BREWED - the attitude issue the attitude issue | Page 12

Merixell Sánchez
Coming from: Spain, Valencia
Distance from Breda: 1.700 km
Travel time: 18h/Car, 2h15m/Plane
Stay: 27.08.2018 – 30.01.2019
When I met my housemates, I was
going to give them two kisses to
introduce myself (as we usually do in
Spain) but to my surprise, they gave
me a hand-shake to avoid kissing.
Another surprise was when I woke up
one day and heard an alarm in the city.
First, I thought something bad was
happening. I immediately went out of
my house to check what was going
on, but when I came out everyone
was acting normal and ignored the
alarm sound. Then I discovered
that this alarm try is something
“typical”
in
The
Netherlands,
every first Monday of the month.
people and, of course, the variety of
CHEESES. Also cycling in the morning
while the sun is rising, the politeness
of the people, the big number of
trees, all the green around me and
Tony’s chocolate. When I arrived, I
saw pianos everywhere: at University,
at the station and in the library (do
they want to play piano everywhere?)
Another difference is that where I live
in Spain, I can see hills and mountains
wherever I look, but here everything is
flat, which sometimes is quite good,
for example for cycling. A similarity
on the other hand between Spain and
The Netherlands is the kind of songs
in the pubs. I was sick of “Despacito”
What I really love about the and I came here to get rid of this song,
Netherlands is the kindness of the but I couldn’t - it is also everywhere.
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