#erasmus program

21st August 2016

SSSSSSSSoooo! I still kinda can’t believe everything is happening and it’s real! 

I landed in Stockholm Arlanda Airport on the 19th at 3PM and met with my tutor, Julia, at the Stockholm Central Station.  One of the things that got my attention right away was the silence.  I’ve been to a lot of different airports and all of them were crowded with people coming and people leaving and baggages and people having lunch or crying or laughing... But, I mean: a lot of noise.  Here, though, people were silent. They were saying their goodbyes or their hellos quietly.  Not saying it got me the creeps, but almost. 

‘Kay, so-- moving on.  Met Julia, this blonde, blue eyed girl: typical Swedish, I thought. But then we talked and she was super cool and super chill and a lot of fun! 

Yesterday I lost the boat.  I went to the Museum of Photography, with the exposition of Nick Brandt, “Inherit the dust”, which was a group of photograph about Africa but with wild animals photoshopped in; like an Elephant in the middle of a quarry.  And then an exposition about the Swedish actress Greta Garbo

(One of my favorite photos I’ve seen yesterday -this is downloaded from Google)

And then the Bryan Adams exposition (I didn’t know he was a photographer, too!) with portraits of famous people.  And I’ve fallen in love with this photo of Lindsay Lohan:

I kinda always thought she was beautiful but... I mean, if I could find a poster of this, I’d definitely hang it in my room! (Maybe next to Darth Vader) 

Okay, so, I was saying I lost my boat/hostel, because I totally forgot about the cruise they have every weekend.  But then the boat came back and everything got back to normal. 

And... Today.  Today started off good, I was able to sleep (even if the mattresses here in Sweden are as hard as a wooden table! My back hurts still, but whatever)  I should have gone to a cruise around Stockholm, but the boat had some kind of trouble with the electricity and so... Here I am, in a Starbucks, updating my blog because I do want this to be up-to-date, kinda stealing their power and their Wi-fi for a milk chocolate cookie that almost got me diabetes and an Americano Coffee that kinda tastes awful. Ew. 

Uh. I was almost forgetting: yesterday the weather was fine. Sun was out for like... 3 hours (in the whole day, not continuing). And today it sucks: looking outside I see people with open umbrellas but it doesn’t seem like it’s raining.  (I did not pack an umbrella in my baggage. That was not one of my clever move). 

‘Kay, think that’s it!  James (my MacBook Air) is almost fully charged... Sooooo, I’m finishing up my coffee and then flying to 7eleven to get a swedish sim card! 

24th June 2016

Hello there! My name’s Helen, I’m 20 years old (I’ll turn 21 in only 4 days! 🙈) and I live in the northern part of ~halfway between Milan and Como~. 

I study Social Sciences at the University of Milan and soon my second year will come to an end.  In February I applied for the Erasmus Program aaaaand I’m going to Sweden in August! (Big YAY for me! Still can’t believe this is happening). 

Sssssooo... I had this almost crazy idea of starting this blog back in April when I realized that all the red tape I have to go through is almost impossible to understand. But then I got caught in the exams and called this off until now. 

Going back to the main point. I wanted somewhere to keep my memories, my photos, my ideas and thoughts during what I hope will be one of the most wonderful experience in my life.  I’m going to spend 5 months in Stockholm, at the Södertörn University and it’s going to be the longest period of time I’ve spent out of my home (and my country).  The first time I went abroad I was 15 and went for three weeks in England (Canterbury) and since then I realized I’m in love with the World (but this is something for another post, maybe). 

Okay, I think that’s it for now! 

Baci e abbracci, H. 

Hi everyone! 

I have been following several studyblrs for quite a while on my main blog (bananaholics) and since university is starting again in two weeks I thought why not give it a go myself.  I am a 20 year old girl, from the Netherlands. I am in my 3rd year of uni (in Tilburg) and am studying International Business Administration (basically a combination of accounting, finance, maths, statistics, and management). In addition I also follow an honors program “Discourses on Europe”.  On the 21st of september I am officially starting my semester abroad at Exeter University in the UK and I can’t wait! I will be taking business courses there, and I will be doing the exchange course “Reading & Watching Europe” from the honors program from my home uni. 

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