By Carine Huurman (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Time flies when you are having fun! It’s a common saying but so true.
This is already my last blog about Manchester, as I am home already for a few days. Time is up. Continue reading
Students from the Netherlands
Santa Claus is coming to Manchester
By Carine Huurman, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands
It’s the middle of December. So that means that Christmas is coming up in less than ten days…
Manchester gets Christmassy and also Leeds and Birmingham seem to join the competition of making the city of making the city as convivial as possible. Continue reading
“Time flies”
London October 2017
No matter how cliche it sounds, it is true, time flies when you are having fun, and too fast if you ask me. Before I left I remember thinking ‘four months is going to be too much’, but the opposite is true it is not enough and there are still so many thinks I want to see and do. Since I am person that is very attached to home, it feels wierd to say that I’m not really missing it. Maybe, because I don’t really have time to do so. The last few weeks have been a lot of fun, some highlights… While reading week is actually ment for reading, I must admit that is not really (at all) what I used it for. Continue reading
‘Do I really want to do this?’
‘Do you know the feeling when you decide to do something and when the moment is finally there you’re not sure anymore? I had that feeling, but more about that later.. First, who am I?
“If it seems too good to be true, it probably is”
By Carine Huurman, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
A famous expression is: “If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.” Two weeks ago, I realised how true this expression actually was. Continue reading
Worries, Imagination and Reality
By Carine Huurman, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Before I went to Manchester, I had been volunteering in a conference centre in South England. When I chatted with the guests or the staff of the centre about Manchester they reacted all in a different way: Some of them called it a “StudentCity,” others almost described my Exchange to Manchester as the worst choice I had ever made. Continue reading