Erasmus + Success Stories

“I HAVE STARTED ACCEPTING MYSELF AS A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD, AND PART OF THE YOUNG SCIENTIST WORLDWIDE”

Erasmus+ Period: 05/10/2017 – 21/01/2018

Academic point of view: First of all, the Programme gives me a lot of opportunities to use Microscopic control of pure Lactobacillus cultures. The English course helped me improve my English skills. Though I couldn’t understand exactly what the teachers were saying in English at first, but now I can manage to make out most of their words. This enables me to enjoy interacting with foreigners more than before. In addition, there are various people from different countries, and I’m glad to make friends with them. Moreover, the educational system regarding medical studies in Bulgaria is quite different from that in Japan, which let me broaden my horizon. In Japan we have clinical training from our 5th year of studies while the medical students in Bulgaria have both theoretical part and practice in parallel. I have found it’s interesting to know similarities and differences between our country and Bulgaria. Last but not least, training in the hospitals seems to be more practical than that in Japan. The patients are very cooperative with us and they teach me a lot of things with their bodies.

Personnel experience: On my days off, I took some trips to Italy, France, Plovdiv, Belovo, and so on. Italy and France are the countries which I have always wanted to visit, so these experiences were exciting a lot. Since European countries are quite far from Japan, my stay in Bulgaria was really a good chance for me to travel to some of them. In addition, people in Bulgaria and from other countries are free-spirited and DIGNIFIED; therefore, I have started accepting myself as a citizen of the world, and part of the young scientists worldwide. I believe this experience was quite advantageous and useful to me and will lead to further successful achievements in the near future!