Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Video / Picture updates!

I have some video-logs and some photos to share since i arrived... =)
Looking back, i look kinda silly in the videos.. haha
Nonetheless, here they are.


At Schipol (Amsterdam) airport:


In my room at Stappergoorweg (in short, Stapps):


Tilburg University's tour. Led by Dutch students from the Erasmus Student Network (ESN)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppzUrmRza6c



Schiphol Airport entrance with Celine. Walking along Heuvelstraat, the "Orchard road"





























On Sunday, we went for a kick-off drink. It started at 3pm, where most exchange students were at Cafe (pub) Bolle. The two opening sentence of most conversations " Hi my name is XXX, you are?" and "So where are you from?"

It's cool though, meeting people from all over the world.. Turkey, Korea, Spain, Mexico, Italy, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany, Sweden, American, Poland, Canada and Turkmenistan. So many names to remember! It helps to remember them by where they are from though.

In the first picture, Clarisse who's next to me is a Singaporean who has been in Tilburg for a semester, now she's doing her second semester. Such a sweet looking girl. And on the right, it's Gigi from Hong Kong. There are about 15 Hong Kong students in this semester. And the guy standing next to me is Dong Joo from Korea. Very pleasant and humble character.

After a beer, a big group of us adjourned to grass company. It was quite an interesting place. Imagine ordering a joint off the menu! Apparently a good one cost about 4 euros. I didn't try cause I wasn't feeling adventurous. Ha.

As the Magnificus blah blah blah (I think he's like President or something) was giving his welcome speech, we were busy snapping photos. Check out my bicycle below! Nice? 40 euros!
But the bike is a bit too small for me.. urgh.





























That's Noemi from Hungary (above)
and that's Khubba from Poland (right)

They are very happening people!









We had our first mentor dinner not very long ago at a nice pub. I had ham served with lots of fries instead of fish. Got to know this guy Christian from Cologne. He says that place is nice... and it's worth visiting. Oooh...

After dinner, it was party at LG. LG is a club in city centre, where the exchange students and some dutch students go wild every tuesday. Yup, yesterday was my virgin experience. After dinner, it started raining, so we parked our bicycles underground. It was so cool. At LG, it was strange, they played all sorts of music. R&B, handbag, hip hop and even country!

From the top, Maria from Iowa, Francesco from Milan and Christian from Cologne!
Most pictures will come at a later date!

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