The Malta experience

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Hometown Marsaskala

The time has passed so quickly. One month and one day in Malta has been full of different experiences: the warm(but soon hot) Subtropical–Mediterranean climate, different culture and people, interesting places and having clinical placements in a completely new environment. All the days are different, because in Malta you can never be sure that everything goes like you have planned.

But so far everything has worked out pretty good. I have finished my first placement in clinical imaging department- MRI(Magnetic Resonance Imaging). 

The GE 1,5 Tesla MRI scanner and the console/work table

All the placements are in the main hospital in Malta, Mater Dei Hospital. At the moment I have placement in RNI- Radionuclide imaging(Nuclear Medicine).

On the left the main entrance and the round roof of the clinical imaging departments reception. On the right the other side of the hospital and entrance of the day care patients.

There has also been time to go round the Malta main island and visit some interesting and beautiful places. 

Love for football- World Cup 2014 qualifier Malta 0:2 Italy. Unlucky score for the Maltese, it could have been 2:2.

St. Sebastian´s Parish Church in Qormi

Il-Kalanka, a bay in Delimara

Fisher village Marsaxlokk

First swimming in the Mediterranean sea, 19.03.2013

Emblem of the Estonian city Türi. Türi and Marsaskala are friends.

The streets of Valletta, the capital of Malta

St Thomas Tower, built in 1614.

There are a lot of lizards

Need some salt? From here you can collect it

A boat called luzzu coming out of a cave in Blue Grotto

I like this blue and clear water

Blue Grotto

Boats at the Blue Grotto

This is a little summary of my Malta experience in one month. But there will be more!

Enjoy the spring in Estonia, I will miss it.. :D

Kristjan Noormets

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Finishing my practice in Rimini Ospedale.

Hi again!

So now I will write a little bit about my last practice. So the last practice was geriatria as I said earlier. There was a lot of Italian students in that unit. None of them were on the third year like me, so I got to do a lot more things than they (although I couldn't speak Italian so well).

The staff trusted me a lot. I could do everything alone, they weren't next to me when I was performing some sort of procedures. Although sometimes I asked them to be there, because the patients were asking me questions that I couldn't answer so...I wanted some extra help.

This was the only unit where the staff didn't speak English that well. Still we managed, because my Italian got better and etc etc, but it was still very strange that they didn't speak English because most of the workers there were very young people. But they told me that the English language classes are not very good in Italy and for that reason they can't speak English well.

I became friends with all of the staff members and the students as well, we still keep in touch on Facebook. I got a good evaluation from them, they were very happy with my practicing. All three tutors that I had told me to take Italian language courses in Estonia, get better at it, and then come back to Italy, to work in their unit, because in their opinion I will be a great nurse, who fits into the staff very well, because I get along with people really good. I was very happy to hear them say these things =)

So finally my practices were done and I was free at last! The sad thing was that my practices took so long that most of the Erasmus students started leaving right after I had finished my practices, so we only had like a week together. Still we got to do a lot of thing in that week, we were together every day, every night.

I'm extremely happy that I met those people, they were ALL perfect. There was not even one person who I didn't like. They were so adorable. And now I have the map of Europe on which we marked all the countries and cities that I can visit any time. This is an amazing feeling, having friends from different parts of the world. When I had to say goodbye to them it was very hard for me, because I felt like I have to leave my family. We will meet again, we made a promise to each other. But that will happen next year, when we will have our Rimini Erasmus reunion.

I will add some pictures of these beautiful people, so you can also see my international family =)

I started missing these people the moment they went on the train and I believe I will miss them until the day we meet again. Some people just steal your heart, and I don't mind at all! I am so grateful that I met them, I am so grateful that my Erasmus experience was so amazing...I'm a very lucky person, VERY...

Maarja from Rimini, Italy

A "must-see" place-Firenze.

Florence (Firenze)  is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants. Florence is famous for its history. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.

When my Italian friends heard that I haven't visited Firenze they didn't loose any time-they booked the train tickets for the next morning and told me to pack my bags and be in the station in the early morning.

I went there with one Italian boy and a girl from Poland. Since it had been very hot for a very long time, it meant that there won't be any air in Firenze. It was super crowded, tourists everywhere! No air, no room, sweating like an animal...It was the perfect tourist-day! 

The city was a-ma-zing!!! The building, the little details on the sealing, doors, windows...incredible. Every streets was offering something to photograph. The Polish girl had made a list of the things that we have to visit, so the Italian boy just dragged us around the city. We saw all the places we wanted and so much more! We even took the bus to the hills to have a look on Firenze from the top, it was...well I really can't put it into words. Words are not enough here...

Have a look yourself:

Oh Italy, why do you have to be so pretty? 

Maarja from Rimini