Jeszcze studiujesz i marzysz o wyjeździe na Erasmusa? A może jesteś już absolwentem i chciałabyś wyjechać tak jak Twoi znajomi? W pierwszej połowie 2016 roku gościliśmy w Slavii absolwentkę uczelni chorwackiej, która ukończyła filologię chorwacką i chciała odbyć w naszej szkole staż w ramach programu Erasmus. Jak się do nas dostała i czy było łatwo, możesz przeczytać poniżej 🙂 Tekst dostępny w wersji angielskiej oraz chorwackiej. A o wrażeniach Katariny z pobytu w Krakowie możesz przeczytać tutaj.

  In summer 2015, I was searching on the Internet for information about Erasmus programme. Most of my friends have been abroad for one semester. This was one of the reasons why I decided to apply to this programme. As I graduated, I could apply only for a traineeship. Searching for institutions is not very easy. Firstly, you have to think what you want to do and where you want to go and that takes time. So, why I choosed Poland and Slavia? Let’s see…

At the beginning of the process, I decided to go to Poland. After that I chose a city – Cracow. I heard that Cracow is a really student city and that is why I chose it. After choosing the country, the second point is to find an institution. I have some friends in Warsaw who I met in Zagreb (they were doing their Erasmus in Zagreb), so I wrote to them if they would like to help me in searching Polish websites. I graduated from Croatian language and literature so it is a litlle bit hard to find a traineeship with that language abroad. I started with schools which have Croatian language for foreigners. In Croatia at the Faculty of Philosophy we have Croaticum. To Croaticum go people who want to learn Croatian language. As a student, I had an internship there, for one week. At that internship I realised that I want to teach Croatian for foreigners. At the end, I found Slavia and I applied. And in this way I have started my internship on 1st of February 2016.

It is complicated to go abroad. There are some issues that you have to do before. Documents which you have to fill up, everydaygoing to your cordinators to Faculty etc. The most important thing – find a place to live. Signing an agreement with an owner of the school who is aceepted you for the traineeship could make you feel nervous at that time when you will wait for the decision. But at the end of the process you could feel proud of yourself because you have done everything properly and the most important thing – alone!

What I could say to every person who is thinking about Erasmus programme? In my opinion it is worth trying it!  As I said, it is not so easy, especially when you have to deal with documents which are necessary. However, opportunity to get to know people from all over the world, meet new cultures and languages, the travel will compensate you everything. It is a great opportunity to get such an experiance after graduating.

Katarina

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U ljeto 2015. na internetu sam tražila korisne informacije o Erasmus programu. Mnogi moji prijatelji su bili u inozemstvu jedan semestar pa sam i ja odlučila pokušati. Oni su zapravo bili jedan od razloga zašto sam se prijavila u ovaj program. Budući da sam diplomirala u siječnju, mogla sam se prijaviti isključivo za obavljanje prakse u jednoj od institucija. Ono što prvo morate napraviti na početku je odlučiti kamo želite ići i što želite raditi, a to oduzima puno vremena. Zašto sam odlučila doći u Poljsku i u Slaviu? Pogledajmo…

Na početku cijelog procesa prvo sam izabrala državu i to Poljsku. Nakon toga sam odlučila ići u Krakow. Od mnogih ljudi sam čula da je Krakow studentski grad i to je bio jedan od razloga zašto sam izabrala Krakow. Nakon odabira države, sljedeće što morate napraviti je naći instituciju koja će vas primiti na praksu. Imam nekoliko prijatelja u Varšavi koje sam upoznala u Zagrebu, a koji su mi vrlo rado pomogli u istraživanju poljskih stranica. Budući da sam ja diplomirala hrvatski jezik i književnost, bilo mi je malo teže pronaći praksu u inozemtvu. Naime, potragu sam počela sa školama koje u svom programu nude i hrvatski jezik za strance. Taj mi je predavački dio izuzetno zanimljiv jer sam imala praksu u Zagrebu na Croaticumu gdje sam strance podučavala hrvatski jezik. Na kraju potrage, došla sam do željenog cilja, pronašla sam školu slavenskih jezika, Slaviu te sam se prijavila i započela svoju praksu u veljači 2016.

Otići van, u inozemstvo, nije nimalo jednostavno. Prije nego li odete, morate napraviti nekoliko stvari. Tu su dokumenti koje treba ispuniti, svakodnevno odlaženje na fakultet itd. Međutim, najbitnije od svega je – naći mjesto gdje ćete stanovati. Osim toga, ugovor koji morate potpisati sa šeficom vas može učiniti nervoznim dok čekate na odluku. Ono što je najbitnije od svega je da se na kraju procesa osjećate toliko ponosnim na sebe jer ste sve napravili kako treba i samostalno!

Što reći svima koji se planiraju prijaviti na Erasmus program? Prema mom mišljenju – vrijedi pokušati! Kao što sam već i napisala, nije jednostavan proces, posebno s dokumentima koji su neophodni. Ali na kraju, prilika da upoznate ljude iz svih dijelova svijeta, upoznate novu kulturu, jezik i putujete obogatit će vas! Predivna je prilika dobiti iskustvo rada odmah nakon diplomiranja.

Katarina