 I'm here actually because I'm currently following the smart solution semester. It's so cool. We're so proud of it actually. But the best thing basically is this chocolate bar. Oh my god, it's Tony DiBologna's birthday. That's for a brother's birthday. So my name is Gina. I'm 23 years old. I'm German. I've been born and grew up in Spain and yes so right now I'm studying hotel management at Saxon. I'm currently in my third year. So I still have one way to go. Good morning everyone. So I start my morning around 7 am with just walking through the campus where I live with like around 200 other international students and I slowly get ready for the day. As you can see I've always prepared my little porridge versus my breakfast with some tea and then I pack my bag for the day. As you can probably still see at my sleepy face it is 8 30 in the morning therefore I'm just gonna take you now with me. I'm taking you on my way to university today. So first of all I have to take my bike and then I have to cycle to the train station. Today is a beautiful day so I didn't even need the jacket to cycle which is not always the case in the Netherlands. Today I have to go to Enschede which is about one hour by train from Appledon and yeah so in order to be productive during the train I always have my breakfast and I work a bit on my so as you can see I'm now at Saxon in Enschede and I'm here actually because I'm currently following the smart solution semester. This semester is actually a semester where you're going to interact with people from different studies in order to challenge yourself a bit and also to learn from different studies what they have done so far and yeah it actually makes you more creative and it's actually really cool because you work with different people with different personalities different backgrounds and yes so today I'm going to be here because we have our final presentation which I'm going to try to film a bit for you and then you can see something. This is the main hall of Saxon Enschede. As you can see it's pretty big and I have to go to the first floor today since I need to go to the college rooms. Here you can see my team and I are building up our smart solutions project which took us some time since we did not manage by the first time. So as you could just see we were just building up our wall this is actually part of the project we did during this last semester. Yeah actually it's so cool we're so proud of it actually like we created all this we gave it to Prentory we yeah we did everything and now up there you can see it's the college room where we have to go now in like five minutes and present the whole idea. I'm already here with two of my teammates and yeah I'm super excited a bit nervous but yeah it's gonna be fine. So I'm now done with the presentation I think it went quite good and now I'm actually heading to a meeting with my client for the presentation so I'll go there join it and then tell you more later. So I just finished my client meeting and it was actually really positive she gave us some good feedback about the presentations and the final product and now I'm actually heading back to the train station however before going there I'm gonna grab something to eat and I'll show you a bit of cafeteria. In this building there are actually different kinds of cafeterias and little snack bars however I chose to go to the biggest cafeteria today since they have the biggest and options and the most variety. As soon as you walk in you can see a lot of different sandwiches and wrap on the left side and then there is a huge variety on different drinks but for me my favorite part is the salad bar where you can create just your own salad and you can just take whatever you want. We also have a little hot place where they have like typical Dutch food as well. There's even a little yoga bar as you can see and some fruits from which you can choose from as well. Alright so I just got a sandwich which I'm gonna eat in the train and now I'm actually hurrying to the train station since my train leaves I think in six minutes but the good part about Saxon is that it's okay just next to it so if I run a bit fast then I make it there. There's a side number really not from Endsley it's that you have literally bikes everywhere and this is the main building behind us yeah these are also buildings belonging to Saxon. I really found this curious since I'm from Appledorn and we only have one building there so every time I'm here I kind of get lost but normally I have to go to this building so by now I know my way. What did I say? There are bikes all over like everywhere and here's the train station already by the way so and I see that over there's my train so let's go so as you can see behind me I just arrived back in Appledorn and now I actually have to go and do some grocery shopping before I head home and continue studying. I'm in the middle of exam week so yeah sadly my only thing I have to do right now is studying, writing, studying, writing but yeah I think everyone knows the feeling. All right one thing I have to mention is so I'm back at the bike thingy so there are bikes, bikes, bikes all over and every time I come back I have to look for my bike. I never remember where I left it so I think it took me right now like five minutes to find my bike over here and yeah I'm an international student so it's still like crazy for me that there's so many bikes in the Netherlands. Fun fact they're like I think more bikes than actually people living in the Netherlands so that's just crazy. Before moving to the Netherlands I would have never thought that I'm actually gonna go and drive to the supermarket and just do my groceries by bike. Since back in Spain I would have always used the car so I really like that. Now here in the supermarket you can just see me doing my basic groceries and which I really like here as well is the self-checkout which you can just do here and was completely new for me when I moved to the Netherlands. So I'm finally back home now with my groceries and I actually live on a campus as you can see. Whoa um I'll try to make another video and um yes so now I'm just gonna get home put my groceries in the fridge and I see them. I just arrived home and I have to unpack my groceries now. I'm actually interested in what I bought but I can show it to you if you want. But the best thing basically is this chocolate bar. Oh my god it's Tony Chocolonis and they're actually it's quite a famous brand. It's a Dutch chocolate brand. They're famous because they treat all their workers equally good and stuff and yeah but apart from that this chocolate is the best one. I always get the sea salt caramel I think it is. Yeah and if you're in the Netherlands try it out. But apart from that I also got normal things like tomatoes and what else? Carrots, some yogurts, protein bars and another yogurt and it's actually it's already and yeah this is my shopping bag by the way. I will show it to you. So this is the food I bought. It's not much but it's what covers the week basically and what I still need it. Yep. All right so I just put all my groceries away and I'm finally sitting down um and look what I just opened. I opened the chocolate and look at this. Do you see the pieces inside here? This is so good like I could die for this chocolate as well. I love it so much. But now I'm just gonna relax I think for like five minutes and then I actually have to go back to my desk over there and study. Since yeah I already mentioned it's exam week and I have my deadlines soon like better said I have an exam tomorrow after second exam this Friday which is like in three days and then next week I have three more deadlines and I'm a bit behind for things so yeah so just a five minute break and then I'm gonna go start and study again. Yay! All right so actually a few days past since my last video um since I had exams and had to study so I didn't really have much time to um film everything but now I have and I'm actually spending my evening with friends today and I thought I'm gonna just bring you along a bit so I actually gonna cook today with my friends and we're right now gonna do some groceries so we don't know what to cook yet so we will see. So we agreed actually that we're gonna cook other than ham but now we're choosing some snacks and look at this wood it's all over just snacks, snacks, snacks. If you are ever in the Netherlands so this Europe Davos is actually made in Daimintum so you're gonna have to try it out once. Here you can see me preparing the veggie lasagna together with my friend it was actually a spinach ricotta lasagna and it was absolutely amazing it was the recipe for my friend and I really have to ask her for that recipe because since I I really have to do that one again. We decided to go and get some dessert after eating the lasagna and we went to the famous ice cream shop here in Enschede which is known as to be the best one. All right so now we ate we had ice cream as a dessert and actually we now could just gonna enjoy the little sunset you can see there and yeah maybe later on play something and have some drinks. So I will call it a day here it was really nice to have you today here and I hope you enjoyed the vlog and maybe see you next time. Bye everyone!