Here bellow is a report of my first week in Rotterdam. Copied from my personal blog. The link is bellow.<\/p>\n
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Either I\u2019m gonna love it or I\u2019ll die here.<\/em> That was my first thought, when I stepped out of the car after a 20 hour drive. The drive that was following a 3 hour sleep. After 20 hours of almost constant rain. At least I got to be the navigator and I still admire the driver, how he managed to take it. The navigation thing was a challenge itself, since we only had a Adriaroute on the Garmin (though it still had major roads throughout the Europe) and my mobile phone had European maps only partially loaded \u2013 but the locating didn\u2019t work for some reason\u2026 Anyway, after we pushed ourselves dangerously close to our limits, we finally arrived to a city that only had to offer, and we only had to take. How the hell did we end up here? It\u2019s real, isn\u2019t it? So, Rotterdam will be our home for the next 6 months (myself) or maybe even 3 years (Miha, the driver). So much stuff that\u2019s going around us now, when we finally reached the destination, and we didn\u2019t even get to sleep yet.<\/p>\n The next few days were mostly in a matter of the trivial things. Getting mobile phone up and ready, inquiry at the city hall about the registration, eating all the sandwiches I didn\u2019t on my way here, surviving and such. Coming here out of a country where probably more than 98% of the people are exclusively Caucasian I \u2013 though I hate to admit that \u2013 was pretty honestly scared. There are so many people\u2026 so many different races\u2026 different cultures\u2026 someone\u2019s gonna see a weakness in you and you\u2019ll wake up with one kidney less\u2026 No, wait. It\u2019s Rotterdam and that\u2019s how it\u2019ll be thorough the next 6 months. If the rest of them are not afraid, why should you be?<\/em> So, that\u2019s how I became one of them, too.<\/p>\n Tuesday was a day to hit the well-known (and apparently well crowded as well) market and meet some of my future schoolmates. The market is more than enough big to find about anything you could possibly need for the week to come \u2013 except for the pasta it seems. Instead of it you can get all the other kinds of dough-based products, dairy products, fruits and vegetables; also some textile and other daily needed stuff. In the evening we went to a party meant for the international students. In my manner I left at about 2 o\u2019clock in the morning and apparently I wasn\u2019t the only one. Probably my head, my liver and my wallet are all grateful. And I don\u2019t listen much to the other parts of my body anyway\u2026<\/p>\n Wednesday was a day off for pretty much all of us. Since some had to get themselves together from the day before and the rest of for the day to come, that seems reasonable. In the end, I was still suffering the consequences from the Sunday torture. I\u2019m not that young anymore, it seems.<\/p>\n So, the Thursday, the big day. We were all summoned to the school. Of course a few of us were late (Olek \u2013 my schoolmate and my flatmate \u2013 and I, we blame it on the girls!) otherwise it won\u2019t be in our style. A trip around the school. I don\u2019t really have much experience as I still haven\u2019t been on so many schools yet \u2013 much less outside Slovenia \u2013 but Willem de Kooning is enormous if I was to judge. Consisting of two buildings linked together by a bridge or a few, 3 stairways up and down it\u2019s plenty of space for its scholars. Or so it seems, since I did not see many of non-erasmus students there yet, in the end it might turn out to be crowded as well. At the end of the forthcoming week I\u2019ll be able to tell. In the evening we went to a jam session in a jazz bar, but since I\u2019m not a fan of jazz music I didn\u2019t stay long.<\/p>\n We had a trip around the Rotterdam on the Friday. We got to see some remarkable buildings which we would get to see eventually anyway, but it was still good to hear the history about them. A few rather interesting facts, but I guess every city has some of them.<\/p>\n Today Miha and me went to a market again (it\u2019s every Tuesday and Saturday) to get some everyday products and in the evening I went to the open air cinema with schoolmates. We saw the film Argo, and it was fairly cool. Or maybe I just thought it was, since it was my first open-air cinema experience in life. It was also the first time in R\u2019dam I felt cold. So, the autumn is here\u2026 And for the first time after 5 years I get to start school in September.<\/p>\n And we basically finished our first week, so, this is it as far as it concerns my first blog post. Well, I know many of you want to know more about my schoolmates (the erasmus students are mostly girls on our school. By far),\u00a0 but let\u2019s just leave that part for the next post, okay? It\u2019s not like you get to choose\u2026<\/p>\n ==============================================<\/p>\n