My Introductory Week

Hello all, how you' all doing? For the ones who noticed, I was on a introductory week of my new study (Cultural Antropology & Development Studies, Catholic University of Nijmegen - from september 1th 2004 the Radboud University), and I had a hell of a time! I said earlier that I would be back September 1th (Wednesday), but I left earlier.

Why?

In a nutshell: picture 150 new students of all kinds of studies (Medicine, Biology, Greek & Latin, Dentistry) in a dirty farm on the countryside, two showers, two toilets, a wild party, a fire extinguisher on the loose, dozens of students running out of the farm at 4:00 in the morning, a guy unconscious, firemen, an ambulance. No fire, but some sort of sick joke. That was what happened last night.

Now, that was the bad part. I'm glad though that there was a lot of good stuff among it. My introductory week began at Sunday 22th, in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. I was one of the few guys who decided to go for this study, I found out. Meaning a lot of girls (not always a bad thing though ... :wink: ). The week was centered around partying, partying, PARTYING! As in: partying till 4:30 in the morning, a lot of beer, being up early the next morning for another day. Seven days. Now, I managed to stay sober, though beer is tasty (as most of you know). I realize now that going out seven days in a row can be very exhausting. I'm still tired actually (very tired). Now, Nijmegen is - as I heard nimh saying somewhere - a very LEFTISH city, if not the most leftish (university) city of the Netherlands. As a socialist, I did like it. We had this sort of market, on which all sorts of organizations, clubs etc. try to attract new members among the first-years. There were also a lot of political parties. Now, as already being member of the Dutch Green party (GroenLinks; GreenLeft), I decided to have a look. I can assure you: there were merely leftish parties promoting their cause. No right winged parties, no Christian parties. No, there were merely leftish parties: the Labor Party, GreenLeft, the Socialist Party and the Dutch Communist Party. It was beautiful! The vibe is just brilliant, leftish, NICE!