My experience in Erasmus + by Joao Geraldes
My experience in the Erasmus+ project so far
has been great. Coming to Germany and staying in someone else´s home has been
an amazing experience. My host here is a boy named Ayhan and we have had no
problem communicating since we both speak English and we can understand each
other perfectly; besides, we have many things in common.
With him I experienced and learned about the
German culture, his city, Alsfeld, and their habits and customs.
Meeting the other Erasmus+ students has also
been a great experience; there are students here from Finland, Hungary, and
Italy and of course Germany. Talking with everyone and working together with
all the students is incredible because I truly had no idea how different people
could be.
The city we stayed in, Alsfeld, is a beautiful
small city surrounded by plains and fields and other small villages. The
weather here is much colder than what we are used to in Portugal but it’s
easier to handle because there’s no humidity like in Portugal and we’re not by
the sea.
The food is quite different but the biggest
difference is the time they have their meals, the day here starts earlier so we
see a lot of students with energy drinks like cola and other beverages with gas
and lots of sugar. The fact that they don’t drink plain water is very strange;
they only drink water with gas. Here in Germany they don’t eat dinner or lunch
like we do, they eat dinner around 5 and at 8 or 9 they might have a snack. The
food is a bit different but I really liked it as well.
The activities here were a lot of fun, we
worked with all the other students on the Eramus+ Project, and we had a tour
around the city and the school, we saw a company called B-Brown, one of the
biggest in the healthcare system, and their factory was almost the size of an
actual city. We had a tour to a famous salt mine with 4500km, more than the
double size of Berlin or the trip from Portugal to Germany.
I have enjoyed every moment of this project so
far and I will recommend it to every student.
João Geraldes, Portugal
