Soon starting from the end of February 2010 will go abroad from Tartu Health Care College 21 Erasmus students so it means here will be more offen posts about exhange students experiances.
Also we will recive 1 student from Portugal and 2 students from Latvia. All 3 will do their practice in our College practice bases.
So I strongly recommend keep your eyes on our blog. Here you can read and ask from students what you are interested in.
If you have any questions to us, Erasmus coordinators, then contact us directly by e-mail: daneljantra@nooruse.ee or piretsaag@nooruse.ee
Kind regards,
Danel and Piret
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Final strech in Toledo
Hola!
OK, by now I have finished two of the three practices here. My last post was before the second one started. Since then, quite a lot of things have happened. I started flying back here on 8 of January. Everything was normal until the plane was delayed and as a result of that, I was standing in the Intercambiador Plaza Eliptica, a bus station in Madrid, at 22.02 having just missed the last bus to Toledo by two minutes. Great. So I phoned my flatmate in Toledo, that maybe he could pick me up in Madrid. He said alright and told me that he would arrive at about midnight. After having waited for about an hour, my phone rang. It was a man, telling me that he was the brother of my flatmate and that he lived in Madrid and fortunately, one of his roommates is out for the night and there a place for me. So I waited a little longer and finally we met in subway and went to his place. The night turned out to be a party with him and his two mates. In the morning I took the bus to Toledo. All in all, another crazy adventure.
Speaking about the second practice, massage, I suppose it was alright. Although, it was not a "massage practice" per se. During the first week, I got about two massages a day, each lasting about 15 minutes. Some of the time I spent doing nothing and mostly it was like the physical treatments practice we have in Estonia - ultrasound, magnetic therapy, TENS etc. During the next weeks, the number of massages increased and, all in all, turned out to be an OK practice.
The final practice is physiotherapy of children, in Colegio de Educación Especial, which is located a little bit out of town. Hopefully, it will also be a good experience.
What concerns the weather, it is becoming more and more beautiful. The last week has been only blue skies and bucketloads of sunshine. The temperature is not that idyllic yet, about 15-16-17 during the day, but, to my mind, it´s getting warmer every day. Ok, now it´s probably time to wrap it up. I guess that the next post will be my last, having finished all the practices in the end of February.
Regards,
Ott Vanem
FT-III
OK, by now I have finished two of the three practices here. My last post was before the second one started. Since then, quite a lot of things have happened. I started flying back here on 8 of January. Everything was normal until the plane was delayed and as a result of that, I was standing in the Intercambiador Plaza Eliptica, a bus station in Madrid, at 22.02 having just missed the last bus to Toledo by two minutes. Great. So I phoned my flatmate in Toledo, that maybe he could pick me up in Madrid. He said alright and told me that he would arrive at about midnight. After having waited for about an hour, my phone rang. It was a man, telling me that he was the brother of my flatmate and that he lived in Madrid and fortunately, one of his roommates is out for the night and there a place for me. So I waited a little longer and finally we met in subway and went to his place. The night turned out to be a party with him and his two mates. In the morning I took the bus to Toledo. All in all, another crazy adventure.
Speaking about the second practice, massage, I suppose it was alright. Although, it was not a "massage practice" per se. During the first week, I got about two massages a day, each lasting about 15 minutes. Some of the time I spent doing nothing and mostly it was like the physical treatments practice we have in Estonia - ultrasound, magnetic therapy, TENS etc. During the next weeks, the number of massages increased and, all in all, turned out to be an OK practice.
The final practice is physiotherapy of children, in Colegio de Educación Especial, which is located a little bit out of town. Hopefully, it will also be a good experience.
What concerns the weather, it is becoming more and more beautiful. The last week has been only blue skies and bucketloads of sunshine. The temperature is not that idyllic yet, about 15-16-17 during the day, but, to my mind, it´s getting warmer every day. Ok, now it´s probably time to wrap it up. I guess that the next post will be my last, having finished all the practices in the end of February.
Regards,
Ott Vanem
FT-III
Thursday, January 7, 2010
One down, two to go in Toledo
OK, it has been a while. Since my last post I have finished the neurological physiotherapy practice in Hospital Nacional de Paraplejicos. It ended just before christmas. Fortunately, I was able to come home for the holidays, actually I still am home. Tomorrow, though, it's the time go back. By all calculations, I should be tomorrow at 11 PM in Toledo again.
The new practice starts on Monday. For the next three weeks or so, I should do massage. To be honest, I have no idea whether the tutors there can speak English or not. Either way, It will be a new and exciting adventure. Probably, I'll make a new post next week, then I'll know more about the massaage practice.
Have a pleasant new year,
Ott Vanem
FT-III
The new practice starts on Monday. For the next three weeks or so, I should do massage. To be honest, I have no idea whether the tutors there can speak English or not. Either way, It will be a new and exciting adventure. Probably, I'll make a new post next week, then I'll know more about the massaage practice.
Have a pleasant new year,
Ott Vanem
FT-III
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Portuguese News
Hello again,
First of all, Happy New Year!!!
We haven’t written for a while because during the rest of the month of November and December there were many things happening. We started our self-study project that we have to deliver and present in the end of Erasmus, we continued our practices, we participated in Baltic Seminar "ERASMUS student placements in Baltic countries: enhancing cooperation between universities and enterprises" Vol.2.” at Tallinn’s University, made some trips, spent Christmas and New Year’s Eve in Tallinn and moved to Tartu.
Our self-study project was started after lots of research in Tallinn’s library, books of East Tallinn Central Hospital (ETCH) and conversation with our teachers in Portugal, having already some good advances.
We had an invitation to participate in Baltic Seminar organized by Tallinn’s University to make a presentation about our experiences in Erasmus. We were very nervous, but it went pretty well!
As you probably noticed by our previous posts we like to travel, so in November and December we made more trips.
The first one was a weekend in Riga, where we walked through the city, stayed in an amazing hostel (City Lounge Hostel) with a crazy and funny owner and knew a great disco (Essencial), where we had 2 awesome nights with many Erasmus students.
The second trip we did was called “Sea Battle” and was a reunion in a cruise with Erasmus students from Estonia, Latvia, Sweden and Finland, where we did the trip from Tallinn to Stockholm. All the trip was a huge party because we met many people from different countries and visited Stockholm, a wonderful and beautiful city that we would love to return.
The final but not the least trip was to Lapland where we stayed at Rovaniemi and had the chance to make a safari at Ranua Wildlife Park, meet Santa Claus, correctly, Father Christmas and watched a great exhibition about the changes in the artic circle.
Christmas this year was entirely different for us because we are used to spend it in our hometown with our families , but this time we spent in Estonia between friends and Dri’s sister (Ines), who came to visit her. Ines came a few days before Christmas with a great surprise…portuguese typical food for Christmas, then we showed her Tallinn, including of course the Christmas Market, where we tasted the Hot Wine and the ginger biscuits. Our Christmas dinner was spent with 2 portuguese friends and Ines. We cooked codfish and octopus, 2 Christmas dishes in Portugal, exchanged gifts at midnight, as we always do back at home, and then went to an Italian party to celebrate Christmas Eve. We can’t forget to say that it was the only Christmas with SNOW that we had… UAAAU :D
New Year’s Eve was the best event ever because we went to Vabaduse Valjak ( a square in Tallinn) to see the firework and it was snowing a lot at midnight. As we always do in Portugal we ate the 12 raisins at midnight, asked our wishes together celebrating with a 3L bottle of champagne and singing. Then Dri asked some people a sleigh ride through Vabaduse Valjak, it was really funny because after that they spoke with us in portuguese. After we walk to some friends house and saw people laying down on the snow, so we decided to share their experience and throwed ourselves to the snow without even thinking in the – 8 degrees! Lol
At ETCH the practical training continued with changes of Radiology Service, from CT and MRI to Radiography in the beginning of December. After 4 weeks in Radiography we finished our practices in Tallinn and had to move to Tartu, so we can have mammography practical training in Tartu University Clinic.
Now we are in Tartu since sunday and we will be here until the end of January to complete the practical training and present our self-study project. We hope to have a lovely time here, but we are already missing Tallinn and all the Erasmus students there.
Tervisecks!
Dri and Mimi
First of all, Happy New Year!!!
We haven’t written for a while because during the rest of the month of November and December there were many things happening. We started our self-study project that we have to deliver and present in the end of Erasmus, we continued our practices, we participated in Baltic Seminar "ERASMUS student placements in Baltic countries: enhancing cooperation between universities and enterprises" Vol.2.” at Tallinn’s University, made some trips, spent Christmas and New Year’s Eve in Tallinn and moved to Tartu.
Our self-study project was started after lots of research in Tallinn’s library, books of East Tallinn Central Hospital (ETCH) and conversation with our teachers in Portugal, having already some good advances.
We had an invitation to participate in Baltic Seminar organized by Tallinn’s University to make a presentation about our experiences in Erasmus. We were very nervous, but it went pretty well!
As you probably noticed by our previous posts we like to travel, so in November and December we made more trips.
The first one was a weekend in Riga, where we walked through the city, stayed in an amazing hostel (City Lounge Hostel) with a crazy and funny owner and knew a great disco (Essencial), where we had 2 awesome nights with many Erasmus students.
The second trip we did was called “Sea Battle” and was a reunion in a cruise with Erasmus students from Estonia, Latvia, Sweden and Finland, where we did the trip from Tallinn to Stockholm. All the trip was a huge party because we met many people from different countries and visited Stockholm, a wonderful and beautiful city that we would love to return.
The final but not the least trip was to Lapland where we stayed at Rovaniemi and had the chance to make a safari at Ranua Wildlife Park, meet Santa Claus, correctly, Father Christmas and watched a great exhibition about the changes in the artic circle.
Christmas this year was entirely different for us because we are used to spend it in our hometown with our families , but this time we spent in Estonia between friends and Dri’s sister (Ines), who came to visit her. Ines came a few days before Christmas with a great surprise…portuguese typical food for Christmas, then we showed her Tallinn, including of course the Christmas Market, where we tasted the Hot Wine and the ginger biscuits. Our Christmas dinner was spent with 2 portuguese friends and Ines. We cooked codfish and octopus, 2 Christmas dishes in Portugal, exchanged gifts at midnight, as we always do back at home, and then went to an Italian party to celebrate Christmas Eve. We can’t forget to say that it was the only Christmas with SNOW that we had… UAAAU :D
New Year’s Eve was the best event ever because we went to Vabaduse Valjak ( a square in Tallinn) to see the firework and it was snowing a lot at midnight. As we always do in Portugal we ate the 12 raisins at midnight, asked our wishes together celebrating with a 3L bottle of champagne and singing. Then Dri asked some people a sleigh ride through Vabaduse Valjak, it was really funny because after that they spoke with us in portuguese. After we walk to some friends house and saw people laying down on the snow, so we decided to share their experience and throwed ourselves to the snow without even thinking in the – 8 degrees! Lol
At ETCH the practical training continued with changes of Radiology Service, from CT and MRI to Radiography in the beginning of December. After 4 weeks in Radiography we finished our practices in Tallinn and had to move to Tartu, so we can have mammography practical training in Tartu University Clinic.
Now we are in Tartu since sunday and we will be here until the end of January to complete the practical training and present our self-study project. We hope to have a lovely time here, but we are already missing Tallinn and all the Erasmus students there.
Tervisecks!
Dri and Mimi
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Toledo
Hi Everybody.
I am a third year physiotherapy student doing practices in Toledo, Spain. This is the first time I am writing here.
To begin with, I would like to say that Toledo is wonderful. Despite the autumnish weather and some problem with accommodation, it has still been a new and exciting adventure.
I arrived here on 19th of November. It was about 9 o´clock in the evening. I decided to take a taxi from the bus station. I had booked a hostel beforehand and when I got there, the doors were already closed. I thought that I now I would be in deep trouble. But then, after some minutes of yelling, the owner finally heard me and showed me to my room. All was well. The next day I went to see the local Erasmus coordinators and in the evening checked out some flats. One of them was OK, but the catch was that I could move in on 1st December. So I spent some days in the hostel and then most of the time left in another hostel, that was a bit cheaper. On 1st December I moved into the appartment and it has been quite good. Although, there were loads of problems with accommodation. A few times I had no idea, whether I could stay another day in the hostel or not. Another funny thing is that the sam flat where I am living now was turned down for me twice. But now, everything is OK.
Speaking about the practice, it has been very good. Currently I am working in the Hospital Nacional de Paraplejicos. So far it has been a great learning and practicing experience. I think that this is enough for the first blog post here.
All in all, Toledo is a neat town and if anyone ist thinking about coming here as well, then I would definitely recommend it, however, I would be a good idea to get a solid accommodation agreement beforehand. Anyway, I hope to make another post soon.
Best regards,
Ott Vanem
FT-III
I am a third year physiotherapy student doing practices in Toledo, Spain. This is the first time I am writing here.
To begin with, I would like to say that Toledo is wonderful. Despite the autumnish weather and some problem with accommodation, it has still been a new and exciting adventure.
I arrived here on 19th of November. It was about 9 o´clock in the evening. I decided to take a taxi from the bus station. I had booked a hostel beforehand and when I got there, the doors were already closed. I thought that I now I would be in deep trouble. But then, after some minutes of yelling, the owner finally heard me and showed me to my room. All was well. The next day I went to see the local Erasmus coordinators and in the evening checked out some flats. One of them was OK, but the catch was that I could move in on 1st December. So I spent some days in the hostel and then most of the time left in another hostel, that was a bit cheaper. On 1st December I moved into the appartment and it has been quite good. Although, there were loads of problems with accommodation. A few times I had no idea, whether I could stay another day in the hostel or not. Another funny thing is that the sam flat where I am living now was turned down for me twice. But now, everything is OK.
Speaking about the practice, it has been very good. Currently I am working in the Hospital Nacional de Paraplejicos. So far it has been a great learning and practicing experience. I think that this is enough for the first blog post here.
All in all, Toledo is a neat town and if anyone ist thinking about coming here as well, then I would definitely recommend it, however, I would be a good idea to get a solid accommodation agreement beforehand. Anyway, I hope to make another post soon.
Best regards,
Ott Vanem
FT-III
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Annika in Italy
12.11.2009
Hey everybody!
It has been a long time since I wrote about my life here. Time is flying very fast here and I like it, cause there is no possibilty to feel bored! Last week my friend invited me for a launch with his family. It was very nice experience, food was typical from Italy – pasta with tomatoes and ofcourse – cheese. There was a lot of food, so that day, I did`nt want to eat dinner… And ofcourse after launch his father offered me grappa, different grappas.. Im not very big fan of strong alcohol, but I took a bit, just for the taste. Here in Italy they drink grappa after eating, just a little bit for digestion. And during the launch they also asked what we are eating Estonia and what we are drinking. For them it`s very strange that estonians and people from northern countries in general drink a lot of strong alcohol, like vodka… They told me, that it`s probably becasue of the cold weather.
It`s good that weather here is warm, 15 degrees in the day, so it`s perfect for me, I can jogg in the park and don`t have to wear heavy clothes and boots. So probably, when I go home on the 15 of december I`ll have a weather-shock.
Hey everybody!
It has been a long time since I wrote about my life here. Time is flying very fast here and I like it, cause there is no possibilty to feel bored! Last week my friend invited me for a launch with his family. It was very nice experience, food was typical from Italy – pasta with tomatoes and ofcourse – cheese. There was a lot of food, so that day, I did`nt want to eat dinner… And ofcourse after launch his father offered me grappa, different grappas.. Im not very big fan of strong alcohol, but I took a bit, just for the taste. Here in Italy they drink grappa after eating, just a little bit for digestion. And during the launch they also asked what we are eating Estonia and what we are drinking. For them it`s very strange that estonians and people from northern countries in general drink a lot of strong alcohol, like vodka… They told me, that it`s probably becasue of the cold weather.
It`s good that weather here is warm, 15 degrees in the day, so it`s perfect for me, I can jogg in the park and don`t have to wear heavy clothes and boots. So probably, when I go home on the 15 of december I`ll have a weather-shock.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Back to Portugal...an returning to Tallinn :)
Hi again!
Last week we made another trip, but this time to our country. We left Tallinn with 5degrees and went by ferry to Helsinki in a very troubled trip because the weather was unstable.
We arrived to Helsinki in the morning and spent all day visiting the beautiful squares, streets and buildings and in the evening we met our portuguese friends, Chico and Horácio that are in Erasmus too.
After 5 hours flying we arrived to Portugal and although it wasn’t sunny, the weather was warmer than in Estonia and Finland. We left our luggage at home and went to Bairro Alto, one part of Lisbon that is really good to meet all friends and have a lot of fun.
We had been with our parents that cooked us the typical Portuguese food and have drunk lots of coffee, things that we missed a lot in this two months. In the last day there, we went to Coimbra, the student’s city, where was a big students party. It’s call “Latada” and lasts 3 days. We watched some concerts from nacional and international singers, sang and danced all night. One part of this party is a really funny procession of students with some costumes that we had opportunity to saw.
In the return we brought some typical food in the luggage and in the first night in Tallinn we made a Portuguese dinner with our friends. We made a codfish dish which they really liked.
We can´t forget mentioning the Halloween night in the last weekend. We went to Olde Hansa, a medieval restaurant in the Old Town, and when we were having dinner we saw many people in Town Hall square with scary costumes , make up and crazy expressions. Was really different from what we are used to because in Portugal we don’t celebrate to much this date.
After dinner we went to a Halloween’s party in a friend’s house and the decoration included a head and a heart of a pig, some paintings with “blood” in the walls and off course the characteristic pumpkins.
Yesterday we came back to the practices in the Hospital and in the morning we received a good news: Our Coordinators accepted our proposal and we will have the Conventional Radiology practices in Tallinn, so it means that we will be in the capital until the beginning of January, thing that make us really happy, because we are enjoying very much being here.
Tervisecks!
Dri and Mimi
Last week we made another trip, but this time to our country. We left Tallinn with 5degrees and went by ferry to Helsinki in a very troubled trip because the weather was unstable.
We arrived to Helsinki in the morning and spent all day visiting the beautiful squares, streets and buildings and in the evening we met our portuguese friends, Chico and Horácio that are in Erasmus too.
After 5 hours flying we arrived to Portugal and although it wasn’t sunny, the weather was warmer than in Estonia and Finland. We left our luggage at home and went to Bairro Alto, one part of Lisbon that is really good to meet all friends and have a lot of fun.
We had been with our parents that cooked us the typical Portuguese food and have drunk lots of coffee, things that we missed a lot in this two months. In the last day there, we went to Coimbra, the student’s city, where was a big students party. It’s call “Latada” and lasts 3 days. We watched some concerts from nacional and international singers, sang and danced all night. One part of this party is a really funny procession of students with some costumes that we had opportunity to saw.
In the return we brought some typical food in the luggage and in the first night in Tallinn we made a Portuguese dinner with our friends. We made a codfish dish which they really liked.
We can´t forget mentioning the Halloween night in the last weekend. We went to Olde Hansa, a medieval restaurant in the Old Town, and when we were having dinner we saw many people in Town Hall square with scary costumes , make up and crazy expressions. Was really different from what we are used to because in Portugal we don’t celebrate to much this date.
After dinner we went to a Halloween’s party in a friend’s house and the decoration included a head and a heart of a pig, some paintings with “blood” in the walls and off course the characteristic pumpkins.
Yesterday we came back to the practices in the Hospital and in the morning we received a good news: Our Coordinators accepted our proposal and we will have the Conventional Radiology practices in Tallinn, so it means that we will be in the capital until the beginning of January, thing that make us really happy, because we are enjoying very much being here.
Tervisecks!
Dri and Mimi
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