In my last post, you read about the start of my (work)week. In this post, you can read about how that week ended. It’s been quite a busy week for me; I traveled a lot, worked a lot, did many new things, and thus I managed to learn a lot too. And even though I only slept 5.5 out of 7 nights – because of a true mosquito infestation in my room at Rotterdam (yeah, great fun…) – it has been a very cool week after all. Below, you can read...

The first day of the rest of my life. That’s what it felt like a little when I woke up at 5:45 this morning. Holiday’s practically over and for the first time in quite a while I was back in my small room in Rotterdam. To me, this day also marked the true kick-off of Urban 2Day. Starting today I expect to have more spare time to put into this website, which means more stories on a more constant basis. Moreover, today was the first day I...

If you have a job (or had one in the past) you can probably remember your first day at work. Maybe it was great, maybe it was boring or maybe it just wasn’t quite like what you expected it to be. That’s the tricky thing about first days; whether they will live up to our expectations or not. When I had my first day as a volunteer at ‘De Pauluskerk’, it wasn’t what I expected at all, but it was definitely fun, and interesting. De...