Five Times I've Struggled with Cultural Differences
| Date: | 31 January 2020 |
| Author: | Sinead Walsh |
When moving to any new country one can sometimes experience culture shock. Culture shock can manifest itself in many ways, from something as subtle as the way they tell time to something as visible as driving on the opposite side of the road. Here’s some of the main things I experienced when I first moved to the Netherlands.
Exam Week in GIFs
| Date: | 23 January 2020 |
| Author: | Sinead Walsh |
Everyone knows that exam time can be tough, regardless of what university or faculty in which you study. I always find that GIFs bring me a little bit of joy and are a great way to express myself when my brain has used up the last of its brain cells.
Christmas Food Blog: How do holiday eating habits differ across the world?
| Date: | 19 December 2019 |
| Author: | Sinead Walsh |
The main thing we all miss when away from home is the food. Any time I ask any of my friends what they’re looking forward to most when they go home, the answer is “the food”! However, different cultures have different tastes, different preferences on...
Ten Reasons you Should Reduce your Meat Consumption
| Date: | 04 December 2019 |
| Author: | Sinead Walsh |
Eating meat used to be seen as a symbol of status, the rich would have meat for every meal, the poor would be lucky if they could have it once a week. Now, look at the world today, it’s the rich celebrities who are on plant-based diets because the rest of us claim that we can’t afford to eat vegan. When, in reality, vegetables are cheaper than meat!
How to survive Autumn in Leeuwarden
| Date: | 14 November 2019 |
| Author: | Sinead Walsh |
With the leaves turning golden and the first block of exams disappearing in our rear view mirror, Autumn is well and truly upon us. Here are our top tips on how to survive Autumn in the beautiful city that we call home.
Rossini’s Opera: The Barber of Sevilla in the Harmonie in Leeuwarden
| Date: | 13 November 2019 |
There is one thing which seems rather unlikely that anyone would find boring and this was the fantastic enactment of Rossini’s buoyant opera “The Barber of Sevilla” in the Harmonie in Leeuwarden on the 9th of October 2019.
Salience: Untangling a complex linguistic concept
| Date: | 30 August 2019 |
Vincent Boswijk discovered that there are many different definitions of the concept of ‘salience’ during the research placement which was part of his Master’s degree programme in Multilingualism. You could say that ‘salience’ means ‘prominence’, but that doesn’t quite cover all its nuances.
An international Campus Fryslân
| Date: | 22 August 2019 |
Amaranta Luna Arteaga (34) is a Student Recruitment & Internationalization Officer at Campus Fryslân. In this blog, Amaranta tells about an international Campus Fryslân.
A summer in Fryslân
| Date: | 24 July 2019 |
Are you going to spend your summer in Fryslân? Then you could probably use some tips. Discover what Fryslân has to offer and get to know the province!
KRANG
| Date: | 17 July 2019 |
Mariska van den Ende and Miron Westerhof, alumni of the master Sustainable Entrepreneurship, together founded their company KRANG. What is KRANG and how did they come up with the idea to start the company?