5 reasons to go in Paris

If you have any kind of idea to go to Paris, just get on a plane right now and go! But if you are still not sure between visiting Paris and any other city on the planet, here are my 5 reasons to make the City of Light your first choice.

I week ago I’ve been in Paris just for 1 day, a trip organized by Katho University. Of course, a city like Paris is not just for one day. But, right now, I can say that I have an idea about how it looks Paris.

1. If you are interested in every king of art, Paris is the right choice. For instance, you can visit Musee d’Orsay, you will find famous painters like: Claude Monet, Fernard Cormon, Francois Millet, Henri Matisse etc. And you can take a lot of pictures if you like and nobody will stop you.
2. I like the way how they spend their free time. You can take a chair and you can sit every where. Most of them are reading a newspaper or a book lie down on the grass, it’s up to you. They don’t find it as a problem they just enjoy every moment and no one can stop them. You have to see by yourself.
3. I was expecting some different from Eiffel Tower, because in the daylight, when it’s still sunny, Eiffel Tower looks like huge mountain of iron. But, in the night it’s really great. And the view from the top worth every penny.
4. If you are tired, you can taste a good beer or a wine, at a fancy pub. There are a lot of restaurants, pubs with different kind of atmospheres.
5. And of course, go and see Louvre. I didn’t see it, but if are staying in Paris more then just one day, you should go there.

P.S. Bucharest (the capital of Romania) use to be called „the small Paris”. So it’s up to you. You can go in „the small Paris” or in the real Paris. But, I prefer the real Paris.

A trip in Paris and another few words…

Saturday I will have the chance to be in Paris, with all the Erasmus students from Katho University. The price wasn’t so expensive, only 25 Euro, and also including some tickets for the main museums. As far as I can see, they can be an institution of once word, they respect their promises.

I was thinking, maybe they don’t do something special for us; at least I don’t think that we have a different status from Belgium students. We receive every thing as a great effort from them, but in my point of view, this is the way how they do their job. No differences. They have a job, and they are trying to do their best. It’s very easy to notice all these changes, in special, if you are in a country like Belgium.

About Erasmus students, things are like this: everyone is trying to show me something. But it starts to be very uncomfortable for me. They should start to wear natural, but I think it will take some time.

See you around.

Erasmus students from every place, let’s start to share what we have!

 

From now on my motto will be: “Erasmus students from every place let’s start to share what we have”. It’s not fair if we keep all these great moments only for us. There must be heard.

Now and Here.

 

Belgium. Here I come

There are many reasons why I start this blog (a kind of journal). Don’t’ take me wrong, it won’t be like a journey book, it will be full of photos and some of my opinions about the Erasmus experience in Belgium.

I’m having the chance to learn to one of the most powerful Erasmus University. It’s about Katho University from Belgium. It’s quite a young country, but I think that they are having this Erasmus program from the beginning and also they are from those who promoted this nice idea.

I arrived in Kortjik 3 days ago, and since than I continue to be surprised, in the good way. It’s pretty hard for me to express what I’m felling right now, because I think that I should write a book about them.

Some short opines from my short experience, since I landed here:

1. Briefly, they are pretty far from most of the Eastern countries from Europe. We should try to work harder if we still want to have a chance.
2. As far as I can see, everything boils down to education. If you want to listen a good English you should come here to see by yourself.
3. For most of the people, the weather won’t be so friendly because it’s changing a lot: for instance, the sun is shining and it may be raining, after 5 minutes. In my case, I don’t find it unfriendly; actually I really enjoy this kind of weather. But it’s up to you…
4. If you had been in Sibiu* and you really enjoy it, you should come in Kortijk because here you can find something like that. For those who don’t know, Sibiu (Romania) was elected to be one of the “the capital of European Culture” for 2007.
5. For such a small country, Belgium still has many problems and one of them sounds like this: the Flanders and the Walloons don’t fit together anymore. The Flemish live in the North of Belgium, Flanders. They speak Dutch. The Walloons live in the South of Belgium. They speak French. From their point of view, this problem doesn’t have a solution, and it won’t stop.
6. Here, everything has a meaning, it takes sense. They don’t do anything if they don’t need it. It looks like that all the buildings were erected from yesterday.