Studying in Netherlands interesting: rental to "interview"

This is a five-story apartment. I just moved here, is that so far the only Chinese.

Have experience in the study abroad knows, foreign universities generally does not have dormitories, students need to find a House, especially in the Netherlands. While I attended the University of Tilburg, some housing Center provides students apartment condition is good, but you need to apply for. Bluntly, is next to the queued, out of a can move one. The Netherlands national student welfare, where there are State of the school. And I live on the first floor of this year, the 26-year-old female student, undergraduate also do not know when, as everyone knows, she graduated from the 19-year-old came to school. Of course, they are busy, working, earning money, but also to the bar, a Carnival party often open to 2 am (abroad knows that this is a very unusual in the Western way of life of young people. Provided that the material conditions are met, then, is the pursuit of happiness). However, if the second day of the course is naturally not the spirit. And abroad again is very strict and not enough credits will not be able to graduate. So they've been a student. There is also a graduate of finding a job, nor removed. So, to make room in the House is very small.

Going abroad for a year, I have moved four times. Although it is possible to move the more ideal, but it is also a lot of trouble. For example, the preceding speaks apartment, near from the school, plus broadband worse than some of the conditions of the House also cheap. I naturally ideal, just apply for too many students live in full, liquidity is not significant. Follow the normal order, two years would not necessarily be able to live in. Later, I learned of the housing agency of Internet has an interview opportunity and went. Netherlands students that this interview for "Kijkavond" (Dutch), Chinese is the "night of the interview". Because Westerners daily routine in General is a nine, only 19 points, to finish all the roommate and enjoy hot dinner, gather in public high living room holding interviews. Interview by housing Center and on the same floor of household tissue, generally is invited on organizing the first 10 students, households were chatting with each candidate, choose one or the other. But very few Chinese person is selected, because first of all, they tend to national or European students. While many Europeans on bad impression of China, Chinese people do not speak health, introverted, unwilling to express, not good, especially the love with the Chinese people themselves nor son, and public awareness of the rules is not strong, and so on, so they are not willing to live with the Chinese students and neighbors. And I not only clean, warm and cheerful personality, a sunny, with a beautiful, fluent in English, I say a few words on pronunciation but a limited number of Dutch, soon touched them, although my serial number that day only in the first 6 bits, but I was fortunate in 10 Netherlands roommate, consistent voting got under the House.

I happily housetops good luck. How to move around in the plan of those few days, I am almost every day to go and see the new House. Suddenly one day, I saw someone had to live in, if the original is the interviewer and the housing agency no contact but the thought is not set, in accordance with the General notification number-first people to live. This way, I can feel sad. Ideal good House suddenly dashing, I can't accept it. Argued, the intermediary person also has his way, at the same time that the contract is signed, have the force of law, people move in will not be able to carry out. So I couldn't just crying, crying out over and over to the students who are foreign students cry was unfair, so a bunch of voluntary ran to the housing agency to bat for me with the Dutch. Housing Agency also goes in the wrong, after negotiations, the decision as long as another free House, the first to give me, and do not participate in the interview. As a result, nearly a month later, I was lucky enough to wait for a notification.

I finally moved the ideal apartment for a long time already.

As this layer apartments only Chinese girl, I arrived, they are also a fresh. Originally, has a warm and cheerful, and live in the heart, and I like happy bird, foreign student Riles joking with me, saying, you then this unit said, Ah, Ah we laugh, you make noise. I'm laughing, ask them: do you not think Chinese people very boring? they samsam smile that you English it well with our gregarious and outgoing generous! you and our impression of Chinese really different! now and I live in a floor, most of them followed the Netherlands I opened the Chinese. Met, some asked: Hello, have a more mellow voice and directly asked: eat it?

Another girl in packed the House, has invited me to use crayons for her writing on the wall a few Chinese characters as decoration. I wrote her a big "love" is a reproduction of writing. I tell them, only with the heart, is the real love.

Student background: Xiao-song, from 2002 to Netherlands Tilburg University, the master even read.