Departure on the way...

5 days only....

Time passes so but so quickly. I can't even realise that i was here for 10 months and now the day of my departure is very close. It seems like a big dream. The feeling is very weird. 

I am not sad, but i am not happy either. I think that the best word to describe my situation is :greatful.
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened" said Dr Seuss. So , yes, i am so happy that i lived this experience. I met interesting people, new ideas, i discovered places, i grew up. I stopped believe in stereotypes and judge the people by their appearance. I changed . I succeded my lessons and i took some very important knowledges. In 10 months i managed to become more mature.

I believe that erasmus life has some "cliches ", but one thing is sure. It is a very big experience that offers you some very unique opportunities. Grabbed them before it's too late!

For me Lille, is the town of my erasmus. It is a town that has a special place in my heart. I believe that it's my second home. Sometimes i feel more french than greek. Anyway it's hard to end this.

But always after an end, there is a start. So here it is. I found my great perhaps and know i am ready to live the rest of it.

An erasmus "en train de partir",
Danae

The number of 10 and a thanks

Yeap actually is not that i forgot about this blog. It is more that i decided to stop writing the moments and try to live it a bit. To create great memories, to explore the town, to meet and make new friends, to study, to travel and to grow up.

We are reaching the end of this chapter, of this book, of this big adventure. I have only 10 days left before my return in Greece. Ten days, dix jours, c'est rien. It's so little amount of time. I cannot simply believe that this thing is ending.

But before I start, writing the difficult parts of the ending scenes of my Erasmus, let me just remember the five most memorable moments of my 10 months here in Lille.

1) My arrival day.
I was in a roller coaster (litterally 'cause the metro of Lille has no driver, and the first wagon looks really like you're in a roller coaster) that only went up. From the very first moment that i arrived in abroad i was seeing things that they were so different from my country. I remembered that i hane no internet in my residence the first days, so i went to a commercial center around my area, and i went to a huuuuuge supermarket (first meet with Auchan) . I think the appropriate name isn't "supermarket" but "hypermarket". I was socked. I spent like 2 hours in it, only admirind the french food and it's products. And then that night, i ent out with my erasmus buddy in a bar, our bar, and it was fulled by french youngsters who were most of them drunked, and they were singing and the atmosphere was so good and "agreables". I was thrilled!

2)My courses
I remembered all the classes of litterature and our teacher's knowledges and passion. I was going in the lessons, and i was exited to learn. This year, it was the first time in my 3 years od studies, that i was enjoying so much, the fact that i was learning, the fact that i was a student of french culture.

3) Nights in Post
Well im not the typical party-animal erasmus, but i like drinking alcohol (when i'm not broken and i have money to spend). Nights in Post, our bar, had often two people...Clara and Cagan. My erasmus buddy,and the guy that introduced the system of buddies, in my buddy. (rich vocabulary :p) Some times, i was seeing the  cool friends of Clara, and i was getting more happy. Post for me, means pastis and having fun.

4)Travelling
Well i think that it doesn't need to explain me more. Travelling with friends, or bymyself really broaden my mind. Thank you ryanair!

5) Days at the Park
Although the weather in Lille, is like the weather in London, we had very sunny days. I love parks just because you can sit there and be calm, read a book, listen to music and think. Sun makes us think positevely.For some seconds, we believe that this world, is really beautiful.

This experience will become a memory very soon. But it will be the mest and the most powerful experience of my life, i think. Lille for me it's not simply a town in the north of France. Lille for me is a second home, the birthplace of my new self, a town with feelings, friends, colors, places. The home of my little adventures.

Thank you Lille,

Danae

#Excitement

Day #Excitement

Hey fellows!Happy New year! I just lost the counting of days...I'm not very good with numbers. So i decided instead of numbers to put a hashdag of the general feeling of the day.
And today was a very very good day.

Well i think that Thursdays are my days!Everything exited or good had happen a Thursday.
Today i had two lessons of litterature. As an erasmus, i'm very afraid when i have to go for the first time and attend a lesson. I'm afraid for two reasons. Fistly, i don't know if the teacher will be nice and polite. And seconly, i don't know if i will enjoy the lesson,it's subject. Thank god, that both of the lessons that i attended today, was good. Actually, the second one,was not only good, was amaziiiing!

Ok I admit i have a passion for the 18th-19th century of french litterature.And i love poetry a lot. And Baudelaire.So in this lesson, we will study the poems of Baudelaire and Appollinaire. So only from that, i was exited. But also, the teacher was beyond cool. She has so many knowledges of french litterature and the things that we analysed were so interesting and so philosophic ,that they amazed me. When the lesson finished i was speechless. And imagine, that was only the 1st lesson. I love that. I thing that erasmus apart from the classic chances that it gives us, it also offers to us the huge opportunity to attend classes,with maybe different content that in our country, and with different ways of teaching something. I'm so lucky. 

The afternoon, i went to a concert of the University Orchestra de Lille which is consisted by amateur students and stuff of Lille's univerities (Lille1,Lille2,Lille3). The concert was a trip to different countries in each of it, they were playing a representative piece. We "travelled" to Chech Republic, Spain, Arab desert and....Cuuuubaaa! It was so itend, so good, that i wanted to stand up and dance to each and every one of the pieces.I loved them. Imagining that they were all amateurs, it was the thing that amazed me the most.

I forgot to note, that i also see my friend Clara and some other french friends that I enjoy them a lot. I love speak french with french and have fun. This is one of my target,after all.

No i'm a bit tired, but all this exitment doesn't let me sleep. Though my bed asking for me.Well that was it for today.I will close my writing with something that this so inspirational teacher told us in the class:       
            " La difficulté est toujours une élévation" ,

which means that the difficulties are always something that improves us. 
We don't earn nothing with the easy things. 
So yeah, all the difficulties that i had in the 1st semester, really helped me to step outside, to grow up and most of all to understand who I am,and who i can be. Because i have potentials. I only need to be decided and to find my path. And it rests 5 more moths ,i mean this is it!

Oh and in this point i would like to say to Stavros, Lydia, Aspasia, Dimitra, Alex, Thanasis, Antonis that i love you and i miss you a lot. Only that.

Goodnight my dear people.