Erasmus Turku

1. Make a presentation of yourself.

 I’m a 23 old Italian boy and I usually live in Rome.

2. Describe briefly the place you are from.
I come from Rome, the most beautiful city of the whole world. I love it more than myself, and nobody can understand what means living there if they don’t do it or doesn’t born there.

3. Tell us how the city where you study is.
I’m studying in Badajoz, a little beautiful city in Extremadura, a big country of Spain. It’s little, but it have got everything you need; people are amazing, and it’s easy to have fun.

4. What do you think about your home university? (Before you go on Erasmus) Be honest ;)
My home university of “Roma Tor Vergata” has got so many problem: not enough classes, inaeguate structures for so much people, not enough services. But it give you a high quality instruction, and many possibilities to improve yourself, to make job experience and gives you surely all you need when you will look for a job

5. What encourage you to go on Erasmus? Reasons, etc..
There were so many friends that told me to go on Erasmus: everyone told me about the possibility to have a life experience that you can have only once in your life, about meeting people coming from all over the world and having a lot of fun.

6. When you decide that, what countries / destinations you had in mind and why?
First of all I would come to a country to improve my English learning; my second choice was for an average city of Spain, because everyone told with reason that Spain is the best for Erasmus.

7. Once you know definitely the destination

a. How did you feel?
Really excited

b. What did you think about the place?
I was there before the choice, so I Knew where I was going and how much I’d like it.

c. What your closest people (family, friends, colleagues ...) told you or thought about it?
Everyone was excited for me, hoping to come to meet me there

d. If you had a choice to choose another one, what would have been?
It would have been a northern European city

8. For how long is / was your stay? Do you think that's enough? Would you have liked to have stayed longer? / Would you like to stay longer?
I will stay for one year, and I really hope that may be enough. But I also know that every one that go on Erasmus never want to come back.

9. How did the paperwork, formalities, etc..? What do you think about all this?
Really simple, I’ve made it all without any problems, thanks to the availability of people here and in my home university.

10. How is the city where you live or you used to live during your Erasmus?
Badajoz it’s little and the great advantage is that is easy to go everywhere by walk.

11. Where did you stay (residence, apartment, dorm)? Explain how it is.
I live in an apartment with 3 other Italian guys, 2 girls and 1 boy. It’s a very big house, everyone got his own room, we have two bathroom and an inside garden; and it’s so cheap, too.

12. Well, what about the Host University? How it is? What do you think?
It’s really good: compared with my home university I’ve seen that here everything is more new, bigger and functional. There’s a different and more confidential approach between students and professors, with a huge attention to foreign students’ needs.

13. Compared to your home university, what advantages and disadvantages do you get when compared to the host university?
See the question 12 :D

14. During Erasmus, it is common make trips taking advantage of the staying in other countries and places. Did you already make a trip? Got one in mind? Where do you want to travel? Where have you gone?
I’ve made a trip to Seiville, to meet a friend who’s on Erasmus there. Life is different there, we’re talking about a bigger city with different and probably more opportunities and it Was incredibly cool to stay there. Probably I will travel to Madrid to meet my cousin that live there, and I hope to go to Ibiza on May for the Erasmus National Meeting.

15. Finally, the most important. Tell us as Erasmus generally is in the place you are or were (as applicable). How the partys, the other Erasmus, social life, student organizations, associations Erasmus, are and so on (The more you can write, the better!).
The party are pretty good, thanks to people who are incredibly sociable. We have a lot of bar and pubs and discos and you may have parties almost every day of the week: when there aren’t party at discos, surely there’s a party in somone’s home. All of the erasmus enjoy to stay together and have fun together. There’s a large part of them that are Italian like me, and It may be a problem to my proposal of improve my Spanish language; otherwise there are a lot of Spanish people that like and enjoy to stay and help the Erasmus students and it’s so important for us to learn language, understand usage and foreign way of life. About Erasmus organization, We’d got some problems with the Erasmus Student Network for their internal problem, but I think (and I hope) that they will be “ON FIRE”, because previous Erasmus students of this city told me that they were a good organization.