{"id":126993,"date":"2021-05-19T10:18:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T08:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=126993"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:38","slug":"first-year-student-svenja-in-rotterdam-there-is-a-place-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/05\/19\/first-year-student-svenja-in-rotterdam-there-is-a-place-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"First-year student Svenja: ‘In Rotterdam, there is a place for everyone’"},"content":{"rendered":"

19-year-old Svenja Hessberg from Germany can only dream of lectures on campus. Offline education is also out of the question this term. Luckily, she made friends earlier this year. They spend time exploring the city and celebrated King’s Day together.<\/p>\n

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Svenja definitely does not feel alone in Rotterdam. As we walk around the Kralingse Lake, she thinks back to King\u2019s Day. On that warm Tuesday, she sat here in the grass with friends. \u201cIt was uncomfortably busy, but I didn\u2019t want to sit inside on my own. There was a lot of police supervision. I think I saw every kind of police officer pass by: on horseback, on bicycles, and so on.\u201d Since she had a few offline lectures at the beginning of the academic year, she managed to get to know some people, both students from her major and some from other courses of studies. A lot of her friends are also international students. Sometimes they go to the beach together or explore Rotterdam.<\/p>\n\n\t

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