Ned's 3rd entry - Melbourne vs Rotterdam
This month I decided I would do a blog full of things in Rotterdam that stand out to me as being different to Melbourne, some are big things, but most are just little observations I have made. Let me start with something useful for any exchange student coming to study in the Netherlands. My uni is structured much different to back home. For each class there is only a single 1 hour and 45 minutes lecture each week and no tutorial. But there is much more reading and studying to do at home. At first I thought this was bad, but I look at it a bit differently now, if you look at it with the view that you need to study independently a lot to do well in any of the courses - it teaches you to do just that work efficiently and productively independently. That's a trait any employer would be happy to see.
Hallo again, hope everyone is well, I guess I should tell you what I have been up to. Two weeks ago I realised one of my teenage dreams and attended Oktoberfest in Munich, with a bunch of friends of mine. We got a lift from Rotterdam to Germany with our friend Andreas on his way back home to Italy. (So weird how you can just drive through countries).