Erasmus blogs
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Tips for overcoming the jet lag effects
Have you ever travelled to a different time zone, woke up in the middle of the night and wondered why the sun is shining outside? I have, and getting used to a different time zone is one of the biggest obstacles I was facing at the beginning of my travels. And since I...
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Dealing with homesickness
When I was younger… Source Homesickness can definitely make your experience abroad unpleasant. When I was a kid, I was homesick a lot. And by a lot, I mean my parents had to pick me up from a five days long summer camp thirty minutes away from home because I was so...
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Halloween here in Budapest
I wasn’t planning for my first Budapest entry to be about Halloween. Afterall Halloween isn’t even a Hungarian tradition and it’s definitely not widely celebrated here in Hungary. But it is Halloween after all and I am feeling all those Halloween feels so here I...
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Quinoa salad
While quinoa is not the most popular grain in my home country, I have noticed a lot of American people love to use it in different dishes or simply as a side dish. My favorite recipe with quinoa that I am going to share with you today, is a simple quinoa salad. The...
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The city of light
Paris is one of the most beautiful capitals in the world. It is art & sophistication, city with rich history and architectural beauty. It is best known for fashion, cafés, luxurious boutiques, and world´s famous museums, cathedrals and iconic landmarks. Paris is...
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Interview with three friends in Lodz
Source And it is time to put aside a few articles for the saga of "it's time to know something about Poland", because there comes a time when so much history, economy, politics, etc. tires; and of course you have to give the public everything, so I have not been able...
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Week 12: The Final Week Before Christmas
The last week of Erasmus (before exams) comes around super quickly and before you know it, you'll be prepping for your Christmas homecoming and the exam period. In the last few weeks you have, it's important to remember to have fun and not let the pressures of revising...
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Week 11: The Final Weeks
It was the penultimate week in France before the Christmas holidays and I was looking forward to the joys of an English Christmas, and, England. As much as France is a lovely place to live, you start to miss your home comforts after a while, especially at a time like...
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First post, the arrival at the host family
Little stories about my arrival... first of all, I missed my flight on Sunday: the hostesses weren't very nice and they didn't explain what I had to do very well. That meant I let my plane go in front of me... :S As a consequence, I took the next flight with another...
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Travel more, carry less
You cannot decide what to carry for the next trip? Do you take a long time for choosing your clothes? Or you feel like you have nothing to wear even when your closet is filled with lots of clothes? Here are the tips to travel more and live your daily life with less...
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Foreword & Small Clarifications
Start a new experience Arriving almost like a Christmas gift, at the end of December 2015, my official Erasmus notice appeared in my email inbox. Let's just say a few things: My Erasmus experience was one of only 3 months, during which I undertook an internship for a...
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Arriving in Copenhagen. Day 1 - getting to my accomodation
Getting out of the metro Well, I thought, that getting around Copenhagen would be easy, but it didn't seem so, as it turned out. I couldn't really understand many things right then and, besides, there was not anybody for me to ask about something, such as, how to...
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From Tbilisi to Copenhagen - Ataturk Airport
Airplane meal So, I had chosen a standard meal to have during my flights, so that I was kind of looking forward to it, however, it was approximately only 2 hours flight from Tbilisi to Istanbul and I thought, that there wouldn’t be any meals during that time....
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Solitude in Orlando
Since I got here, to Orlando, I’ve been living alone in a house that’s a bit too big for me. I realized that this is the first time I’m living truly by myself: in college I always had a roommate and, even when she was not there, I had my friend from the room...
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Roasted pumpkin seeds
In Europe, the pumpkin craze is not as evident as it is in the United states of America. In fact, the only time I have encountered an edible pumpkin in Europe was when I was living in Portugal - they were selling them in a local supermarket in fall. And when I was...
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After a While
I was in NY a couple of weeks ago and there I met with some of my friends from my Erasmus two years ago. Yeah, we kept in touch, even if we didn’t know if we were ever going to see each other, we tried to keep our tracks just for the good of it, with the hope that in...
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Living in the suburbs
Two months now, since I got to the USA. If you’ve read at least the titles of my posts, you can notice that last weeks I’ve been in Orlando, but most of the time I was in Greensboro, a city in North Carolina. Greensboro I one hour away from Raleigh, which is NC...
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How I found my accommodation in Bordeaux
I turned to a junior in my university and decided to study abroad in France, which had been my dream since I was a kid. I choose the university, took a visa and did all the necessary preparation one by one but there was one problem in front of me. That was the fact that...
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Paying your taxes in the United States
In my home country, taxes are automatically deducted from your monthly paycheck. For example, in theory, you earn 1600 Euros, but you only get around 800 Euros deposited in your bank account. The reason for that are the taxes, and the money goes toward our free...
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Happy Halloween!!
So I just came in to the house after I went for a run around the condo. This condo is a pretty big avenue with houses in both sides and farther away, a beautiful fake lake -as every condo-lake in Orlando- and a cool club house. I brought this out because, as you may...
