Andijvie Stamppot
So let us jump ahead a little and write about Tuesday, August 31. I had two lectures during the day, Business Dynamics and Dutch I for international students. I have a slight problem there because both courses have mandatory attendance and they partly overlap each other. Still I want to take both of them so I will try to figure it out. We learnt some simple Dutch phrases, some pronunciation and so on. The lecturer said I had good pronunciation, I think the reason might be that I’ve learnt some dirty phrases from my fantastic Dutch friends. The fact that Swedish shares the heritage of being a Germanic language with Dutch may be part of the explanation as well.
At night it was time for our first mentor dinner and the Welcome to Holland Party. We were together with group 13, so ours and theirs mentor cooked for us. On the menu was Andijvie Stamppot, presumably a typical Dutch dish, but one of the mentors who were there, I am unable to recall who of them that said that it was his first time eating this dish. The dish contains mashed potatoes, bacon, endives and a sausage; I consider it being pretty similar to the British Sheppard’s Pie. I promise you, it doesn’t taste as disgusting as it looks.
As it was a Holland Theme Party, most people were dressed in orange, the color of the Dutch royal family. Here is a picture of me and Sander from the dinner. Sander has actually visited the beautiful Stockholm suburb Täby, my home.
The party was at de Lamme Goedzak, LG. LG is the place where all the international students parties, at least until Jiska and her crew have arranged for the new I*ESN building to be ready for us.
The party was just like always a blast. They don’t mind us bringing the beer out on the street outside of the club, unlike in Sweden where there are tough restrictions on that.
Tot Ziens.
