Why Erasmus+?

Many people ask, why Erasmus +?
Other people just want to go Erasmus + to party around, get drunk, or spend ridiculous amounts of money.
Others do it because of the experience and the opportunity to improve the language.
Others for passion and opportunity.

Or everything together.

The thing is ... is it worth it?
Always. And a lot.

Going to another country to live some time, whether to study or work, helps you in many ways. But the most important thing is that it feeds your soul.

As a person who does not have much in life and who does not have much monetary liquidity, it is not that I had many expectations of going to Erasmus + or leaving the country to live in someone else, since I did not have enough resources for it.

Anyway, thank God it was not always like that.

I have had better and worse times in terms of liquidity and resources, and I have always taken advantage of the minimum opportunity to travel, meet other cultures and ways of life and fall in love with the freedom to be a citizen of the world.

In times when it seems that we want to rebuild borders, entire populations kill each other for trying to build barriers within the same country and others want to open walls and distance people and entire families ... be something to join and fight.

At this stage of the film we should be sufficiently aware that borders should only exist in books or movies.

We should be aware that if our mind is free, if we accept instead of condemning; if we fight together instead of between us; if we set common goals by which to unify instead of fighting for trivialities and insignificant differences between us; if we know before criticizing; we value before judging and we accept ..... then we will get to change the world.

Until we reach that conclusion, there will be no great impact on the world.

Humans will continue to be a selfish race, they will continue killing each other and destroy the planet in which we live.

A shame.

Let's go back to the Erasmus + theme.

I never thought I would have this opportunity and I wanted to squeeze it to the fullest.
Ok, like everything in my life, this started like crazy.

Last year the house burned down and I lost practically everything I had, including class work, clothes, footwear ..... Yes, everyone emphasizes the same thing: "You can at least tell it and they are just material losses". But you have to live it to understand it.

Anyway, I received a lot of love from a lot of parts of the world in the form of gifts, clothes, shoes, letters .... I want to compensate as my life changes for the better. Because they deserve all the love in the world and more, and I will never get back half of what they gave me. And I do not talk about material things. Eternally grateful. You know perfectly who you are. Some of them I would love to meet you in person and close up, so do not rule out future visits <3

Well, back to the topic. I have the best friends in the world.

A very good friend from the city where I lived, made me the best gift in the world: a trip to Scotland for a week with paid expenses (minimum expenses, see flight, hotel, food, much more than enough).

Scotland was the dream of a lifetime, so I could not say no. And despite the depression that was taking over me because in addition to the house, I ran out of work and they did not renew me by making excuses (and it's funny, because later they hired more people and they still call me to do things for them, funny, right?), I decided to go anyway.

And I fell in love.

I fell in love with these lands and their people. Positive people, always in a good mood, friendly ... and who spoke weird. Why lie xD Still to this day, if they have a very marked accent, I cannot underestand a thing u.u

So I needed to do the Erasmus + here.

When they chose me, I warned a couple of friends from the Internet that I did not knew in person.
Basically, I wrote to them in "Hey! I'm going to Scotland from x date to x date to such area, it would be nice to have some weekend to meet us in person and such"
To which a handsome blonde longhaired Scottish metalhead replied "Are you kidding me?! I live in that area!"
And so we ended up living together xD He offered me residence and I said "why not?".
Overall, if I was going to search for something on my own, I would end up living with strangers as well.

The rest of the noromance I will tell you another day xD


The fact is that, despite having come to this country before, being here long enough took away many bandages from my eyes, in addition to offering me a different perspective in many ways.
It made me fall in love more. And not only because of the experience, the anecdotes, the new opportunities in view, different ways of working and seeing things, ..... I think it's more of a way to nourish the soul.
A bit of my being will always stay in Scotland, even though my physical body does not.

And that's the wonderful thing that this type of experience gives you, and that I've been able to live thanks to Erasmus +.

Although at first I doubted if I could come for economic reasons. But I encourage everyone, even those who see it difficult financially, take the opportunity if it presents itself. You may need the money for the trip and the first days' stay, so start saving for the basics. You will realize that the basics are not really that much. You do not need luxuries to be happy or to feed the soul. Launch and discover the world!

Also, maybe you can find a job for hours or half time easily to make your stay more bearable.

I think that everyone would need to live in a country that is not theirs for a while. I would even say in a country where your mother tongue is not spoken.

In this way, you could discover a world totally invisible to your eyes, feed your spirit, be a little better human being and also a little bit more free.