The idea hit us: there are so many unsuccessful attempts to present our country to people that don't know much about it yet. Why so many trials and errors? Because we are a bit of a mystery to most of the world, a weird mixture of European and Balkan, Latin and Slavic, Communism and Capitalism, a country on a border in time and even geographically speaking.
This is our blog, our student campaign (by students for students), no sponsors, no official messages: just what we wanted to say, said our way.
Romania, like any other country, should be talked about after you get to know her. (yes, we decided it's a she!). We can all read newspapers and then use those ideas as our own, but in the end you are what you live, what you really came in contact with, for more than just a day or two.
Let's face it, trying to convince you to visit Romania as a tourist won't really make you know it any better. Yes, you'll see the sights, yes, you'll sleep in a hotel/tent/hostel...but does that really mean you know the country?Its customs, its people, its flaws? (and no, we won't lie..we have plenty. But that, we think, is our charm).
So what other way can you get to know a country that has , since 2007 been part of the European Union, and yet a country whose history is unknown to so many fellow Europeans?
How will you get to know more than Dracula and communism, poverty and immigrants, more than the old stereotypes?
By making a more exotic and out-of-the-ordinary choice for your Erasmus destination: Romania.
Because Erasmus means fun, and we've got plenty.
because Erasmus means challenge and growing up, and we'll help you oh so much with that.
parties, Latin blood and Balkan music, good food, cheap everything, untamed nature, with fields all shabby and unprepared, serious studying for those interested, culturally open people, and many many paradoxes.
It makes for the real youth experience. Just dare to step outside the pattern...
