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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781766403321

Titolo

Foreign eyes [[electronic resource] ] : international students reflect on Utrecht / / edited by Emmeline Besamusca

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Pallas Publications, c2011

ISBN

1-283-25929-X

9786613259295

90-485-1405-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BesamuscaEmmeline

Disciplina

306

306.09492

Soggetti

Students, Foreign - Netherlands

Utrecht (Netherlands) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

An Ode to Foreign Eyes; Fascinated by Foreign Eyes; Understanding Happiness; Perception Is Reality; Nervous, Alone and So Excited...; Scraping Clouds from a Wolkenkrabber:; One Good Day; It Must Be the Broodje Kaas; In Search of My Own Time; Discovering Utrecht through the Senses; Cycling through Snow; Utrecht by Night - Utrecht by Light!; Where Surrealism Unleashes; On People and Sunlight; Bicycle Diaries: Racing in the Land of Giants; Letter to My Friend; In a Map of Time; Students from Utrecht; Utrecht's Climate in Shorts; Contrast; My Space hopper; Out on the Town

The Devil Is in the Details Lessons for Life; A Semester of Swayings (Uncensored); The Missing Dimension; Six Months below Sea; Translations of Mottos; About the Authors; Acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

Annually, hundreds of students from all over the world come to study at Utrecht University. To commemorate the university's 375th anniversary, current and past international students were invited to reflect on Dutch culture. What do they consider particularly noteworthy,surprising, incomprehensible or charming in their Dutch academic life? From a personal perspective and in their own words,the students share their experiences and comment on remarkable, frustrating and



fascinating features of Dutch culture. Curtainless windows, delicious stroop wafels,a scent of freedom in the streets, canals reflecting