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To be honest Amsterdam was beyond what I could imagine. I had heard the talks of Amsterdam as the sex city or Amsterdam as the bike city. But, never had I heard of Amsterdam's youth struggle and their funnily enough radical 'pedagogy'. To my surprise after wondering around trying to find the university of Amsterdam I was led to their students union and well I was very much the odd one out. And yes I was probably the only non-student there but that wasn't it see surrounding me weren't just uVa students but rather suited and very dapper looking students while I was in my very 'casual'. See it was their careers fair and I had just entered in. Where I'm getting with this is I stayed the whole day there going to workshops and talks at uVa and what became very apparent was they were not just building students up to be ready for jobs but to be redifiners of there communities by being 'disruptors' in tech and actively finding their talents in these workshops. I also interviewed the leaders of the students union to learn more about there active protest now and in history These young people were being given the tools and I guess I was too to disrupt which rarely is actively presented in Manchester schools.