Last year around this time, I had already chosen where I will go, and had most papers done to begin the mobility.

Let me start from the beginning:

Before I finished high-school, for two years I had been going to an International University Fair in Bucharest called RIUF and at that time it was held in physical format at Sala Palatului. My intention at that time was to get as much information about offers in studying abroad as I could. I wished to be an international student, in the UK or even Denmark or the Netherlands. Sadly for me, after some research I found out the costs of living and the tuition fees (for the UK in the most part) were too expensive for my family’s financial possibilities. As everywhere, there are advantages and disadvantages to living and studying abroad. In Denmark for example, I could apply to a university where the state was paying the tuition costs, but the living expenses were totally on me, which were and still are quite high. I made the wise decision to leave aside the thoughts of studying abroad, but never let down my desire of travelling and seeing new places and people.

And so, before we had taken the final exam in high-school, the Bacalaureat, I decided to focus on finding a faculty that’s fit for my international openness and that can help me go from one place to another. So, I found the study plan for engineering in English at the faculty I’m currently at, Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages – at it suited me nicely, as I finished high-school in a bilingual program.

After finishing the 1st year of studies and participating in all presentations regarding abroad mobilities, I decided that I really want to try the ERASMUS+ experience on my own skin.

Due to the fact that we were in the middle of the COVID-19 Pandemic, there were fewer options compared to the later years – me and two of my colleagues who wanted to go in the mobility settled on Turin, Italy.

Fast forward 6 months, I “caught” some Italian that I could handle myself in the day-to-day life and passed through a fulfilling personal experience.