 Hey guys, I'm Ida, and I'll be on my way off to meet Bensa to talk to you guys about some interesting Dutch quirks that we've realized together Hey guys, my name is Bensa. I'm a second year business student at Tilburg University And today I'm gonna show you around Tilburg and give you an impression of the Netherlands What I always find very interesting is that the Dutch people can ride their bikes with no hands This place is called Spore Park This area is called Spore Zone This place is full of canals and this is one thing that I love about Tilburg You don't have to travel big distances between different parts of the city I'm at the campus a few minutes ago and at this very moment, it's even sunny So it's really is a lovely and it's also windy now As you guys can see the weather is really constantly changing in the Netherlands Quickly on our way We just wanted to show you the library as you can see here are the stairs leading up to the library There well one thing that I was warned about before I came here was that Dutch people were supposed to be very cold and like Not very friendly to begin with I've really had quite the opposite experience here, especially in Tilburg Dutch people it from my own experience are very very open-minded and they want to get to know you and they Want to know about your life or you come from and I've never felt anything but welcomed from them I kind of had a similar experience like apart from a few small negative ones Most of them were really positive. How would you describe Dutch culture in like two or three words? So I would say tolerant Pretty cooperative the biggest word that comes to mind is efficiency. They're very efficient. I'm being on time Yeah, right. Yeah on time everything being efficient, you know like even the even their meal like stompots It's an efficient meal you boil the vegetables and then you mash them all together efficient still better honestly than the Boat or ham culture like this. I'm eating sandwiches for lunch. That's what I had for lunch Efficient you just have a water home and then you go on with your life and your day Yeah, it just takes you five minutes tops. You don't care about the taste at all then Why not come on efficiency? I think it shows in like all aspects of their lives, you know What is your favorite Dutch holiday? Maybe Dutch holiday There are quite a few that are nice. Like I really liked Carnival last year before COVID Yeah, definitely interesting But Dutch people really take it seriously like that's a whole week of partying I was supposed to just meet with a few Dutch people and my friends and they told me yeah Just meet at 11 somewhere. So guys where are we meeting at 11 and they were like, bro, you didn't come. We already like Done. I'm like, oh, so you guys meant 11 in the morning Here we are in front of the newest building of the University, which is called Cube It's a pretty modern building. It has many nice self-study places and yeah, also a huge lecture hall Yeah, they also have like very nice like private study places that you can like book with friends or like alone And it's so nice because like it's it's fully like just windows so you can just look out into the forest Which is behind us right here. And I think it's really really nice area to study So for more information and everything we talked about and the University itself, of course I would say you can check out Tilburg University's own website and you will find more information there