Ok, it sounds more dramatic than it really was, but this command was screamed repeatedly by our guide when we went for a wild water rafting trip last weekend close to Chattanooga about 3 hours from Nashville. It was the first time for me rafting, so ...

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Wow. What a first week was that. An incredible load of observations, impressions and emotions, again far surpassing the available space to write about it. It was the first week of work at WFP and at the same time a week of trying to get to grips with the way things go around here in The Gambia.

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Last week the EURO*MBA held its residential week in Nantes. The EURO*MBA? Yes, this is a distance learning MBA program in which 2 French Universities, 1 German Business School, 1 Spanish Business School, 1 Polish Business School and Maastricht partic...

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¨Hey! I saw you reading in the library. I read too. Could I have your mobile number?¨ I should start keeping a list of ways Ecuadorian guys have tried to approach me. Whilst in the Netherlands, I might have taken it as a compliment. Here I feel insul...

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Afgelopen week kreeg ik onverwachts bezoek van een vriendin uit Amsterdam. Toen we elkaar vijftien jaar geleden ontmoetten op een camping in Zuid-Frankrijk besloot ze aan mij te vragen of ik haar vakantievriendinnetje wilde zijn. Ze verzamelde al haa...

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The Introduction Day of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences took place on August 25, 2009. New students were provided with information about the study program; they got to know their PBL-groups and the student association Concordantia introduced ...

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De begin van de studie is dit jaar een echte uitdaging, bijzonder voor eerstejaars studenten. Eigenlijk ben je best wel bezig de uni te leren kennen, aan het studentenleven te wennen, op de inhoud van je vak te concentreren en de PGO systeem te oefen...

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My Ecuadorian schoolmates told me to be careful in the busses: ¨They are all out for your money. They’ll even rob your earrings¨. I can’t stand these prejudices. How would they now? They have been driving around in their fathers’ cars!  The uni...

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Following a very intensive preparation week at the UN WFP Headquarters in Rome and at TNT in Den Bosch and Liege I finally arrived to The Gambia, yesterday morning at 6am with a neckbraking Spanair flight from Madrid. It's day two now for me in the G...

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Travelling to India took me along an unconventional route via Singapore and Malaysia. Even before I had entered the plane that should take me to the South of India, most of the people that I met and told about my ultimate destination had warned me th...

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