{"id":80095,"date":"2017-08-23T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T11:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=80095"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:50","slug":"openingsfeest-eurekaweek-de-hoeveelheid-bier-is-opvallend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2017\/08\/23\/openingsfeest-eurekaweek-de-hoeveelheid-bier-is-opvallend\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurekaweek Opening Party: \u2018I\u2019m struck by the amount of drinks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For its part, EM also joined the party at the Maassilo and reviewed the first day of this year\u2019s Eureka Week with a few freshers who are about to embark on their degrees. The opening party is the traditional prelude to a week filled with drinking, fun times and hangovers.<\/p>\n

Although they clearly hadn\u2019t quite got used to everything yet, and DJs such as The Happy Feelings, Buurman & Buurman, Levi Hamerslag and Daisy\u2019s DJs were creating an almighty racket in the background, a few revellers found time to tell us about their first experiences of being a student in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n

Ezra Eijsenring (18, Pedagogical Sciences)<\/h3>
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Ezra Eijsenring standing in front of the Doe Het Selfie Box, a photo booth where partygoers could have their pictures taken.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cI attended another party last night, at a house belonging to Laurentius, where I was also able to crash for the night afterwards. Later that night, when we went out for some shawarma, two friends of mine nearly came to blows with two other guys. Those guys were beating on the windows after leaving the shawarma place. One of my friends was whistling at a girl, and they were upset about that, even though they didn\u2019t even know the girl! They were yelling at us that we should respect women. My friend tried to get them to calm down by saying it was just a joke. In the end they left without a fight, so that was a good outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Daniela Camacho (19, Management of International Social Challenges)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m from Ecuador, and my first impressions of the Netherlands have been great! I\u2019ve really liked Rotterdam so far and the food is wonderful. Hardly anyone knows the degree I\u2019m going to take, so it was nice to meet a few fellow students here. Tonight we\u2019ll be attending a party thrown by one of the student societies. I\u2019m expecting it to be a lot wilder than this one. I hope I can actually get to the society, because I\u2019m not used to cycling at all. Everyone rides bikes here! But thankfully, I\u2019m getting the hang of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jonathan (Business Administration) and Bart van der Wel (Business Administration) <\/h3>

Jonathan: \u201cI\u2019m struck by the amount of drinking on this first day. We\u2019re rather enjoying it. Let\u2019s put it this way: our group leaders were awfully cheerful. My group spent today sitting on a roof terrace, enjoying a lot of drinks. In the meantime, we saw a little bit of the city, thanks to a tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bart: \u201cSo far the introduction week has been a lot of fun. When we were attending secondary school, we were not used to drinking this much. But in addition to all the partying, I\u2019m looking forward to Wednesday, when the sports day and the Playground festival will be held.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Puck Engelhard (18, Health Policy and Management)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe craziest thing I\u2019ve seen so far was a boy who was carrying a girl on his neck while cycling! Last night I spent the night at a Skadi house, and there was some serious partying going on there, as well. Two guys from my house kept partying until 4.30am. They were a complete mess this morning. I myself took it a little easier. But I do wish to join a society, so I\u2019m planning to attend Laurentius\u2019 open-to-all party tonight. And maybe I\u2019ll visit Skadi, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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