Final blog post...

MINE project is over..unfortunately. There were two weeks of work but fun, two weeks of knowing each others and how nursing works in other countries. It was really a good experience for me, I feel enriched by it..expecially for the people I met: everyone has something to teach us, and I learnt a lot thank to the finnish experience. I learnt a lot about how to stay with peole, sharing spaces, time and ideas..and, of course, about nursing.

I'm leaving for London for my Erasmus programme in two days and I can really appreciate how useful the informations we collected in the Wiki are! I can definitely affirm that an erasmus student needs a lot of informations, because they feel anxious and quite "lost" in the  host country. I also think that a lot of nursing students, and maybe also a lot of nurses, don't know so much about the role of the nurse, his autonomy and his tasks in the foreign countries, even if nurses are the most "moving" professionals through Europe, so i appreciated a lot our work during the two weeks, in order to create and collect informations to be shared with a lot of people...and maybe we could enlarge the project for all the outgoing Erasmus students!


Thinking about the learning process adopted, I really appreciated the group-working: comparing ideas and working together, using our personal abilities was great! In Italy we're not used to that kind of method. Apart form that, I have to say that I love writing by hand..so blog was something new for me; anyway, I think that, nowadays, if we want to get through to young people we have to use tecnologies, and facebook and blogs are really useful.


At the end I can say that I'm really satisfied by the MINE experience and that I hope that it can have a follow up.
Thank you so much to you all!
Elisa

..thinking..

We're in our third day of the MINE experience..and I feel like i'm here from a week!
First of all, on monday Mirja told us that Finland has a new President: we arrived here in an important day for the nation!
Yesterday Laura della Corte talked us about the Erasmus programme: I'm going to London  in march, so I should know a lot about that but, sincerely, I didn't. I could not imagine that this programme allow so many european students to go around Europe, to become and to feel european citizens, part of a community, to catch opportunities, to know people and so on... and above all that they can continue their studies! That's amazing..I can't wait to leave for London! Of course I can understand the difficulties and the worries and all the things a student need to know before leaving..and so the importance of the MINE project and of what we're doing here: we're doing something for us ad for our friends. Professoressa Della Corte told us that most students, when they come back from the Erasmus, say that this is a way of gaining independence: of course, to be independent, you need to be "expert" in that thing, to know about that: I think MINE can help students to gain independence by living the Erasmus experience in another nation.
I also think that we should reflect about the importance of DIVERSITY: diversity is something that enrich us! Too often we think that our nation or our way of thinking is the best one and that we don't need to know or experiment the other ones..but it's not that way, and sometimes I have to tell it to myself too (you know, italians are quite nationalistic, almost like the british!). If we are humble, we can learn much more, I think.
Waiting for the next post (and the inspiration for it) and for the tipical finnish dinner of tonight!
Elisa

Countdown and reflections on MINE project

Hello Everybody!


I'm back again on my blog :)
On sunday we're going to be in Pori so we have just 4 days left..I'm so excited! I really look forward to meet you all. I'm happy to participate to this project because I really want (and I think we're going to) to share with you all this experience, to compare each other on the differences of our nursing school systems and to built (or improve) a network of useful informations for incoming erasmus students in our countries. 
I'm going to London for Erasmus in March and I'm experiencing that students need A LOT of informations, and that, before leaving, you feel anxious, worried and quite "lost" sometimes, because you don't know what you'll find there. Things that students made last year in Malta during the MINE project are so useful to me! So I really hope we can give our contribution to this. 
I think we should try to focus on the "cultural" and recreational aspect: usually universities have these kind of facilities for students (cinemas, theatres, clubs, art exibitions, museums, sport, gyms etc.) but not everybody knows, because it's not so proclaimed. For example, the University of Florence has an universitarian Orchestra, a Choir and gives the possibility to buy cheap tickets for cinemas and theatres! I think it's something important to know for an incoming erasmus student..know how to spend free time without spending too much could be useful.


I hope I'll have the possibility of discassing these things with you in Pori.


Ciao!


Elisa

My first blog!

Hello everybody and Happy New Year!
I'm very excited in writing a blog, I've never had one!
I'm looking forward to come to Pori..can't wait to meet you all. I'm also happy to come to Finland because I've never been there but I have two finnish friends and they always talk me about lakes and the snow and the finnish wonderful nature and landscapes! Here in Florence snow is something excaptional, but I love it.
Last year, on the 17th of December, snowed a lot and the city was completely blocked: everything was white and silent, everybody were walking down the streets..it was strange and cool!
Anyway, I'm really happy to have this opportunity to take part in MINE's project and to meet nursing students from all around Europe, to exchange thoughts about our future profession and about how to improve the welcome to     the Erasmus nursing students who come in our country.


Can't wait to see you all in Pori!


Elisa