Today was Day 12, and our last day of programming in the Netherlands. To begin our day, we met at 10:10am and took a tram to the Floating Farm. The Floating Farm is a dairy farm that houses 26 cows and floats on water. It is a private project created by two Netherlands locals. They…

We have finished day 11, the second to last day of our trip. Today, we were given a special tour by Rob of his community in Rotterdam which has sustainable infrastructure, including green roofs and water storage and management systems. At first, we looked at a school which had 3 water basins designed to catch…

We have finished day 10, and today we visited the Delta Park Neeltje Jans. This is a museum and amusement park detailing the 1953 North Sea flood, as well as emphasizing the Delta Works built to prevent such a disaster from happening again. The Delta Works are a series of storm surge barriers that close…

Today was day 9, and we started the day by taking a train to TU Delft. This the oldest technical university in the Netherlands, and there we specifically focused on engineering as it pertains to sustainability. In TU Delft, we toured their Green Village. This is an area of the university dedicated to experiments in…

Today was day 8, and the first activity of the itinerary didn’t start until 1:00 pm, giving us some free time in the morning. My friends and I decided to use this free time to visit the Nieuwe Instituut, an architecture museum, which also had some other fun art exhibits. The first gallery we visited…

We have finished Day 7, and I can’t believe that we have already spent a whole week in The Netherlands! Today we started off by catching a train at around 9:00 am and visiting The Hague. This is the city which houses the government of the Netherlands, including the Peace Palace. The first thing that…

Today was day 6, and we have officially moved to Rotterdam! This morning, we had breakfast in Amsterdam for the last time before getting on a bus at 9:00 am and driving to Nouryon. Nouryon is a chemical manufacturing site that specializes in creating organic peroxides and metal alkyls to be used to create polymers…

Day 5 was a very educational day. We started the day by meeting in the lobby at 9:20 am and heading into the city of Amsterdam at around 9:30 am. There we went on a tour of the Anne Frank house. This tour encapsulated some floors of Otto Frank’s, Anne Frank’s Father, office building, as…

Day 4 has come to an end! Today, we started by meeting in the lobby at 8:50 am and taking a train at 9am to Zaandijk Zaanse Schans. There we visited the Henry Willig Cheese manufacturer, and learned a little bit about the cheesemaking process. I learned that it takes about 10 liters of milk…

Day 3 has finished, and it was quite a busy day! We had an early start to the day, meeting at 6am and leaving the hotel at 6:15am. We first headed over to Royal FloraHolland, one of the largest flower auctions in the world, in one of the largest buildings in the world in terms…