What's life like when you're in college? Until a month ago, I had no idea. I wasn't looking forward to finding out either. I had to force myself to get on the bus the very first day. And when I arrived in Rotterdam, I panicked: college life was not going to be the way I'd imagined.

On my very first day I was squashed into a church with about 500 other college freshmen. It would be an understatement to say that it was uncomfortable. We listened to speeches, speeches and more speeches. When it was over, the uncomfotableness continued, but with less people around.
First week was dedicated to introducing ourselves to our classmates. So we had to do teambuilding activities in a park. And that's when It started to go wrong for me. First of all: I was a little spastic. Second: I called a guy 'Orkaan' (Dutch for hurricane) while his name is 'Borkán'. I was totally convinced the guy had sadistic parents who'd called their kid Hurricane, but no... Socially awkward Envy didn't score much points with her classmates that day.
As the week progressed I got to know my classmates better. I talked to everyone and tried to make new friends. Soon an aura of awesomeness started to surround us during our Rotterdam Tour.

Awesome, right?

Long story short: I'm studying German to become a teacher. Not many people want to do that, so we're all together in one class, have all our classes together and have no contact whatsoever with the other language students, because 'WE ARE THE GERMANS'. Yes, German is a great language for yelling :)