{"id":4516,"date":"2016-03-29T10:43:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T09:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2016\/03\/29\/dit-ben-ik-katriona-lumsden\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:16","slug":"dit-ben-ik-katriona-lumsden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2016\/03\/29\/dit-ben-ik-katriona-lumsden\/","title":{"rendered":"I AM: Katriona Lumsden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every Monday, I AM<\/em> puts another fashionable campus inhabitant in the spotlight. This time: Katriona Lumsden (22), second-year IBCoM student.<\/p>\n

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Style. <\/strong>\u201c<\/strong>I get a lot of inspiration from the clothing style of other students in the programme. My fellow students dress far less formally than Economics students, for example. This makes it difficult for me to stand out with my own style \u2013 although I do try to. These past few months, I\u2019ve been buying more and more vintage clothing, which minimises the chances of someone else wearing the same item. Every time Zara or Mango stocks something different, you see it all over the place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maastricht.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cMaastricht feels like home \u2013 even though I don\u2019t speak the dialect and I wasn\u2019t born there either. I lived in Amsterdam with my parents until the age of two, and we only moved to Maastricht after that. I continued living there until I moved to Rotterdam for my studies. I try to go home every weekend. Mainly because a lot of my friends still live there, but also because it\u2019s nice to be pampered by your parents again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nature. <\/strong>\u201cI love being in nature. A few years ago, we stayed with my whole family in a cottage tucked away in the Scottish dunes. I have wonderful memories of that holiday. For example, I remember going deer hunting with a hunter. You may think it\u2019s strange to do something like that, but winter was around the corner and they told us that otherwise the deer would freeze to death later on in the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Melbourne. <\/strong>\u201cI\u2019ve never been outside of Europe, but all my life, I\u2019ve wanted to go to Australia. I\u2019d avoid Sydney though: as far as I can tell, it isn\u2019t that authentic anymore and has become very mainstream. On the other hand, I\u2019d love to visit Melbourne: I think you can still find a lot more of the \u2018real\u2019 Australia there. But whatever the case, the Australian weather and way of life appeal to me a great deal \u2013 it\u2019s very different to the Netherlands.\u201d<\/p>\n

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