Today I woke up at around 8 ish but kept falling in and out of sleep after that for another 2 hours. When I finally got out of bed, I went down stairs to the cafe and got a chocolate croissant since they were done serving breakfast,  and filled up my water because I was…

Today started with a nice hearty breakfast in the generator. I had a chocolate croissant, toast with strawberry jam, some scrambled eggs, and some juice. Today we met our guide at 10:30 and went on a tour of the business school for University Van Amsterdam. We received a tour of the business school from two…

Today we traveled from Amsterdam to Utrecht to visit Aurea Imaging, A precision agriculture company that utilizes drones and various image capturing sensors to give farmers and researchers valuable information such as the amount of yield per tree in an orchard. The one thing I was impressed with the most however was the campus that…

Today we started our day with a tour of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. There must have been a miscommunication in the planning though, because they thought we were prospective students looking to study at the campus. After the tour we had time to eat, and we went and got poke bowls which have become one…

Today I turned 19! After another night of minimal sleep, I woke up at 10 to go to this absolutely Huge vintage market. Second hand shopping is a big thing in the Netherlands, and there are shops everywhere. However, they are nothing compared to how big this market was. We spent 2 hours at the…

Today we left our hostel in Rotterdam at 8:30. This hostel was much more roomy than our hostel in Amsterdam so it was a tough goodbye. We then took a bus to the Watersnood Museum, a museum dedicated to a disastrous flood that destroyed many cities in the Netherlands in 1953. Unlike most other people…

Today we traveled to Rotterdam, however there were a couple bumps along the way. We got to the the intercity train today and loaded onto the train, however it got delayed, and then canceled because there was an accident at one of the other stations. Because of this delay, we had to move some things…

Today was by far the most interesting day of the trip so far to say the least. I had been wanting to go to the Van Gogh Museum and finally got the chance to go this morning. After I got back, I changed and we went to the red light district to visit the worlds…

Hello again! it has been a very long couple of days, but we have finally made it to Amsterdam! Two days ago, my parents dropped me off at Nordenberg Hall, which was where we spent our first night before leaving for the airport. We woke up bright and early for our flight from Pittsburgh to…