From Around the World in Katie Days. This is the first post in a series that will highlight things I’m learning as I go. From the mundane everything to the panic-stricken moments, here’s what I (now) know: 1. No one takes credit cards. I have found exactly one business in Utrecht that takes [...]
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Venice!
Ciao, This weekend was awesome! Myself and 6 other girls from OUA went to Venice this weekend for Carnevale. It was so much fun. I’ll give you a short run down of all of the things we got to do and see while we were there! We left on Thursday February 16th after everyone was finished with [...[...]
February 17th, 2012 - 9:58 am § in Netherlands, The World
An Uphill Battle
This post is from the blog Around the World in Katie Days by Kate who is studying in Utrecht. How do you study abroad when you’re an introvert? This is the question I asked myself over and over when I was preparing to go abroad, and it’s the question I’ve been wondering since I showed [...][...]
February 17th, 2012 - 9:30 am § in Europe, Netherlands
Surprise! Things I Didn’t Know, Part 1
This is the first post in a series that will highlight things I’m learning as I go. From the mundane everything to the panic-stricken moments, here’s what I (now) know: 1. No one takes credit cards. I have found exactly one business in Utrecht that takes Mastercard, Visa, or American Express[...]
Ciao from Arezzo!
Hello, My name is Tyler and I am studying in Arezzo, Italy for the spring 2012 semester. I am going to try and post once a week about all of the fun and exciting things going on here at the OUA campus. Yesterday, February 15th, Kirk Duclaux’s Art History class and Dr. Stephenson’s music [...]
Classes
Classes are in full swing here at Universiteit Utrecht. For international students, that meant we attended two orientations during the first week of February. The first orientation was all about paperwork: paperwork for registering with the city, paperwork for canceling our city registration in July[...]
February 7th, 2012 - 5:08 am § in Europe, Netherlands
Top Five Ways Dutch Students Are Just Like Us
I'm pretty sure Dutch students don't like T.U.[...]
February 3rd, 2012 - 11:26 am § in Europe, Netherlands
Hallo and Sneeuw!
Hallo from Utrecht! After 11 hours up in the air, I am finally in my new home in central Holland (and yes, everyone here does call it Holland–they look at you so oddly if you say The Netherlands!). About half an hour from Amsterdam, Utrecht is a gorgeous town with many old churches, canals, a[...]
Siena and Viareggio
On September 7 we visited the Tuscan city Siena with our art history class. We toured the Duomo and some other museums there, focusing on pre-Renaissance art. We saw Lorenzetti’s The Allegory of Good and Bad Government in the Sala dei Nove. We got to climb up and get a great view of [...][...]