Foreign Eyes
International Students Reflect on Utrecht
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
Every year hundreds of students from all over the world come to study in Utrecht. On the occasion of the 375th anniversary of the founding of Utrecht University, foreign students and alumni were invited to reflect on Dutch culture as they had experienced it in their university years there. This book collects the best of the essays they wrote; the result is a unique and fascinating contribution to the study of Dutch culture. These essays offer not only an intimate portrait of the students’ experiences, but also a fresh perspective on the remarkable, frustrating, and fascinating features of Dutch culture.
Wiljan van den Akker and Esther Jansma
Fascinated by Foreign Eyes
Emmeline Besamusca
Understanding Happiness
Lara Rösler (Germany)
Perception is Reality
Michail Zontos (Greece)
Nervous, Alone and So Excited…
Caroline Serger (Sweden)
Scraping Clouds from a Wolkenkrabber: Portrait of Life as a City Girl in Utrecht
Wan Pui Yin, Evelyn (Hong Kong, China)
One Good Day
Jamie Quam (USA)
It Must Be Broodje Kaas
Prince Yalley (Ghana)
In Search of My Own Time
Krizia Nardini (Italy)
Discovering Utrecht through the Senses
Ning Teng (Singapore)
Cycling through Snow
Mihaela Verman (Romania)
Utrecht by Night—Utrecht by Light!
Alice Pirlot (Belgium)
Where Surrealism Unleashes
Teresa Lalinde (Spain)
On People and Sunlight
Elena Dacheva (Bulgaria)
Bicycle Diaries: Racing in the Land of the Giants
Robbieana Kow Ying Leung (USA)
Letter to My Friend
Mishgina Tekeste Weldegiorgis (Eritrea)
In a Map of Time
Baiying Li, Zora (China)
Students from Utrecht
Tina Mouneimné (Poland/Lebanon)
Utrecht’s Climate in Shorts
Fionn Clissmann (Ireland)
Contrast
Owen J. Wiese (South Africa)
My Spacehopper
Gemma Tunmore (UK)
Out on the Town
Eduardo Salvador Arenas Catalán (Chile)
The Devil Is in the Details
Sylwia Motylińska and Paulina Dymalska (Poland)
Lessons for Life
Tatevik Manucharyan (USA)
A Semester of Swayings (Uncensored)
Caroline Gerlach (Germany)
The Missing Dimension
Lucie Bable (Switzerland)
Six Months below Sea
Jessica Doing and Max Puchalsky (USA)
Translations of Mottos
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Travel and Tourism: Travel Writing and Guides
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