There are so many things to tell but I kind of feel to split it up and publish infos and stories step by step when I have time and in the mood to do so. The first days here in Rotterdam have been a blast. Tonight is the second time I actually decided not to go out and get some rest at home. On the weekend we were partying all night long and even on sunday we went out for a couple of drinks to Concordia, sort of students bar which had had happy hour. After staying home on monday we kicked-off tuesday night with some beers at the bar in the university building (already at 5pm). Afterwards a Deborah & Nisha (two american girls), Andrew & Dave (two canadian guys), Fran (an argentinian guy who just arrived on monday) and me decided to go to an indian place for dinner where they had all you can eat. After stopping by at Dave's place I went home to finish the assignment we had to do for wednesday. Yesterday has been a huge party night again. First we started at Milena's place (bulgarian who lived for the last ten years in US) with some wine and cheese. After (ab)using happy hour at Concordia once again, we went to the international students party at a club called bikini (some club names remind me of the fancy names in Stuttgart) where I left at around 0430 am...
Classes finally started as well on monday. I just have one course which is called Marketing, Technology and Innovation but I'll get 10 ECTS for it. So it's pretty time consuming with around 12 hours of class a week and then assignments and projects. But over all the topic sounds very interesting and the next project coming up is the Google Online Marketing Challenge. Teams from different universities compete against each other in planning and implementing a search engine marketing strategy (Google AdWords) which we will run for three weeks. Although it appears to be interesting and fun, it might just be a bit too time consuming (for exchange) for my taste.
Apart from partying and university I explored a bit the city as well. Rotterdam is a city with a very modern centre and stylish architecture as the city centre was bombed during WWII. But if you go a bit outside of the centre (but still in the city) you'll see all those typical three story, brick-lined buildings. Striking is as well, that if you enter one of the houses you have to climb very steep stairs in the beginning. This might be due to the fact, that the city is located below sea level and this could be a little bit of protection against flood. I attached some pictures to give you an impression of the city...
The building i live in
A bit outside of the centre
Weena
View from university
Erasmusbridge and river Maas
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