One of my passions in life is languages. I find it fascinating how your mother tongue can shape the way you think and how mind opening it can be learning a new language. For that reason, over the last years, I have been taking language courses and experimenting with many tools that could help me…
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How to choose your Erasmus destination?
So… let me guess… You have heard so many nice stories about Erasmus and you wanna live that experience yourself? But you don’t know where to go and how to choose a destination… And here I am to help you by sharing my experience with you!!! These are the 5 criteria I used to chose…
My Eurosender experience – review
As an experienced person in moving around, I know people accumulate a lot of stuff over time. Trust me, you never know how many things you accumulate unless you have to pack it all and move! I thought this time would be different. I tried to keep it minimalistic and I was planning on transporting…
The trip home
It’s time to say goodbye to this adventure. But even going back home is an adventure itself during pandemic times. There were no direct flights between Portugal and Italy. I had to go to an airport in a different region and to do one layover in Frankfurt to go home. In the end, I spent…
Life after the lockdown – 1 week since Italy reopened
Today it has been officially 1 week since the Italian lockdown is over and people are allowed to freely go outside. And after more than 60 days of restrictions, everyone was looking forward to going outside again. I included! So, on the first day of freedom, my flatmate and I went to have a spritz…
Quarantine – 2nd level
Over the last months, Italians did their best at staying at home and following the measurements to stop the spread of coronavirus. The adaptation was hard and the results took time to show up, but they did. The numbers are going down are right now we have more people recovered than sick. It seems like…
Italian Quarantine – Day #50
In some days, the restrictions will be eased. Finally! It’t time for phase 2 combating coronavirus. But, in practical terms, how is going to be my (and other Erasmus life) from the 4th of May on? Not much. We still need to have an autocertificazione and a reason to go anywhere. The only thing that…
Tips to save money during your Erasmus
Although money is not the most important thing in life, it helps us enjoying life. And when moving to a new country it’s natural you’ll face many unexpected expenses and that your social life empties your bank account. For that reason, I made a list of things that might help you saving some money during…
5 things I’ve learned in 6 months living in Italy
My passion for Italy goes way before I moved here for my Erasmus. Fortunately, I had the chance of visiting some Italian cities before and I already knew some Italian. Nevertheless, there’s nothing like living in a country to really get to know it’s culture better. So, after 6 months of living here, I feel…
Italian Quarantine – Day #33
If I had to describe my day in one word it would be “series”. Today I finally decided to start watching “Unorthodox” on Netflix and I was so curious after the first episode that I just binge-watched the full series (it only has 4 episodes of less than 1 hour each). And after that, I…