Mi experiencia en Budapest

I am Jose Miguel Mingorance, I am 25 years old and I come from the University of Granada. I love sport and that's why I studied sport sciences and in the future I hope to dedicate myself to it. I would like to be a teacher and/or coach a football team.

The Erasmus adventure in Hungary is coming to an end and I will try to express in the following pages what Hungary and Budapest has meant, means, and will mean to me.

Well the truth is that this adventure began some years ago when in the summer of 2015 I came to Budapest on a trip with a group of friends. I loved the city and the trip itself and I left with a lot of desire to return. Last year when I decided to go to the erasmus I pre-selected budapest at the top of the list.

First of all for the reason I have mentioned before, but I also chose budapest for the following reasons:

• Most classes are in English
• Gegraficamente is very well located and with very good connections with all means of transport.
• It's cheaper than the city I live in.
• A friend of mine was here a few years ago and told me that her experience was incredible.
• It gave me the opportunity to explore countries that I probably wouldn't have been able to explore elsewhere.

Once here, all my expectations of the city fell short. In class we have met fantastic people and of many nationalities, I can say without fear of making a mistake that I take many friends and some of them for life, is a fantastic class, full of wonderful people and from whom I have learned a lot.

I also have to name the teachers who have been very good and from whom we have learned many things and have helped us as much as they could.

Within the erasmus experience there are thousands of things to describe, I would like to start with my flatmates. When in May I decided to look for a flat and with it to look for roommates to share it with, I thought that the best option was to do it with people of different nationalities, in order to learn new habits, new cultures and above all to improve English. I have to say that it has been one of the best decisions of my life. From the first day I was welcomed as one more, we have been a team, we have cooked, we have gone out to party, we have gone to the gym and all together I think I have been very lucky to have met them and I am completely sure that I will see them again in the future.

Another aspect to highlight of this experience have been the trips, I have been lucky to be able to do many this quarter and in January I hope to do some more. In my case I have visited 11 cities and 9 countries in total since I arrived here: Bratislava (Slovakia), Dublin (Ireland), Bucharest (Romania), Sofia (Bulgaria), Belgrade (Serbia), Prague (Czech Republic), Zagreb (Croatia), Milan, Florence and Pizza (Italy) and of course Budapest itself, Lake Baladon and Sztendre. All of them wonderful and full of incredible people, in each new experience and many stories to tell.

Budapest is the most incredible city that I have visited in my life, it doesn't stop surprising you every day, when the winter arrived and the days were shortened the Christmas market appeared giving light to all the city, the illumination of the important things is amazing and makes of this city something fantastic. I am completely sure that I will miss it a lot, the city, its people, the boys and girls of the class, the Hungarian friends that we have made these months, even the cold, the whole weeks of rain, the 6 hours of sunshine a day ... I will also miss goulash, cheap beer, morrisons and instant nights, spending days speaking English and learning a thousand silly words in other languages.

Today has begun to snow, the whole city has dressed in white to tell us god, it is deficient to explain the amount of feelings that can be concentrated in days like this so close to leave the city and put an end to this incredible experience that is the erasmus. I hope someday to return here with all the people we have spent these last few months with and to live some more adventure. Maybe someone thinks it is impossible but if something has taught us Budapest is that dreams sometimes also come true.