One of our final days in Rotterdam highlighted some of the most sustainable urban practices we’ve seen on this trip so far. From countless rooftop community gardens that often sell to local businesses, to repurposing old building materials into new space, Rotterdam’s sustainable infrastructure is one of the best I’ve seen on this trip. One…
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Visiting TU Delft (Day 9)
On Day 9 of our global experience in Amsterdam, we visited the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). This university is a top engineering school in the Netherlands and is even compared to MIT in terms of academia and recognition. This school has also dedicated an abundance of resources and funding to sustainability research and…
Sleeping in and The Watersnoodmuseum (Day 8)
It only took eight days of being in the Netherlands, but I finally got to sleep in! It was nice being able to get a full eight hours, and I truly felt more recharged today than I have in several days. After getting this rest, we were off to the Watersnoodmuseum, also known as the…
Hague on to your seats! (5/17)
We embarked on a day of historical sightseeing as we took a train to The Hague, the governmental capital (not actual capital) of The Netherlands. Although we went early, we were given a lot of free time and we started our time there by touring the city on our own. To start off, we first…
Goodbye Amsterdam, Chemicals, Hello Rotterdam! (Day 6)
Today marked the last time on the trip that I would wake up in the great city of Amsterdam. The five days that I spent in Amsterdam are five days to remember for the rest of my life. I learned so much about a foreign culture, made memories that will last a lifetime, and made…
Dutch Trifecta: Bread, Gouda, and Herring (5/14)
Today was the long awaited tour of the Henri Willig cheese conglomerate, and so we dressed in our business clothes and prepared out tastebuds to experience and learn about the methodology behind the premier dairy fermenter in Holland. Once there, we received a quick and simplified demonstration of how they make the cheese, and then…
Petals and Canals: Day 3 in Amsterdam
So far in my time in Amsterdam, I have begun to see a connecting ideal in many of the people and places we have had the chance to explore: A willingness to take the difficult steps to bring about change. Everyone wants change to occur, but the hardest part of this is actually starting to…
Day 2: Crazy Chocolates and Canal Cruises
I was still feeling the jet lag when I woke up. It took around half an hour and maybe seven alarms to get me out of bed, but the sleepy struggle was well worth it at the end of the day. After our first hotel breakfast of the trip, we went straight to the city…
We’re here!!
After a long day of travel we have finally made it to The Netherlands! We flew into the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport early this morning and took a short bus ride to our home for the next two weeks, The Generator. We got a brief rundown of all the details about the program and got to…
Back to Dorm Life, Day 1 in the Netherlands
Traveling internationally will always have its challenges and surprises. My first day in The Netherlands was no short of the latter. I thought that after leaving Pitt for the school year I would be done with dorm living for the rest of my life, that was until my group arrived at our sleeping arrangements. The…