My Photo Erasmus Weimar, Germany (Erasmusu en)
Juan Álvarez
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As I love photography and taking pictures of what I see, I'll try to picture here all my Erasmus experiences. (en)
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Subject "Gummy Bear"
Today I signed in for a funny subject. Here in the Bauhaus Universität the names of the subjects sometimes are really funny, abstract and most of times have nothing to do with the reality of the subject. In this case the name reminded me how I like Gummy Bears. This...
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Hire or buy a bike much before the semester starts
I came late again and now is very difficult to find a bike in good conditions. Make sure you don't do the same mistake as I did. When you get here, immediately search for a bike. I still have 2 weeks before the semester starts but it's impossible to find a bike to rent...
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Use a bike in Winter? No way!
I read some post asking if is possible riding a bike in Germany in winter. So I prefered to asnwer with some pictures we took this winter. The fact is that here snows a lot. When you don't have snow neither ice you can use the bike. But when it snows here there is...
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Learn as much as possible in your Erasmus
In Germany there are many provinces where you pay nothing for credits. In Weimar is free and they offer many interesting subjects. In my university german students are forced to take 3 subjects per semester, 1 project (18 ECTS) and 2 werkmodule (6 ECTS). But there is...
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Energy Fill-up
Today is a precious day with an incredible sun. I just came from a large walk which I enjoyed sincerely and meanwhile I took hundreds of pictures for some projects I'm planning. It's incredible how german people love the sun. The parks and the streets were full of...
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Pfand from München Weihnachtsmarkt
In Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmass market) drinking hot wine (Gluhwein) is a tradition in all german cities. Most of the Gluhwein posts you have to pay between 1 and 3 euro pfand for the cup and when you give the cup you get the money back. Many students kept the cups as a...
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IKEA Experience
When we got the room in the student residence we had no idea that we would have to buy everything necessary to eat, study...survive. So most of us decide to make a massive visit to IKEA in Erfurt, it's cheaper when you need many things. But we didn't know that we had...
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Weimar\'s Cultural Richness
When I was still deciding to come to Weimar I was really impressed about it's cultural richness. Every information I found about the city talks about Goethe, Schiller, Bach, Liszt as it's cultural origins. The people living in Weimar are really proud of it and they...
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Foolish Things
We do many foolish things in our Erasmus. In this pictures my friends are trying to climb the Big Chair in Weimar. One of them (the small one) could climb it well with the help of the tall one. This last one hurt his back badly. But both of them were happy they could...
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Photo Walk
A Photo Walk is an activity we invented in Weimar. We meet every saturday morning and we choose a destination around Weimar or if we have less time we do it in the town. It's not a simple photo walk with only taking pictures of what we see. It's a nice way of meeting...
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Party
Celebrate your birthday during Erasmus is the best thing it could happen to you. I didn't have that luck :( 'couse my birthday was during vacation. The birthday surprise parties in Erasmus were the best surprise parties I've ever assisted. You can always send and email...
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The best dessert in Germany
Even though it's originated in Austria, the Appfelstrudel is one of the best desserts you can find in Germany. I prefer to eat it with vanilla ice cream. You also have the Sauerkirsche (Sour cherry) Strudel, delicious! The german bakeries are really full of tasty...
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Love-hate relationship with the snow
I remember the first time it snowed. We were all waiting for it. We did a big international snowball fight with some 30 students. That was awesome! The second day it continued to snow so we did another snowball fight. The third day snowing it was still nice but looking...
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Auction Party in the cellar
This was an auction party orgnanized by a very good friend of mine that stayed in Weimar only for one semester and then had to leave. He spent all that money he made on beer for us. The party was amazing and it was held in the cellar of the residence. When there is no...
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M18 - student bar
At the beginning of Erasmus, especially when you start the winter semester, all the students you have in Weimar they are international students. Then at the end of september or the beginning of october the german students come. We started to meet more german in bars...
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Then start the Erasmus excursion and trips
Before starting class in every university they have the International Office, that organizes all the excursions through the city and outside trips. Some of them you have to pay and other you don't. It's a bit like school excursion in group but is a lot cheaper than...
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First days and meeting each other
The first days were kind of strange. It was something between the strong feeling of missing Spain, my family and friends and the excitement of meeting new people everyday trying to remember everyone's name.
