Finally reached the end (for reals this time)!  Kinda awesome that it took 31 posts, since I was there for 31 days...

Friday morning everyone lingered over breakfast, not really wanting to start the exodus.  Technically we were supposed to check out by eleven, but John didn't seem to care, so people just brought their suitcases downstairs and hung ( Read more... )

The End of An Era...

The last day of the program was rather uneventful: we had our last guest lecture at Erasmus University, then group dinner at six.  In the inbetween time I sorted through my dirty clothes and started packing things up.  Unfortunately, I miscalculated how much clothing I needed- I thought two weeks would be good enough for me only ( Read more... )

The Dutch DC...
On Wednesday we went to the Hague to get a tour of the Royal Library (which was an adventure finding, because of - surprise, surprise - construction.)   By now tours of libraries had become sickeningly standard for us, but the Royal Library managed to wow us with an exhibit of ancient texts and government documents in a joint ( Read more... )

Milo would've loved this place...

On Tuesday we had another guest lecture at Erasmus, and in the afternoon, a tour of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, which is sort of like the Sound & Vision place, but with Architecture.  They too are part archive, part library, and part museum, and there were some pretty interesting exhibits using the huge ( Read more... )

More quiet reflection...at this point, we were all getting pretty tired.

The last week in Rotterdam certainly was the quietest for our group.  A lot of people were sick, and the rest were thoroughly tired of the train system, so many of us stayed close to home, unless we were going out for a class thing.  On Monday after Trent's last lecture in the ( Read more... )

Another quiet (though productive) Sunday...

I headed back to the hotel and chill for the rest of the evening, catching up on readings and chatting with my roomies Jen and Sarah L.  The next day I head back to Scots International Church and get in touch with the pastor, who had called the hotel and left a message for me, as well as a note.  Turns out ( Read more... )

Uuuuutrecht! Tall buildings, churches, and tea!

Goobs!
So I'm settling in for a long night, because I did some research online, and according to the interwebs when you're travelling from east to west it is best to start staying up late and sleeping in before your flight, to prepare for the time change.  Unfortunately  that wasn't an option last night ( Read more... )

Fluffy Family Details

I'll continue on in a subsequent email about my Saturday trip to Utrecht, and my last week in Rotterdam, but for now I'll let you guys take a break.  I will let you know that since the program ended on Thursday, I took the train to Amsterdam and checked in at the hotel that I booked for the weekend: Hotel Nadia.  Despite the ( Read more... )

Leiden & the Opera

On Friday Monica, Aaryn and I went to Leiden, since we didn't have class and figured it'd be a good day trip.  We left early, since I had to get back in time to change for the opera, and as soon as we get out of the train station at Leiden, we are confronted with one of the coolest open air used bookstores ever: the owner ( Read more... )

Delft: basically, the Epcot version of the Netherlands

On Thursday we took the train to Delft, where we visited the technical university's library, which is particularly awesome because it's roof is a giant grassy hill just begging to be rolled down.  Unfortunately, it was rather drizzly that day, so no rolling for me, but the potential was there.   ( Read more... )