, or complain about the weather, the school or your host country.
4# You probably also have a flag of your host country, and some kind of tourist souvenirs that you bought in the first weeks of your exchange year. And now you look at them with contempt, cause now you are almost a native in your host country, who needs souvenirs??
5# Pictures, letters, memories received from your friends back in your home country. You probably spend some time during your exchange looking at them, and thinking about some great time that you have had with those people. You know, distance makes the heart grow fonder...
Doei doei!
Haydèe
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Dutch and INDEPENDENT
Young people in Netherlands have a job since they are 14 years old. They earn their money, and use them to buy what they want. Usually they don`t receive pocket money from their parents, so common in Italy.
Young people in Netherlands have bikes and go everywhere with them. To school, to work, to the gym, to the beach when it`s not too far.
Public trasportation system works and can bring you wherever you want. Even if dutch people always complain about trains` delay and high prices, the service is still really good compared to Italy.
Young people in Netherlands are independent. I was looking for independence when I left Italy. And here I found it. There are some moments in which I feel a sudden and surprising happiness. I realise I am living and I am living the best. I am an individual and I am alive and I am free. I`m on a journey and it`s going to last all my life. In those moments I understand the real point of being an exchange student.
Young people in Netherlands have bikes and go everywhere with them. To school, to work, to the gym, to the beach when it`s not too far.
Public trasportation system works and can bring you wherever you want. Even if dutch people always complain about trains` delay and high prices, the service is still really good compared to Italy.
Young people in Netherlands are independent. I was looking for independence when I left Italy. And here I found it. There are some moments in which I feel a sudden and surprising happiness. I realise I am living and I am living the best. I am an individual and I am alive and I am free. I`m on a journey and it`s going to last all my life. In those moments I understand the real point of being an exchange student.
Haydèe
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