First of all, sorry guys that I haven't been active here but to be honest, then last week nothing much happened other than I was waiting for the school to start. Here are my courses that I picked for my spring semester:
1. Social And Cultural Affairs
2. Europe in Media
3. Multimedia
4. European Economics And Trade Politics
5. Business Ethics
6. Graphical Design & Print Buying
First week in school was great. Our campus is brand new, built 2 years ago and very modern. Every day I ride my bike to school that takes about 10min. I got my bike from the people who were in this appartement before me, so big thanks to them, specially to Juan. What I like the most about this school are professors. You can see how motivated they are and they are not good at just teaching and theory but everyone has also a practical background to show. For example Print Buying professor has his own printing company and is a part time professor in our school. Same goes for the Europe in Media, the professor is a journalist in Brussels for Belgium television company. And another point that makes the studies very diverse from Estonia is that every course has about 9-14 students, cause the whole program is just for us, international students that are part of MOCOMA (Module in Communication Management) program. So it makes the lectures very interpersonal.
Last two weeks I picked up sport again and been doing it very regularly, pretty much everyday and it feels so good. I started to go for a run twice a week and to the gym 3 times a week. And from this week basketball and volleyball which are provided by my school and it cost only 10 euros for the whole semester - perfect!
Oh yeah, and now I have my permanent flatmates here - Alvaro and Manuel from Spain. They arrived on Sunday. We have a good bond cause they like same things in the house like i do: clean and organized. So I am really happy with their attitude on that. We set the boundaries right away and discussed everything that concerns the appartement, food and cleaning. For example for the food we decided we go together to a big and cheap supermarket to buy all the stuff we need and share the cost. And it was really worth it cause yesterday we rode with our bikes to ALDI (kind of like Säästu Market). Spent 63 euros and our kitchen/fridge is full on groceries. We'll see how long they last for.
Today we plan to check out a party in a kind of culture centre. It promises to be a good one couse the presell ticket is 13 euros and at the door is 16. So I have big hopes for that since I haven't had a party here with good music for a long time. Here they only play mainstream pop music everywhere and I'm seriously tired of that. Or maybe I am just too spoiled with music that Neljapäev With Lazers provide me in Estonia and spending time with Mowka (Martin Veisman) all the time. Since we talk about Mowka already then he's in Paris for Erasmus, studying graphical design there at the moment. We are more than sure that we'll meet up either in Paris or Gent, but in the meanwhile if anyone's interested about he's life there, then that's the link to his blog (it's in Estonian, but lot of pictures): http://veismanpariisis.tumblr.com/.
From now on I'll try to be more consistent with the blog. See you soon!
