 My name is Davide and welcome to this webinar. Today, we will show you some life hacks on how to live in the Netherlands and give you some tips and tricks. I'm here today with my friends. I have here Lynn, Nadila, Denise, and Vazil with me. But first, let me introduce myself. I am a second year student of International Human Resource Management and I come from Italy. How about you guys? Yeah, Davide, you already mentioned it. I'm Lynn. I'm 21 years old and I study fashion and textile technologies in my second year. I'm Nadila. I'm 19 years old from Indonesia and I'm studying IT service management. I'm Vazili. I'm 21 years old. I come from Republic of Moldova and I'm in my second year of International Finance and Accounting Bachelor. I'm Denise. I'm 22 years old and I'm from Germany as well. And I study International Tourism Management and I'm currently in my third year. Welcome, guys. So just a reminder for you. During this webinar, you will have a chance to get your questions answered. Just write them below this video. And if you have them, also later, you can send us a message via our social media. And now let's move to our first topic, which is housing. So, guys, one of the main questions students ask us is, like, where do students live in the Netherlands? Can you tell us something about your experience, maybe? Yeah, shall I start? Yeah, OK. Yeah, I do live in a typical Dutch housing at the moment, like this semi-detached, very narrow, very long half of a house. And the rooms are quite small but very cozy. And yeah, we have quite a spacious living area where I meet up with my roommates for wine or movie night or both at the same time. And yeah, we get along with each other very well, so that's really nice. And do you only have German people in the house? Yeah, we have three German girls. Oh, OK. Yeah. Well, you, Denise, have more of an international house? No, actually not. I also live together with two Germans and one Dutch girl. And we have friends from class. Like, we got to know each other through our studies and we decided to move together because we were all, yeah, we were such good friends that we thought it would be cool to live together and share this experience. So on Facebook, we found an apartment that got completely empty because the other students moved out. And yeah, we decided to move in. We were the first ones that got in contact with them, so we got the apartment. And now it's like best friends living together. I have to tell you, I'm very, very lucky. Yeah. You really have to be lucky to find an apartment like that, to live with your friends. And how did you find yours, for example? Well, I got lucky, to be honest, as well. It's all about the luck. Like, 50% is the luck, 50% is what you do. Because I found my room where I currently live in via a Facebook post. So I just wrote to the person who made that post. I came for an interview. And the second day, they told me I can move in. I was sub-renting in the beginning, but then I started renting actually the room. And how was the interview? Was it something scary, with difficult questions? No, it was kind of informal with a glass of wine. There were like lots of people because in my flat there are 11 people who are living. So there were lots of people. And it was not that scary, but it was kind of, wow, that many people, interviewing me all at the same time. But it was quite cool. And I nailed it. So I moved in. Good, good job. And you, Nadila, have a totally different living experience, right? Yeah, because the housing that I'm living in right now is a real student housing. So it's like a big apartment with small rooms in it. And it is small, but it's quite cozy. And the perks is that it's so close to school, so I can just roll on the street and then get to school. And yeah, we have shared kitchen in every floor and shared living room. So we get to know a lot of international students there. OK. And would you have any tip for international students coming to the Netherlands? I guess to find housing, you should do that as soon as possible, because some housing would have a booking system, like my place. So you have to be very attentive to when you can start booking for when you are going to move in. Yes. And please, guys, do not transfer any money to unreliable sources, because there are plenty of people who want to make free money on students who try to find accommodation, and plenty of scams. So please be careful. If you're coming for the first time to the Netherlands in the first year, the best option, I would say, is to rent through an agency. Yeah. And one thing that actually surprised me is that in Italy, you got your room furnished, while in the Netherlands, it's almost all the time unfurnished. How did you arrange that with furnishing your room? Did you go to IKEA? Did you buy things first-hand, or maybe second-hand from other students? Well, I did both. When I moved in, the old student moved out, and she said that I can get some of her furniture. And it's this typical IKEA white furniture. So I was like, yeah, why not? Because this is what I would have bought anyways. So I brought my own bed. I brought this from Germany, so my parents helped me to move. But yeah, I was lucky, and I could get the furniture from the girl that was living there before. Then for you, Lin, for example? Yeah, same applies to me. I am very lucky. So my parents lived two and a half hours from Wednesday. And they helped me with moving. And of course, I could then take some furniture from my previous room. But I also bought, for example, my wardrobe and some shelves I bought at IKEA. And of course, there are some costs. But you can find second-hand furniture as well. Again, it's Facebook. It's the platform to communicate with students. They oftentimes post where they sell their furniture, or their old bikes, or whatever. So just keep an eye on those platforms. They are very helpful. And how was it for you, Nadila, to move with basically your world life to another continent? With how many languages did you come to the Netherlands, for example? Three. OK. But it wasn't that much, I suppose. And I believe that it's already too much, because, of course, clothings and furniture you can get in here. So maybe my mom was a little bit too careful about what I should bring. So yeah, I believe you don't have to bring three luggage, like I did. Definitely not, because you can get everything here. And there are, even though the lifestyle is a bit more expensive than most Asian countries, there are cheaper stores, like second-hand stores and action. So yeah. Yeah, that's good. Well, actually, when I came here, I came with two luggage, and then two days later, I had a carrier coming with more packages from home. So yeah, but I'm a little bit complicated when it comes to moving. But yeah, thank you, guys. Now we also have a very cool video. We have a house tour with a Kinga, a Polish student. And let's see. So this is my garden, my bike. As everybody here have bikes, of course. That's how it looks. I live in the student house with two different students. That's how it looks like. There is a shower here, a toilet, our small kitchen, enough, and the living room with the beautiful view of our garden that we were just there. This is our living room, and that's the view from my living room, and it's amazing. This thing in the Netherlands, it's crazy. The windows are huge, and people don't even hide. I know what it looks. Look. OK, they look. But usually, they don't look. They were not from the Netherlands. Here, another amazing thing about the Netherlands, the stairs. You always have to be very careful as they are steep, and dangerous. Here we go. Look how steep is this. And this is our small sink. As I mentioned before, I live with two different students. That's my room. Pretty small, but enough for one person. Looks really cool. And this is the room of my flatmate, which is a little bit bigger. And that's her. And that's the view from the street. That's really, really cool. And also, there is another room of my flatmate, a poison here. It's a little bit dark. And it looks like done. So I hope that you like my house. And by the way, I forgot to mention that for international students coming from outside the European Union, Saxon offers accommodation. And you students coming from outside the EU, you will have to contact Saxon housing office, and they will provide the accommodation for you. And Nadila, how was your experience with that? Yeah, since I didn't come from the EU, I was helped by the... Yes, I was helped by the housing office. And by renting a house from them, I also got accommodated by all the traveling from Skippal to my housing. They have a bus coming to pick me up and other international students. So that was really convenient. And, yeah. And in that case, everything was furnished already, right? It was. It was. I got everything like even pillows and blankets, so which is nice. Yeah, especially for the first day I arrived. So that's very convenient. OK, thank you. Yeah, after this this clarification, we can move to the next topic, which is finance. So, guys, how much do you spend for your rent? I pay 320 euros at the moment, all in. I pay 300, also everything included. Yeah, that's quite average for Enschede, isn't it? Yeah, it's quite like 320 to 130. I personally pay 260, but that's already like quite cheap for Enschede. Yeah, it's very cheap. I spend 390 and, again, everything included. And this is something about the Netherlands. All the bills are usually included. So check that in your contract when you sign it. And you, Nadila, are the one paying the cheapest rent, right? Yes, I feel honored to be able to pay so little. It's not so little. It's 240. It's below average, but for what I get, it's very convenient. It's nice. Yeah, definitely. I'm happy. Lucky you. Yeah, then it really depends on the location and everything and how new the house is. So it really depends. And even on time, because usually when the semester is approaching, lots of people try to get the higher prices, like the landlords. So it's better for you to, it's going to be cheaper for you to find it from the beginning of summer, your room, so that you don't have to overpay for a room that you could get even cheaper. Yeah, they quite feel the need. So the more new you need the room, the more you will have to pay. And did you have some kind of a budget or money on the side before moving to the Netherlands? Yeah, when I came here, I had some savings. My parents started saving money for me for going to university. But I also had a job before I started studying, so I could also save up some money, which was really helpful, especially for the first month, because I could pay my schoolbooks, which I all bought before I started studying, because I wanted to be this perfect student. And as a tip, I can say that you should wait until you're here and really check which books you really have to buy to save up some money, because schoolbooks can be really expensive. And I also did a study trip right in the beginning, so it was good to already have some money so that you don't have to worry that much in the first month. Yeah, yeah, so it applies to me. I had some savings from a previous job, but not this huge budget, and I was still able to survive. But I get supported by my parents, so I'm also very lucky there. I don't know how it is. Yeah, it is totally different for me, because I think most students from Indonesia when they graduate high school, they don't have any work experience, nor can they actually work while they're doing school. So I didn't have any savings myself, but my parents provided me with everything. So that's really nice of them, but also, yeah, I'm just, I feel fortunate that they are able to pay for me. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. And how much guys do you usually spend per month? On food, I'd say only in food, 150 euros, but I quite often shop at this cafeteria here in school, and that's not, like, I wouldn't recommend to do it too often, because it's super expensive. Like, I always buy sandwiches and snacks, and they are, like, it's more convenient to take some time at home and prepare your lunch, but yeah, the groceries are a bit more expensive compared to Germany. What I always do whenever I go home, I go with this empty suitcase and then come back with the full one to buy some groceries there, and that's really helpful. Yeah, I totally agree, even when I go home, I as well tend to not take way too many clothes, and so I could take really a lot of food with me. It saves money and it's food from home, which I'm used to, and I enjoy it here when I'm far away from my country. And as well, it all depends, to be honest, on the people, like, 150, but it could be more, it could be less. It depends on what you're eating and where it's well-eating. If you're eating in restaurants or you're buying, I don't know, frozen pizza all the time, come on, it's gonna be quite expensive for you. Yeah, I think so too. And I also have the impression that, like, cosmetic products, shampoo and skin care are very expensive here, so whenever you're home, just grab a few bottles and take them with you. Or if you don't want to get them from home, you just go to Germany, because it's 10 minutes like train from here, and to be honest, it's much cheaper in Germany, shampoo and shower gel, yeah. Even the Dutch do it regularly, so yeah. Also, a good trick that is working with me. My parents are sending me a care pack, which is some kind of warranty extension, because, yeah, every month or month and a half, they send me this big package from Italy with a lot of Italian food inside, and that's way, way better. And of course, cheaper than getting in here, in the Netherlands. I get it as well. Yeah, you see, like, it's also not very expensive, right? No, it's like one euro or a kilogram. Yeah. So, yeah, it depends on how much you send. Yeah, and then the speed and everything. And usually, like, in two days, I have a package from Italy, and then I'm happy for one month and a half, happy with a lot of food, and a lot of people knocking on my door, like, well, maybe shall we have lunch together? Who, the wine? You see. Yeah, exactly. And can you share some, maybe, some trips, like, some shops that you know where it's possible to save some money? I know that Action has some very good deals, for example. Do you also go there? For school supplies, for example, if you need pens or books, like, notebooks. Action is really nice. The HEMA is also not too expensive, and I always, like, they have nice patterns, like, the notebooks look so pretty. They're cute. Yeah, of course, there are different chains of supermarkets, so we have the Albert Hein, which is kind of upper class, I'd say. So they have very specific products, and it's a very nice shopping experience, but if you want to save money, I would rather go for Netto, like, this is in my neighborhood, or Lidl or Aldi. Lidl, yeah. Lidl. Yeah, what else? It's our best friend, Lidl. Lidl, yeah. They have great bakery, as well. The bread is nice, yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't recommend going to Spar because it's very expensive. Sometimes it's, like, twice as expensive for some products in the shops, like Lidl and Spar, which is ridiculous. Yeah, I think so, too. Yeah, definitely. And do you also go, guys, to the weekly market, maybe, sometimes? Sometimes, yeah, yeah. Especially if you go there, right before closest, they sell everything super cheap, so they have, like, these bags for you. I wouldn't never, that lucky. Yeah. You have to go right before they're closing. Okay. They sell everything. Around, like, 4 p.m. Okay, so 4 p.m. They sell fruits, bakery, for nothing. They just want to get rid of it. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. Okay, thank you, guys. And, yeah, now we have a video on how much it's cost to live in the Netherlands. Then tuition fees. In the Netherlands, tuition fees are cheaper. For example, then in the UK or in USA. And at Saxion for European students, it's possible to pay directly the beginning of the school year or in installments. For students coming from outside the European Union, we also offer scholarships. Can you tell us something about your experience, Nadeela? So, Saxion itself, they offer a variety of scholarships for first-year students, but you can also get it second, third, and fourth, and so forth. Me, when I was in first-year student, I got the second biggest scholarship. And in my opinion, it all... Thank you. And in my opinion, it all depends on your IELTS or TOEFL score, as well as your school results. So, yeah. And it was so convenient because they didn't give the money to me, but they just cut my tuition fee according to how much scholarship I got. So, yeah. So, the principle of the scholarship working is that you, as an international student, from outside of Europe, that's very important to remember, you get in the list, there's plenty of people, and then there's, for example, an amount of scholarships of a certain amount, and then you see for the amount of your TOEFL or IELTS grades, as well as your school grades. So, the bigger all these grades, the more chances that you may have to get a bigger scholarship. So, you guys have to study better in your school if you're thinking about what it is. Thank you. Thank you, guys. And now let's move to the next topic, which is study style and career prospects. Hi, I'm John Kunilius, a teacher of International Business School, Saxon, Enskade. On-hands business is, I think, to put it in a nutshell, to give the students an experience, a real business experience. So, most of our teachers, probably 70, 80% are from the field of business, so they have a lot to offer and not outdated information from years ago, but on-hands, up-to-date, contemporary from the business life. Now, I myself am a native speaker from English speaker, I should say, from Plymouth in England, so that's something I have to offer to the students. They can get a sort of British accent from me. And as well as that, I teach ethics and sustainability and cultural business. I've worked in many places in the world, so I have a lot to share also, the background of cultures and how that affects daily business life. Apart from that, I think, what is really important for us at Saxon International Business School is to be available for our students, to coach them in anything that we can, as experts in different areas, whether that's ethics, sustainability, or English, or marketing, or law, to be available, to give advice. Of course, we want our students to be autonomous, to find out things for themselves, but we don't want them to have to recreate the wheels, so we want to be available, sort of 24-7, to help them with whatever they need helping. We love to be available for our students, you know, through WhatsApp, and of course, Facebook and other channels, social media channels. I have lots of contact with alumni. Caiara Broca is an old student of mine who works now in Munich with Sensodyne products, and she works in the online marketing and branding of their product. And she does really well, and what's wonderful is she's always looking for interns from us, and the wonderful thing is they pay about 1,300 to interns. You know, we have these wonderful opportunities for our students, and they're able to link them up with alumni and send them to wonderful places like Munich to work on real-life products, projects, I should say, with real-life products, of course, and they get paid very well for doing it. Truly, international element that we have, you know, most classes have, you know, six to seven, if not ten, or more different nationalities, and I think that is so good for a business school because students, outside of their normal cultural management lessons, they get really, from year one, to have to manage culture and deal with different aspects, you know, some students will turn up 15 to half an hour late and how to deal with that, and you know, what are these aspects of mono or polychronic systems of timekeeping and what you do when students don't hand in their work on time, do you work through the night and get stressed or do you sit down and have a hard meeting in week one or two already? You know, so these aspects are really great from the school, and what's fantastic for me is as a teacher, I think it's just great to be around young people, you're invigorated, you see a fresh side of life, you learn new tricks, it's fantastic as a teacher, but also I think for the students here, due to the truly international element, which is, of course, part of Saxon, we like the Saxons with an I in for international, so I think that's wonderful and something we truly live up to. But be prepared to love every minute of it, it's like a love affair, you know, you're getting used to news, sounds and smells, and for me, the food is wonderful, new drinks, new food, meeting new people, learning so much, it is so rare that one comes back, you know, with a bad experience or such bad culture shock that you have to leave. You know, 99.9% of the time, it's a love affair, people come back changed, they come back invigorated, motivated, so I would say be prepared for a good time and don't look on the negative side of, oh, I might have a, you know, terrible culture shock, but look on the positive side, it's like a love affair, you're gonna have a great time, you're gonna learn so many new things, so prepare yourself to think positively and overcome any of the hardships you may face, but there are gonna be few, you know, the good side is so gonna outweigh the bad side of the international experience. You just watched a video from Mr. Konalius, one of the IBS teacher, and for you guys, how is it to study in the Netherlands? Did you find any difference with your home countries? Yeah, I think the working methods are quite different aren't they? Like we have much more project work and everything is a team effort, so that's really something that I also learned from the Dutch culture, that you really have to communicate honest and clear and a lot, and you can go beyond your limits within this team, and this is something I had to learn for quite some month, I have to admit, yeah. Just to adapt. Yeah, to the group work and to the communication constantly, and also, yeah, but it's really, yeah, it prepares you for the professional field, I think. Yeah, I find that really nice. I find that difference from Indonesian culture as well, because Indonesian universities, they really like theoretical based, and here you get more hands-on, you get more direct experience, yeah, and what I like about Saxion, the curriculum here, is that in one quartile, you would learn about what you're gonna do on a project, next quartile, so you get to apply it directly, the next quartile after you learn it, so I find that really, really beneficial for myself. Yeah, but as funny as it may sound, but you actually have to learn here, because I would say in Moldova, you can just get through your university studies without even learning and studying, and you'll still end up with a diploma, but here you have to put in the effort, the time, and your brain to use, you really use your brain if you actually want to succeed, it's not impossible, but you have to be willing to do that. But you will be helped as well from teachers, everybody's very helpful, and you can knock on their doors whenever you need help or advice, so that's really convenient, and what I've heard from my German friends, you probably as well, that this is not the case in Germany, so everything is very individual, so everyone just runs at their own paths, and especially if you study at a university in Germany, you sit in a classroom with hundreds of other people, and have a professor over there, like you cannot talk to him. And you must be lucky to find a chair in the room, and with us we really have classes with 20, yeah, I think maximum 20 people, and it's really small, so you can't hide in there, so you're forced to participate, but this is how you learn, yeah, that's what I really appreciate here. And also the human approach, so if you are sick, a teacher pretend that you send an email, to tell them that you cannot come to class, but at the same time, if you are sick, then usually send you an email, or ask you when you are back, even after a long time, like how you are doing, and if you need any help to catch up, and one of the teachers that is really, really helpful is the study, and so on, right? Yeah, yeah. Do you have any experience or something that you want to share? Yeah, that's always my classical story. I mean, half a year ago, I had like a small crisis about my study program, and I was doubting whether it was still the right thing for me, and I did not know whether I should go on or not, and she, yeah, my study coach, she really helped me with appointments and a lot of talks to find my direction, or to get back on track, and to maybe apply for another course, or, yeah, to get everything in balance again, and that really helped me throughout this period. So I really love this, yeah, this approach of having like a responsible teacher, study coach, so that's really nice. So you're not left alone here, and that's again always the case, and like oftentimes the case in Germany, right? So you're only like a number on paper, and if it's not working out, then you're gone. Yeah, but in Italy we have the exact same problem, like we have very big rooms, and you're lost. Yeah, so it's really unique. Even when you search for, I don't know, an office or something around the university in Italy, you're just lost, you don't know where to go, and here you just go to your academy, and you have everything there, and you can send an email, and you get an answer usually, even in less than one day, which is so surprising, and you can approach teachers, you can knock on their doors at any time, you don't need to even make an appointment, just like there's this human contact and human interaction that is really, really amazing to me. Yeah, that's really cool, yeah. Can be a little bit confusing sometimes as well, because in my study program, they update the program constantly, so the courses and modules change from year to year, so it's not like in Germany, you know like 50 years back, you had to learn this module, and this book was your literature, so that's nothing you can rely on here, because it's so close to the industry that they constantly update their programs. Sometimes I recognize it as that, especially like the German crowd, is very confused by it, and like sometimes a little mad, like, oh, wow, they have to tell us what to do, but it's always this approach of, yeah, kind of finding your way through the jungle, and yeah, but you learn from that, it's real life, so. Because the Germans have always planned it, they planned it and they want to do that, so. I never thought that I'd be so German, I basically, it's like, hot, it's really mind-blowing. Also another difference that maybe we have with other countries is the minor, or the fact that we have a compulsory internship to do during our studies. Do you have experiences with the minor, or with the internship? Yeah, so I'm currently preparing for my minor, that I will start in September, and I plan to do a study abroad then, and I already did an internship last year, so last February I went to Mexico for six months, and I worked there in a hotel, which was really nice, so you really gain a lot of practical experience, already through your studies, so once you're finished, you already have so much that you can write on your CV, you have so much experience in a way, we'll make it easier to find a job afterwards. And did Saxion check in any way on your internship if everything was proceeding the right way? Yeah, they did. I think with you we're being trained correctly on the quality of the plan. With my Academy, with the HBS, you have this world map where you can check what kind of partner companies the school has, because for your first internship you're, with my Academy, only allowed to choose one of these partners because school really wants to make sure that you have a good partner, that you have a good qualitative internship, so they really focus on that. And you guys, do you have any experience with minor and internship? Or are you maybe getting ready for your internship? I am getting ready for my internship next September, and I just... Did you already find a company? Not yet, because I have like a list of 20, 30 companies in this city itself. I'm studying IT, and in Ansgaray, fortunately there are a lot of startups, there are a lot of IT companies that are centered, so which is very easy for me to choose and get into, but yeah, it's so free, and I just love that from Saxion, because they give me such freedom, and they don't even put much requirements, which to me is amazing, and after all, it really depends on the individuals, how you're going to learn from that internship, so it's really fun. I think it's going to be challenging. Yeah, I really find the internship a really good opportunity to try yourself. For example, you work for a position, and you see, okay, do you like it, or do you don't like it, and you know what you're going to do. For example, you liked it, you can continue in this field. For example, my field is really broad, so I can do really lots of things from accounting, auditing, consulting, investing, so I see it as an opportunity to try something, and if I like it, I'm going to continue it, if not, I'm just going to do something else, and as like half a year for a tryout, I find it really cool. School is not just one experience, it's a lot, and if I learned something in the past two years in Saxion, is that doing extracurricular activities and being entrepreneurial, having passion for what you do, whatever it is, what you do, following your heart, that gets you a job, and that gets you somewhere. Hi, I'm Petra. I'm from Jordan. I work at UPX as a digital marketing consultant. Melissa, my colleague here, which is also from the Connect program. We were both in a competition for the Saxion Challenge today, and that happens once a year where businesses come and they propose problems, and the students have to team up and to solve those problems. So, we teamed up, me and Melissa, and two other people from Electrical Engineering, to solve a problem for Dealer Direct, which is a car company, and what happened was the solution was an app. So, we took the solution up an app, and we came to UPX just to get the pricing, so we can deliver to the board when we go there, that okay, this is our suggestion, and this is how much it costs to implement our suggestion. So, we came here and William got to meet Melissa, and then I was at that time working in another company in Ryzen, so William decided to hire Melissa first, and then after six, seven months, I was here too. So, that was, we both got hired here just because we were part of the team together first, and second because we were part of the program in Saxion Connect, and because we were trying extracurricular activities of Saxon, like Saxon Challenge Day, things that the Startup Center organizes, where you get into more interaction and connection with other businesses, especially in this region. School is not only a book, school is an environment where you meet people, you learn from people, you don't really have to learn from a book, but you learn from your fellow students, you learn from your teacher, you learn from your mentors, you learn from other people working staff, or from your university or your school. So, school is not just one experience, it's a lot. You just watched a video of Veta from Jordan. We have many activities at Saxion. As she mentioned, the Challenge Day and other examples are the honors program and the body program. Can you, Lina, tell us something about the honors program? Of course. So, the honors program is a course that you can enroll to if you wish to do something else besides your studies. So, you can apply for courses that are topic-wise, completely different to your main study program. For example, I chose Liberal Arts and Sciences, and then you get together with students from all the different courses on a weekly basis, and you will have seminars of several hours per week where you discuss things concerning, in my case, Liberal Arts, and this is really fun because you get to know a lot of people and you will gain or earn some extra credits, which is quite nice. And yeah, it is time-consuming. You have to put in a lot, like time and effort, and of course, you also have to study for kind of exams or deadlines, but it is worth it. It's fun, yeah. And how does the body program work, Nadeela? So, the body program is a team of buddies, we call it. It's other international students, like older international students. We are picking up new students from all around the world. We usually do this in certain dates within the intake, so it's usually around August and January, where we would pick up students from Skippal and then bring them back to their houses by bus. And not only that, but we also have drinks, meetups, and introductions, the general introductions, and we also would take students that are not from EU to the GGD, we call it. It's like a health check thing that we have to do when new students arrive to the Netherlands, so it's really weird just providing a companionship to new students. Yeah, so a very great welcoming in the Netherlands. Oh, yes, absolutely. You will feel welcomed. Yeah, so guys, a tip if you don't want to think about how to get from Amsterdam to Enschede or Devente-Appeldoorn, you just come in the same day when we are picking up people from the airport, and it's going to be easier or cheaper for you, and you're going to find new people, find new friends from the very first day in the Netherlands. Yeah, it's crazy how much you can connect during a bus ride. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Okay, thank you guys. Now let's move to the next topic, which is life in the Netherlands. We just said a lot of things about studying in the Netherlands, but how actually it is to live in the Netherlands? How is it to work in the Netherlands, for example? I know it's not very easy. Are there some more opportunities maybe at the university? Yeah, indeed. So for my academy, for example, for the hospitality business school, we have it that you can work within the academy, for example, as a student assistant. So you're assisting a teacher with grading documents, for example, but you could also do work as a mentor student. That's to accompany the first year students and help them with personal development. So you're actually kind of doing some tasks for the teachers, but you get paid for it. So that's really a nice solution if you cannot find a job due to language barriers or something. But what I also often see is that you can apply for this company called Randstad and you can work with them, for example, at the open dates from Saxon. So you will work for your academy and just talk about your studies to other students. So it will also all be in English. So there's also another opportunity to work. Yeah, a little income, which is always very convenient, yeah. And another option I know is like working at takeaway, for example, especially for German students, right? Yeah, that's correct. Like, Lieferando, like all the Germans will know what I mean. It's a company that was founded here in Amsterdam. And you can, they are always looking for Germans that work there for translating menu cards or, yeah, in the call center. And I know a lot of Germans that work there and get paid quite well. So, but it's, they require a certain amount of hours that you have to work there. So it's, you have to, yeah, find out for yourself if it's manageable, yeah. And besides that, you can pretty much find another job in the city. I mean, it's hard, especially if you don't know Dutch, but it's not impossible. Yeah. Yeah, there are some opportunities. Oh, it depends also on the job you are looking for. Like if it's a dishwasher, you don't need to speak Dutch or not even English. But you need to speak English to come to Saxon, of course. And then, yeah, it really depends on your expectations. But for non-European students, that's a bit more difficult than it's different. Yeah, it is even more limited because for non-EU students, we only have maximum 10 hours that we can work for throughout the week. So if you compare it to how much money you get, it's not really that worth it, you know, and you could totally use that amount of time to just study and do your assignments because that's definitely more important. Yeah, indeed, yeah. And how about safety in the Netherlands? Like, how do you perceive it, like your personal safety, for example? It is very safe. It is very safe. I mean, as a woman, especially coming from Asia, a lot of Asian countries are not very safe. So, of course, our parents are always like, oh, don't get home too late or don't walk home alone. I mean, I am still concerned about that here, but I've never had anything happen to me. And I think a lot of my friends here, either Dutch or international, they are very, we are very caring about each other, so we keep each other safe. And I think that's something that's very good when you have a lot of international people and you have a lot of friends. I think I actually never saw that many, that's much police around. Like, you see police everywhere, so you really feel safe, like you work in the city center even late at night and you see a police car passing, maybe they look at you or like, yeah, they even talk with you if you are walking, but that's about the Dutch culture, for example. Like, you just walk and then a stranger asks you questions or says hi and you're like, hi, and then maybe you start a conversation. Do you have examples for that, maybe? Well, I found it strange, especially in the beginning, when, well, usually I'm riding a bike, but when I was sometimes going by foot to my home, when I was passing some other people, they were going the other direction as I was, they were just saying hi, hi. That was like so unexpected. And the random, I was like, hi, I said like hi very quietly and because I didn't expect that at all and then now I'm used to it and I find it nice because just a simple hi can get your mood higher, for at least, okay, maybe not entire day, but at least that moment and the next couple of minutes, hours, for sure. Yeah, yeah, it's very cool. Do you have any experiences, guys? I think it's not my experience, but this is what I heard from my friends because when you're going out and in Ansgar there are a lot of bars and a lot of cafe that opens until late night and a lot of people, young people, especially us, in the weekends we would want to go out and in some countries that can be a bit dangerous, right? But here it's very, it's safe because when there is someone, I don't know, a psycho, for example, chasing after you, you could just run into one of the bars and there are guards from like other bars and they would just come onto you and the guards will call the police and they would drag the person away. I very often see the police just cycling around the city as well and talking to the guards and I feel very safe with that. Yeah, but let's be honest, nobody is running after you. Yeah, it never happened, right? No, fortunately, but yeah. I've never even heard about this, like even in the city. I mean, there are other girls that are more beautiful and some people are just like crazy about them, you know? Maybe not you, but... Yeah, and then other ways to spend your free time is maybe traveling around the Netherlands or go to Germany, which is also a beautiful country to explore. And if you want to travel around the Netherlands, you will need probably this card. It's just a tiny card and with this card, it's called OVCIP card. OVCIP is like the public transport in the Netherlands. You can pay all the public transports from trains to buses, metro and everything. You just need to load money on it and then yeah, it's very easy and convenient to travel so you don't need to go around with cash, which is something you don't need here actually. Like it's just a bank card or credit card like in a few places, but yeah, the bank card is the best, right? Yeah, you can even pay your coffee at a coffee machine with your bank card. I don't know, for Germany it's like super unusual. Or even when you want to go to the train at a car station or so, then you can pay by credit card or bank card. I think that's something really awesome because they don't use cash a lot here. Meanwhile, in other countries, I know that you have to bring cash everywhere, but here you can just tap your card into the machine and that's done. And even when you're approaching someone asking, hey, do you have cash? Like nobody has cash here. Everybody only has their bank cards and that's it. Yeah, exactly. And also everybody speaks English here, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's also something that totally shocked me. Even the bus driver, you board the bus and you're like, hi, good morning. Good morning. Yeah. Even the old people who are 78 years old, they speak English and quite good. Quite well, I would say, because sometimes people who come to study here, I feel like they know it worse than the older people here in the Netherlands, which is strange. Yeah, and there's quite some difference with Germany than when you go to Germany, which is very easy because we have this NRW semester ticket, right? Yeah, true. That's also what I use whenever I go home. It's a train card that you can buy also per semester, so for six months, and you once buy it and then you can travel as much as you want within this one district, Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany. So for all Germans that live at home, or I live in Germany and want to visit their families, I would advise to take this ticket because otherwise it's really expensive if you take single tickets with the train. So this is also a way to save. A good trick also for international students if you want to discover Germany and you like the area around like Cologne, Sodor, it's just quite cheap, so it's very cool. And do you have any other tips, guys? You just have to be open. You have to get out of your comfort zone, but you don't have to be afraid. As we said, with the language, that's no problem. You can always communicate in English, so you don't have to be afraid to go to the supermarket because you're afraid you won't understand people because you can just speak English and you can really broaden your horizon. By doing so, it's different than staying at home and maybe live with your parents. So just step out of your comfort zone and see what you can do. Yeah, just do it. Be proactive, be willing to work. By work I mean study because we all come here to study in the first place and you'll succeed. Yeah. Thank you, guys. I think that's all for today from the studio of the Creative Technology School here in Anzac Day in the Glass Building. Thank you very much for watching us today. If you have questions, please reach us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and especially via Intusaxion, which is this website where you can submit your questions directly to students of the study program of your interest. And we look forward to seeing you in Anzac Day very, very soon. Bye, guys. 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