During my first year of studies, I participated in an initiative of RUW Foundation to create a documentary about the future of food, as part of the celebration of 100 years of the university. The documentary is called The Future Table, and we had the challenge of showing Wageningen’s different…
Last year I was passing through the campus hallways when I saw an ad from the RUW Foundation looking for people to form a team for a documentary on the ‘Future of Food‘. A project for the celebration of 100 years of university. As I was looking for a job…
In 2013 I lived in Breda, a city in the southern Netherlands. It was an exchange program that was part of my graduation. At that time, I had a personal blog where I wrote about my travels and personal development. One of the posts I wrote was called “my perceptions…
It’s amazing how many different options Wageningen has to buy food. It has options for all tastes and tastes: large supermarket chains and small local producers; home deliveries and harvest yourself on the farm; ready meals or slow cooking; of everything! The only difficult part will be to choose, mainly…
Hello! I’m going to tell you a little bit about my routine here in Wageningen. I study a master in Urban Environmental Management. It is a full-time course, both intense and amazing. I can say that I have been happy here, feeling that I am growing both professionally and personally….
This is the second time that I live in the Netherlands. My other experience was making a minor as part of my graduation in Breda. And when I returned to Brazil, I missed some things that I did not value so much at the time. The biggest one was the…
September 4. I arrived in Wageningen from Brazil to start my master’s degree in the upcoming week. It was 11:00 pm, and a girl I met on Facebook was kind enough to pick up my keys with the student real estate agent (Idealis) so that I could get into my…
This year I started the days doing a meditation retreat in Italy called Vipassana. It’s a 10-day retreat in silence, without any kind of expression or connection to the world. 10 days without writing, reading, dancing, listening to music, talking, hugging, carrying documents, nothing. It’s just you with yourself. Silence…
The other day, when I was walking on campus, I bumped into the Alternative Thesis Fair. “Are you looking for a thesis subject? We can help you!”. I thought: apparently not I’m the only one in doubt of what to do for my master’s thesis. Or beyond, what to do…