“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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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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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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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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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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Anna Buch doesn’t like Germans. A lot of people around the world might not like Germans, but it’s a little bit different with Anna. Because she is German. If she goes to another country she would much rather blend in with the local citizen than to be known as a German girl. Just after...
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Karoline loves sports. She loves to do sports, she loves to watch sports matches, she loves to report on these matches. But which sport is her favourite one? „Hockey, tennis, soccer… I like them all.“ Talking to this 25-year-old girl from Odense, I realize that she likes a bit of variety not just in...
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Journalism wasn’t Kai Heijneman’s first choice for a career and he readily admits it won’t be his last. Kai first studied Artificial Intelligence in Nijmegen before he moved to Hogeschool Utrecht. But the Arnhem native believes his long-term future lies in politics. “In that regard I’m in the right course now and also with...
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Aaron Bennett’s first introduction to Holland was having to climb through the window of his apartment room. Which, I quote, ‘was surprisingly easy’. That stated, it is good to know that Aaron doesn’t like climbing. It’s not that he dislikes it, but he would have preferred –as probably anyone- moving his stuff through the...
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Kerstin didn’t have to make a world tour to come to Utrecht. It’s only about 800 kilometers from Munich, Germany, to Utrecht. Kerstin (“the English speaking people have trouble pronouncing my name”) is one of the three German girls and one of the four German-speaking girls participating in the program Europe in the World.
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- There is a need of a counterpart in media. And there is a need for more information and more research. This opinion comes from Tina Friedrich, 25, an Austrian journalism student who started to study at the Europe in the World Programme in Utrecht this September.
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Charlotte Boström, just 23 years old but in the middle of her life. Or is it just the beginning of her life? If it’s up to this Swedish girl she is just at one chapter of her life which could be a chapter as many others coming. And if you take a little time...
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Lisa Guggenmos, a communication student from Ausburg, is one of those girls you won’t hear a lot the first days when you meet her. “But I’m not shy,” she clarifies. “Just quiet.” She’s also one of the first ones in the group to get hold of a bike, or fahrrad as the Germans call...
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Interview with Frud Zoroaster is his real name. Zoroaster is the prophet and founder of the first religion with only one God, Zoroastrianism. The mullah (Islamic priest) in Kabul did not allow this non-islamic name when he was born. His dad insisted: “His name is Zoroaster”. But the Mullah did not give in. Instead Frud...
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