ESN Trip to Volendam
Tags:amsterdam erasmus student network esn study abroad the netherlands travel volendamIt was a nice Saturday, warm with fleeting glimpses of the sun. A friend and I were hurrying — unnecessarily quickly — from our dormitory to Centraal Station to meet up with a group of two dozen members of the Erasmus Student Network. A few hours of waiting and a bus ride later, the big group of us arrived in a town of 20,000 people. It’s called Volendam (full dam) because they built a big dam and filled it with clay. Everyone who was born there stayed there, more or less, and became fishermen.
We immediately started on a tour with a guy (a real Volendammer, born and raised) dressed in the traditional fishing outfit. The town was really cute and had a tiny city center.
I tried raw herring from a fish stand (very Dutch) for the first time. It was surprisingly good! And salty.
All in all it was a great day, perfect for recharging my batteries from nonstop thesis work.
Undressing from our costumes in Volendam:
Party bus of some sporty guys drove by:
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Hi Derek,
How nice to find this ( a bit late) on the internet.
Great, the work you made of everything and even this.
We are doing fine at school. We are producing more “structure” in the school ritme. Some demanding children left, some ho could not stand the the demanding kids also left. Some other happy en coöperetive children came.
The volontaires are stil coming. And the volontaires that stay longer help me with the stability of the school.
love,
Eliane