MAASTRICHT!!

So here I am, I finally made it to Maastricht!! This place is just as amazing as what they say, little cobbled roads, amazing old buidlings, lots of beer drinking, amazing river and bridges!! its all just fantastic!! I spent the first couple of weeks travelling around a bit of italy, france, germany, and austria with my family! can still not comprehend how close everything is! After coming from NZ,  it was great to introduce my pasty white body to some nice tuscan sun :) was real hot!

Had a few wee dramas down in pisa, our campervan got broken into and I had everything stolen e.g.. laptop, ipod, hard drive and all the chargers to my camera and what not, was a bit of a pain and has set me back a bit but oh well, I will get over it soon hopefully haha. but other than that the trip was fantastic!! I left my parents in munich and ventured over to maastricht! I arrived here on monday and havent had a sober night here yet haha i have had to acquire a liking for beer and i think my beer belly is coming along quite nicely! There is a group here of dutch students who organise all the parties for international students, they get out of hand, the dutch know how to drink and have a good time! the first night i was here they organised a dinner, and beer rallys which was out of control haha, and then there was a pub crawl and last night there was a cantus party which was by far my favourite, theres lots of beer, and singing and good times!

All the other international students are real cool, i got lucky and have really cool people on my floor! my room is masssive!! its like 2 and a half times bigger than my room back in hamilton haha, we have a communal lounge and kitchen which is way fun good way to hang out with everyone and get to know everyone better!

Start classes on monday, the uni system seems a whole lot different to Waikato, no big lectures just all small classrooms with only about 15 people and all have to sit around and discuss everything! so wil see how that goes, sounds interesting!

anyway everything here is going real well and so much fun!! good times,