"a special flavour that I really like"

ROBERT Botey Beguiristain

University of Girona, Spain

"An Erasmus is something that I have thinking about even before going to the university, because I have been always adventurer and also in every travel I had made I thought how can be me life living there.

From my point of view there isn’t so many things important to have a wonderfull Erasmus experience, through my friends erasmus experience, after visiting them, I realized that wherever you go, whoever you meet, whatever that happen to you will be such a great experience in your life that the rest doesn’t really matter.

Eastern europe seems to be very different from western europe, where I live. I thinks that’s a real different culture, a real diferent way of live and that one of the things that more attract me.

Of course I am tempted to experience an erasmus in Romania, that’s reason I wil have it. The most attractive thing is that for me all the east-european countries have a special flavour that I really like. Like a walk in the immediate past. On the other hand, my dreads are focus to insecurity of the unknown. Although that unknown is becoming more know because of a marvels persons I meet from Romania.

If I am honest I have to say that in Spain we don’t really know Romania. Most of the people (I am ashamed to say it) associate Romania to immigration in a negative way, but that is no true, It is a cognitive bias.

I thought about Romania that all the people were vampires, an unfortunetly it’s no true.

Because I will have my erasmus experience in Bucharest it will be a real pleasure to have the opportunity stay for free at a Romanian student for 1 or 2 weeks during the summer and visit Romania. In that way, I will discover a little what can I expect from my entire year there.

If I had to say three words that I associate with Romania I will say rural, hospitality and Dacia.

The first 3 most important elements that I care about studying in another country: people, cultural attractions and leisure time."