And what a welcome it was!
I started the day off by cycling to my first class at Tilburg- Group Dynamics. Its a Psychology course that focuses on interactions, decision-making, motivation and behaviors of individuals and groups. A few of my international friends are in the class, and the professor is Japanese. Should be interesting!
This afternoon I relaxed for a bit, before heading over to my friend Daniel's where we painted our faces in preparation for the evening. Tonight was the first ESN Mentor Dinner in which two international students (or in this case the Dutch mentors) cook a meal for approximately 30 people (two ESN groups). I am in group number 12 and tonight we were paired with group 11. The theme for tonight's dinner was "Welcome to Holland". Everyone was told to dress like the Dutch (either in orange or the flag colors- red, white and blue).
The Dutch mentors cooked tonight to show us how its done, and made us a fine dish of sausage and stampot, a traditional Dutch dish made of primarily mashed potatoes and carrots and cabbage. It was delicious! We had Dutch pancakes (only difference from American is that they are much thinner) with apple syrup and powdered sugar for dessert. Yum!
Afterwards, we traveled (some by bike...others, like me, by bus....18 F is just too cold for a bike!) down to the LG for the weekly ESN dinner after-party. Tonight they were serving a special orange cocktail just for us....to welcome us to Holland!
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