In the past two weeks, things have started to settle down a bit - finally. Most of us were getting more and more occupied with projects, assignments or readings for our classes. Others are still travelling Europe like crazy as their time here is limited. And everyone had gotten the urge to relax from time to time and just stay home once or twice a week, watching a movie, chatting with friends from home etc.
Nevertheless we were still having good times together and having fun during different kind of activities. Two weeks ago for example, was the ABN AMRO Tennis Tournament here in Rotterdam. Jacob, one of our buddy organized tickets for us. We were a group of around 30 people going together to see two matches on a tuesday evening. First there was the french Michael Llodra (who won the tournament in the end) playing against the dutch Raemon Sluiter who's orignally from Rotterdam. This made the whole arena crowded and everyone was cheering for him - expcept the Frenchies in our group of course. The athmosphere was even tighter as Sluiter annouced before, that he'll retire after the tournament - so we got to see the final match of his career. In the second game we saw top player Nikolay Davydenko winning against czech Jan Hernych. Although the level of the second game was better, the athmosphere sucked because half of the seats were empty again and no one seemed to care anymore. Although this experience was interesting for me, I have to admit, I'll never love to go to see tennis matches. You just have to be too quiet and not too much is going on...
Apart from that we've visited Utrecht on a sunday trip, been to museum night yesterday, spent regular nights at pubs or went once to dinner to Hotel New York, a famous restaurant at the spot where the Holland America Lijn started to take off in the early years for their cruises across the atlantic. Tonight finally we'll make an international dinner where we'll gather in a flat of fellow exchange students and cook typical stuff from each country. Gonna be an adventure for our stomachs. As you can see, still interesting stuff is going on.
Boring life? - Not at all!!
Nevertheless we were still having good times together and having fun during different kind of activities. Two weeks ago for example, was the ABN AMRO Tennis Tournament here in Rotterdam. Jacob, one of our buddy organized tickets for us. We were a group of around 30 people going together to see two matches on a tuesday evening. First there was the french Michael Llodra (who won the tournament in the end) playing against the dutch Raemon Sluiter who's orignally from Rotterdam. This made the whole arena crowded and everyone was cheering for him - expcept the Frenchies in our group of course. The athmosphere was even tighter as Sluiter annouced before, that he'll retire after the tournament - so we got to see the final match of his career. In the second game we saw top player Nikolay Davydenko winning against czech Jan Hernych. Although the level of the second game was better, the athmosphere sucked because half of the seats were empty again and no one seemed to care anymore. Although this experience was interesting for me, I have to admit, I'll never love to go to see tennis matches. You just have to be too quiet and not too much is going on...
Apart from that we've visited Utrecht on a sunday trip, been to museum night yesterday, spent regular nights at pubs or went once to dinner to Hotel New York, a famous restaurant at the spot where the Holland America Lijn started to take off in the early years for their cruises across the atlantic. Tonight finally we'll make an international dinner where we'll gather in a flat of fellow exchange students and cook typical stuff from each country. Gonna be an adventure for our stomachs. As you can see, still interesting stuff is going on.
Boring life? - Not at all!!
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