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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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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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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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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To the naked eye Bart de Brujin seems your typical dutchman. He’s tall, friendly and he rides a bike. But as is generally the case, there’s more than meets the eye. Bart de Brujin is a former archeology student turned journalist student now facing his final year of studies. ⁃ It’s enough. It’ll be...
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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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“Welcome to the Netherlands”, she said with a little hint of sarcasm, as we watched the rain pour down over a very dull cloudy horizon, getting ready to begin our interviews. I couldn’t help but laugh; it was a particularly crappy day, that was more than true, but there was a small sense that...
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Interview with Roos Mulders There are three easy ways to make Roos like you: Tell her you want to go see a concert of the famous dutch singer Anouk, share a pack of kruimels or start a conversation about life values in the Middle East.
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