Erasmus blog Weimar

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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.