/sl sh/ university college groningen issue 5 - july 2017
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1. Our summer plans 02 2. Islanders 06 3. UCG’s comliments 08 4. AEOLUS’ Prague trip 10 5. Boat party 12 6. UCG teachers 14 7. Second years on exchange
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8. Stuck on the border 18 9. Cryptogram 21 10. UCG’s compliments 22 11. Essay 24 12. Music festivals 27 13. Trip to Prague 28 14. Wordsearch 31 15. Comic 32
plans for the su Emmi: No bloody idea. I’ve been waiting for some kind of sign to come from wherever, but no luck yet. Maybe work, maybe going to Greece to see my family, maybe work abroad, or maybe absolutely nothing for a change. Catch up on my reading, my writing and my drawing. Hang out with friends, play games; just do everything that you normally don’t do enough because the day is just too short. We’ll see. Still waiting on that sign.
Asyana: This summer I’m going to go to Vietnam for three weeks with some friends from UCG. We will travel through Vietnam and also spend a few nights at a beach resort. I am so excited to be in Asia and eat good food again! When I get back I will have a few days to recover in Groningen and then I will be on a flight to America. I am going back to see my family and friends, which I am super stoked for. I will also spend a few days in a cabin on the shores of Lake Superior which is super beautiful. All in all, I will be travelling between three continents this summer and I am very thankful for the opportunity! However, I hope I recover in time to begin my second year at UCG :)
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ummer Abidur: I’m going to spend my summer vacation deciding what exactly I want to study and how I want to spend the rest of my life. I’m going to travel to the south of my country (beaches, forests, hills, swamps, and whatnot) and spend a lot of time thinking there, where I will have minimum distractions. Needless to say, I will also be catching up with all the amazing people I haven’t seen in quite some time. Things beyond these will be my trademark last-minute decisions. Oh, and how I missed the cheap pot! Anne: Hectic and exciting. Those are the only two words that seem perfect to describe what my summer of 2017 will be like. Firstly, I’ll be spending most of it looking forward to and stressing out about the date of the 15th of August. This is the day when Roos and I will be leaving for Canada, not to return for another 5 months! We’ll check out Canada’s west coast nature from our base in Calgary, before flying off to McGill Uni in Montreal... However before that - which is less than 2 months away by the way! - I will spend two weeks on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, hopefully spotting some dolphins. I will also of course be stalking my friends so I get to still see them before leaving! See you all in 2018 my dear fellow UCGers and have the best Summer Break! 3
Anna-Lotte: I will be spending my summer doing fun stuff with friends, travelling around, and will end with a trip to one of Europe’s biggest music festivals: Sziget in Budapest. This summer will be my first summer without the restrictions of parents and a summer job. This means that, for me, this summer is all about making memories, going beyond my comfort zone, reading tons of books, decorating my new place and basically doing whatever I want to do. Also, I will start looking at my possibilities for masters and will hopefully figure out what course my studies will take. Hope you all have an amazing summer and that you’ll get back unharmed in September!
Olle: At the time of writing this, I am sitting in an AirBnB apartment in Athens, on a week-long holiday, mostly just relaxing and enjoying the amazing city in this stunning weather. After this, I will unfortunately have to have a small surgery (nothing serious) so I’ll be staying at home for a little while. Once I am fully recovered I’m going to be travelling some more throughout Europe and will visit some friends from my hockey team. Not a lot is planned yet, although I might also head over to England for a bit to visit a friend there. There’s still a lot to be sorted out, but that can wait for now- let’s first just enjoy the weather. See you all next year! 4
Roos: The start of my summer is filled with spending time with my friends, in Groningen and some other cities in the country. Afterwards, I will pack my bags and travel through Morocco for three weeks. I am very curious to see what the country has to offer. The last weeks of my summer will probably be overtaken by a strange combination of excitement and fear, as I prepare for my semester abroad in Canada. I cannot wait to discover what awaits me there. To all of you: enjoy the sun and see you when I do!
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islanders - a short story By Anne de Vries It always starts in the same way, my dream. I would be an old lady, returning to the island my mother had taken me to as a little girl. I would barely remember anything, except standing on the boat, holding my mother’s cool hand in mine, watching the shore as it grew bigger and bigger. It must have been a beautiful sight. Almost like two blonde-haired angels floating on the water, assessing their destination. Now, however, the islanders would look at a boat packed with cars, and in between the rows they would find a grey-haired, old lady, looking stern ahead. Would they know who the lady was? What she was thinking? The only thing I seemed to remember was my mother telling me: “Sara, you will never forget this moment.” And even though I didn’t know then and I do not know now, why I would never forget it, fact is that I apparently never did. As soon as I step off the boat, I feel uneasy. While I don’t remember, it’s the smells of the salt sea, of the fish heating up in the sun mixed with the sweet smells of the ripe oranges, it’s the pushing and pulling of islanders carrying their merchandise to shore, of stall-owners yelling at them to hurry before their customers buy from the neighbours, it’s hardly being able to move around in the hectic business of early-morning islander life, feeling baskets full of fish and fruits hitting your thighs and legs when you don’t move quick enough, and it’s the hard, dry, dusty ground on which I place my feet, so solid after the wobbling of the boat. It’s the sight of it all which is so familiar yet so unknown. If mother had been here, she would have told me to “grab her hand and don’t let go.” She would have taken me to the little, azure blue house at the end of the dirt road behind the island’s café. As soon as we would have made our way to the back of the café, where all the trash bags would be lined up, one of the waitresses would be adding one to the pile, while taking a drag of her cigarette. “Welcome back, Miss and Missus Harding. See you at dinner tonight?” At this point in the dream, I would always be confused at the sudden certitude of my recall of this memory. Curious to find out if the little blue house actually exists, I would follow the stream of pension-aged, sunwrinkled, white-haired men to find the location of the café. I would follow the dirt road along the rows of cypress trees up the hill. When I would get to the top, what I would be so sure to find there, is not at all what will stand in front of me. What I would be looking at is a grey, dilapidated shadow 6
of the – according to my memory – once so beautiful cottage that used to carry its vivid colours almost with pride. The cottage, now in the shadow of the cypress trees that have obviously grown uncontrollably, would look less than inviting. Despite this, I would be drawn to enter to find out what is behind the plywood door. I would find myself in the entrance hall, staring right at the golden-framed mirror, much of its paint now having flaked off. Rather, I would be staring at my reflection in this mirror. There would be big, blue eyes staring back into mine. Framed by the innocent face of a young girl, given light by the radiant smile. Shaken, I would look away, almost in pain. My eyes would land on the framed, fading picture hanging next to the mirror. It is my mother and I, holding hands, the sea-wind blowing our golden hair in the air, as the ferry approaches the island.
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ucg’s compliments Alissa, you always make me smile
Simeon, hoe kun jij altijd tegen iedereen aardig zijn? Respect!
Saar, your anecdotes make my day
Abidur, you are a mocha cup of chocolate fun with a good heart. Lida, I knew you were awesome the instant I heard you say “I don’t care” to the silly group photo <3
Maja, you deserve more than I can afford with my student loan. I wish you all the vegan treats in the world. Love you
Nicoleta, I sincerely envy how smart you are. Can I be you? Bogdan, your presence brings a smile to everyone’s face
A big thanks to the cleaners who always keep the building tip-top!
Merle, you amaze me with your intelligence, and wise comments in political philosophy Lots of hugs Hanna, you are talented as a photographer but also as being a friend
Jacky is my favourite person
Claudio, you are stylish, passionate, and humorous. An Italian par excellence! UCG you are amazing!
Eden is the toughest girl
Jona, you’re the worst <3 oh ma gawd. When are you running for president? I’ll vote for you 8
Jaimy-Lee, you are the cutest, most modest, most direct girl :) And I love you. Marius is a goofball and really nice :)
Claire, you are super sweet!
Tom, you are such a great student assessor! Great job!
Pietro Leoni has sexy hair
Janek, you are mysteriously sexy!
Myrthe, you are kind and cool and totally awesome! Your jacket is the coolest!
Carter, you are one of the nicest people I have ever met!
Shoutout to everyone who made the St. Patrick’s dinner great!
Claire, never give up girl we are here for you!!
Minthu, you always look so happy and your glasses are awesome
Cyntha, your spirit brightens the UCG! Ellis! You are really cool with your camera. I really appreciate the after movie :) Ines is the sweetest
Berfin, You are a goddess in so many ways. Thank you for everything.
Lea Claire has beautiful glossy hair
Hanne, ik wil niet teveel slymen, maar je kan echt heel goed rymen I like Isabella’s grandma’s food! 9
aeolus’ prague trip By Abidur Rahim On the 19th of May, 17 UCGers - including myself - departed for a four-day weekend trip to the fifth most visited city in Europe: Prague. This trip was organized by UCG’s own trip committee, Aeolus. Despite some hectic incidents, the trip was relaxing overall. We assembled in the courtyard at 08:45 to catch the train we needed to get to the Brussels Airport. We flew to Prague from there, and then took a bus to our fancy hostel. The hostel was wonderful; it was on a hill, had two terraces next to each other (one especially for BBQ), two large floors with quite a few rooms on each, and the planks of the fences each had the flag and/or name of a different place on them. These ranged from Trinidad and Tobago to New Zealand to Latvia to Amsterdam. Despite the fact that we checked in at 19:30, our faces showed little signs of boredom or exhaustion. After spending some time allocating ourselves between two rooms, we set out for a place that could feed us as well as the 7 vegetarians. We also enjoyed beer on Aeolus and later climbed to a monument on top of a hill, drunk of course. On the second day, our Dutch side took over and we biked through the city across streets we weren’t supposed to bike on. But it didn’t really matter; 17 bikes look about the same as a couple cars. Some of the places we visited that day included the Prague Castle, Charles Bridge, the John Lennon Wall (aka the Free Wall), Powder Tower, the Astronomical Clock, the Golden Lane, and the Crawling Babies, among others. But the best part, for me at least, was biking up and down the hill - that left both my legs and my hands sore. The day ended with BBQ and good company.
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Photos by PIXEL The most moving moment in Prague was probably our visit to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. A strange, haunting aura remains everpresent there. Our tour lasted about 2 hours, and I don’t even have the words to describe how we felt after that. All I can say is that it was a humbling and enlightening experience. Fortunately though, our trip took a more cheerful turn as almost everyone went to the ice bar and the 5-story night club. I’d like to tell you what happened there, but no one really remembers. The next day, everyone got some free time to do whatever they pleased. Some went to the Wall to write down our names, some relaxed, and Saar enjoyed her day with her sister who came all the way to Prague to see her. Our trip ended with our plane getting delayed multiple times, so all of us had to run to the train station at Schiphol in the fear of missing the last train of the night. It was quite a run and quite a sight, if I do say so myself. To be perfectly honest, I probably won’t be visiting Prague again any time soon. Regardless, my trip there was very special; not because of the destination, but rather the company. I feel like I have gotten at least a little bit closer with the people on the trip, and the best part of the trip was definitely the fact that we were all just a group of college students trying to have a good time. I’d like to end with a huge thanks to Aeolus and everyone else that made the trip such a great success! 11
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What you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know about UCG teachers By Jona Haxhialiu Have you ever wondered what our bright professors used to do when they were young? What were their hobbies, what sports did they practice, what music did they listen to? Imagining them as students is hard, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it? But SLASH will give you some more insights. Prepare to be amazed. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s start with Dr. Tjeerd Andringa. Who would have ever thought that Tjeerd, the most UCG-ish, multidisciplinary teacher, could run his own bar, even sleep in it? Yes, believe it or not he took some gap years during his studies and decided to try something new. Well, to be honest if you study core physics some distraction is needed once in a while. I was surprised when I heard the story, but he was more than proud to tell every single detail about those good old days. The reason why he wanted to manage a bar was due to his personal ambitions, he wanted to learn new skills. Sometimes it is necessary for students to go and explore new things which are outside of their university bubbles, and that was the case with him. Initially he was the manager but later on Dr. Andringa decided to run the whole place. It became his second home. A comfortable place where he could forget about everything, meet new people and learn valid life lessons from people he never met before. It is not common for a science student to drop everything and take similar initiatives . But hey at University College you are supposed to expect the unexpected, right? 14
However, he is not the only one who hides a skeleton in their closet. Mariet Hofstee, an assistant professor of Nuclear Physics and Astronomy, was one of the applicants for the Astronaut training program. She made it to the top list and was allowed to join other European astronauts. Dr. Hofstee was already discovering the mysteries of the universe but this was a once in a lifetime opportunity which would allow her to physically travel in space. Unfortunately, she could not join them due to personal family reasons. Although she was not sent out of the Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s orbit, her name was among the few privileged and that is really astonishing. Only the best science students were chosen for that project thus it was quite ambitious to make it to the top ten in Europe. Now you know how special UCG professors are. You cannot find a physicist who runs his own bar and is very engaged in farming. You cannot have an astronaut in the making, teaching modern physics, in a traditional faculty. University College offers you everything, it can even leave your mind blown. Maybe you think I am making this up, but feel free to ask them yourself (I am warning you though, it will take at least 1 hour to hear the whole story). It is a nice feeling to get to know your teachers outside the academic environment. By listening to their personal experiences you can be fascinated and inspired to work harder on pursuing your own dreams. Grades are not everything students should aim for. Everyday experiences, life lessons and the development of new skills are equally important. There was a reason why you decided to follow a unique program such as Liberal Arts and Science (okay besides the fact that some of you do not know what to do with their lives yet). Nevertheless, when signing up for a broad, multidisciplinary curriculum everything can be understood and analyzed from different perspectives. This also happens to be the strategy that our teachers, Tjeerd and Mariet, put to use. You never know what will happen, unless you give it a shot! 15
second years on exc
Tijler Jonathan University of Gro Jack: University of Calgary
Anne: McGill University
Nikolett: University of Utrecht Roos: Dalhousie University
Guido Tamara Arizona State University Petra: Corvinus University of Budapest
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Claire
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Danial Deborah
Hanne Roos: Humboldt University
Simona: Korea University
Tim: Fudan University Bogdan: Krakow University of economics Marius Nora Tom City University of Hong Kong
Laura: University of Sydney
Carlijn: Victoria University
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Stuck on the border:
the story of two hitchhikers who tried to get to Germany, and failed By Olle Hermsen 8:45 A.M. My partner Claire and I were some of the first competitors to arrive at the start point. We saw this as an encouraging start - little did we know how things were actually going to pan out. After receiving our destination: Kiel, Germany, the search for a ride begun. It was a cold April morning and we quickly realised that we were not prepared for that sort of weather at all. We wondered if it was worth foregoing some precious time to get some more suitable clothes from Frascati- and decided to do so in the end. 9:30 A.M. Finding a place from which to begin our journey seemed harder than we had initially thought. I proposed that we walk to a northern, more industrial part of Groningen, which would give us access to a stretch of road that eventually leads to the motorway to Germany. This would require us to walk for more than an hour, but we were optimistic about our chances and believed that it would pay back once we got there. 10:30 A.M. Well, after getting to our spot, we realised that there was one big flaw in my plan: It was a Saturday. This meant that there was almost no traffic driving through this part of town - my bad. But we were still feeling hopeful, so we decided to wait for a while singing songs by the side of the road. 11:15 A.M. WE GOT OUR FIRST RIDE! Just as we were deciding to leave our spot, a truck driver noticed our plight and offered to drop us off at the nearest petrol station. Riding shotgun in a cargo truck was amazing, but sadly, he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take us very far. 11:45 A.M. The petrol station turned out to be in a far less fruitful location than weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d hoped. After 5 minutes talking to people near the shop, we were asked to go to the back of the station. The only option we had here was to approach 18
people personally and hope they were heading towards somewhere, a destination that was not Winschoten or Hoogezand (those two places were the most popular it seemed). 12:30 P.M. Two sweet old ladies offered us a ride to another petrol station that lay exactly on the border between The Netherlands and Germany. We were told that this would be a extremely bustling place; it was not. The only people we found here were not exactly strangers- it turned out that we were not the only competitors stranded on this road-island. Two groups had arrived before us. Since everyone was looking for the same thing, we decided that those who had been first to arrive would get the first car, and so on. Then, the waiting began. 5:30 P.M. Five uneventful but relaxing hours later, Claire and I were still in the same spot. Luckily for the others, they were able to find a ride. We were less fortunate. But we still had the sweeper car (the car that would pick up people who had been left behind), or so we thought. After calling for it to pick us up, thus admitting our defeat, we found out that even the sweeper
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car had passed us by. With not even a fourth of the way covered, and less than 4 hours until dinner time, our prospects of victory were no longer looking that great. Luckily for us, however, there was a bridge to the other side of the motorway, and we wondered how long it would take for us to get a ride on that side back to where we came from. 5:50 P.M. It did not take us more than three minutes to find a ride on that side of the road, ironically. A German couple in a convertible very nicely offered to bring us back to where we had come from. The language barrier in the car was quite hilarious. With them not speaking any English, and me only knowing a handful of German phrases, I eventually managed to get us dropped off at the train station in Hoogezand. 6:00 P.M. It was there where we hitchhiked for the final time- catching a train back to Groningen. We did unfortunately miss the party in Kiel. But in the end, our journey to the border and back was still an amazing experience. 20
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ucg’s compliments I like Tom’s many outfits, sometimes he looks like an assi, sometimes he looks like a detective, a security guard, but most of the time a hardcore gladiator. Plus, his hair makes him look like a little cherub. And I love that. Simeon, the dude with the hair fair and square! :)
Tamara, you have the most fashionable sweaters.
Hanna, I love how non-judgemental you are.
Jaimy-Lee, I don’t really know you but you look so kind and nice! Keep it up girly! Sandra, you are such a kind person!
Nora, you are sweet. Xoxo
Claudio, the coolest conservative! Let’s make a great party one day ;) #makeearthgreatagain #claudiostrophic Boggie <3 You are so funny and handsome too! Tim, wat ben jij een aardige jongen! (Ik bedoelde Driessen maar de andere eigenlijk ook!).
Abi, your accent is so sexy! I miss you already. What the hellahahahah #mushroomeffect
Lieke Jorna you are as dark as the memes you send me. Love ya x
Tim Tom, never stop being you man, you do it so fucking well.
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Alissa, super impressed by your research abilities. Plus you are super funny! Lieve Ines, je bent de liefste nicht ooit heel Ann, Noor, Tijl and Lauri, veel plezier op jouw thanks for being there when times were hard studie en in jouw studentenhuis ik hou heel Tamara, you’re such a great cook! veel van je. Deborah, you have a talent for choosing the prettiest bananas. Saar, you have the most amazing personality (and looks as well). Bogdan, your humor brightens all our days! Thank you!
Thank you for the Chinese evening! It made me very happy!
Simeon, your hair is the bomb.
Anne I love your big blue beautiful eyes.
Hans, I like your sweater.
Hilde, you are my boxing champion.
Tamara, the dishes shine brighter than anything when you wash them.
Simian I’m sorry I spelled your father’s name wrong but at least it was nice right? Maybe I will have omnipresent shiny flowing hair like you someday ;) #givemecompliments #bitteschnell Maja, I really appreciate that you don’t sugar coat things and tell it like it is. Xx
Yoran, we don’t talk a lot, or not at all for that matter, but I really would like to get to know you better because you seem really cool :)
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Reflection on my subjectivity
through a presentation of the Humanae project by Angélica Dass By Sinja van den Bos The Humanae project is a collection of photographs depicting human faces. Every portrait is framed with a background that has the same color as the subject’s skin tone, using a technique called Pantone colors. Put together, the pictures form walls of faces and colors, all mixed up together with no apparent pattern. The photographer is Angélica Dass, a young woman originating from Brazil. The idea developed from an arts master work into her life-work, with more than 2500 people whose faces she immortalized all over the world. And this, she says, is only the start. Dass was invited to present Humanae at an official Ted conference, a platform for the creation and sharing of knowledge. Ted is active all over the world in places varying from concert houses to schools, to prisons and has as a main aim to make world facts, sciences and art accessible to all through an open internet platform. I was able to discover the touching presentation by the artist in a video-transmission at the Groningen Tedx (a subgroup of Ted) conference on the 23rd of March 2017. The talk is, in my opinion, an illustration of the personal history of the artist, of the artistic reach of the project, but mostly of its meaning in the context of the global problem of racism and discrimination. Racism and discrimination is something that touches us all on a personal level. It is part of the bases of our identity and the world we identify with. Being at the age of 20, the world around me changes and opens up. As a child growing up in a wealthy European state, racism was something
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I heard about in books, on TV, at school and that I learned to associate to something “bad”. There was no reality in this simple world, though. When I left my parent’s house, I got to meet many new people. Many of them are of different backgrounds, ethnicities, and skin colors. Thinking I knew what color was and that ‘it made no difference’, I came to realize that differentiating people on the basis of their appearance is something inherent also to my patterns of thought. To be aware of our subjectivity is the first, painful, step in understanding ourselves and the need to change our conceptions of others. I am surely not a racist. It is not in my “world view” to dislike or assign value to another person because he or she does not have, quite literally, a similar background to mine. Still, when I meet a person of dark skin, for instance, questions that come up are “what is it like for you to be black? How do you see me, as a white female? Will it influence the way we will get along?” Ultimately this is the same as saying “the color of our skin shows we are different”. Acknowledging difference is not something bad in itself. That is also not Dass’s message, as she sees beauty in plurality. What is important, as she presents it, is to realize there are millions of skin tones, and each one of them is unique. Her work shows there is no box to put the skin tones in. Angélica Dass’s work is a reflection of the subjectivity we have when meeting others through direct confrontation. Her pictures are, on a first approach, of high aesthetic value. The faces depicted express pure humanity, no artefacts involved but the person that gazes at us through the lens of her camera. Her choice of format puts us as an insider to the project, almost the one who took the picture. The people are so close; we could meet them on the street at any moment. And the artist wants us to create this attachment 25
to the other, the stranger. Very differently from other artistic representations of people there is not a single hint on the story of the person. No symbolic objects or places, no hierarchyindicating placement of the subjects, particular facial expressions or postures. In other words, no social or economic background, no age and no race differentiations are to be seen. Apart from the beauty of it, what is Humanae teaching us? The element of closeness is in my opinion intended to take away the notion of the spectator as someone who merely watches the scene, to someone who takes an active part in the project. By creating a relation to her subjects, the artist almost forces us to form an opinion about her work. This work is a mirror of what it is to be part of the human race. On a first glance, one could expect that by taking out any other symbolic apart from the Pantone pallet, the human is reduced to and defined by the color of his or her skin. The incredible thing is that by making it the pillar of her work, the very meaning of color is taken out. As Dass says it, she erases the dichotomy â&#x20AC;&#x153;white, red, black, yellowâ&#x20AC;?. We, as humans, are all colors. And by being all colors, in a certain sense, this color means nothing anymore. The artistic representation of what it means to be human has a very educating dimension. It sets us very nakedly in front of the fact that we are nude-born beings, set aside from history, and culture. The work by Dass shows us that, despite the background we might have, the beginning and ending of our story is equality. This lesson is one that is considered so important it was displayed on public spaces, and used as a tool for teaching at primary schools. I will have the occasion to use the photographs in my drawings, as models, and their message as an inspiration for my academic and personal writing. It is a beautiful account of unwritten stories, and a data base of people inspiring through their anonymity. The most important to me still, is to remember Humanae in my interactions. After the difficulties that I described, my very empathetic soul was hurt. Such a project can be a big bowl of fresh air when we are afraid for the humanity inside ourselves and others. 26
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School’s over, and to me, this only means one thing: festival season. Whether you like rock, jazz, techno or top 40, the Netherlands has something to offer for everyone. For those of you who are staying in this beautiful country a little bit longer, or are coming back a little bit earlier, here are some of the most noteworthy Dutch festivals to visit this year:
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North Sea Jazz Three days of jazz, blues, soul, funk, hip hop, r&b, and more, in Rotterdam.
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Appelsap The Netherlands’ oldest hip hop festival, in Amsterdam.
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Zwarte Cross One of the biggest rock festivals in the Netherlands; full of guitars, theater and motocross, in Lichtenvoorde.
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Welcome To The Village Not too far from our hometown is one of the ‘gezelligste’ three-day festivals of the Netherlands, in Leeuwarden. No big names, but quality guaranteed.
Paradigm Festival Some of you may know Paradigm from its amazing techno parties at the Helsinkistraat, in Groningen. Their festival, however, is a perfect opportunity to get familiar with their new location!
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Lowlands A classic. Known for its ever amazing line-ups and vibe, in Biddinghuizen.
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