Tour of Maastricht

There are loads of non-Dutch, foreigners here and Americans are by far the minority. In fact, I think Gabby and I are the only ones in this ward of the hospital. We had a "Welcome to the Netherlands!!!" day during which they gave us a tour of Maastricht.
They split us into groups to allow for a more personalized tour- and since all the people who identify with each other stick together, we were in a group of Latvians. The tour really wasn't that exciting, but it was a hilarious and kind of cute time. The man giving the tour was speaking in English (the international language, apparently) and he kept saying things that didn't make any sense. At one point we were at this big garage and he said it's where there was a fireworks place but they moved all the fireworks to the edges of the city so they could get to the houses faster.
I had no idea what he meant, and thought for a while that Dutch people had their fireworks delivered to them. That is until the girl who was helping him was talking to Gabby about it, she told me he meant to say "fire department." Many laughs were had.

We went to the awesomest hotel you will ever see! The rooms were all designed with full autonomy so the well known designers just went wild. My favorite room was the "Swiss Pocket Knife Room." It was just a giant cupboard in the middle of the room- at first I was confused, but then the student from the Hotel School (they have those here) came and hostessed us by opening the cupboard revealing a pullout:

• kitchen
• tv/living room set
• couch and
• bed

It was so cool. the bathroom was inside of another door of the cupboard, but didn't pull out for obvious reasons (sewage isn't really mobile etc.etc.).