School started! Well, sort of...

So last week, school in Rotterdam officially started for me. I say "officially" because I was required to attend the orientation for all international exchange students for RSM Erasmus. But no classes as of yet.

It was very well put together by the school and the instructors. For the three days in Elst, Netherlands (about an hour east of Rotterdam), we did team-building, trust and cross-cultural learning activities.

Yep, that's right. Things that you've only heard about, I did them. Acrobatics, juggling, painting (see above) and the "talking stick", all made an appearances.

And not only did I learn something from the instructors during the three days, but also from out student buddies. The Dutch buddies assigned to us were tremendous in giving us the scoop on where and what to do in Rotterdam and Holland and definitely what not to do.

I also learned that the Dutch like to party (much like everybody). And although we were only there for a little while, those crazy Dutch (especially my student buddy) shut the bar down every night. So it should be a fun and interesting time over the next few months...


Teeks

PS - more pictures to come; I was pathetic in taking pictures so I'll have to hit someone up for them.