Yes, I arrived at the Netherlands!
On the 31st of January, I left Japan and arrived at Schiphol airport on the same day.
Mattias kindly came to pick me up and we went to his home town Houten.
We ate dinner with his nice family and stayed there for one night. Because Mattias has to go back to Leiden next early morning, we woke up at around 7 am and ate breakfast. After that, his dad and me were talking for about an hour and he kindly gave me a ride to my new dormitory. It was sooooo helpful because I had a lot of luggage, and I didn't know exactly how I could come to this dorm :P
As soon as I arrived here Mattias came and we talked in Japanese a lot, so I actually didn't feel I was in Europe, but since I ate two meals in Mattias's family house, both meals and house are so different from Japanese ones, I finally felt "I came to Europe" :)
I really like European kind of dishes, but for these two days I'm eating easy making pasta every time, and I feel so weak (?) now. I need more potato or rice kind of things... But the problem is I don't know how I can buy vegetables in a supermarket! There is a machine in order to weigh things (like potatoes, onions, apples etc.) and put a sticker on it, so that at a casher a clerk can know how much would it be. And I don't know how to use this machine... :P
I need to learn so many new things here, and this is a part of fun to be a stranger :D
I'm enjoying the life in the Netherlands so far (for only three days yet, though).
Tomorrow is the orientation day for all the international students.
First day of school!!
