From Ljubljana, with Erasmus Students

From Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia.

As some of my friends had imagined already, local people's here in Europe getting excited for Christmas days. Most of them spend the time with their families, having fun with friends and partying... Me, from 24th till 4th of January, thankfully got 12 days off, on the 2nd day of 8 days trip to Slovenia and Italy.

As if often the case for staying in dormitory, we just got socialized with 2 Portuguese students who are majoring computer science. They are also tripping mainly in Eastern and Southern Europe in Christmas and New Year's holiday. Currently they are studying in Romania as Erasmus exchange student.

The idea of Erasmus educational program is basically like; All the university students in Europe, no matter what studies they are taking, have to spend at least one semester in another country so as to get the degree. It happens all the schools in countries which belong to European Union. Having spent 7 month in Europe, I have seen Erasmus group of guys more than 5 times(Budapest, Poland, Bosnia... they are everywhere).

That's why i was not surprised when one of them said "We know we've experienced good times. It is really important to get to know the difference in other countries, about cultures, studies, business mind or life styles" answering to my question as "What made you motivated to spend half a year in Romania?".

I also asked them whether they possibly get willing to study in another country in case there's no such programs like Erasmus. Then both of them shook their heads.

How do you imagine about students who's studying computer science? Do you think they would say they are interested in other cultures and actually do study abroad? i could hardly believe before coming here. But here in Europe, such students are easily findable everywhere in AIESEC or in Erasmus. Here, let me stress once more that all the students in European Union has to spend at least one semester in other countries. I just do not know how much Japanese students in faculty of computer science are open-minded toward for being global, however apparently Educational programs like Erasmus are at least valuable for making European youngsters to be so.

Over the table filled up with Slovenian specialties, we have talked with more than this topic. I can say I love traveling, simply because some good guys appears every time rather than because of mere sightseeing stuff. We will check out in 1 hour and go see lake bled. After that, I alone head for Venice and Milan by night train. Alone, but hope to meet to another accidental encounters.