Friends are important to me. I read somewhere that we are the average of the 6 closest people to us. As I live far away from my family and as my parents are in her late 60s/his early 80s, my mom once told me that I should take care of
After more than a decade (yes, almost 11 years now) living in France, I’m far from the “honeymoon phase” of the little kid who was excited about every little thing in the new country. Nevertheless, culture differences seem to be an infinite topic. That’s the reason why I wrote down
Hello, it’s me again ! It’s been a while since the last post: 3 years. Well, I’m not surprised, nor disappointed for this blog being abandoned: to be honest, it was created and written for a class assignment. It’s not that I don’t like writing. I have a lot of
For an overall review, I think my integration into the Dutch society has been quite smooth: I don’t encounter any big difficulty. I think that the experiences that I had when I arrived to France from Vietnam have taught me a lot. Moreover, the program that I study here being a
As you might know, Erasmus program usually asks exchange students to give advises to the back-home university students or the future exchange students. To be honest, I won’t and can’t give you a numerous and concrete advises, as I don’t see myself as an expert in studying abroad, in travelling
Time for ending this first part of the Erasmus blog is coming! Looking back on my first exchange semester in Groningen, I would say that it has been for me a very nice experience. Although things are not always easy, especially with all the changes that are happening on my
If you ask me to describe my image of the Dutch with 3 words, I would say: open-minded, nice and easy-going. Open-minded Since I’ve been in Groningen, I discovered that “the Dutch are everywhere”. The Netherlands is so small geographically, but their contribution for the world is noticeable. Indeed, since
It has been about one week that I moved to my new house, and till now, I think it was a great decision of mine: Indeed, I like this new place quite a lot, although my new room is about twice smaller than the room that I had :D. The
I hesitated quite for a long time to write about my typical day, as this is one of the required topic for this Erasmus blog. Well, there are reasons for this hesitation: first, I don’t think that my life in Groningen is kind of “amazing” or “special”, compared to my
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