“Your life is like a newspaper in a newspaper stand. Everybody reads it”. With this motto, Agatha Akhabue (29) lives her life at the fullest. Born in Ekpoma, Esan West Local government Area of Edo State Nigeria, she’s now discovering the world, trying to make it a better place. In front of me sits...
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The room is a cozy one. There’s a small desk in the corner with a couple of books and a laptop on top of it, there is a black lounge chair you can just sink in to and there are some small posters on the wall. It’s hard to believe that 23-year old French...
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Ieva Šližiutė, was born into the large Šližius family in Kretinga a small town in Lithuania. on March 16th 1990. She has two brothers and a sister, two nieces and two nephews. She grew up in Kreting and later moved to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Ieva is a lover of animals, she...
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Every movie set in New York City features a magical scene, where the lights in Times Square start to come up one-by-one. For Sajeev Shankar it is not just a scene from a movie. He says N.Y.C. is everything it is portrayed on film, and more. Shankar says he sees the city as a...
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Although he made an early departure from Club Poema yesterday – hours before closing time – Liam Gascoigne still has not caught up on his sleep when we meet at Neude in central Utrecht. It is his third day in the Netherlands. “Everyone is very polite here” he says while considering the strange-looking sweet...
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Veronika Gorlova is an extremely confident and self-assured young woman of 19. Starting University at the early age of 17, she has always known that journalism was her calling. Being a Ukrainian-born Canadian studying in the Netherlands, Veronika has a very open minded and international view of the world. The chance to learn about...
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Even though Annica has only been living in her small student room for two days she looks well settled. Sitting on the bed with her legs crossed, she tells me the change in moving to Utrecht from Helsinki was not that big of a change. Home is though a somewhat wedged feeling for her....
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Rasmus Bagge is a Danish student and was born in Viborg but now he lives 12 km away, in the city of Skals. He says that this city is small, so he goes often to Viborg to join his friends for different weekend plans. His High School was also at Viborg, so he knows...
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Tim hasn’t got blond hair. Tim hasn’t got blue eyes. Tim doesn’t even like milk. But yes: Tim is Dutch. A 22 year-old man who was just bored by his courses at the school of journalism in Utrecht. « That’s why I wanted to do the Europe in the World programme. The journalism lessons are...
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Curly hair, light blue eyes and freckles. Except for his height you could take him for a Dutch guy. But when you hear him speak you’r sure that’s not the case. The American accent could be taken from an old western movie. Wyatt MCcall has escaped San Francisco to see something totally different. Raised...
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There is a big Spanish flag on the wall in Carlos Encinas’ apartment in the Beneluxlaan in the south-western part of Utrecht. Like most of the other Spanish exchange-students in Utrecht, he has quickly made a lot of friends with his compatriots, so they have all signed his copy of the La Bandera de...
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On his facebook’s profile pictures, Kai wears an unusual T-shirt. The inscription on it : “Mister easy.” Kai easy? Yes of course. He is easy to speak with. He answers to all the questions without any problem. Ask him anything, and smiling, he will always find a way to help you. He became easily...
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Bobbie van der List is the younger of three children and he grew up with “three mothers” as his older sisters took care of him too and advised him in, for example, going on a long trip to get to know himself. After finishing high school, at the age of eighteen, all on his...
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Politics, anthropology, journalism- and a somewhat less serene leisure time. 24-year-old Anouk Mentink is used to the noble art of simultaneous capacity. This hasn’t always been the case, though. - I did a lot at high school, but not studying. I was a bit lazy back then I guess, Anouk admits with a smile....
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This is Alexandra Tengberg, 25 years old, from Sweden. Alexandra was born and raised in Goteborg, the second largest city of Sweden, Stockholm being the largest. She goes to school in Goteborg as well, at Goteborg University. Alexandra studied one semester of literature, not Swedish literature but world literature and its history. After that...
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By Kai Heijneman Dom & Domplein The Dom in Utrecht is the most important eye-catcher of the city. It is impossible to go to Utrecht and notice it. The tower I like it because the Domplein is a meeting point but also because it is a landmark. It helps me not to get lost....
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Michael Huguenin age 26, Australia Born in Korumburra Victoria By Kai Heijneman Huguenin is a sports fanatic. Being passionate about sports means he is willing to try just about every sport he gets in touch with. “The reputation of Australians being crazy about sports is completely true.” At least its true for Huguenin. “When...
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By Steffen Windfeld First impression of Beatrice – or Bea, as she likes to be called – is not of the typical Spanish student. With her blond hair and shy way, she seems very far from the regular, loud-speaking, dark-haired Spanish, that you would expect, sitting there, in one of the few hours of...
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Trading the dream of a futbol star for the future of a scholar: Young fútbol players growing up in Madrid generally share one common dream, to play for their famous home town club Real Madrid. After four seasons of playing full back for the FC Pozuelo de Alarcon, Isaac Miguel Durante Barbozza was given...
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Steffen Hesseldal, 28 years old, Copenhagen (Denmark) It was his last course of journalism and he wanted to travel abroad. After studying Economics for a year and getting bored with it, he decided to change his professional future. Actually, if you meet him for the first time, you will see the journalist prototype. Wearing...
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