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More than half a year ago I decided to start blogging just to tell stories about a nice period in my life and my post-Erasmus experiences. I called the blog 'Erasmorphosising Europe' being proud of creating a previously unexisting word and a concept as well. Although I never wrote about the absolutely great time that I had as an Erasmus student in the pasta and pizza homeland, I posted a few experiences during my hitchhike travels to Poland, including a pretty harsh post about the Hungarians evoking their anti-Romanian history. I eventually erased them. Anyway, it's almost clear that the blog had no history, as I am also not very fond of this kind of literature (still). Now, however, since it seems that I'm going to continue living abroad, I'm starting to consider it an useful tool to share happy moments, frustrations and other experiences with faraway friends. After all, I have been bragging that my stay in Poland is almost like a second Erasmus scholarship, from the fun point of view. First of all I considered changing the concept, making the title ambivalent - obviously, it's not only about me 'Erasmophosising' Europe, it's also about me getting changed.
Let's all see if it works out fine this time. Obviously, I need your help, since I'm not planning to be a narcissistic writer. Or at least not anymore, because up to now I've been pretty shy about all the kinds of literature I wrote.

What is Erasmophosis?

What the... is Erasmorphosis? What kind of blog is this, you might ask yourselves...

First of all, who is Erasmus? Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a late 15th century Dutch humanist and theologian, born at Rotterdam. This guy did a lot of studying, traveling and writing. But that's another story, anyway.

So, what is Erasmus? A lot of things. But when I think about Erasmus I think about 6 wonderful months of my life. I think about Erasmus as this extraordinary mobility programme that after 500 years decided to revigorate the desideria of Erasmus of traveling while studying, or vice versa, studying while traveling.

Erasmorphosis? What kind of word is this?
Sooner or later we''ll all erasmorphosise, I'm telling you! We'll all get the big picture that Europe is nothing but a huge country with different regions and dialects...