Erasmus+ Journal (Issue 2) 2013/14
Gemma Rué, Spain: What do you want to achieve in this Erasmus?
Author: Gemma Rué
First of all, to introduce the topic I want to specify what is an Erasmus plan and a what that means. Erasmus is a management plan by the various public authorities that supports and facilitates academic mobility of students and academics within the Member States of the European Union. Virag, Hajni, Anna, Ana and me, are students who have chosen this alternative type of studies.
Now, that I presented a little bit what does this project represent, the Erasmus students want to share with all the readers our expectations and our objectives from this new experience. This is an opportunity that not everyone has and we all agree that could be the best chance of our life.
The main question we did to write this chapter is “What do you want to achieve in this Erasmus?” It is known that everyone has its personal aims and has its own expectations but we all wanted to come to Graz, and that is for one or more reasons.
First of all, we want to emphasize that all of us wanted to learn and improve in foreign languages either German or English. In our group of Erasmus students, which consists of five girls, two of them Hungarian and two from Spain. The different nationalities make us to have a big chance to exchange both languages. For example, Virag speaks an awesome German but Anna and me don’t. That situation makes us to improve faster our German and Virag’s English too. We agree that we, now, know more than before but our expectation is to come back home with a big improvement.
Another of our common aims is to meet new people and exchange traditions and culture. We also have to say that we are learning a lot of our Erasmus colleges. The Hungarian and Spanish combination is working perfectly. We made a nice group and we can count on each other when we want.
We are in the Pädagogische Hochschule Steiermark, and for us it is a pride to be here and have the chance to learn with other type of education. One of ours objectives is to learn and take advantage of the great teachers in this College and learn of them.
The Spanish girls and me want to be teachers, therefore it is an incredible opportunity to learn different kind of teaching and see how they interact with children. Hajni is studying tourism, although she is not studying now what she studies at home, she first wanted to improve English and already she decided to join a German course. Virag is going to be a Kindergarden teacher so she is also interested in education and she is really making a big effort to improve her English and she is getting the goal.
Last but not least, we all want to have fun and enjoy the city of Graz as a typical Austrian guy. We want to benefit of our experience here and try to make juice of the Intercultural situation where we are joining.