First day of School

2012-02-06 Monday

First day of school, I only have two classes, which one is in the morning and the other one is in the afternoon. I’m sitting in the lobby of the main building (like Spoelhof lobby) and watching these tall people getting coffee. My first class was electromagnetism class and my professor was not a Dutch nor American. Because I haven’t taken Calculus in three years, I’m probably going to ride the strug-bus. I hope to get help from my Calvin friends and professor, I guess. For the month of February and March, I only have three courses on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. It will be interesting to have two days off in a week.  I am hoping to visit downtown Amsterdam as much as I could. It will much easier when I get my bike and weather gets warmer.

Here, I don’t see many Asians like I see in America, at least at Calvin. There are more different Europeans like east to west, not just Dutch people. Also, I definitely thought that America has higher obesity population than Amsterdam. This place is so foreign to me right now. New school for four months should be interesting. It’s weird that even though I’m at the café with a lot of people around me, I don’t know anybody. If I went to Johnny’s for lunch, I will see people I know everywhere. I wonder that the people around me know that I’m new. Probably, not.

I met some people from my floor and my floor is very diverse. There are Dutch, Romanian, German, Chinese, American, Korean and more. I like how we have a community kitchen so we can meet people on the floor. I get to cook and share food with other people. One Egyptian lady offered me some of her food one night and it was delicious. Oh, I was thinking that it will be chaotic without any RA, but it actually wasn’t crazy, which was interesting. I like the freedom.

Picture - Cafeteria in VU