iumo_weimar (Erasmusu en)

Sehr toll! New destinations!

Yesterday I got good news regarding cheap flights to airports closer to Weimar. About a week ago Ryanair put a new flight to Magdeburg. To get from Magdeburg to Weimar it's about 2 hours by train, with 1 train switch in Halle. Because the region is Saxony-Anhalt,...

German Radio or TV

Another way of learning german faster is listening to the german TV or Radio. This way you get easily used to it's pronunciation and you memorize words without even noticing it. You probably won't understand everything at the beginning but later you'll understand things...

4 days to go!

My vacation is coming to it's end and finally this Friday I'll be on my way to Weimar. The sadness I feel everytime I leave changes into joy once I get to Weimar. I already left so many times but I can't get used to this sad feeling. I'm leaving here my friends, my...

Useful links

Surfing through internet today I found some links that could be realy useful for those planning to study in Germany. http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/prj/toa/esindex.htm - this one here provides interesting information and you can consult it in spanish as well. It's a...

Ways of payment, card or cash

One thing surprised me a lot in Germany was that not everyone accepts debit or credit card from other countries. There are supermarkets were you can pay with credit or debit cards like Rewe or Rossmann, but most of other supermarkets or big shops don't accept them. The...

The world is a chaos

Everyone is talking about the apocalypsis and the media is making us go crazy with all these news about islamic countries strikes and now about the japanese tragedy. Even though most of us have nothing to do with this countries it brings us a big insecurity in a world...

And the preparation starts...

And here I am at 8 a. m. prepared to go for a run in the park. On the 4th of april I have the interview for the Expedition subject, so I have to force a bit to have more resistence. It's a big opportunity, this motivates me enough. It's cloudy but still not rainy. It's...

Scholarships

When you enroll in an exchange programme like Erasmus the scholarship is the main source of money for those who don't depend on his parents. There are 2 main scholarships for Erasmus students. The one we get for erasmus that is around 300 euros, but every year you get a...

University Sports Centre

Every university has it's own sport center. If you want to make some sports in the university you are going to, you have to decide much before you start. You can check your university webpage on the sport offer and fees. In Germany is very cheap and usually the fee is...

Shopping

Shopping in Germany is extremely advantageous. There is no sales period as in Spain. When the shop decides they have to get rid of some of their product and replace it with another they make 50 and 70 % sales. In some regions of Germany you don't have nice shops only...

If you choose a residence in Germany

If you already decided for the student residence, I advice you get an earlier flight when you go to Germany. And preferably not a Friday, because they work less on Friday. Better make sure you have the timetables and telephone numbers of the international office and the...

How to travel in Germany

In Germany I travel most of times by train. There are some different types of trains. You have the ICE or IC which is the most expensive within Germany. These are most of times direct trains calles express in other countries. You can buy tickets by internet in the...

Don\'t judge at the first sight

Why do humans judge people by their appearance? We all do that without even noticing. I realise that in this first semester of Erasmus I was wrong about a lot of people. I did the same mistake as all human do, JUDGE! In Germany I learned that everyone has a nice...

Things you can study

One thing I like very much about my Erasmus university is that there is plenty of subjects to choose. I'm quite excited when it comes to choosing subjects because there are so many things I can learn here. The last semester one subject was organizing a film festival....

Learning German

If you want to study in Germany it's absolutely necessary to have at least a small level of german. Most of german people speak english but they usually prefer not to. And they respect you a lot if you at least try to express yourself in german. In the university...

Missing Weimar

After an entire semester in Weimar I'm having a 2 month vacation. I'm passing the first month in Spain and I'm already missing it. Weimar is a very small city, quite a village actually. But It has a very big concentration of german and foreign students from all over the...

Shooting in Leipzig

Flight back to Weimar

Today I bought my flight back to Germany for the end of march. There is still almost one month vacation but I feel kind of sad to go back there. I love my Erasmus life. And when I come back to Spain I usually need time to get used to it. And finally when I get used to...