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Eight days ago, Sunday, August 21, I went for a city tour arranged by the fantastic student organization I*ESN Tilburg. It was supposed to start at 1.30 pm by Pathé Cinema, which is the biggest cinema in Tilburg. But we had to wait for like half an hour, because everyone was of course not going as a group. I met some nice people while waiting, Abel from Spain, Tina from Germany, Alaa from Lebanon and Nicolas from Chile, really nice and talkative people all of them. When we finally left we ended up having three guides, Lennart, Brasil and Rens. They showed us places like 013, Lollipop (he usually don’t tell people that, but it is Brasil’s favorite club), Piusplein and Korte Heuvel. When the city tour was finished, around 3.30 pm, the party started at Café Philip at Korte Heuvel. It went on a well and contained a prize ceremony for the winners of the city quiz (unfortunately not my group), one minute of free beer to everyone and free shots for a while.
After the party was over I found out that Brasil had Abel crashing on his couch for a few days until he had arranged his accommodation, a really friendly gesture from him. Then Lennart mentioned that there was something called Dance Tour in Leijpark. I joined in and so did Brasil, and Abel. It was a really crowded one day event with house music, with Afrojack as the main attraction. He mostly played other peoples songs and we left before he had played Give Me Everything. We had a good time anyway even though house music usually isn’t my cup of tea.
Tilburg as a city had this far provided me with a very good first impression. It is a small city, but it has lots of culture, bars, and shopping. The people are really friendly and all the exchange students seemed to be really excited to meet new people. Unfortunately Willem II was relegated from Eredivisie last season.
Tot Ziens.
