When I said to my friends that I wanted to go to Belgium, they asked me: What a hell do you want there?  Do you like eating chocolate and walking in the rain? Why don’t you stay at home?

Now, I can say to my friends that Leuven is a wonderful city full of students, who rule during the weeks the streets and a big varieties of bars. Everyone made her some friends from different countries in the world. For the most of the students a very challenging year with parties, boring and interesting lectures and long hours of studying gradually comes to an end.

I think it is time to ask several questions about the year. Did you everything what you wanted to do? Doubts? Should you have gone out with this girl or guy? Or will you continue to stay with her besides that she wants to go back to Spain? Do I really want to continue with this guy in a distance relationship? But you already see the year coming to an end and for the most students friendship circles will disintegrate. Some will stay while others will go back to their country or to somewhere else. The person who leaves is in an ambivalent situation of being happy to going back to see their family and old friends, but also sad to not see their in Leuven made friends.
For everyone now the main question is what to do with their holidays? Travelling with the railway through Europe? Going simply at home, staying in Leuven to finish the master’s thesis, or going to Spain. Or perhaps doing something completely different like couch-surfing, the concept has already been presented in the last issue.

I think the most of us remember the school time when we reflected about our school lives and what would happen with us in the future. For the most it was clear that we will study,  but almost nobody thought to end in Leuven for one year or several months. But now, we are in a similar situation, we know that we will start to work, but we did not now where will be in 5 years. What will be with us? Married with children, single, unemployed, taxi driver, successful lobbyist or journalist? At the moment people are writing their applications. But, everyone is thinking the same: how can I persuade the responsible from the human resources department that I am the right person to take from the other hundred candidates for the job? How I will explain the gaps in my CV, why did I not make an internship in the last summer holidays? Doubt that you did everything right? Now for the a lot of students is the question to stay in Leuven, go to Brussels or going back to Greece, Congo or Brazil. What is more important, family, better job opportunities, 300 days of sun per year or a good health care system? Nevertheless, the most of us enjoyed having studied and lived in Leuven and look forward to their unknown future. Good luck!