Foreign Eyes

by Besamusca, Emmeline

• ISBN13: 9789085550457
• ISBN10: 9085550459
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-15
• Publisher: Amsterdam Univ Pr

Summary

Every year hundreds of students from all over the world come to study in Utrecht. On the occasion of the 375th anniversary of the founding of Utrecht University, foreign students and alumni were invited to reflect on Dutch culture as they had experienced it in their university years there. This book collects the best of the essays they wrote; the result is a unique and fascinating contribution to the study of Dutch culture. These essays offer not only an intimate portrait of the students' experiences, but also a fresh perspective on the remarkable, frustrating, and fascinating features of Dutch culture.

Table of Contents

An Ode to Foreign Eyes	p. 7
Fascinated by Foreign Eyes	p. 9
Understanding Happiness	p. 19
Perception Is Reality	p. 24
Nervous, Alone and So Excited	p. 29
Scraping Clouds from a Wolkenkrabber: Portrait of Life as a City Girl intrecht	p. 33
One Good Day	p. 38
It Must Be the Broodje Kaas	p. 40
In Search of My Own Time	p. 45
Discovering Utrecht through the Senses	p. 49
Cycling through Snow	p. 55
Utrecht by Night - Utrecht by Light!	p. 59
Where Surrealism Unleashes	p. 64
On People and Sunlight	p. 68
Bicycle Diaries: Racing in the Land of the Giants	p. 73
Letter to My Friend	p. 78
In a Map of Time	p. 80
Students from Utrecht	p. 85
Utrecht's Climate in Shorts	p. 88
Contrast	p. 93
My Spacehopper	p. 99
Out on the Town	p. 103
The Devil Is in the Details	p. 107
Lessons for Life	p. 112
A Semester of Swayings (Uncensored)	p. 117
The Missing Dimension	p. 122
Six Months below Sea	p. 126
Translations of Mottos	p. 129
About the Authors	p. 133
Acknowledgements	p. 139
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