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Berlin by mortiziia
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Well, I thought I should make some introduction before all this Eras-mess world falls onto my shoulders. Hello, guys, I´m mortiziia from Spain,sitting and writing in Marbella right now, and I´m going to Berlin for the next nine or ten months, starting my adventure on the 2nd of October.
Don´t think there’s yet someone out there who doesn´t know the meaning of «Erasmus» in the academic world (by the way, I reccommend you all "Small World, an Academic Romance" by David Lodge, great book), but just in case, I´ll tell ya. Erasmus is a scholarship granted to undergraduate students inside an European programme called Socrates, which involves a range of scholarships for secondary students, under-and-postgraduate students and academics in general. Here in Spain, the total amount of the money granted to each student is up to what region and University you’re studying at and also up to which country are you going to, so I can only say that in Malaga, where I study (so I feign) Translation and Interpreting, you get 200 euros every month if you go abroad as Erasmus student, no matter if you’re going to Portugal or to Sweden (though in my opinion there should be a substantial difference).
I was born in 1982, 17/10, and had always wanted to be an engineer in aeronautics, a physician or an interpreter. I couldn´t pay for the engineering degree due to the cost life in Madrid, so I chose something I thought to be alike: telecommunications (all that satellite stuff was the kind of thing I was keen on). Nevertheless, it was an absolute pain, and I soon quitted, two years later. Then I went for my third «wannabe», Translation and Interpreting, for I was fed up with hard sciences, and here I am now, missing them. My languages are English (major) and German, and well, despite the ackwardness in stylistics I think I can just manage with my major, so I decided I’d go to Germany. When I started Translation I couldn´t even think of myself going on Erasmus, for I had already "lost" two years doing engineering, but later on, this year, or to be more precise, at the end of 2004, it all seemed fairly plausible and I decided to apply for it.
I started studying German on my own at the age of 12 and have always felt a special, strong link ton Germany, though I don´t really know why. Will Germany meet my great expectations?
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