Later, after another sample, I started talking with the non-MBA guy at my table, who had turned to writing out expensive photo cards in some non-English Germanic language, though I had a hard time telling what it was b/c of his writing.
I suspected German, but I asked, and it turned out he was Dutch, and was a businessman living in the city.
We chit-chatted some, and he was from Rotterdam, and so I gushed about how it was my favorite city I saw in the Netherlands on my 16 day vacation around my Dutch friend's wedding.
"It was so cool and diverse," I was like.
"And the modern architecture," he added.
"But more than that," I was like, "You really felt that all the non-ethnically Dutch Dutch citizens were really part of the life of the city. And didn't Rotterdam have a Moroccan mayor?"
"Yes," he was like. "I'm surprised you noticed all that."
"How can a person not? It's very different from other Dutch cities," I was like.
"And it's the way that they all should be," he said, finally.
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