Adam

biotechnology, Erasmus in Slovakia

on scholarship in Slovakia, during 2014/15 academic year

 

  • What are you interested in?

    I like playing fotball, travelling and spending time with friends.

  • Where have you been abroad and why did you decided to go on Erasmus?

    For students exchange I have been in Slovakia, even when this is not country located far away from Poland, I don’t regret it, because I wanted to meet new people from many coutries. Also I wanted see, how different is level of study at abroad universities and compare them with polish education system.

  • What gave you study abroad? What are your experience after Erasmus exchange?

    My study gave me a lot of new experience, mostly I had to communicate and study in different language than polish, which helped me developing my language skills.

  • Was there something what suprised you there?

    All of the people was very open for evebody who wasn’t be native, because not all of the people react possitive for foreign people from abroad and they can sometimes isolate from them, but in my case everything was perfect.

  • Will you recommend to other students to study at abroad university?

    I will recommend studying abroad, because it’s an experience, which for sure will be useful in the future. There is also useful to make contacts with people, especially from whole world, possibilities to know other cultures and habits.

  • Did you have some issues there?

    At the beginning there were small issues with public transportation and with getting from one place to another, because I didn’t know where something was located and it was hard to me remember some places difficult to find, but also in this case people were really helpful and friendly. Of course I was a little stressful , because of quite different culture and different language, but it’s easy thing to solve.

Agnieszka

german philology, an Ambassador in Capgenimi Company in Opole

 

  • Tell me about you hobbies?

I’m interested in foreign languages and people, so that’s why I tried to combine liguistic and pedagogics studies.

  • Tell me about the project in which you took part?

For one year I have been an ambassador of Capgemini company in Opole. My duties included creating Public Resources of company among the students and also let them to interest them in company’s work. After my cooperating with the company, I got a lot of great and useful experience with working with people and I could know how the big international company works. I got also very good references, which will help me find good job in the future. The basic thing when you would like to work in such kind of company is knowing languages very well, in my case it’s german language. I learned that working in such a company does not have to be rigid, which destroyed this myth, because when I met really nice people I so quickly changed my mind. People are well-educated, but at the same time very helpful, nice. I believe that by this type of organizations and projects, as well as projects makes that Opole University offers a high standard of teaching and graduated students can work in really great conditions, they have little experience in this industry. It is an ideal option for students who start working from the basics.

Dawid

psychology, Erasmus in England

on scholarship in England, during 2014/15 academic year

 

  • What are your hobbies?

I like playing a guitar and also climbing.

  • How did you find out about Erasmus?

All of the information I got from Erasmus Office, I was looking for something interesting and that’s and I have been for Erasmus in London in UK.

  • Why did you choose Erasmus exchange in England?

I think that the main reason was I wanted to improve my english skills and knew british culture.

  • Was there something what suprised you there?

First impression was that this place is really expensive! And also mix of other cultures and other people from whole world and I think it was really interesting.

  • What do you think about English people?

All of them are really nice and liked them. Some people say that a lot of them pretend to be nice, but in my opinion they are simply nice.

  • What were you enjoying the most there?

First thing was the university itself, because they have really different standards, so I learned a lot about how university can look like in England.

  • What are your plans for the future?

I’m just focus on human resources and I want to work in this field of my study.

  • What the study at abroad univeristy gave you?

Mostly gave me opportunity to better knowing other cultures.

  • Will you recommend study at another university to other students?

Yes, I will recommnd especially when people have opportunity to spend whole year abroad or even more.

Kamila

Buddy Programme Coordinator at Opole University

 

  • Tell me something about you and about your interests?

My main interests are theatre and cultural exchange, what’s why I started to be a coordinator of Buddy Programme at Opole University.

  • What is your experience if it’s going about this programme?

My experience is various in many examples. The most important is that I was able to improve my english and learn more things in this language. Additionally, I have very positive experience connected with kitchen from all around the world and contacts with other interesting people. All of them are very open minded, they are from different social spaces and cultures, plus they are the best with cooperating. 🙂

  • What are the best moments from Buddy Programme or what suprised you?

My most great experience is kitchen, because Erasmus students invite polish students who works in Buddy Programme for dinners and we have opportunity to try many new meals which we have never tried before and they serve meals we have never even hear about in Poland and I think that is the most nice experience.