Excursion Utrecht!
So yesterday I attended an ice-skating excursion arranged by Travel Active. I was so much fun. It was a nice opportunity to see all my fellow foreign exchange students again. We all had the chance to exercise our ice-skating abilities, which was enjoyable to see by anyone.
- Utrecht Centraal
- Second Excursion!
We all arrived to Utrecht by train. It was a nice surprise to find a fellow friend on the same train as you. I had a few:). However, I was nervous at first, because I had read that the train system in Holland was very strict about time. (I am horrible at keeping track of time.) Ultimately, I arrived on time in Utrecht Centraal, which was nice. This was the scheduled meeting center, and it was huge in size. So many people were there! When I arrived I was reunited with all my fellow friends I had met during orientation week. This excursion was little different than the previous one to Giethoorn. This time the whole group of Travel Active students was allowed to go and not just part. When everyone finally arrived, we then departed to the skating center itself.
- Ice-skating
When we arrived we received our skates and started to skate. It was such a funny site to see us all “attempt” to skate. For many, it was the first time. For many of the Brazilians, this was the case because some had never even seen ice. Many of us fell a lot. I know the pictures taken that day will be very enjoyable. After we had our fun skating, we all went to an Italian pizzeria for dinner in town. This was probably the best part of the whole day. It gave us the chance to talk about our acquired experiences, since we had left each other from orientation week. We all tried out our new Dutch. It was surprising to see that we could maintain actual conversations! It was nice to see that we were all more comfortable with language at this point.
- Having pizza for dinner
At the end of the day we all said our good-byes at Utrecht Centraal and left for our different towns throughout Holland. I would say yesterday was definitely gezellig.
