Erasmus is the best experience a student can have in his/her life. I didn't know about it until I actually attended this program. It truely proved to be a life changing experience for me. I feel myself lucky to experience my Erasmus in METU because it's Turkey's best university and I'm proud to have been part of it. Life in METU was amazing. For 4 months, life was under my control. I used this opportunity to explore my strengths and overcome my weaknesses. In these 4 months I learned what I couldn't learn in the past 20 years of my life. I would also like to share some of my achievements during my stay in turkey. I learned turkish language through a beginner level course which made it easier to communicate with locals and share cultural information. I love travelling so I visited around 16 cities of turkey during my stay. Each rich in it's own history and traditions. I also participated in a language learning program which is called Tandem. In which 2 native speakers of 2 languages exchange knowledge and help each other to practice those languages with each other and help each other learn that language better. The administration and faculty in METU is very well trained and cooperative. Most of my instructors had their degrees from USA and Australia. In each course I took, I experienced a different teaching methodology and the classes were really interesting. I could hardly convince myself to skip a class when I was sick. After coming back, I shared those methodologies with my instructors and hopefully they will improve the lessons here too.
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