Today we arose somewhere between 8am and 9am to go to a part of Amsterdam known as Bijlmermeer. To those in and around Amsterdam the Bijlmermeer is known as Amsterdam’s version of our "projects," the areas that are commonly filled with the city’s more impoverished minorities. Myself, along with a couple of my classmates, were planning to see structures similar to the Riverside Plaza high rises in South Minneapolis. Upon arrival we all discovered truly how different the Amsterdam version of "projects" are from our version (located in major cities across the U.S.)
Part of going to the area called Bijlmermeer was the transit experience. We used the Amsterdam subway system; the experience was similar to using the regular tram or bus... bumpy, crowded, but overall effective.
Later I chose to go to the Rijksmuseum. Originally I went with a couple of my classmates, but we soon after lost each other in the spacious caverns of the museum itself. I had a different idea of the Rijksmuseum in my imagination, probably due to the overall enormous appearance of the museum from the outside. But overall I enjoyed the vastness of the historical artifacts from different periods of time throughout the development and maturing of Amsterdam.
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