Class: ES4E-1F
Date: 18 March 2013 Instructor: MS Jansen
Name: Kaixi Wang (Kassie) #10036067
Class: ES4E-1F
Date: 18 March 2013 Instructor: MS Jansen
The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Logbook
Introduction to Dutch Culture and Society
The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Logbook
Introduction to Dutch Culture and Society
1. My Impression of Netherlands
After my graduate from high school, I made a decision of continuing my further education in Europe with a personal reason of my adoration of European culture. Among all other European countries, I selected Netherlands as my destination in the end.
There were plenty of reasons of my decision. First and the most important, I should think of my aunt’s long staying in Netherlands. She came to Netherlands twelve years ago with her family, it is her second hometown. Actually, I got all my first impression on this country through her.
From her speaking of Netherlands, I grew up a big expectation of this country. It is a small country with trees, rivers, flowers everywhere, a country without discrimination against poor and different races, a country with least inequality and most liberality. You can see a big farm starting up before you while you are driving on the railway, you can enjoy hundreds of thousands of different flowers in different seasons. It is a peace land with nice and friendly people, an active nation with name of ‘motherland of football’, a lovely piece of land with fantastic scene of tulips and windmill.
So, basically, with other knowledge of this country, I outlined Netherlands as a beautiful rural landscape. I thought it more like a countryside country where people live a relaxing and easy life filling with happiness.
Then, more information about this country impacted on my original feeling of it. The legality of drugs and erotic services is the most confusing and unacceptable thing to me. The