Wikis and thoughts

It is almost time that we all meet in Pori! Now I am really looking forward to meet you all and share my experience with you. I am ready to learn as much as I can from this MINE program regarding other countries and also about their health care systems and courses.

Regarding the Wiki links it was very useful since it has included all the important aspects about the participating countries. Since this year the MINE program will be held in Finland, I had mostly read the page that talks about Pori. It was great to learn some general information about Pori and their University. The part about the activities in Pori was useful since therefore we can plan beforehand want we can do in our free time. In Malta the weather is much more warmer than it is in the other participants countries, thus the part about the clothing was very helpful. We had bought our thermals and ski boots and jackets since we do not use them here However, it will be fun to see how we will look in all those layers of clothing and I am sure that we will laugh about it :) The Finnish phrases were fun to learn and try and pronounce them, and they will be helpful since we can communicate a bit in Finnish using these simple words.
The other pages about the other countries were also good to look at since then we can already know a bit about the other countries.

The disadvantages of the Wiki are that it is not easily accessibly by every student that is going to Erasmus but only to those in the MINE program and also it is not an easy site to find on the internet. Another thing is that it is not user friendly because it is not that well organized and it is just boring looking at all the text it has with no pictures or anything even though it has very useful information as already stated. Therefore since this WIKI has good information that can help Erasmus students to choose were they are going to study I think that it is useful if this site is regularly updated and also that it will be available to every Erasmus exchange student.

Now since the MINE program is only a few days away, we have the program and the handbook is our hands thus we can already know what we will have to do and what is waiting for us and therefore we can prepare ourselves. I am really excited for this new experience and can't wait to be in Pori now =]

Tomorrow we will start our journey from Malta to Finland!