Today we visited a business called Floating Farm. This idea of this farm was created following Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The owners saw the devastation the hurricane created on the people and how fresh food was completely unavailable for weeks after. They then started working on the idea of a floating farm which came to…

We visited another campus of InHolland today. This campus was in Rotterdam and offered courses relating to business and law. When we arrived, we took a tour around the campus and part of the city. Rotterdam is a historic city that does not have many historical buildings still standing. Rotterdam was almost completely decimated following…

Today we visited Deltaparks – Neeltje Jans. The name was originally named after one of the designer’s girlfriends, but the name was changed to include his name as well (Jans). The Deltapark had many fun activities. There was a museum, water park, aquarium, informative whale expo, and a 4D “Delta Experience”. We went to every…

Today we visited InHolland – Delft, a school of applied sciences. InHolland-Delft has an aeronautical engineering program in which students learn about aircraft and other mechanics of flying. Other InHolland locations exist, each having different types of engineering. This specific school has roughly 700 students. 65% are from the Netherlands and the other 35% are…

Today we went to the Watersnoodmuseum. This museum teaches about a disastrous event in 1953 in which a massive flood occurred. This flood was the result of numerous factors, the most prominent being a heavy storm and high tide occurring during tidal high tide and spring tide. The disaster killed 1836 people in the Netherlands….

Today, we went to the Zuiderzeemuseum. This museum featured an indoor and outdoor portion. The outdoor portion was 140 historical buildings that created a little village representative of the town a hundred years ago. The indoor museum contained antique items on display and types of fishing boats. While we did not get to visit the…

Today we visited the village of Zaandijk Zaanse Schans. This beautiful village is right next to the Zaan, which is a small river in Holland. Multiple windmills towered over the village. Surrounding the village were various livestock grazing areas containing sheep and goats. The village contained numerous shops filled with various items. Some had tourist…

Today we visited the Our Lord in the Attic Church and the Anne Frank House. Both sites taught us about the religious oppression that existed during different times in Dutch history. Our Lord in the Attic When the Protestants took over the Netherlands in the 17th century, they banned the practice of Catholicism. This meant…

At 6 a.m. sharp, we arrived at Royal Floraholland. Royal Floraholland is the world’s largest international trade platform for flora. It is also a cooperative between the different growers of the flowers/plants. Their main goal in doing this was the consolidation of their different offerings onto one platform. A cooperative, as defined by the International…

After departing from Boston at 5 p.m. EST, we arrived in Amsterdam at 6 a.m. Central European Time. The 7-hour flight took a toll on us so some of us decided to get coffee at a sustainable, eco-conscious coffee shop. I got an iced chai which had a lot of foam! We then took a…