MY ERASMUS EXPERIENCE

Hi guys!! I would like to share my Erasmus experience with you. Besides,I’ll tell you some useful information that is important to know it, if you’d like to live the same experience.

This adventure started nine months ago, when I arrived to Torun last October.I lived there with Olga and Brais for five months.

Torun, is a medieval Polish city where a famous astronomer, Nicolas Copernicus, was born. People are very proud of him there .For this reason, a lot of shops and places are called with his name.  Furthermore, Torun is very touristic because there are incredible churches,
many monuments in old town and boating in Vistula River.The most famous souvenir is Ginger bread, a biscuit with different shapes.

If you travel or go on Erasmus to Poland, it is important to know some important curiosities about this country: Polish people are very quiet and serious, when meeting someone, they shake hands, they don´t like kisses on the cheek. In the hotels and houses they use blinds instead of shutters. They don´t eat bread with their meals. Also, they usually drink soda water with ice and lemon all year long.The timetable,is different from Spain, the shops close at 6 p.m and the restaurant close at 8 p.m.

The weather is very cold  and it snows a lot because most of the days the temperature was under 0 degrees.While I was living there, the lowest temperature was -12ºC.However, the thermometer reached - 41 degrees in the nineteen forty .       

Many people asked me if the lessons at university were difficult.In my opinion the lessons were easy because the teachers spoke English very clearly.The lessons with the kids were the best thing at University because we taught Spanish and ours costums.                   

When I didn´t have lessons I used to travel with my friends to different countries such as Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary and of course Poland. I really liked all of them because each travel was different, but my favourite one was to Budapest.

In my free time I used to meet with a  lot of people from different parts of Spain and other countries such Italy or Turkey. We went to the Karaoke and pub, I enjoyed spending a good time with all of them.

In conclusion, because of all of these things, the Erasmus experience was the best adventure I’ve ever lived in my life. I would like to repeat it in the future. I strongly recommend it to at all of you.