Introducing me

Starting with the basics, my name is Claudia. I never liked my name and I’m not really sure why, but even though I’ve tried to intoduce myself as Clau only my closest friends call me that, so I guess in a way I’ve made my peace with it.

I live in Almería, which is in the south of Spain and next to the Mediterranean Sea, but since I started my double degree in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication back in 2018 I live in Madrid most of the time. Moving that far away from home was something that I’ve always wanted to do because I believed it would give me the independance I knew I couldn’t have back home, but to my surprise it gave me so much more. Living in the capital of Spain has been a really big change for me since Almería is a much smaller city, and also because it allowed me to find myself and to meet some people that I know will be in my life for a really long time.

Erasmus expectations

If I am being honest with myself, I still wonder if coming to Munich was the right choice for me. I know some people do an Erasmus to learn what it’s like to live away from home and find new experiences they hope to cherist for the rest of their lives, but I believe I found that in Madrid. Nevertheless, I chose to do the Erasmus anyway because I want to believe I’m wrong; I truly want to learn what is like to live an experience like this in a country that I think is so different from Spain. I chose Munich because I had never been to Germany and even though I wasn’t really sure that I wanted to do an Erasmus, I knew that if I did an Erasmus, I wanted it to be in a country where I had never been and that it wasn’t so similar to Spain such as Portugal or Italy, and I have to say I am really enjoying it so far.

I don’t really know what to expect for this semester. Right now I just want to have a good time and see what happens next, but I do know that I want to use my time in Munich to travel and do activities I know I wouldn’t be able to do anywhere else. Regarding Corona, I’m not really worried about it right now. I think it is because I believe in Germany there are a lot less restirctions that in my home country, or maybe it is because I know most of the people are already vaccinated. Either way, I’m just hoping it won’t interfer with my Erasmus and if that’s not the case I guess I’ll just have to adapt.