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An Erasmus Christmas Dinner

For weeks we had been planning a large Christmas dinner for our group of Erasmus friends, we were going all out, Kath had picked up Yorkshire Pudding and gravy mix from Gibraltar along with some Christmas Crackers and Christmas plates and napkins. We had decided to do...

16 11 , 11 years ago

Is Poland an unsafe country?

I wrote about this issue yesterday night, after I arrived home; and I think it is a very important topic for every person who is going to stay in Poland during some weeks or months so it would be a good idea to translate my article to English too. The point is that in...

16 9 , 11 years ago

Land of unspoken mysteries

My name is Adriana and guess what? I am an Erasmus student in one of the most important historical countries of the world. Can you guess which one? Well, I will make it easier for you, it has something to do with the Second World War, it is a land of great traditions,...

16 0 , 12 years ago

Me, Myself, and I

¡Hola and a sunny welcome to Duy'N'España! I am DUYEN and will keep you posted about my life in Spain ;) Before I tell you who I am, what I do, and why I started Duy'N'España, I try to explain the right pronunciation of my name to you because it’s a typical...

16 9 , 12 years ago

Green city, conscious attitude

Hello all! Today I'm gonna share with you my first impressions about Graz after I arrived at Hauptbahnhof. After some long but also stunning hours of train voyage, I arrived at Graz on a sunny Sunday afternoon. After the very first moments I came up with two...

15 0 , 8 years ago

Are you in Manufaktura again? 2º part

As I said in the first article about "Manufaktura", (http://erasmusu.com/en/erasmus-blog/main/are-you-in-manufaktura-again-131859) this place is not only to buy food or something seemed, moreover, you can do many other things to enjoy any day in Łódź. But... What can...

15 2 , 11 years ago

Typical food in Poland, 2º part

After some articles in Spanish, I have been very busy with university and trips, so I couldn´t write some other articles in English; but I think that it's time of explaining one of the most typical Polish dishes, as pierogi, to leave Polish food more complete than now....

15 10 , 11 years ago

Useful Polish vocabulary for Erasmus students

Hello ladies and gentlemen! My name is Antonio Valle, I study politics and law in Pablo Olavide university in Sevilla, Spain, but this year I'm studying in Łódź, a city in the center of Poland. I'm writing a Spanish blog, but I thought that it would be a great idea...

15 8 , 12 years ago

Milka cows missing

Hello all! I heard them calling in the distanceSo I packed my things and ran... These short lyrics from 'Of monsters and men' inspired me in writing my second post. The title of the song is Mountain Sound, and it's about running away in the woods, and nature's...

14 0 , 8 years ago

Just do it!

"Just do it" is a very famous expression that we have heard or read maybe in many occasions (I can suppose) and which meaning is act! don´t wait, act! The objective of this phrase is animate people to act, and give up that lazy attitude and conformism, with which we...

14 4 , 11 years ago

Are you in Manufaktura again?

Are you in Manufaktura again? This Is a simple question that everybody should make himself if read that in five days in the city of Lodz, I was there four days. Of course the city has more things to see and do, which I will explain in other articles, but in those...

14 2 , 11 years ago

Saint Nicholas day....

Let's see, for those people who know when is this party, it is true that Saint Nicholas Day was December 6th, and of course today is not that day, but here in Poland was an special day, so I think it would be a good idea to inform everybody who doesn´t know this day...

14 4 , 11 years ago

St Andrew´s day.

Today is November thirty (ok, i know i´m wrong, because right now I should say two days ago, but I wrote this article in spanish on 30th of November, and now I´m translating it), and I want to stop my story Erasmus in Lodz 2012/13, because today is an special day for...

14 5 , 11 years ago

The curious incident of the baby in the lounge

I had been worried about some strange stains that had appeared on the ceilings in several rooms of the flat, so I had e-mailed my landlady to ask her about them. She promptly visited and diagnosed the problem, we hadn't left the windows open often enough for the rooms...

13 4 , 11 years ago

A parcel from home

So, two weeks ago my parents sent a package to me in Cádiz, the estimated arrival time was between three and six days, so you can imagine how unimpressed I was when it still hadn't showed up two weeks later! My parents had promised me some ongoing Christmas cheer, as...

13 4 , 11 years ago

Useful polish vocabulary for Erasmus student 2º part

After the first article about polish vocabulary for Erasmus student, I think that I must complete it, because there are a lot of expressions and words, that I haven´t written still. 7º- Some questions to meet new people or maybe I should say "to flirt" with...

13 6 , 12 years ago

First 'Exam'

The date had been looming for a while, my first ‘exam’ in Spain, and to be honest I didn’t know what to expect, but it certainly wasn’t what I got. It was a geography exam, which I had been preparing for over the past few weeks, we had to learn the capital...

13 4 , 12 years ago

Fighting for life... in floods, in Vietnam!

I always wonder one question in my mind and I do not know when I can find the answer. "Do people have fate or not? Why?" Some people may say that "no", it is from what we try to do and what we believe in. I really don't think so when the world is changing so fast and...

12 6 , 11 years ago

First days Back Home

I arrived back at home, very proud of myself for managing to fit everything that I needed into just hand luggage. I had worn warm clothes as my dad had warned me of the below freezing temperatures and so was roasting by the time I made it to my dad’s car as the...

12 3 , 11 years ago

Renting a Car

For the long weekend we decided to look into hiring a car, as Anissa and Emma were leaving on the Thursday so there would only be five of us – the right number for a car. We did a quick Google search for car hire companies in Cádiz and found the locations of the...