Appena tornato da Montpellier, Francia del Sud.
Dopo oltre nove mesi all'estero.
Naturalmente mi aspettavo una bella accoglienza. Mi aspettavo anche che tutti mi chiedessero com'era andata, sapevo bene che era parte del contratto, del gioco del partire e ritornare.
Quello che non mi aspettavo, è che mi chiedessero di scriverci un articolo, su questo Erasmus. La cosa mi ha fatto piacere, naturalmente.
Cosa vuol dire partire un anno. Significa rinunciare a molto per andare verso qualcosa di sostanzialmente sconosciuto. È inutile negarlo, può andare bene e può andare male. A me è andato bene, ma non è così per forza. Non intendo spaventare nessuno con questo, ovviamente; però se avete intenzione di partire, fatelo con entusiasmo ma senza perdere di vista il lato pratico della vicenda: gli esami da fare, le modalità di riconoscimento, la distanza, eccetera.
Partire un anno significa che al ritorno, i primi giorni, vi capiterà di continuo di sorprendervi a pensare (e a parlare, talvolta!) nella lingua del paese che vi ha accolto. Significa che probabilmente avrete le lacrime agli occhi quando dovrete salutare quelli che sono stati i vostri compagni di viaggio, sapendo bene che con tutta probabilità non rivedrete mai più la maggior parte di loro.
It is not a party, the end of Erasmus.
What is a party (in the literal sense of the word) is the entire experience abroad. Whether you are with the students 'native', which is the most popular internationally mobile students like you learn a language almost perfectly, and you do especially at parties and banquets of all kinds. In rooms, apartments, buildings or abandoned if the weather is mild in squares or parks. Approximately every night for nearly three hundred days, I assure you that in the end you feel like a star to play trump (card game ancient tradition of Lombardy Emilia) with family and brothers.
If you decide to leave, the most delicate moment, quello su cui si gioca tutto, è la scelta della destinazione. Non è banale, e non è affatto conveniente scegliere semplicemente in base ai propri appetiti di divertimento. Tanto vi divertirete talmente in ogni caso che non ne potrete davvero più e implorerete talvolta serata pacifica di tregua, vi assicuro. Ma è fondamentale che scegliate una destinazione dove possiate anche avere molti esami da farvi riconoscere. Dove sapete che l'università è ben organizzata e vi accoglierà con piacere. Non è scontato, tutto questo; ed è il grande pericolo dell'Erasmus, di tornare poi magari dopo un anno con un solo esame valido e l'anno accademico da rifare. Questo dovete evitarlo a tutti i costi, anche perchè passare il tempo nell'università that welcomes you to attend classes and maybe a little chat 'with the teachers or students (both are generally sympathetic) has many positive sides.
donate your performance a more technical language, the more specialist which is critical in the university and professional background is in the difference between talk and get to know only one language. You will not go very far by presenting local slangs speaking exams, and also this kind of spoken language evolves too quickly to represent a stable concept and therefore a knowledge of value. In ten years there no one would understand.
You will confront university systems often radically different in good and bad. And I can assure you that as the university systems of Europe can provide positive elements in education that we are missing, return home appreciating more the strength of the Italian university system. The theoretical basis (and more) that we receive, since high school, are often of exceptional quality in comparison to other countries and that is why listening to the work of certain bold Figure Government is there to hear his guts twist, the more you remains abroad, the more you compare with students from all over Europe, the more we realize that in all likelihood, without being perfect, our system of colleges and universities (at least with regard to the universities humanities) is truly the best. This is not in opposition to "better", obviously.
Another reason to stay in universities: even though I think the worst Italian ones, foreign universities have their points of excellence. Maybe in the organization of courses, or in the method they use to complement the practical aspects of theory, painful phase of our local academic culture.
These opportunities take everything you can. It will be good to you, why do not you'll probably never be the same occasion, and will be good to your country, because if ever you will have the responsibility to decide, or recommend, or even just a vote on the improvement universities, you remember what you have lived; know what to defend, and what to improve.
Look at home, from time to time. With On-line newspapers, the radio or other means.
You will see your country as it truly is. Simplified, naked. This unmasking the deceptions the smart, the small provincial truccaggini first there seemed to escape or complex.
deviating from the target, there remain only the general shapes, the contour lines. You will have a unique opportunity to observe the boot as a whole, positive and negative, away from the warp cicaleggianti traffickers dreams. It will be good to you that matches and no doubt will change forever your relationship with H. italicus, with all its petty faults and its immense quality; Is this your new understanding, the system will do just as well that Italy today more than ever needs people prepared who understands the limitations and potential and who has the courage to spend even a better country.
A Judgement? Erasmus is to risk. It means abandoning a life twice, when a party, a come back when. It means seeing everything from a different perspective, and sometimes give vent to your most insane cravings. It means to have fun and learn a lot about the fainting our new nation, Europe, and its old parts. It means sometimes suffering the distance or farewell, and go home with a lots of stories to tell, perhaps to write an article. It means a lot to your resume, and means that you will not be able to think with the same comforting limitations you had before. Forces you to ask questions, and answer. Erasmus
means finally back, and forward. Why can not you at all for you to keep all that you have lived. For better and for worse.
Postscript sentimental, for all those who believe they can start with a stable history behind it. We say: Be careful. As stable, important, your relationship can be strong, as they believe in love, Erasmus will put to the test. You will need to be both very responsible, both very dedicated to the mutual well-being, to pass unharmed. It is one of those classic situations that when you fall for him can only say, "if not kill, strengthens." But if you start with an important relationship, get over backwards to keep it and make sure the partners do the same, otherwise then we weep for him that you lost. From this point of view, you can have a lot of satisfaction in a year abroad, but in all likelihood not create deep relationships. Treat the love, if you have, because Erasmus is often the opposite, as all take without giving, knowing that you live in a system of relations "temporary."
And if you happen except, believe with all my heart.
Francesco Nicoli
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