General impressions of students on Holland

9. These days in Holland have been unforgettable for me and I think that for rest of the group too. As we know, every place has its own ways to live, and there I saw lots of them. On the one hand, they use the bike to go to all places, only sometimes they take the car. But the strangest thing for me was the bathroom. In my house, they didn’t have curtains for the shower. It was really strange for me, because I though that when I had finished my shower, the entire bathroom was wet, so I asked to my partner, Stefan, how they kept the bathroom dry. And what he answered to me was that if I didn’t dance while I was having a shower, the bathroom wouldn’t get all wet, so I said OK. The next morning, I was going to have a shower, and when I finished, the whole bathroom was really wet, so I decided to go and get dressed and then dry the bathroom, but while I was getting dressed, someone went into the bathroom and had a shower, and when he finished, the bathroom was all wet again! So it means that all of them do the same thing, and they don’t mind if it gets wet, but it was very strange to me because at home, if my bathroom got wet while I am having a shower, my mother would be very angry. So it is my story, this is the reason why I began to think that we are very different. Paula

12. Something that was very odd to me in Holland was that everybody went everywhere by bike: to the centre, to school, to their friends’ and… to the disco! It’s strange because the street was very calm and quiet and there weren’t a lot of cars. Also, there were a lot of ways especially for bikes and that’s very different from Spain. I think that it’s nice, it’s a little bit tiring but it’s relaxed and funny. Besides, there are a lot of parking areas for the bikes: in every street there were small parking lots and in the school there was a very big one - and that was shocking to me. And in Amsterdam too, we saw a big parking area in the centre of the city full of bikes, it was very strange. Elsa Cerezo

13. During all these days in Holland I’ve seen a lot of interesting things, but one thing that I’m going to remember is the Red Light District. We went to this district one of the first days and it was a strange street. We saw two different streets; one was really narrow, and in this street we could see a lot of beautiful girls, thin and with small bikinis. In the other street, we could see older women, some of them were fat and not really beautiful. The difference between these two streets was really strange. Marta Miralles