{"id":693,"date":"2012-11-06T12:52:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T10:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelstoriesfromyworld.wordpress.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2017-03-20T02:27:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T23:27:34","slug":"erasmus-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tstories.gr\/en\/erasmus-years-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My Erasmus* years"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a German, a Belgian and two Greeks … Seems like a joke but it’s the common daily life of four erasmus students \u00a0four years ago, in a spanish apartment in the region of Valencia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But, let’s start from the beginning … I’m on the train and thanks to the ubiquitous Apple\u00a0technology, I decide to watch a movie so as to pass my time. Searching all around the web, I find the L’auberge espagnole-<\/em>\u00a0Spanish apartment, and I decide to watch it-once again-. In the first 10 minutes … the \u00a0memories of my erasmus life in Spain<\/strong>\u00a0are popping up!<\/p>\n

The Erasmus Program except the initial paperwork, the running, the stress and the final interview with the head teacher, is an incredibly unique experience which you rush to grab it from the hair without letting a moment go wasted. That’s how I were feeling 4 years and 2 months ago at the check in for Valencia with my parents shedding tears for their girl who was going abroad, my friends \u00a0wishing me to have a good time and a relationship which was warning me that the distance couldn’t work for us…<\/p>\n

Arriving in Valencia<\/strong> and taking the train to Castell\u00f2n De La Plana-\u00a0<\/strong>with 4 suitcases in my hands and shoulders- , made me realize for the first time that I had left my parents’ safety net and the daily, athenian routine and I was in a foreign country all alone, but … full of curiosity and desire to discover what it was waiting for me on the corner!!<\/p>\n

The first month is strange, I don’t speak Spanish very well and I need to find an apartment \u00a0after – of course – having bought a spanish\u00a0cell-phone.\u00a0 After thousands of phone calls, I find a cheap but old apartment with 3 other erasmus students: Lucia-who would become my best friend over the years, Lore-roommate from Belgium and Berengar from Germany. Different cultures and habits blended under a common Spanish\u00a0roof , in the same refridgerator with separate shelves for each one of us, in a common cleaning schedule on the wall, common erasmus fiestas and of course under a common language … spanish.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second month I attend classes at the university, I improve my spanish, I learn to drink coffee con leche, I discover the cheapest supermarket with the best Don Simon sangria and I get to know all the other Erasmus students:<\/p>\n