08/25/10

First of all - shout out to my little bro HAPPY 16TH BIRTHDAY JACK, don't crash the jeep.

Amsterdam is absolutely incredible. It's so beautiful, my dorm is overlooking a canal and a little bridge that leads down all of these quintessentially dutch streets. There are people on bikes zooming past my window all the time it is great!

I've met a lot of people from all over the world in the last 3 days. The international student network (ISN) has a two week orientation for all of the international students. There are over 1000 of us from all over the world! I am the only person from North America in my group (we were all split into groups to do activities in), everyone else is either from Europe or Asia.

There are bikes everywhere! I had one but it broke within the first 15 minutes of riding it and so I am getting a new one tomorrow. So far I have gotten lost twice and ended up wandering around Amsterdam for over an hour each time, I need to start carrying a map around with me.

Tonight they are holding a Borrel, which is a traditional Dutch party for the International Students (last night they rented out an old warehouse on the river and held a crazy dance party). I'll let you know what exactly a Borrel entails once I find out, but they give everyone a lot of free drinks at every event so it'll probably be wonderful.

I don't know how to say write more later in Dutch.

But it's probably a really long word that looks something like this prizengglidkchetjke