Summing up?

From this Erasmus I take: photos, pictures,places, images, museums, recipes, experiences, sports, activities, some new words in English, new songs, new words, different thoughts about usual subjects, different customs, food, papers, way of living, some words in unthinkable languages, rainy days, sunny days, warm days, storms, snow, success, failures, thoughts, books, stories, plans, clothes, tickets, train trips, airplane trips, bike lights, watches, pills, mirrors, keys, souvenirs, coins from other countries, pens, agendas, postcards, gloves, hats, glasses, coasters, videos, karaoke, socks, facebook contacts, mails, maps, routes, coffes, hard toilet papers, jokes, memories, snickers, passport, CDs, and so on and so forth.


But that is nothing compared to the names I am taking with me. Thanks.

Knokselet

The white night or nuit blanche is held in many cities and consists in a night where art is in almost every corner of the city.

Groningen, did not scape from this.

We hanged out with some people and in the middle of the street there was the "word creator".

After a whole day of being by the lake and chatting about plenty of things we ended up with a discussion of how to say piropo (the typical Spanish/ Argentine/ Latin flirty compliment) in English because there was not exact translation.

So, we stood by the NEW DICTIONARY and asked for a new word defining this concept.

Knokselet=flirty compliment

So we invented a word for something we could define but not named.

The fact is, please keep reading till the end (I know you must we bored with the silly anecdote), I

 think there is a good, straight parallelism with the Erasmus.

We have a word but we can put inside whatever is that you want.

There are some activities planned but you can skip them if you want.

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Each Erasmus has different people, different house, different trips. Summing up: different 

combination of things.

So, basically, you need to live it, to put inside whatever word you want. Because in the end,

 the definition of Erasmus is the way you decided to make it or live it.

And personally, I know that I would not change anything I've put inside of mine.

 

stuck in a moment

And somehow, I wish I could choose to be stuck in a moment,
but time flies.

Insecurity

An unlocked bicycle. One out of fourty was stolen and because someone left it in an unknown place.
Everyone greets all, all are students or some friends of friends.
Have it all. Ground floor without bars, a single lock with no security doors, ATM on the streets.
Months went by and still having everything. But what we do not have, for certain, is the feeling of being scared.
Even if you got lost the first two weeks, without having a little clue of where are you and you ask some guy on the street at 4 am.
And, we were amazed.


They call us and tell us that the Federal government withdrew the security men from public buildings.
There are not enough men in the police to cover all the neighborhoods and so, they have to take turns, leaving some areas as free areas. Where there are no rules, everything till killing is permitted. 
We recieve an SMS and you noticed that: they were robbed at gunpoint in front of my house. hospitals are being robbed 3 times a week, slums are getting bigger.
 We talk on Skype and they tell us that in the same place is the second time their phone is stolen.

We are in a bubble, in a fantasy. A parallel world.


Meanwhile, here we do not believe.
We can not believe it.
It is as if we had lived all our lives with the insecurity chip and we know what is a safe haven, now.

He, The Minister, was right when he stated that insecurity is a feeling. It's a feeling after they have stolen you, your neighbor, your brother, your parents. After we learned that you can got  killed for  $ 2 (less than 50 cents of euro), you can not pick up your cellphone on the street. It's a feeling with which we were born but we thought it would get better, we thought people would be educated in some not so far future. However, let me tell you that nothing changed. Instead, the feeling got worse. What the Minister forgot to say is that the feeling is caused by events and not unfounded fears.

How come that I don't know almost any person who has not been robbed?
While they know one person that was stolen and never saw the thief.

I'm thinking we can be better but we need everyone to want it.