Insight from an UW-Green Bay international student

Elke van der Werff, is a senior political science major from the Netherlands. She also works in UW-Green Bay’s Office of International Education. She has been studying at UW-Green Bay for three semesters, and she took some time to share five things she has found surprising about Green Bay, Wisconsin and the United States. “Every day this is something I tend to forgot because the state of Wisconsin alone is already four times bigger than my country,” she says. “I also think it is interesting that Wisconsinites count distances in time instead of in miles, and that a two or three hour drive is ‘not that bad.'” Read more of her thoughts.