Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language
Andrea Facchin
- Title
- Foreign Eyes
- Subtitle
- International Students Reflect on Utrecht
- Author
- Emmeline Besamusca
- Price
- € 25,95 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789085550457
- Format
- Paperback
- Number of pages
- 140
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 19 - 08 - 2011
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 20 cm
- Category
- Urban Cultures
- Discipline
- Social and Political Sciences
Table of Contents - 6
An Ode to Foreign Eyes - 8
Fascinated by Foreign Eyes - 10
Understanding Happiness - 20
Perception Is Reality - 25
Nervous, Alone and So Excited... - 30
Scraping Clouds from a Wolkenkrabber: Portrait of Life as a City Girl in Utrecht - 34
One Good Day - 39
It Must Be the Broodje Kaas - 41
In Search of My Own Time - 46
Discovering Utrecht through the Senses - 50
Cycling through Snow - 56
Utrecht by Night – Utrecht by Light! - 60
Where Surrealism Unleashes - 65
On People and Sunlight - 69
Bicycle Diaries: Racing in the Land of Giants - 74
Letter to My Friend - 79
In a Map of Time - 81
Students from Utrecht - 86
Utrecht’s Climate in Shorts - 89
Contrast - 94
My Spacehopper - 100
Out on the Town - 104
The Devil Is in the Details - 108
Lessons for Life - 113
A Semester of Swayings (Uncensored) - 118
The Missing Dimension - 123
Six Months below Sea - 127
Translations of Mottos - 130
About the Authors - 134
Acknowledgements - 140
Emmeline Besamusca
Foreign Eyes
International Students Reflect on Utrecht
Annually, hundreds of students from all over the world come to study at Utrecht University. To commemorate the university’s 375th anniversary, current and past international students were invited to refl ect on Dutch culture. What do they consider particularly noteworthy, surprising, incomprehensible or charming in their Dutch academic life? From a personal perspective and in their own words, the students share their experiences and comment on remarkable, frustrating and fascinating features of Dutch culture.
Curtainless windows, delicious stroop wafels, a scent of freedom in the streets, canals refl ecting the city, professors on bicycles, cherished individualism and shared teabags: Dutch culture seen through foreign eyes.
Curtainless windows, delicious stroop wafels, a scent of freedom in the streets, canals refl ecting the city, professors on bicycles, cherished individualism and shared teabags: Dutch culture seen through foreign eyes.
Author
Emmeline Besamusca
Emmeline Besamusca lectures in Dutch
Culture at Utrecht University and at th e
University of Vienna.
