Final Goodbye...

I have been back in the Netherlands since a few weeks now and I miss Glasgow and all my friends so much!! My flight back was on the 21th of January, only two days after my last exam. Consequently I had no time to say a proper goodbye to Glasgow, but I don’t need it because I’m certain I will go back to Glasgow within a year! Some of my friends still study in Glasgow for the next few years and they have offered me a place to sleep anytime I’d like to come to Glasgow.

Whoopsy...

To be honest... I totally forgot my blog!! I have been back in the Netherlands since a week now. I will tell you a bit about my last 2 weeks in Glasgow and next week I'll probably write my last blog telling you how it is to be back.

I went back to the Netherlands during the Christmas holiday and New Years Eve. It was nice seeing my family again and spending Christmas with them. However, I do regret my decision to stay in the Netherlands with NYE. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity to be with NYE in Glasgow and I passed... My flatmates organized a party at our flat, so when I saw all the pictures of my friends in my flat without me I got sad. I did enjoy my NYE in the Netherlands, but I can do that every year, that's not the same with Glasgow!

Late night adventures!

Sunday 11 December. Me and my friends decided to go out for dinner as a last goodbye. Christina is the first one to leave on Friday and Carol will leave on Saturday and won’t come back in January for the exams. At first we wanted to have the dinner last Friday. However, the restaurant was fully booked so we decided to book for Sunday at 8 for 8 at Mother India in the West End. On Sunday afternoon the first girl cancelled on us, cause she has 4 tests this week. A few minutes later the second girl cancelled for the same reason. This was all understandable. However we were a bit disappointed when Chelsea cancelled on us. She met a Scottish guy here in the first weeks and we hardly see her. But we kind off expected her to cancel since we had dinner with her on Friday. So then we were with 5...

Ordinary day in Glasgow?!

This blog has two sides. A typical day in Glasgow and a not so typical day in Glasgow. Let me first start with the typical day, Tuesday 6 December:

Christmas Lights!

Guy Fawkes

Almost a month has passed since my last blog. I can summarize this period in one word: assignments! Lots of assignments! Nonetheless, I still make time to have fun. Starting with Halloween. I wasn’t planning on going out with Halloween, because of my many assignments but I couldn’t resist the temptation of experiencing Halloween in Glasgow. Since my decision to go was last minute I had to improvise a costume. I’m quite a beauty freak so with a bit of makeup and some nailpolish which featured as blood I became a vampire. A friend of mine was so nice to pick up some fangs on her way to our flat at Sainsbury’s. The fangs were horrible, but what do you expect for only 1 pound? They did look good on the pictures though. I thought the Glaswegians were crazy and this night really proved it.

Highlands

Long time no see, well actually no hear!! I’m sorry for letting you wait for this blog. The last couple of weeks were quite busy. My tutorials started, which means a lot of reading and group work! And last week my parents and little sis were here to visit me for 5 days! 

Sinterklaas!

They arrived on Tuesday 25^th of October in the afternoon. It was great seeing them again! We got a taxi from the airport to the hotel. The taxi driver asked us from which part in the Netherlands we were. We responded with Roermond in the South. “You’re kiddin’ me!! I go every year to Marina Oolderhuuske on holiday with my family and friends!” (Marina Oolderhuuske is a resort near Roermond.) “You’re the first people I’ve met from Roermond here in Glasgow!” Well, he was the first Glaswegian who even knows about the existing of Roermond! So the first meeting with Glasgow was a great one for my parents and sister. In the evening they gave me lots of presents, early Sinterklaas. The next day we explored Glasgow and I showed them my flat and they met a couple of my roommates. Unfortunately they got to experience Scottish weather! It rained a lot in the afternoon, but when we got to the West End it stopped and I’ve showed them another sunny side of Glasgow.

Beautiful Edinburgh!

Here it is! My second blog and as promised I will tell you about my trip to the AMAZING city Edinburgh and the start of my classes.



The first two weeks here in Glasgow felt like an incredible vacation, meeting new people, partying all the time and shop till you drop. However, all of that came to an end when my classes started… Just kidding! 

Dear Green Place aka Glasgow

Hi everyone!

You're about to read my first blog! I will start introducing myself. I'm Michelle Rewinkel, 20 years old and third year student International Business Administration. This semester I'm studying at the University of Strathclyde Business School Glasgow.