reporters@esn-groningen.nl's blog

Hello everybody,
welcome back to the final round of this semester. The most celebrated holiday season came to an end and hopefully all of you had some great time at home and spend some time with family and friends.

With the last classes of the week and the first snowflakes falling down the Christmas holiday is coming closer and closer.

Life is a rollercoaster..!!

Hello everyone,

 Let's go back in time and imagine yourself being a rug rat full vivid imaginations, dreams and abstract beliefs about the world and the future. Wednesday night was the time to make alive our past selves again, because it was the time of our personal childhood heroes. The party committee “Equipo Fiesta” organized this amazing theme party and brought back the time of smurfs, Batman, Turtles, Red riding hood and many more.

After being here for little over 2 months now you probably have learned a thing or two about the Dutch culture and mentality. With this knowledge you should be able to really appreciate Dutch Cinema. Or if you are still really puzzled about what we dutchies are like, then watching some Dutch films might provide some explanations. Also, if you are attending a Dutch language course, watching some films might prove to be very useful and fun.

As you probably know the Netherlands is divided into twelve provinces: Limburg, Gelderland, Overijssel, Utrecht, Noord-Brabant, Zeeland, Groningen, Drenthe, Noord- and Zuid Holland, Flevoland and… Friesland. Friesland is one of the northern provinces, next to Groningen. Of all the provinces Friesland is somewhat the odd man out, and there are a lot of negative feelings about Friesland and Frisian people.

Skating fever!

I know Erasmus is a lot about party and enjoying time abroad but it is also linked to taking coures and passing exams. Last time I showed you how students made fun of taking exams and that they were not furious about passing the exam or get high grades. Most students have to study a lot to keep up with the study load and reading lists but there are also the students who have the “gift”. It seems like they never study, they have always plenty of time to do other activities and beside that they get the best grades of the whole course. But hey, its not totally hopeless!