My name is Simone, I’m from Southern Germany, from Munich. I am 21 years old and I’m here for an Erasmus semester, following second year of engineer program. I have been here for about 7 weeks now, and so far it’s very good, yes.

I’m doing my bachelor’s degree in agriculture in Munich. I’m a student from the Technical University in Munich and, there I’m in the fifth semester. I hope that next semester I can finish my studies with my bachelor’s thesis.

I did a lot of research before choosing, and I looked into many schools which are partners of my home university, and well I saw that in France, universities prefer to have Erasmus students who are already in masters and not in the license. Honestly there were not many universities only in Bordeaux and I think maybe Angers or Rennes offering for bachelor… So I decided to come here because I think Bordeaux is a beautiful city and also I preferred Bordeaux to Paris, because I think Paris is a little too big with too many people.

Yes I like it very much! In fact everything is very different from Munich, where I have to commute from home to the university everyday for one hour and a half. Only one trip, so three hours roundtrip each day. Here, by example, I live on the campus and it’s only 5 minutes for my room to the classrooms. It’s so good, because we can sleep a little longer! I also the student universitary life is very interesting, it’s very committed I think towards foreign students: we have “godfathers“, and “godmothers“ and it’s very good, I think, for international students