{"id":738,"date":"2009-06-17T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2009\/06\/17\/cultural-exchange-and-active-citizenship\/"},"modified":"2011-09-30T00:21:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T23:21:58","slug":"cultural-exchange-and-active-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2009\/06\/17\/cultural-exchange-and-active-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":">Cultural exchange and active citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div><b>1. Cultural exchange: Dutch-Belgian-Italian cooking<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There is one general rule when you live with an Italian: do not attempt to cook Italian food, because you will fail. Luckily our Italian is not that strict, still we generally don’t want to take the risk and just stick to other cuisines.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div>However with Tena scared of the mice and also rather busy last night with filling out dozens of forms, I decided that the courgette risotto should nevertheless be prepared. Pennyless as we are from time to time, I only had money for some simple Belgian sausages to add. Ivonne was appointed as sous-chef, cutting the courgettes and preparing the salad.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_E6uX9sRaQ00\/SjlbI1JYrKI\/AAAAAAAABAo\/D7XAaD2UfYo\/s320\/Picture+009.jpg\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348406239742700706\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Courgette risotto with Belgian sausages<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_E6uX9sRaQ00\/Sjlml8DbX3I\/AAAAAAAABAw\/t14dgN4EVpU\/s320\/Picture+010.jpg\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348418834440871794\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Tomato mozarella salad<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_E6uX9sRaQ00\/Sjlntq3aU4I\/AAAAAAAABA4\/mk1ZOdXZoq8\/s320\/Picture+011.jpg\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348420066777650050\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">And to complete the intercultural experience: ketchup, a raspberry beer, and a lot of salt! <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>2. Active Citizenship: The PO Box<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Where the European Parliament has its time consuming and rather senseless move to Strasbourg every month, AEGEE has its PO Box in Etterbeek. A CD many years ago decided it’d be cool to have a PO Box in the same area as the European Parliament, about 45 minutes to 1 hour traveling by trams and metro away from the Head Office. The poor Secretary General usually wastes half a day to pick up a few letters. Brussels bureaucracy…<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Nestor+de+Ti%C3%A8restraat,+1030+Schaarbeek,+Schaarbeek,+Belgium&daddr=Chauss%C3%A9e+Saint-Pierre+124,+1040+Etterbeek,+Belgium&hl=en&mra=ls&dirflg=w&sll=37.579413,-95.712891&sspn=64.924832,107.226563&ie=UTF8&ll=50.854305,4.38792&spn=0.03667,0.00926&output=embed\"><\/iframe><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=d&source=embed&saddr=Nestor+de+Ti%C3%A8restraat,+1030+Schaarbeek,+Schaarbeek,+Belgium&daddr=Chauss%C3%A9e+Saint-Pierre+124,+1040+Etterbeek,+Belgium&hl=en&mra=ls&dirflg=w&sll=37.579413,-95.712891&sspn=64.924832,107.226563&ie=UTF8&ll=50.854305,4.38792&spn=0.03667,0.00926\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">So today it became somehow my turn, and it was a nice and sunny day I thought why not to go by bike. It’s a bit risky in Brussels with all the traffic and hills, but what the heck, better than a sweaty full tram. Now that after Percin, also Tena and Ivonne started to get active with their squash, I can of course not stay behind. The joy of peer pressure.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Forty five scary, life risking and exhausting minutes later, I arrive sweaty and tired at the Post Office. And damn it, I realise I forgot the key. Grrrrrrrr. I call Ivonne to complain, she laughs at me, and tells me to come home. <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I decide to give it a try, as luckily we are after all in Belgium, and here they do not care that much about rules and procedures. A friendly face, a vague paper having something to do with our statutes, and 2 minutes later I am outside with the mail already. No ID, no key, piece of cake. Phew. <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Back to the house, where I crash on our new sofa. Active Citizenship makes you tired. <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">> 1. Cultural exchange: Dutch-Belgian-Italian cooking There is one general rule when you live with an Italian: do not attempt to cook Italian food, because you will fail. Luckily our Italian is not that strict, still we generally don’t want to take the risk and just stick to other cuisines. 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