Friday, June 5, 2009

International Week Holland 24.04-2.05.2009

Here, also just a brief summary of International Week in Holland!

Days spent in Rotterdam:
  • Great team, great participants, great IW spirit!
  • visiting Kinderdijk and bicycle tour in the UNESCO heritage mills area
  • Madurodam(museum with all main Dutch sights minized 25 times)
  • beach at Scheveningen (never knew Holland has such nice beaches! =)
  • boat tour in Rotterdam harbour
  • Maeslantkering (very interesting, construction protecting the area from floods)
  • Great parties at Rivo, at Crazy Pianos(what a cool club concept!), Austrian Hut (probably the best party haha), International dinner in the place we spent 2h looking for etc :D
  • Huge thanks to great hosts Dalius and Agne (Lithuanians - hehe Baltics everywhere:) for hosting me and Shimrit(Israel). Had great fun.
  • Very interesting time spent with Shimrit in terms of cultural learning.
  • Really happy about having got to know all the people and also the second estonian participant Kati. I really love interesting people :)
Days spent in Amsterdam:
  • Great time living on the boat (haha out of use toilets and picnics under the stars any time you want!)
  • Looots of sandwiches (all the meals :D)
  • Such nice long walks along the channels! Really beautiful and magic athmosphere!
  • All the things Amsterdam is famous for :-)
  • Visiting Anne Frank House - very emotional for me at least
  • Great academic part of the project - lectures about innovation, visiting incubator for innovative start-up's
  • Queens Night Celebration (but unfortunately I did not manage to meet one friend I really wanted to :(
  • Queens Day Celebration. Huge crowds, but still very peaceful until the attack of the royal family (see youtube video)...sad
  • Great end of a great week!

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