Agnes Kuhn travelled all the way down from Stuttgart, Germany, to study medicine in the western Romanian city of Timisoara. 26-year old Agnes is a fourth-year student with the \u201cVictor Babes\u201d Medicine and Pharmacy University. Timisoara was love at first sight, and that\u2019s why she chose to study here.<\/p>\n
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Agnes Kuhn: \u201cTo be honest, I wanted to study medicine for a long time, since I was six years old, but my average in school was not that good, and for Germany you need to have a very high average so I started looking around, where I can study, in Hungary, in Romania and finally a friend of mine, he came to Romania and he said it\u2019s very good here and I should come to see how it is and how it works in Romania. I was here for a lecture, and I liked it, so I tried to ask my parents, and they said yes, and I liked the city, when I came here it was summer, everything, all the flowers were growing, it was really colorful, Piata Unirii, Piata Operei, then I even saw a German opera, which I also liked, because I\u2019m German, and my dad was here too and he was surprised, he had a different view of Romania and he saw the beauty of it\u2026 \u201c <\/em><\/p>\n
Four years into her medical studies Agnes Kuhn believes Romania\u2019s educational system is very good, at least as far as medicine is concerned, and that, because the practical stage here began earlier than in her home country, Germany. In her attempt to adapt to Romania, what helped her a lot was the fact that Romanians are more open, more welcoming than the Germans, which made it easier for her to meet other people.<\/p>\n
Agnes Kuhn: \u201cI think I adapted a little bit, and I think it gave me another impression of other people, it sounds a little bit strange, but where I was living, there were only Germans, there are some people with other backgrounds, most of them are actually Germans, all my friends\u2026and since I\u2019m here, I have met different people with different cultures, different traditions, and we also\u2026for example, in the first year, there was someone from India, someone from Germany, someone from France, and we met, and every time we made a dinner, from each country, you know\u2026and you got to learn different cultures, different food, how they talk, how they behave, so I think it was quite good to come here to Romania. I think I got another experience than I would have had in Germany. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n
Although her command of Romanian is not so good for the time being, Agnes Kuhn told us she began to make sense of Romanian better and better, and for her, Timisoara has become her second home. <\/p>\n
Agnes Kuhn: \u201cWhen I\u2018m going to the shop, I have a shop right around my corner, where I\u2019m living, and they\u2019re always greeting me very nicely, like, \u2019buna ziua, draga, ce bei?\u2019 and it\u2019s a little bit like family, they already know my name, we have some small talk in Romanian, and I feel like I speak Romanian, yes, and\u2026for example, my neighbors, they\u2019re always very helpful, most of them are very old, they invite me for tea, it\u2019s more like a family feeling. In Germany, we have neighbors, but we don\u2019t see each other, we don\u2019t really know each other, I feel kind of isolated now, because I know how it is here in Romania, maybe it\u2019s not everywhere like here, but where I\u2019m living, it\u2019s like a family. I need it, because I don\u2019t have a family here, I have my friends here but I don\u2019t have my parents here, I\u2018m a family person, so this is quite a compensation for me, it\u2019s a good experience. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n
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