ERASMUS, kielce_Poland
This is the continuation of my previous experience!
This experience is about my stay in Poland during a period of One year under ERASMUS exchange programme.
After surpassing all the problems and insecurities of my application to the ERASMUS programme I saw myself in a airplain flying to Warsaw, Poland\'s capital...
On arrival, the first impression was quite nice, because I didn\'t detect many differences from the capital of my country. But buying the train tickects, travelling to Kielce and taking a look around the internal and external views of the train I start to see many people for to less places to sit... Outside, everything was dense woods... no much people speak english on that train, so I start to see that the reality was not so similar to my country as I expect at the beggining!
Upon arrival in Kielce there was some friends of the other erasmus people who traveled with me. A Portuguese girl from earlier ERASMUS experience in kielce and her boyfriend, a polish amaizing guy who received us very very nice.
For me, Kielce is a small and \"industrial\" city....
Many of the people who lives in kielce and nearly just use this city to work. Is not so big city as KRAKOW, and in kielce the erasmus programme is startting to grow up. Not much people goes on erasmus to kielce.
OK OK, maybe the spirit of the erasmus experience could be different in kielce, but it doesn\'t mean that the people there do not enjoy the stay!!
For me was a different experience, but very very richful.
In kielce I have made a lot of polish friends. The people of Poland are very welcoming and friendly. For me they seem to be to much catholic... They take the religion to serious!!
I had the pleasure to visit a few polish houses of my friends and I saw how different it was from Portugal. They have many green places with natural oxigen, many trees, mushrooms, vegetation, I loved it because nowadays all the world is to much urbanized.
Few times there I thought that Poland was stopped in time, because everything was like Portugal couple decades ago.
The way of life in Poland seemed to me quite similar to Portugal, with some differences, of course. The food is cheaper than in Portugal, the people doesn\'t have the fever of consum... They are very spared and humble people.
The public transports are to old, they need a big evolution, in a conditions and language way! Taxi is very cheap, but the roads are quite bad...but now with the 2012 EURO they are improving all this conditions!!
The studies in kielce...
I was studying in the university of technology, \"POLITECHNIKA SWIETOKRZYSKA\".
The study experience was very nice, because during the erasmus programme I feld interest to be in a class, because we do not had to be in class all day from 8 to 5. We had occasional and necessary meetings with the teachers and coordinators and it arouses the interest in the subjects studied. The best of the ERASMUS experience was the free time we had to meet the city, and few important cities of Poland, because I before I had not idea that Poland could have so many beautiful places.
My favourite Polish food are:
IN WINTER TIME:
- Bigos
- Zurek
- Platcek
- Sobowe
IN SPRING-SUMMER TIME:
- Surowka with MAJONEZ KIELECKI
- Hot kielbasa_on barbecues
*the pizzas in kielce are very cheap and they have special prices for student\'s_:D
DRINKS:
- POLISH BEER; warka, lech, zubr, ziwiec, tyskie, and so on...
- POLISH WODKA; wyborowa is the best, I love it!
Zubrowka!
Citrynówka - Home made lemon wodka.
PLACES:
- City center; Sienkiewicza street
- Kielce mountain; Kadziernia, by night
- Kielce cathedral; Katedra
- Checiny castle;
BY NIGHT:
- EFEKT MOTYLA night club;
- ANTIQUE;
- IMPULS;
- CKM; realaxe and watch football games!
- Hollywood; Chillin before disco.
- CHILL OUT;
- 7 HEAVEN disco;
- SEN;
- Ultra violet;
- ARIZONA club;(not so nice, but ok)
- Antrakt;
The best after of Kielce:
- GAUDI club;
Auff....
so many memmories....
I could stay here all day long writting nice places in kielce, the best is to live it!!
I recomend it!_:D
P.S: After a year of Erasmus in Kielce, I liked so much that next year I returned to the same city as a FreeMover student for 6 months... After this 6 months of freemoving I had the possibility to make a ERASMUS PRACTICE PROGRAMME in Kielce, but about this experience I will write next....
Bye.
This experience is about my stay in Poland during a period of One year under ERASMUS exchange programme.
After surpassing all the problems and insecurities of my application to the ERASMUS programme I saw myself in a airplain flying to Warsaw, Poland\'s capital...
On arrival, the first impression was quite nice, because I didn\'t detect many differences from the capital of my country. But buying the train tickects, travelling to Kielce and taking a look around the internal and external views of the train I start to see many people for to less places to sit... Outside, everything was dense woods... no much people speak english on that train, so I start to see that the reality was not so similar to my country as I expect at the beggining!
Upon arrival in Kielce there was some friends of the other erasmus people who traveled with me. A Portuguese girl from earlier ERASMUS experience in kielce and her boyfriend, a polish amaizing guy who received us very very nice.
For me, Kielce is a small and \"industrial\" city....
Many of the people who lives in kielce and nearly just use this city to work. Is not so big city as KRAKOW, and in kielce the erasmus programme is startting to grow up. Not much people goes on erasmus to kielce.
OK OK, maybe the spirit of the erasmus experience could be different in kielce, but it doesn\'t mean that the people there do not enjoy the stay!!
For me was a different experience, but very very richful.
In kielce I have made a lot of polish friends. The people of Poland are very welcoming and friendly. For me they seem to be to much catholic... They take the religion to serious!!
I had the pleasure to visit a few polish houses of my friends and I saw how different it was from Portugal. They have many green places with natural oxigen, many trees, mushrooms, vegetation, I loved it because nowadays all the world is to much urbanized.
Few times there I thought that Poland was stopped in time, because everything was like Portugal couple decades ago.
The way of life in Poland seemed to me quite similar to Portugal, with some differences, of course. The food is cheaper than in Portugal, the people doesn\'t have the fever of consum... They are very spared and humble people.
The public transports are to old, they need a big evolution, in a conditions and language way! Taxi is very cheap, but the roads are quite bad...but now with the 2012 EURO they are improving all this conditions!!
The studies in kielce...
I was studying in the university of technology, \"POLITECHNIKA SWIETOKRZYSKA\".
The study experience was very nice, because during the erasmus programme I feld interest to be in a class, because we do not had to be in class all day from 8 to 5. We had occasional and necessary meetings with the teachers and coordinators and it arouses the interest in the subjects studied. The best of the ERASMUS experience was the free time we had to meet the city, and few important cities of Poland, because I before I had not idea that Poland could have so many beautiful places.
My favourite Polish food are:
IN WINTER TIME:
- Bigos
- Zurek
- Platcek
- Sobowe
IN SPRING-SUMMER TIME:
- Surowka with MAJONEZ KIELECKI
- Hot kielbasa_on barbecues
*the pizzas in kielce are very cheap and they have special prices for student\'s_:D
DRINKS:
- POLISH BEER; warka, lech, zubr, ziwiec, tyskie, and so on...
- POLISH WODKA; wyborowa is the best, I love it!
Zubrowka!
Citrynówka - Home made lemon wodka.
PLACES:
- City center; Sienkiewicza street
- Kielce mountain; Kadziernia, by night
- Kielce cathedral; Katedra
- Checiny castle;
BY NIGHT:
- EFEKT MOTYLA night club;
- ANTIQUE;
- IMPULS;
- CKM; realaxe and watch football games!
- Hollywood; Chillin before disco.
- CHILL OUT;
- 7 HEAVEN disco;
- SEN;
- Ultra violet;
- ARIZONA club;(not so nice, but ok)
- Antrakt;
The best after of Kielce:
- GAUDI club;
Auff....
so many memmories....
I could stay here all day long writting nice places in kielce, the best is to live it!!
I recomend it!_:D
P.S: After a year of Erasmus in Kielce, I liked so much that next year I returned to the same city as a FreeMover student for 6 months... After this 6 months of freemoving I had the possibility to make a ERASMUS PRACTICE PROGRAMME in Kielce, but about this experience I will write next....
Bye.
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