Posts with: Experience

Stone books and beer out of bread at the Green Alert Market

In today’s times, you will always come across the topic of sustainability and climate change. However, it is necessary to be aware and informed about the ongoing negative changes in our environment and how we are able to prevent them or slow them down. More →

Through the eyes of… Leo Wildhagen from Germany – Monthly noises and strange kisses

My name is Leo. I am a foreign third year student at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences in Leeuwarden. I was born and raised in the western part of Germany, an hour from the Dutch border. Moreover, my family is partly Dutch. Therefore, I had contact with the Dutch culture nearly all my life. I went to Callantsoog for holidays and ate massive amounts of Kibbeling and Vla. However, when I moved to the Netherlands, I recognized a lot of things, which were weird or special to me. More →

7 Useful Frisian sentences to learn

OBE Lân fan taal, visitor centrum

People love to be approached in their own language by tourists. Since the Frisian language is a common language in Friesland, we wrote down some useful sentences for you we translated to Frisian. If you learn these simple Frisian sentences, you can easily have a fun conversation with Frisian people when you are in Friesland this year. More →

Elfstedentocht, the Tour of the tours, the dream of the dreams

A winter time is here again and every Frisian wishes only the same – let Eleven cities tour (Elfstedentocht) come to alive. For the ones who don’t know, Elfstedentocht is ice skating race about 200 km long. Through canals, rivers and lakes of 11 Frisian towns take part various participants. There are ones who want to just enjoy the race as the leisure time activity and the ones who really want to participate in this legendary race. Usually they are 16 thousand people but the finish line pass only one percent of them. More →

A world trip through time

LEEUWARDEN – When visiting the ‘Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics’, here in Leeuwarden, you can basically expect to travel the world through time. Instead of only showing ceramics you can learn about the history of it, especially how the Dutch ceramic become popular. More →

Annemaaike Bakker from De Stormruiter: „I never sat on a horse before“

Annemaaike Bakker plays the female lead character in the production “de Stormruiter”, based on a novel by Theodor Storm. “De Stormruiter”, is presented to the audience from September until October 2018 in the WTC Expo in Leeuwarden, which is especially created for Cultural Capital 2018 Leeuwarden-Fryslân. The story themes are the fight against water and the formation of the Friesian Horse. I had the opportunity to get Annemaaike on the phone and talked with her about her life and her love for the theatre. More →

YourPost presents promo video

With the presentation of its own promotional film, YourPost, the online news agency for citizen journalism, had its own red carpet moment last week. Exchange students, guests of NHL Stenden and volunteers met at this cheerful gathering in the Kanselarij. With an enthusiastic speech, Mayor Ferd Crone also showed his interest. With the press on a button he started the video (see photo). More →

The food heaven on the Friday market

Have you ever wondered why the city of Leeuwarden is always so busy on Fridays and why everyone is hurrying  in the city center? Well, that is because of the farmers market, which is a temporary market organized only on Fridays on Wilhelminaplein, and for those who don’t know Leeuwarden yet, that’s in the city center, in front of the Fries Museum. The market is opened from the morning until afternoon, offering the best, ecological products at discounted prices. More →

Spanish kid reacts to Dutch Christmas

One of the perks of being an international student is breaking the feeling of being homesick when you get visits, I was fortunate enough to be visited by my mum, dad, sister and my three year old niece. Martina loves Christmas, every year she helps her dad and mom decorate the Christmas tree and makes really detailed letters to the three wise men, that give presents to Spanish kids when they are good during the year, but this year, for the first time, Martina got to experience a different type of Christmas. More →

YourPost contributes to DNA artwork

The art project DNALWD2018 collects the personal stories or memories of everyone who has ‘something’ with Leeuwarden. Stories about work, friendship, hobby, the love for your partner or passion for your sport. The possibilities are endless. The editors of YourPost also feel involved in this community art project.
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From South Korea and Spain to the Frisian cows

Leeuwarden is known as the capital of the prosperous, agricultural province Fryslân. A province with nearly 3.000 dairy farms and more than 280.000 dairy cows. Fryslân is the home of the Frisian cow. Fryslân’s economy is sustained by agriculture and tourism. As international students, we have plenty of opportunities to experience the cultural and social life of Leeuwarden but that does not really cover what being a Frisian citizen means. More →

Tereza Baráková from Czech Republic – YourPost’s DNA

Hi all! My name is Tereza Baráková, I’m 22 years old and I moved to Leeuwarden for my exchange stay at NHL where my major is Communication. I come from the Czech Republic where I study Marketing Communication in the beautiful city called Zlin. More →

Remedios Torrico Alcudia from Spain – YourPost’s DNA

¡Hola! My name is Remedios Torrico Alcudia, I left Spain a couple of months ago to become an international student in Leeuwarden for a semester. Back in Spain I study journalism and being part of YourPost has not only been an honour but also a great opportunity to become better in a field that I’m really passionate about. More →