Holland Explores: What Is Your First Impression of the Netherlands | Dutch Street Interview #holland

what was your biggest culture shock when you moved here my first culture shock once I got to the airport was number of white people okay remember I was like walking in to the straight station I was crying and like no one like check me and be like are you all right and I was like I'm a l like I just in between the police officers and you know when you actually walk past them they you break click to you there girl you just up behind it was actually shocking like I didn't expect like a building in the Netherlands to fill building standards the hardest thing for me was definitely uh like H but on the ey so like in back in Brazil I would vot that be had a trade and I would be like oh I like your back and then you would start having a conversation with someone and then like would tell you all your problems and traumas and the person would tell all the traumas and then he was just so easy to make friend it was just like oh is going to try and she's my best friend now and and here it was a bit different a bit harder I remember a moment that like my dog died in Brazil like this six years ago so I'm like I'm already healed so it's fine talk about it so I and I remember that I was like walking in to the St station I was crying and like no one like check me and be like are you all right and I was like I'm alone here like I have no one that cares about me and these are a bit shocky but at the same time nowadays I see that I'm more and more like closed and I'm I love like having me time like I'm in the trainit I don't want I'm not looking at anyone I'm not talking with anyone I'm like looking my bone I'm doing something and I I like you I become like this it's really crazy and then when I first do I'm like don't yeah like I don't want to be talking with people prob so yeah didn't something me that I was like very shocked that it was very hard for me but now I'm like I get it in Nigeria you pay rent at the end of the year so all year you can up on a tree you and you feel like don't go to work for 8 months is nobody's business come one year cycle it's time for rent you and that's the end and then 365 days to look for where the money but here every month so you must find a way every month to bring that P so yeah and I didn't come all the way to be homeless man now my first culture shock once I got to the airport was number of white people okay sure cuz coming from Nigeria I wasn't used to seeing a lot of white people so it was like oh my God one thing that was actually surprising for me was the how the grocery stores here work so they have like specialized stores so like this store did sell groceries then if you want to get like home appliances you have to go to that store from where I come from we have like all pole stores where you just walk into a supermarket and you can find everything you need in one stop so yeah that that was though something that I had to get used to no seriously like I got off at the airport and I have checked obviously cuz I like checking things a lot I had checked before coming like what's the weather this week and it's like 8° and I'm like that's not so bad but like I stepped out of there but no joks and like the wind hit me and I'm like oh and that's just say I think the wind was very like shocking because like it's wind sometimes but like this is just this is another level it's like it's opening me like I don't we that much in it I can feel myself strugly to W that's like what am I it's funny so the wind uh the food as well but I can't even say the food because what is TCH food there nothing you know P bowling ol bowling something bowling it's just deep fried snacks yeah um but I would say it took me a while to get used to European snacks in general European food in general okay cuz yeah it's very much different from Nigerian food and I don't like Nigerian food that much it was actually shocking like I didn't expect like a building in the Netherlands to fill building standards I think it's like feeling like you're moving to this first wood country where everything needs to be needs to work and everything needs to be perfect and then you get here and you realize that actually no everything is not perfect um there is like flaws and I think one of the biggest ones was like when our building CAU fire and like a flow in like how the there was like HS and stuff and how the whole thing was pretty much like handled was really like not great um people still don't have closure um we were just fortunate that we didn't lose a lot of our stuff um but if we were in the position of like lose where we have lost all of our stuff and everything that would have been difficult like you you the power that you have here to like Sue to get and things like that lawyers and stuff is doesn't it feels like it's nonexistent it feels like if something bad like that happens to you you're on your own and you must just like get back fig and you don't have that power to cuz like the Dutch law really protects um real estate companies and um really protects corporates but not the S yeah but not not so much the they'll tell you that you should have got an insurance but even if you got insurance um you you don't not not everybody gets comprehensive insurance cuz you don't really plan like my house is going to catch fire especially when you don't own especially for your renting right you're not going to you just get like a standard insurance package that might replace your stuff but it will be still difficult to replace like very stuff of high sentiment and everything I honestly don't feel like I experienced a culture sh I feel feel like since everyone speaks such good English and um I don't know the way people interact with each other is pretty similar to what I'm used to it how okay yeah I don't know it's not too different there's the same oh really I I thought you have muscle in there uh no I'm from Seattle and so it's very rainy and L it feels about the same okay did you have any col of sh um I've never lived in a city before coming here okay I think that was new know like very urban area vers so I come back home I think the first culture shock would be um when I just landed at skle airport and then I had my friend come to pick me up at the airports and while I was dragging my trolley I literally went in between police officers bro I was tired I had a flight from um Nigeria to Dubai Dubai to LOL to Amsterdam could have had Direct life but the turnover my head was not banging so at that point I just wanted to go straight and then I just moved in between the police officers and you know where you actually walk past them the you Brak cl to you there girl you just up behind sorry for the effort girl you just missed and I looked back and I that they were actually police officers and walked in between them they were having conversations right and then they just smiled at me and they were just they just Mommy I was like wow I wish saw Nigeria do you know my age do don't don't respect the police

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Length: 7min 31sec (451 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 01 2024