My Erasmus: I embraced the world

Shared by: Marco Valentini (Mazza)
Erasmus Trip:  Pisa Helsinki
It was:  2001

The Erasmus is like leaving for a trip on a huge boat, for a trip that will alow you to live moments and feelings that only all the other "passengers" will be able to understand. There are many boats like this, it doesnt matter where in Europe you will be located, because each of us will be accomunated by the same kind of sensations. It's like scratching away a layer that covers a draw...each of us scratch it in its own way, but the draw stays the same: ERASMUS!!!

Leaving Italy for Finland was a way to discover that people can live also with different habits and styles and rules. It helped me to look at Italy from an external point of view, realising the pleasures and plus sides of my country, and putting to light the negative sides of it. I was able to consider every culture at the same level and not to look at other from above. I met bad people, i met good people, i met wierd people...I met people! i feel i LIVED my life, and not survived.

As for every organism, when they are put in a new environment or the ecosystem is altered, theres must be an answer to the alteration to find a new equilibrium. Living in our own country and city where we grew up give us a one-way style. The Erasmus experience is in my opinion the first and most important step that, through an "alteration" of our natural environment, stimulates our talents, our skills, and lead us towards a real maturity.

Erasmus...Exchange your life!