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Sin carne y sin pescado, por favor

September 30th, 2009 jehoul.sanne 1 comment

Hazaa and hurray, today a miracle has come my way! There you have it, the lamest opening sentence of any blog post that has ever been written. Why? I have been told that there are two vegetarian shops in Mondragón and after almost a month of no meat substitutes, I must say I’m very, very pleased! Read more…

Meeting other Erasmusstudents!

September 30th, 2009 reynders.nike No comments

Today we gathered around in the lovely chapel of the faculty of our university in Eskoriatza to meet the other Erasmusstudents. Those are the ones who study at the faculty of Oñati and Mondragon.

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Erasmus gathering

September 30th, 2009 louage.koen No comments

Apparently we’re with more than just 14 Erasmus students at Mondragon. Today the university organized a gathering for all the Erasmus students. HUHEZI went a bit more international with the three faculties together for once. Read more…

International speeddating

September 30th, 2009 peters.michael No comments

Today we met up with other Erasmus students in the region. They don’t take classes in the same building as ours but at other faculty’s, in Oñati and Arrasate. HUHEZI arranged a get together and through a speeddating game everyone got to know a little bit about one another.  Read more…

Learning some Spanish and Korean at the San Sebastian Film Festival

September 29th, 2009 reynders.nike No comments

On Saturday, our lagunas accompanied us to San Sebastian (Donostia), to visit the San Sebastian Film Festival, the biggest festival out of all the Spanish speaking countries. We chose to watch the movie Animal Town, by the Korean director Jeon Gyu-Hwan, who was nominated in the category New Directors. Animal Town is the second part of his Town trilogy.

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A Korean-Spanish international film festival!

September 27th, 2009 jehoul.sanne No comments

On the last day of the San Sebastian film festival, we finally made it there. Together with Oihana, Eneko and Irati, our Erasmus buddies, we took an early bus and spent the day in the neighbourhood of the red carpet, watching a low-budget Korean movie (Animal Town) and enjoying the sea. Read more…

(A little bit) More of the same?

September 25th, 2009 jehoul.sanne No comments

I’ve thought about some ways to start this blog without having you all thinking that we don’t do anything else but partying and shopping, but alas, I have to be honest: we went to Vitoria-Gasteiz again yesterday! Together with Corine and Tiina – two other Erasmus students – Niké and I went on a typical girly shoe hunt, which we completed successfully. Read more…

What did we learn at school today?

September 24th, 2009 reynders.nike No comments

After two weeks of introduction classes and a visit to a tv-station in Arrasate, we started our first ‘real’ lessons this week. On Tuesday we had ‘International Communication, teached by Michelle, a woman from New York. The course is taught in English, and understanding what she’s saying seems to be a bigger problem to the Basque students than it does for us. But then again, we get very intense English lessons when we’re in high school.

The class is about big press agencies and international media companies, so I think it’s very relevant for my future in journalism. The teacher also knows what’s she’s talking about, since she has a lot of experience in different areas of the media landscape.

The second new class we had is Digital Journalism, in which we learn how to use important Internet applications such as Flickr and Google Maps. Also very useful!

I’m curious about how the classes will evolve during the next three months, but I have a feeling it will be very interesting and a good learning experience.

Exploring the many faces of Vitoria-Gasteiz

September 24th, 2009 reynders.nike No comments

Vitoria-Gasteiz is a city in the province of Alava, and is the capital of the Basque Autonomous Community. Since I’ve been here, we visited it three times, and every time I like it better and better. The city seems to have a French feeling combined with the typical warmth and liveliness of Southern towns.

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A (short) Mondragon break

September 24th, 2009 peters.michael No comments

Today we met up with our laguna’s in Mondragon (Oihana, Eneko and Irati). They’re fellow students who guide as around the region. We went to the local Irish Pub (truly every city’s got one!) and got to know each other. Read more…