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Friends for Life – An Erasmus Reunion🫶🏼
By Isabelle Lydon, Eötvös Lorànd University, Hungary After a long six months apart my friends and I had a much-awaited Erasmus reunion. Since most of the group is from Ireland, we deemed this the most appropriate place for the reunion (apart from Budapest itself but that’s for the next reunion). However, we had a few people, including myself, fly from England, Italy and of course people came from all over Ireland.
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Travelling around Central Europe✈️
By Isabelle Lydon, Eötvös Lorànd University, Budapest To end our year abroad my friend and I decided to do a bit of travelling around Europe. We thought what a better way to end such a fantastic year. Let me tell you we were right. In this post, I will be telling you about how I saved for, planned and what I did for just under four weeks travelling around Central Europe. These are all my own experiences, and this may differ from person to person so please do bear this in mind.
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Things I Wish I Knew Before Going on a Year Abroad✈️🌍
By Isabelle Lydon, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest As I reflect on the end of my study abroad, I was thinking about things I wish I knew before going that are not stressed enough or that nobody tells you about. I thought this would be a good post for people to read before they go. This post is completely based on my own personal experiences and encounters on my time abroad and it may be different to what you may or have experienced so please do bear this in mind.
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Academic Differences I Noticed in Budapest📝👨🏼🏫
By Isabelle Lydon, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest On my year abroad, I attended Eötvös Lorànd University (ELTE) in Budapest. ELTE is considered one of the best universities in Hungary and is in the top 2% of universities worldwide. It consists of 9 faculties and has over 20,317 courses. They have 528 Erasmus partner universities and luckily UOM was one of them. I study Law at UOM, so I was a part of the Faculty of Law at ELTE which has to have been one of the most stunning university buildings I’ve ever seen.
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How to Tackle Homesickness on your Year Abroad🏡
By Isabelle Lydon, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest It is inevitable that at some point into your year abroad you will experience some form of homesickness. Some of us may experience it more than others depending on how far away from home we are, but I think we all experience it one way or another. Feeling any type of homesickness is perfectly okay. Living in a new country alone is a really daunting experience, especially a non-English speaking country, because you are thrown completely out of your comfort zone. I think we all deserve a pat on the back for how courageous we have been this year (or semester). Whilst I…
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Christmas in Budapest & Vienna🎄🇭🇺
By Isabelle Lydon, Eotvos Lorand University Budapest, Hungary I’m writing this as Christmas break comes to an end. Coming home from being abroad has been hectic to say the least – trying to catch up with friends, family and just the Christmas period in general has been crazy! However, I thought I’d do a little recap of my Christmas experience in Budapest.
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My First Week in Budapest🇭🇺
FYI: these are all my personal opinions and experiences! By Isabelle Lydon, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary I began my first week in Budapest feeling extremely nervous yet excited. Luckily my first week did not just consist of apartment hunting – my parents and I made sure we did loads of sight-seeing as well. On our first day we just walked around the city to get our bearings. One thing you should know about Budapest is that it’s actually quite a big city. I should probably mention as some people don’t actually know that the city is split into two parts by the river Danube – Buda and Pest. I would…
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