My Erasmus: I smelled the freedom

Shared by: simona
Erasmus Trip:  Novara Delft
It was:  2003

why you are going again in delft? my mother asking me while i was leavig my room some days ago to go back in MY town... mum i'm going home... there i arrived alone whith an adress, a terrible english and my 23s... what i had build in the nederland was mine... i started cooking, washing cloathing separated i met friend coming all over the word but i feel part of something bigger than a nation... i feel european and more....i have learn people are different but nobody is strange....i learn different culture, different life...we walk togheter in the same direction for some months dosn't matter where everybody went later there we were learning something bigger than an university subject.... i have changed deeply during those far 10 months...when i went back my italian life was different and harder... i started to face enormous steps... but i'm still living everything with the erasmus spirit... step by step day by day... if you can build a life in a country where you have never been before and if you cry and the plane coming back home when all has finished... you can do all you want....

now i know that people are first of all women and men with dream and goal....everybody is like me but is in the same time so different for me... i relly love how i am now... i think i am a better person than i could be withount erasmus