This final blog continues the (epic) saga that began in blog #2 as three of the college students Luke, Meli (our friend from the last blog who has since said that it is okay to use her name in the blogs) who I met Couchsurfing in Leiden, Netherlands over fall break visited us this past weekend. As opposed to the ten hour bus ride we had taken to get to the Netherlands, they flew in to London Heathrow and made their way to the University around three o’clock on Friday, December 3. They made a grand entrance into the school as they each had packed multiple giant backpacks full of mysterious ‘essentials’ and were dragging them around with moderately impressive ease. We moved all their belongings upstairs and they told us that they had a surprise for us. With wide eyes and drooling mouths, we gazed in anticipation as they removed seven packages of Stroopwafels, possibly the best food I’ve had in the last three months, (see picture) from their luggage and placed them on my bed. After thanking them profusely, we walked down to Roebucks, a local pub. After a quick drink and some talking, we decided to watch a movie. We hustled back to school, reserved a classroom and rented Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. Our Dutch friends were tired as they had been up since three in the morning for their flight and went to bed about halfway through the movie. The next morning, we said our goodbyes and our friends left to go stay with one of their cousins in Brighton. This experience of meeting people from different cultures and communities and forming relationships so quickly is something which is fairly extraordinary and is something that we would not have gotten to experience had we chosen to go to school elsewhere.
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