This may sound like an advert. It is not. It is a collection of excuses that I’ve heard from Erasmus students during the last 5 months. So, all of them do not come from my mouth :)
Erasmus is an excuse …
- to feel yourself 3 years younger than you really are
- to learn a language you may not need afterwards
- to travel and see the world with children’s eyes
- to try to party two days in a row during the week noticing that you’re not anymore able to do that
- to sit in the middle of a street on a chair you found at the pavement
- to write to an exam paper with big letters that you are a foreigner and from that reason cannot write proper German (or what ever language) and hope that you’ll pass the exam because of this
- to study same things or courses again (in a foreign language) without feeling ineffective or guilty about it
- to eat junk food while getting to know the foreign food culture
- to drink weizen
- to take a lot of pictures
- to listen to crap (German) music because it is also a part of getting to know the foreign culture
- to smile and laugh more than usual
- to drink a lot of coffee
- to move your master thesis project to next year
- to go to parties to see people who you wouldn’t otherwise see
- to buy new clothes because you weren’t able to fit all your clothes you need to one suitcase
- to speak obscenities with a foreign language since it is also a way to learn the language
- to use your rare native language as a secret language (without hurting anyone)
- to try to break a tequila drinking record
- to sing Singstar or karaoke although you cannot actually sing
Now one could think in which situations Erasmus is not an excuse. The ball is in your hands my friends.

