If my experience with culture shock has taught me anything, it’s that I’ll just have to sit it out. Still, my head can’t tell my heart to be happy. Albert Meijer | albert_meijer@hotmail.com I take my coffee to a table that looks out over the university campus. In many ways, this square could be anywhere … Continue reading Juggling Culture Shock
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Packing every semester, leaving everything behind and starting the process all over again is something that you love or you just get tired of. How long can you keep going? For some MA Euroculture fellows, the period of the Master programme is already too much. For others, it is just the start of a long-lasting … Continue reading “We don’t say goodbye” – Long Distance Friendships: Can They Work?
From 28-31 October 2012, the MA Euroculture Groningen class went on an excursion to Brussels. Armed with cameras, (digital) compasses, and semi-rested minds due to the previous week’s reading week (which was by most interpreted as a relaxing holiday), we set off for the six-hour train ride and waved goodbye to some of our teachers. … Continue reading Euroculture Groningen Class on a Mission: Exploring the Brussels Jungle
Eunjin Jeong │eunjin.lynn@gmail.com To my surprise, I was a bit tongue-tied when I first met Alex in front of Pushkin’s statue in Pushkin Square, Moscow on a Sunday afternoon. He was emitting aura which made me forget what I had prepared to say. What am I doing in Moscow? Unfortunately, it seemed like I couldn’t … Continue reading Archive 2012 || Finding an Alumnus (1) – A Journey to Moscow
Anne Kurzweg | anne.kurzweg@gmail.com It was during the Intensive Programme in Bilbao when the thought “Let’s have a common graduation!” came up. The idea arose in the middle of a process that tied us, the 2011-2013 MA Euroculture students, closer together but which, at the same time, marked already half-time on the Master programme’s clock. … Continue reading Take Action – A Common Graduation Ceremony for Euroculturers
Most of Europe’s popular music is made in either the United States or Great Britain, or is at least influenced greatly by American and British popular music, if only for the fact that a lot of popular music in non-English-speaking Europe is, nonetheless, sung in English. Some countries even try to battle this trend: the French … Continue reading Favourite European Songs : “Dickes B reminds me of my adventures in Berlin”
ATKA ATUN | atka_brozek@yahoo.com Since my pre-teens I’ve gone through obesity, bulimia, being overweight, being underweight, reaching my perfect BMI, and being overweight again. I guess I can honestly say that my relationship with food is long, complicated and sometimes toxic. Being a good Polish woman I still love food and will stay with it … Continue reading Food vs. Life
“The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word” – J. Irwin Miller Eunjin Jeong │eunjin.lynn@gmail.com I wasn’t surprised when I found myself in Copenhagen in early October to participate in the Human[i]ties Perspective12 conference at Roskilde University, Denmark. Having learned that the HP12 team, currently led … Continue reading Archive 2012 || Finding an Alumnus (2) – The Journey Continues
Ludmila Vávrová | lidavavrova@gmail.com What is it that reflects the city of Indianapolis and the state of Indiana the most? It is the ‘red pickup truck’. In my very first picture of Indianapolis, I captured this favourite car of the ‘typical Indian resident’. I was wondering, why is it so popular here? My American classmates … Continue reading Indianapolis: upholding “Hoosier values”
Sytske Ottink | sytskeot@hotmail.com A long, long time ago an Indian girl was married to a man living in a country far, far away called Germany. She expected to be treated as a princess because she would be a guest in that country and in India guests are treated as royalty. This is the story … Continue reading Cinderella Complex – A Story from Pune
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