Five Pillars of Student Exchange: Food, Drink, Dance, Travel and Community

How to try different cuisines from all over World without trying any restaurants?

There is an ongoing debate on putting end to Erasmus funds. I guess this is the most absurd thought, I have heard in the 21st century against any cultural and education development. I guess they should instead promote more and more such programs involving even more Asian and African Countries.
It is only here where you would see an Indian student dancing on a Spanish songs with his Mexican friends drinking German beer in a French Club. Erasmus is not just sharing knowledge through students exchange it is beyond that.
For me Erasmus or any other student exchange is an idea of cultural exchange, thought exchange. It is an exchange of ideas, revolution and business. I have seen any people generating ideas and converting it into a business plan. Where can we see such amalgamation of novelty with such sophistication.
But I would not make this post a boring one but would like to keep it simple and share my experiences on Erasmus in Dijon, France. I hope you all would love it.

Indian dinner cooked by me. It was my first attempt at cooking for such a large group.



For me Erasmus was an experience of life time and would love to relive it once again. I have identified 5 pillars of Erasmus. These pillars join you with others through culture, heritage, knowledge, likeness attraction.These are:


1. Food: You would get chance to experience different cuisines from different countries prepared by students and not in any Restaurants.

2. Drink: no Erasmus can complete without you being drunk with local drinks or with some friend's favourite that they bought from home.

3. Dance: My favourite. I went as a idiot dance but came back with lot of moves. You would have blast with so amazing peoples that you could have never thought back home.

4. Travel: Well, in my 100 days in France I could travel 10 countries and that too as an traveller. I travelled with so many people that it was always party where ever we went. No travel is as fun, elaborate, life touching as the one with your Erasmus friends.

5. Community: the community that you build after meeting people from 30+ nations is priceless. They are everywhere in the world and would help you anytime if you need any particular help. You can travel rest of your life around the world with someone to greet you anywhere.
So in this blog I would talk about Food.