From a social recluse to a somewhat just ok functioning member of society

When I first came here I didn’t really know what to expect. I came with no plans in mind but just to show up. It was tough for a bit to go from a cozy home with 3 meals and someone to do your laundry to a desolate room in the shade of blue fighting Read More

Continue reading if you need some motivational speech about adult working life.

I left my job. Great colleagues and manager, flexible working hours, a dog-friendly 🐶 office, many teambuilding activities, well-paid job in a prospering and growing marketing agency. But I did not feel I could be the most successful in this field. Erasmus helped me realize that it is not just about having an okay job. Read More

Dream big for your dream job

Where do you see yourself in five years from now? People ask this question pretty often, especially after high school, as if we know what we are going to do even in a week or so. There is a lot of pressure on knowing exactly what to do in the future, but what I believe Read More

ELI-s with inverted roof-KA

My name is Eliška, or maybe it would be easier to write Elishka so you can pronounce it better. My Instagram name is Eli_pol, so many people call me by that nickname. It is a combination of my name and surname (Polejová). I come from Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. Not Czechoslovakia Read More

How to answer that question of yours

“Why Munich?”. A question that I was asked so many times that I started posing it to myself. I was asked it back home; I was asked it here. Both by internationals and by locals, people who, funnily, have chosen to live in the same city, but still make me feel as if my decision Read More

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