The Real Poland

I’ve been living all my life five minutes away from the sea and the idea of spending nine months abroad should, at first, include a coast. But as I said, it was “at first” cause sometimes you have to change your mind so as to live an unforgettable experience far from home. Even Poland was not the country I wanted to go for Erasmus, but, who knows why, everything was turning just to the contrary of what I have always thought, and thanks to I do not know who, my destiny was Wroclaw.

Wroclaw

If I had to advise somebody to go to Wroclaw in Poland as an ERASMUS student, I would say to that person...GOOO!!! It's an unforgettable experience that everyone must attempt if the opportunity arises. The life in Wroclaw is totally different from the life in France where I live and study.

Sex & the city of Wroclaw

I am not Carrie Bradshaw and not even try to be like her, but sometimes you just find part of your life illustrated in some movie or tv serial. Can be my case.

Declaration of Love to my Temporary Home Country

Long queues; shop and railway assistants that make me regret I was born; sun set view from the 15th floor of a Plattenbau; slow trains; slow bar tenders; lack of efficiency; people who help me learn their language; long talks in which people who associate my country and me with the crusaders from Grunwald 1410; the ability to improvise; ketchup on everything; being reminded by Polish friends that the beautiful architecture in my surrounding was built by Germans, my co-nationals; ability to party until morning in the middle of an exam session; to write cribs on the hand;

10 questions after 10 months

1. What did you feel when you arrived in Wroclaw for the very first time? I sat in the train and saw the Wrocławskie Arkady, a huge shopping-mall, passing by. As naive it may sound – it was a big surprise for me that Wroclaw as a polish city has 4 huge shopping malls and in addition to that a big shopping park, where you can buy almost everything. I wasn’t aware of the crucial power of consumption that obtains in Poland. People seem to love shopping or at least walking through the malls to be seen and watch others.