Cultural Accident!
I arrived with Albino to Den Bosch Central Station after one night in Cologne. We though it we be better to know our ways in the city some time before the opening day. So here we were, 5 days before, going down the rolling stairs. A fantastic town emerged in front of my eyes. Neon coulors everywhere. Bicycles, clothes, cars... I couldn't imagine Den Bosch would be something like this.
I thougth maybe Front242 were playing that night. Maybe 2 Unlimited! We travelled 10 years back into the nineties but we kept our current age.
After a couple of days sleeping in hotels and walking around searching for rooms and studios, I realised they had never left the 90's, they just perfected the aesthetic.
The workers from the internatinal relations department gave us a wrong telephone number from Warren, a guy that could get us a roof by squatting, but in the end we had to run to a rental agency called DirectWonen because we could no longer afford to sleep in hotel rooms. Normally the waiting list is more than 6 months, just to see an appartment, but we explained our situation and the girls from DirectWonen got us a 45m2 room were an australian guy used to live. The first landlord didn't like us. So we got the second room we saw. Now we know where the cantine is but nobody told us. Nobody told us about the school bus, about the chipcard wich we can charge and use for buying everything in the school and... let's say... I still dond't know if behind one door I'm going to find printers free to use, or, who knows, maybe I can get transport discounts.
We were told that we shouldn't go out after 24h to the church area. We then went to Caroussel. Caroussel is something like a disco but with a fair going on. Inside is a caroussel that is used as a dance floor, and the euro-top-40-music tracks last for 1 minute (tops!) and are interrupted by an "MC Marmelo" who speaks a pretty fast Dutch. We still didn't found a regular bar. Today is Thursday, beerday, when everyone comes for a beer after half past four in the bar.
I thougth maybe Front242 were playing that night. Maybe 2 Unlimited! We travelled 10 years back into the nineties but we kept our current age.
After a couple of days sleeping in hotels and walking around searching for rooms and studios, I realised they had never left the 90's, they just perfected the aesthetic.
The workers from the internatinal relations department gave us a wrong telephone number from Warren, a guy that could get us a roof by squatting, but in the end we had to run to a rental agency called DirectWonen because we could no longer afford to sleep in hotel rooms. Normally the waiting list is more than 6 months, just to see an appartment, but we explained our situation and the girls from DirectWonen got us a 45m2 room were an australian guy used to live. The first landlord didn't like us. So we got the second room we saw. Now we know where the cantine is but nobody told us. Nobody told us about the school bus, about the chipcard wich we can charge and use for buying everything in the school and... let's say... I still dond't know if behind one door I'm going to find printers free to use, or, who knows, maybe I can get transport discounts.
We were told that we shouldn't go out after 24h to the church area. We then went to Caroussel. Caroussel is something like a disco but with a fair going on. Inside is a caroussel that is used as a dance floor, and the euro-top-40-music tracks last for 1 minute (tops!) and are interrupted by an "MC Marmelo" who speaks a pretty fast Dutch. We still didn't found a regular bar. Today is Thursday, beerday, when everyone comes for a beer after half past four in the bar.
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