This post will be in Dutch, look at the bottom for an English translation of the introduction. Swedes can read parts of the Dutch text also.
Gisteren is het Nederlandse woordenboek binnengekomen, voor Zweden wel te verstaan; Nederländska fickordbok. Zodat Frida de Nederlandse grammatica achterin in het Zweeds kan leren, wel zo makkelijk.
En achterin hebben ze [...]

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So.. Where to go from now? What do I want to do?
Do I still want to continue with HKU? I’m not thát sure anymore. Although it might not be bad for me and also give me a nice few projects again. (Something practical finally! I’m quite done with the theory here..)
I found the Interactive Institute [...]

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Am I that stressed that I feel that all stress course teachers talk too slow?

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A new course started this week, Conflict and Stress Management. We’re having lectures three times a week, a bit more practical than the previous courses. I like that, I can use some down-to-earth things with other things (read Frida :)) going sky-high. I have to get used to this teacher a bit, the atmosphere in [...]

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Ha, not everybody is succeeding in seeing the 3D image from the last post. So, here’s an update with some tips. And I’ve updated most of the pictures to be less stressing for the eyes.
A new one first (full size):

Look dizzy until you see four grey dots. Than you can try to look dizzy at [...]

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The current course is about leadership. Before I hoped it was a bit about personal leadership or a kind of flat leadership in which the leader is just another role in a project, like a chairman. As Marinka (my coordinator from HKU) already hinted it might not be that case. And it isn’t. We do [...]

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In my current course, Leadership Development and Communication, we had to work in a group to make a change (yes, we can) inside an organization. After wanting to change the world via different UN bodies we came up with the idea to bring small bags of chips – common in the UK – to the [...]

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Swedish class starts with 75% Asian students again :)

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Hej, jag heter Lode och jag bor i Eskilstuna. Jag studerar svenska på Mälardalens högskola i Västerås. Jag kommer från Nederländerna och jag talar nederländska, engelska, lite tyska och lite svenska. Hejdå!

The result of my first Swedish class. It is a bit strange to sit in a classroom and repeat the alphabet after the teacher.. [...]

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This morning I had my first exam here. Well, this morning and day actually. You have 5 hours! to complete your exam here, and I used 4:45 of it :)
I was a bit anxious (a thing we needed to learn for the exam) for this. In the Netherlands I normally have 1 to 2 hours, [...]

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