Loui said that because the groups are so small, the students and faculty develop a genuine sense of community. They attend class in the same building in which they live, eat their meals together and take trips together. Instead, the representatives of the various cultures intermingle freely and learn more about each other in the process. The center is located on the campus of Teikyo University Holland in Maastricht, a city in the interior of the Netherlands. Amsterdam is two hours away by train or bus, and Paris is two and a half hours away.
Participants take planned field trips and do plenty of additional traveling on their own.
Classes meet Monday through Thursday, so three-day weekends are the norm. Not that there is much incentive to leave Maastricht. This modern, international city with an old-world charm is very accommodating to foreigners. The people there speak multiple languages, including English. So our students don't have to feel like strangers in a strange land.