My First Week

So much has happened in such a short amount of time. I started class this week, Introduction to Marketing. The schooling is so different here compared to back at home. The professor I have explained on the first day that he isn't an academic, not someone with a PhD, only someone with 15 years of experience in the industry. Which to me is the best way to learn about something, directly from someone that has applied it for years.

After classes for the first week, with small trips into town here and there, I began the big beautiful trip to Amsterdam in the Netherlands for the weekend. It was the most beautiful place I have ever been with its old architecture and marshlands.



The first day that we arrived there we took a bus and went to see the Van Gogh museum, photos do not do his art justice. From there we walked for awhile and arrived at the Anne Frank house. This house was really a special experience. It was really like a trip through time walking through that house with Anne's quotes from her diary up on the walls. After that we saw the red light district... all I can say is that I am pretty sure this is the Las Vegas of Europe, but with less casinos and a lot more obscenities.

 The second day in Amsterdam we went on a countryside bus tour and rode bicycles through a town with a few of the last remaining old windmills. The windmills used to be used to pump water out of the land so that it could be fertile enough for the farmers to plant their crops. 

Wooden clogs with flowers, right outside of the clog factory

The tour then took us to see an old dutch cheese factory and a clog factory where the farmers shoes are made. They still wear them today too!

 It ended up being a very long day after all of that. We went out to see the famous club scene and stayed out late enough that we had to catch a cab to the airport afterwards without any sleep. We finally arrived back in Brighton to go back to school for the week!