Where can we buy groceries and daily items? : Nearest town, Westerbork

2 weeks (9 class-days) is the shortest course. Even our stay is"short", we still need buy food and daily items since foods are not included and the accommodation does not have certain items such as toilet paper, bathroom amenities and so on...we have to replenish them. 

Then, I needed to go to the town center of Westerbork. In the town,  there are chain supermarkets, JUMBO, LIDLE and so on...

How long does it take?
It takes 10-15 mins by bike and 40 mins by walk. If you do have enough time, I recommend to walk until the town. It can be good exercise and you can enjoy the view.

There are two ways to reach the town. I prefer to take a roundabout way. Along the way, you can enjoy to see typical Dutch house with well-kept lawn. And the art was jumped into my eyes.

Actually, there is no landmark. So, my husband and I were worried whether we were on the right way or not. But once we went through the way, it was very simple. 

JUMBO or LIDLE

JUMBO

I could buy what I needed in the both supermarkets, JUMBO and LIDLE. Both are close each others (5 mins walking distance). So, once I was in the town, I went both.

Both open even on Sunday afternoon, 1 PM until 6 PM (July, 2016 present) and have large selection (in terms of food). I would LIDLE is cheaper but JUMBO has Asian groceries.

So, I bought some basic items in LIDLE and I added some items in JUMBO such as Red curry and coconut milk.

What activities we can enjoy the town?

There are bar, cafe, restaurant, disco...During our stay, one weekend the town celebrated the festival. 

Musicians played the music, on the street vendors opened various shops. They sold foods, bags, clothes and so on. It was enjoyable to look at these. My friend bought some sausages.
 

The local people enjoyed the day having beer with friends. There are people who are not resident of Westerbork.
I met people who are not resident in the Westerbork and wanted to be away from big city.

Let's talk with the local people in Dutch.

Bring the pins: ik leer nederlands (I study Dutch) when you go out!
The pin was given by the school on the very first day.

This pins was very effective. People in the town did not miss it. However, it was too fast to catch what s/he said. I could understand only 40 percents at the most. I asked my husband's help since he is advanced. 

It is maybe this pins(?), we got close to the local people and they helped us. When my husband, my fiend and I went to the town, we were unfortunately caught by heavy rain. I brought a umbrella but it was too small to cover three of us. We took shelter from rain under an awning. 

While we were staying there, we got close to a gentle elder Dutch couple. 

We enjoyed talk under the rain. At the end, they rend my small umbrella, went back home to get their car and brought us to the accommodation. It was great help and we could see the generosity of Dutch local. 

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Other articles - Dutch summer school 2016 - 
1. Why I need to learn Dutch?

2. Day 0: Arrival, orientation and welcome drink/BBQ night 

3. How is the Dutch Language class goes?

4. How is our teacher in the summer school?

5. Learning environment, why I preferred Drenthe than Amsterdam

6. Weekend - Where can we buy groceries and daily items? : Nearest town, Westerbork

7. Weekend - How do you spend your weekend in Drenthe?: visiting westerbork transit camp

8. Class activity-Knowing other culture through Dutch

9. Class activity-Communicate in Dutch with local people: going to the Pancake house

10. Class activity-Invitation to the Dutch Art through the class activity 

11. Preparation-MUST bring! items for the Dutch summer camp

12. Preparation-MUST do! before joining Dutch summer school

13. Goedkoop! Online sources learning Dutch

14. Epilogue:  After the camp - what remains

These are my view and experience...therefore, if you want to know more about the school, please visit the official website>> blc language course website

Tel: +31-648074618

Mail: study@dutchsummerschool.nl

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MUST bring! items for the Dutch summer camp

Prior to the summer course, I received a lot of email from the school to inform what I have to bring. It was very helpful. In addition to that, I just subjectively listed down below what we must bring;

Japanese people would say: 備えあれば、憂いなし（sonae areba, urei nashi!）, it means You can never be too prepared.

The accommodation does not have! We tend to expect the accommodation have daily necessary items which make our stay comfortable. However, the accommodation is NOT hotel! Therefore, students have to bring own your towels, bathroom amenities (tooth brash, shampoo, soup), toilet paper..

If you forget to bring these, you have to buy in the supermarket. The location of supermarket is 3 km away from our accommodation. It takes 40 mins by walk and 10 mins by bike. It is nice to go to the town however, I wanted to minimize time to spend going and buying these...

In order to focus of your study!, I would like to list the items which is, I believe, useful if you bring from your home. (I think this may applicable for person living in the Netherlands. )


1. Bathroom amenities, toilet paper
As I wrote earlier, the accommodation does not have shampoo, soup, and other items. So, it is nice to bring them.
The accommodation provides initially one roll of toilet paper for one house (for 4 people). So, students definitely replenish it. Smallest package in the super market was 4 rolls in a pack. My husband and I consumed 2 rolls and half.

And dish washing soup is also needed. It many not consume one bottle within 2 weeks then you can bring from the house. 

2. Small portion of seasonings
Students stay 2-8 weeks. We cook every day but we do not consume 1 kg of salt or sugar, a bottle of oil..so, it would be nice to bring small portion of these items. Especially you come from the Netherlands.

Well, students can share the cost buying these things..and it is also possible that 4 students in one house can cook alternately. But if students do not discuss about monetary contribution of buying these, later it would be problem. 

3．Ready to eat items 

It is not nice to eat it all the time. But on the first day, I arrived the accommodation late afternoon and I was so tired. Eventually I was discourage to go to the town buy foods. to survive very first day, it would be nice to bring something ready to eat.

















4. Extra notebook and ball-pen
On the very first day, the school gave us very cute orange notebook, orange ball-pen and a badge. But I brought own my note book since I expected to finish it. Then, I was right I finished one notebook and ball-pen. So, if you are the person who write a lot, it is better to bring one.

notebook and ball-pen

5. Dictionary 
Some of my classmate brought it. I had one in the Philippines but I could not bring it when I came here. So, I download free-application. It was useful when I made sentences during the class.

6. Insect repellent

The accommodation in Drenthe is blessed with beautiful nature. As an exchange of this, there are many bags.. Daytime, it was sunny and beautiful, then not only students but also other residents remain door open. Eventually, the house invite insect. My friend could not sleep well because of mosquitoes-bite until she purchased insect repellents.

My case...I was trained in the Philippines...then I was not bitten by any insects during my stay :D 
(Mosquito here in the Netherlands is big and slow compare to the Philippines. I could eliminate them once they were inside my room. )

7. Bottle (for drinking water)

In the classroom ,there is a kitchen. Water is accessible. You can have a glass of water by using glass in the room. But I preferred to have own bottle since we had activities outside of the classroom. So, I could bring it. This year, summer in the Netherlands is rather cold. But once it became sunny, it was quite hot. I needed water.  

8. Sandal 

A pair of sandal was very useful. Especially inside the house, I did not want to wear shoes all the time. Some of my friend walked with barefoot but for me too cold wearing nothing.. Better bring a pair! 

9. Something unique (from your country?)

My classmate brought bottles of vodka (Żubrówka) . (*She came by her own car. And it does not mean we had drinking session every night :D ) She shared it to other friends there. Because of this, these who drink (a lot), enjoyed night of talk with drinks.
I brought mongo beans and pieces of dried fishes. I cooked mongo soup in Filipino way. I thought people do not appreciate this since it has distinct fish and garlic smell. But I shared this Filipino food to neighbors because I am sure that most of my friends there have never tasted Filipino dish (cooked by Japanese!). They seemed to enjoy it. 

So, if you have some space of your suitcase, it would be nice to bring something to share with your friends. 

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Other articles - Dutch summer school 2016 - 

1. Why I need to learn Dutch?

2. Day 0: Arrival, orientation and welcome drink/BBQ night 

3. How is the Dutch Language class goes?

4. How is our teacher in the summer school?

5. Learning environment, why I preferred Drenthe than Amsterdam

6. Weekend - Where can we buy groceries and daily items? : Nearest town, Westerbork

7. Weekend - How do you spend your weekend in Drenthe?: visiting westerbork transit camp

8. Class activity-Knowing other culture through Dutch

9. Class activity-Communicate in Dutch with local people: going to the Pancake house

10. Class activity-Invitation to the Dutch Art through the class activity 

11. Preparation-MUST bring! items for the Dutch summer camp

12. Preparation-MUST do! before joining Dutch summer school

13. Goedkoop! Online sources learning Dutch

14. Epilogue:  After the camp - what remains

These are my view and experience...therefore, if you want to know more about the school, please visit the official website>> blc language course website

Tel: +31-648074618

Mail: study@dutchsummerschool.nl

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Learning environment, why I preferred Drenthe than Amsterdam

Dutch summer school gave us two venues-options; Amsterdam and Drenthe (as of now).Iｆ a person is first-timer coming to the Netherlands, s/he may prefer Amsterdam. Usually, the big and globally famous city attracts people. It has many night life options too...

My husband and I preferred Drenthe over Amsterdam because simply we wanted to be away from the big city. We assumed Drenthe gives us space to enjoy nature. Once I arrived the place, I appreciated more than I imagined.

The venue for the summer school is not the training center. This is a recreation facility with accommodation, called Vakantiepark Het Timmerholt (the park). It is located in a bit isolated place where is 10-15 mins distant by car from the nearest station, Beilan.

During summer, green color is vivid. In the morning, I could hear birds twittering. In the rainy day, I could see a squirrel searching something in the garden. 

Facility of Vakantiepark

It is true to it's name, it is very wide, affords to have ponds, small park with play equipment. Users including me can enjoy various activities. In the park, there are numerous houses where students stay.

The picture below is the house. It is like a townhouse. One building composes several houses. We were assigned in one of these.

Inside house

We share kitchen, bathroom and living room. For 4 people, it was spacious enough. My husband and I were assigned in one room. It was very considerable. Each room has door to keep its privacy even though the room door does not have key.

(c) blc Dutch summer school

In my case, I was mixed with male students because I was with my husband. Usually, male and female are assigned not in the same house.

You cannot choose the place unless you participate this summer camp as a group. Regarding the room assignment, the school considers age group and so on.

Shared bathroom

Shared kitchen, living room

Kitchen 
There is a refrigerator, gas stove, microwave oven, an electronic pod, a coffee maker, pans, pods, utensils,a knife, and a chopping board so on.
Basically, you do not need to bring extra thing to stay here. It is good enough!

But take note, knife here is not sharp enough and a glass chopping board is not so usable. If you want to chop groceries a lot, you might be stressed of using them.



Living space option!

There are two options; you share with others or you rend the private space. The private space costs 40 euros per day. I did not go for this option. Then, my husband and I were assigned in the one house with other two students.

Washing clothes

There is a laundry place near the reception. Using washing machine costs 3 euros and dryer costs 4 euros. If you want to use this, you can purchase the laundry card, 20 euro. If you do not consume all 20 euro, according to the receptionist, the remaining balance will be refunded. 

So, we do not need to bring many clothes. 

Activities

There are several activity-options. Biking, tennis, golf, canoe, swimming, bingo game and so on. Except swimming in the "small shore", these activities cost you some amount.
So, in the vacant time, we can enjoy one of these.

Well, I wrote several options, but my husband and I enjoyed the most strolling around the place after dinner. We simply appreciated the nature by doing so.

small beach :) 

Make sure the bike has both lights, front and back and they are functioning. Summer in Netherlands is long. Sunset is around 9-10 pm. Most likely, you may not bike after sunset. But there was the case going to a bar/restaurant in the nearest town and coming back very late.
Then, a bike needs light. It avoids traffic accident and avoid to pay penalty! Police penalizes you if you do not have bike lights.

colorful rental bike, 38 euro/week

Restaurant 
There is a restaurant inside the accommodation. If you are tired of cooking, then here would be another option.
Of course, in the town, there are several look-nice restaurant.

By the way, I have never dined in the Netherlands. Then, this time, I finally experienced eat-out, it was pancake house as a part of class activities.




So far, my experience in Drenthe was good. If my friends think of taking Dutch summer class, I may recommend Drenthe option.

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Other articles - Dutch summer school 2016 - 
1. Why I need to learn Dutch?

2. Day 0: Arrival, orientation and welcome drink/BBQ night 

3. How is the Dutch Language class goes?

4. How is our teacher in the summer school?

5. Learning environment, why I preferred Drenthe than Amsterdam

6. Weekend - Where can we buy groceries and daily items? : Nearest town, Westerbork

7. Weekend - How do you spend your weekend in Drenthe?: visiting westerbork transit camp

8. Class activity-Knowing other culture through Dutch

9. Class activity-Communicate in Dutch with local people: going to the Pancake house

10. Class activity-Invitation to the Dutch Art through the class activity 

11. Preparation-MUST bring! items for the Dutch summer camp

12. Preparation-MUST do! before joining Dutch summer school

13. Goedkoop! Online sources learning Dutch

14. Epilogue:  After the camp - what remains

These are my view and experience...therefore, if you want to know more about the school, please visit the official website>> blc language course website

Tel: +31-648074618

Mail: study@dutchsummerschool.nl

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Communicate in Dutch with local people: going to the Pancake house

As a part of class activities, the class went to pancake house (pannenkoekenhuis). Mission in the pancake house was we order in Dutch. 

Ho ho ho, that is easy! I can guess what waiters and waitresses will ask me. And of course, they expect what I am going to say. There is certain pattern...But my worry was my pronunciation. My Dutch sounds like (Filipino) English. 

On that day, the class spent half of our class in the room. After that, we went to "pannenkoekenhuis. Let's have an activity in pannenkoekenhuis...well, after order, we just eat them..and enjoy conversation..

Most of the classmates biked there. Netherlands has orderly bike lane which I always admire because my home country does  not have it even though there are considerable number of people bike everyday.

Therefore, most of the student of summer course rend the bike during their stay. But my husband and I did not because we did not see its necessity. For this activity, very kind classmates let us use her extra bike and offered the ride. So, my husband and I could participate the event. 

Upon the arrival, all of us gazed at the menu. I was not sure how many of us have already experienced the pancake house here or their home country. I noticed there are number of pancake house in towns. But I have never experienced because I somehow assumed pancake is usually home-made, it is not the food to eat in the restaurant. Meanwhile, my concern was not speaking Dutch with local...rather what I was going to eat. 



I found the Dutch pancake house interesting. In my country, people often think pancake must be sweet with honey or chocolate.aside from home-made.but here, there are variety of choices. Some of these are not totally sweet and it can be the meal.

My husband and I ordered "Boerenpannenkoek", 13 euro. It is a meal like pancake including onion, paprika, beacon, cheese and mushroom...it was quite big. I shared with my husband and we finally could eat it all. Some classmates skipped the lunch in order to enjoy the pancake here. 

 How was our most important mission? Yes, I could order in Dutch by saying "ik wil graak......(I would like to...)." and "met .....(with...)". Well, there was no surprise that waiter could understand it. But it must be bit meaningful since I, so far practiced Dutch with a teacher. Teacher is trained so they surely understand what students say.

It was easy task to order in Dutch than to converse with classmate with Dutch. The conversation could not last long :(  















How was the taste? Hummmmm...I tasted thick batter and these vegetables.
My husband tried to add syrup on this pancake. I quickly asked him not "invade" my share of pancake with this..I would rather add mayonnaise. For me, it is maybe the western style of OKONOMIYAKI?　（I, all of sudden, missed OKONOMIYAKI taste!)
This experience changed my idea of pancake :) It was very simple and good. We all enjoyed it. It was nice to have it in this location. We could enjoy the view of countryside.

During your stay in Netherlands, please try the pancake house and order in Dutch :) 
 
The pancake house we went was DE STROHOED.


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Other articles - Dutch summer school 2016 - 
1. Why I need to learn Dutch?

2. Day 0: Arrival, orientation and welcome drink/BBQ night 

3. How is the Dutch Language class goes?

4. How is our teacher in the summer school?

5. Learning environment, why I preferred Drenthe than Amsterdam

6. Weekend - Where can we buy groceries and daily items? : Nearest town, Westerbork

7. Weekend - How do you spend your weekend in Drenthe?: visiting westerbork transit camp

8. Class activity-Knowing other culture through Dutch

9. Class activity-Communicate in Dutch with local people: going to the Pancake house

10. Class activity-Invitation to the Dutch Art through the class activity 

11. Preparation-MUST bring! items for the Dutch summer camp

12. Preparation-MUST do! before joining Dutch summer school

13. Goedkoop! Online sources learning Dutch

14. Epilogue:  After the camp - what remains

These are my view and experience...therefore, if you want to know more about the school, please visit the official website>> blc language course website

Tel: +31-648074618

Mail: study@dutchsummerschool.nl

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Goedkoop! Online sources learning Dutch

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. I changed a bit...when in Netherlands, do as the Dutch does. One of "the Dutch ways" might do something economically wise. 

Nagasaka, オランダを知るための60章　p28

Learning language usually costs a lot. Before the information age, I studied foreign language through the magazines with audio which was, at the time (as a student) very expensive. Until now, buying book and do the workbook exercise, these are the classical way of learning it. I do not deny it.

But recent year, costs of learning language is getting cheaper. There are more internet resources learning language which costs low and sometime even costs you nothing. We can maximize these..There are podcast, youtube, website...which I do utilize.

(c) learndutch

Youtube learning Dutch
Youtube contents are free. It is good idea to start learning Dutch from free-contents. Leaning Dutch contains vocabularies, grammar, Dutch alphabet pronunciation, Dutch proverbs and so on.

My favorite content is 1000 most common words in Dutch. There are 40 videos, each video takes 3-4 mins and contains 25 vocabularies with some explanation.

Complimentary E-book

In Dutch language class (summer school), I was trained to listen Dutch but it is still hard. I am often irritated my husband saying I just need to spell the words as a teacher pronounces. I said I cannot hear what s/he pronounce. It is something common concern among Japanese (I think !)

So, now I watch this youtube video and pronounce these words together with the voice. It includes some examples and short story related to these vocabularies.

I can download free vocabularies list (lesson 1-20), when I register to the website.
Registration is here>> I enjoyed these free contents very much.

Online course
blc Dutch summer language school offers online course as well. It costs 79 euro (now 39 euro!) , then we can learn grammar. It is not so expensive since books with CD costs almost 40 euro. Each video is short (10 mins, maximum 20 mins) and clear.

You can try first before deciding to purchase it. Once you register the website, the school send the link of video once a week. At least, you can check and test whether it is worth to pay or not.

This online contents is part of package if person register and pay for summer school. During the summer class, some students used this video to check grammar.

What I appreciated of this online course, I can also download PDF file which is power point from the video lesson. So, I can focus on understanding the lesson then I can check PDF later.

PDF file

Application for smart phone.
I am thinking of buying the book for vocabularies. But application must be lighter.  than book. Cost performance must be good.

I combine these resources and watching Dutch TV, try to read some simple text..I hope I will improve Dutch.








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Other articles - Dutch summer school 2016 - 
1. Why I need to learn Dutch?

2. Day 0: Arrival, orientation and welcome drink/BBQ night 

3. How is the Dutch Language class goes?

4. How is our teacher in the summer school?

5. Learning environment, why I preferred Drenthe than Amsterdam

6. Weekend - Where can we buy groceries and daily items? : Nearest town, Westerbork

7. Weekend - How do you spend your weekend in Drenthe?: visiting westerbork transit camp

8. Class activity-Knowing other culture through Dutch

9. Class activity-Communicate in Dutch with local people: going to the Pancake house

10. Class activity-Invitation to the Dutch Art through the class activity 

11. Preparation-MUST bring! items for the Dutch summer camp

12. Preparation-MUST do! before joining Dutch summer school

13. Goedkoop! Online sources learning Dutch

14. Epilogue:  After the camp - what remains

These are my view and experience...therefore, if you want to know more about the school, please visit the official website>> blc language course website

Tel: +31-648074618

Mail: study@dutchsummerschool.nl

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How was the teacher?

I used to teach in University. One of the subjects I taught was language. Therefore, I am very interested in the teacher's approach and observing learning process of the students.



Aside from that. I am pretty much care who would be my teacher because of my experience learning language. My first foreign language was English. It was the most terrible subject for me.
A problem I had was I developed not good feeling toward my English teacher.

Yes, it is not nice to write this openly, even though my English teacher does not read this. But it affected me so badly, eventually I hated this subject. It took me nearly a decade to encourage to study English seriously.

Who was my teacher?She is very experienced language teacher, currently teaching in the University, outside of the Netherlands. She has decades (?) of teaching Dutch to foreign nationals. But I do not think she is not old.
If I am not mistaken, she has two bachelor and master degrees related language. She is academically very qualified.



Creative way to teach 
It was quite good convictions of inside and outside of classroom activities. She explained grammar and we did workbook together. But we did more activities outside of the classroom.
I mentioned some examples in my blog, How is the Dutch Language class goes?



These exercises/activities encouraged us to speak more. One big challenge is pronunciation! We may never get perfect pronunciation. It discourage us to speak in Dutch but exercises and activities makes us bit confidence to use the language.

Skills of adjustment My level was A1-A2. However, everyone would not be the same. Some are more experienced to use this language than others. There are students who studied this language but never used...they know grammar and so on. This created certain gap among us.
She seemed not forcing to fill the gap. She adjusted and gave some pressure to these who were bit advanced.



Well, I say I was lucky to have her this time. But I have to say even though teacher is good, skillful, and creating good synergy with enthusiastic student, unless students make an effort, students may not learn.

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1. Why I need to learn Dutch?

2. Day 0: Arrival, orientation and welcome drink/BBQ night 

3. How is the Dutch Language class goes?

4. How is our teacher in the summer school?

5. Learning environment, why I preferred Drenthe than Amsterdam

6. Weekend - Where can we buy groceries and daily items? : Nearest town, Westerbork

7. Weekend - How do you spend your weekend in Drenthe?: visiting westerbork transit camp

8. Class activity-Knowing other culture through Dutch

9. Class activity-Communicate in Dutch with local people: going to the Pancake house

10. Class activity-Invitation to the Dutch Art through the class activity 

11. Preparation-MUST bring! items for the Dutch summer camp

12. Preparation-MUST do! before joining Dutch summer school

13. Goedkoop! Online sources learning Dutch

14. Epilogue:  After the camp - what remains

These are my view and experience...therefore, if you want to know more about the school, please visit the official website>> blc language course website

Tel: +31-648074618

Mail: study@dutchsummerschool.nl

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How do you spend your weekend in Drenthe?: visiting westerbork transit camp

Drenthe is a countryside with beautiful landscape. We can enjoy nature and wider space. In this environment, out-door sports are most popular activities. In our accommodation, Vakantiepark Het Timmerholt, gives us several options, such as biking, canoe, pedal boat, tennis, swimming, and so on.

These options are nice but we can enjoy these in our spare time of weekday, after the class. Then, on your short weekend, it would be nice to make a little side trip to westerbork transit camp. Westerbork transit camp is located in 10 km away from the accommodation.


It is quite personal opinion however, if you have a chance to be in the Neterlands, Westerbork transit camp is the one of the place you have to visit. It would much better if you have already been to Anne Frank House. Visitor surely learn history and testimonies of people.

What is Westerbork transit camp?This is the memorial museum of WWII. In English,  it is called Westerbork transit camp but in Dutch, it is called Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork. herinnering means memory. So, actual translation would be "Camp Westerbork Memorial Center".The place literally filled with memories of people, victims and survivors. The museum was build in the historical site in where the transit camp was, commemorate the 102,000 lives.




Place where Anne Frank was after the arrest
During WWII, Jews in the Netherlands, Roma, resistances and others were caught and brought to the concentration camp in Germany or Poland. Weterbork was the transit place before the long journey inside Germany and Poland.

This place was originally created as a refugee camp for Jews who fled from the oppression and life thread. After the German occupation of Netherlands, the camp/shelter transformed into the transit camp. Anne Frank and her family were arrested by secret police in Aug 4th, 1944. and brought to the camp. In fact, in the part of the museum, there is the Anne's exhibit.

On September 3rd, 1944, Anne Frank was one of 1,019 deportees on the train heading to the Auschwitz concentration camp.



The exhibit inside building
In the exhibit, visitors can see the history of the camp and life of detainees. There are school, hospital, except family lived separately and they were allowed to see each others once a week, it seems normal. It was a simply preventive measure which avoided riots because detainees heard rumors. The films showed people enjoyed sports in the field.

To actual camp site


Walked along the pass for 30-40 mins, visitors reached the actual camp site. The buildings were demolished because these were decrepit and were used asbestos which might cause lang disease. However, the part of railway was remained, and there are monuments.

Every Tuesday, the train carried about 1,000 people to Germany and Poland. Train carried people 93 times. 35,000 were sent to Konzentrationslager Sobibor, and 62,000 were to Auschwitz. Only 19 out of 35,000 in Sobibor, 1,000 out of 62,000 in Auschwitz could survive.



Europe is recently experiencing terror, however I can say Europe, in general enjoys peace and prosperity. Before they enjoy it, there is the history. Visiting these site would be part of your learning experience, as well.

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Other articles - Dutch summer school 2016 - 
1. Why I need to learn Dutch?

2. Day 0: Arrival, orientation and welcome drink/BBQ night 

3. How is the Dutch Language class goes?

4. How is our teacher in the summer school?

5. Learning environment, why I preferred Drenthe than Amsterdam

6. Weekend - Where can we buy groceries and daily items? : Nearest town, Westerbork

7. Weekend - How do you spend your weekend in Drenthe?: visiting westerbork transit camp

8. Class activity-Knowing other culture through Dutch

9. Class activity-Communicate in Dutch with local people: going to the Pancake house

10. Class activity-Invitation to the Dutch Art through the class activity 

11. Preparation-MUST bring! items for the Dutch summer camp

12. Preparation-MUST do! before joining Dutch summer school

13. Goedkoop! Online sources learning Dutch

14. Epilogue:  After the camp - what remains

These are my view and experience...therefore, if you want to know more about the school, please visit the official website>> blc language course website

Tel: +31-648074618

Mail: study@dutchsummerschool.nl

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