Hey Everyone!
Firstly, welcome to my blog! I have Finally got some time to officially start this blogging
journey (I have talked about it for so long). A couple of weeks ago, I moved to Valencia for my Eramus year and I plan to document my trip here :). I have been asked by so many people how i'm getting on. Having spent a lot of time in Spain since I was young, I thought I knew a good bit about Spain and the Spanish people. But you know that saying 'if you want to get to know me come with with me?', well that is definitely very true - the Spanish do
things very differently!
Let's start at the beginning. We had a couple of weeks
here before college started to really relax and get used to our new
surroundings – I also celebrated my 21st birthday (eek!!)
Our first week here, (which seemed like ages
ago) naturally was filled with excitement. Everything was new, every corner you
turned was different and just in general, everything I did was exciting – which
is also probably fuelled by the fact it is my first time moving properly away
from home (apart from summers spent abroad).
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| My Local Park |
Fast forward five weeks and
I can now say I feel fully integrated into life as a Spanish university
student. Yes, there are days where sometimes everything seems too much, but I’ve
definitely learned that that’s natural. It’s not the first time its’ happened
and it definitely will not be the last. It took us all (I am here with a group
of four from my home university) a couple of weeks to get used to the way things
were done in the Spanish system. The very basic concept of registering to
modules was nothing less than a nightmare, and it definitely made things
harder. Needless to say, I will never ever complain again about Registering at
my home University again!
I will write a blog post about the registration system if you’re
interested, but I didn’t want my first post to be too negative. But leaving all
that to the side, Valencia really is a beautiful city and I absolutely love it.
It is definitely starting to feel like home – or a home away from home that is!
Stay tuned for more posts about my experiences as an Erasmus student.
Thanks for stopping by!
Danielle