{"id":150323,"date":"2023-02-11T09:35:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T08:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=150323"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:38","slug":"love-is-in-the-eur-he-has-a-good-looking-hairdresser-and-ive-learned-a-new-skill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2023\/02\/11\/love-is-in-the-eur-he-has-a-good-looking-hairdresser-and-ive-learned-a-new-skill\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He has a good-looking hairdresser, and I’ve learned a new skill\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

While many people found the curfew traumatic, Ilse Bot (20) has lots of good memories from that time. As a first-year student in the first year of the pandemic, she fell in love online with one of her fellow students, Gertjan Soet. \u201cBefore our first date, I didn\u2019t really know what the rest of him looked like. But I knew I liked the part I could see on video calls.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt all started with a four-hour zoom call. We spent five minutes talking about the assignment and several hours talking about everything else. Whether it\u2019s okay to drink milk with dinner. If you eat sausage on bread, is it still sausage, or is it really salami? This was in the third block of our first year of the International Bachelor\u2019s in Economics & Business Economics. That year, nearly everything was online. We were randomly divided into groups of two or three for Academic Skills<\/em>. We were put together, and that\u2019s how it started. We\u2019ve now had loads of conversations like that one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI told him I couldn\u2019t stand my little brothers\u2019 hairstyles. After my family had bought a hair trimmer, my mom said I would under no circumstances be allowed to cut my brothers\u2019 hair. Gertjan said I could practise on his hair, though, so I cut his hair on our first date. I spent three hours on it. A bit on this side, a bit on that side, oh now it\u2019s not symmetrical. Let\u2019s just say I\u2019m a lot better at it now. I still cut his hair. He saves money and has a good-looking hairdresser, and I\u2019ve learned a new skill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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\u201cBack then, the curfew had just started. So we had to say goodbye on time, because travelling took about an hour. Still, I didn\u2019t really think about the curfew much. I mainly thought: great! I get to visit him again. It was actually a really lovely time. Since everything was closed, I met his parents on our second date. And all because we were paired up for an assignment. It\u2019s crazy, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the same outlook on life. I think that\u2019s why we clicked straight away. We are both IBEB and Law students, we both still live at home \u2013 he lives in Bodegraven and I live in Leiden \u2013 and we both work at different Albert Heijn supermarkets \u2013 I am a checkout operator, and he works in the produce department. Moreover, we\u2019re both teaching assistants and we\u2019re both very social. It just immediately felt right.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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