Gular Mikayilli: “I gained a lot of useful information and skills for my future career.”

Gular Mikayilli, a student of Finance Department at Baku Engineering University (BEU), has participated in the Erasmus + exchange program funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

During the semester BEU student did not only study subjects related to International business but also did the internship in the Sprachen/Internationales Department. These experiences taught her so valuable knowledge, information and skills which would be very beneficial and helpful in her future career.

BEU student, who took an active part in the exchange program, said that this period was the most interesting 6 months of her life and shared her impressions about it. Noting that coming to Germany before the exchange semester was one of her biggest dreams, G.Mikayilli decided to apply for  this program when she saw the announcement of the exchange semester at RheinAhrCampus: “When I arrived in Remagen unfortunately university, shops, cafes, almost everything was closed. At first, everything seemed difficult. But as time passes everything got easier, more enjoyable, and more interesting. I was lucky because I was living with Korean exchange students. It was nice and interesting to live with them. After a while, we started to meet with other exchange students and things got much more fun. It is interesting to meet with students from overseas, got to know new people, new cultures, new languages, spend time together and have fun”.

Gular added that she improved her German here and spoke about what their visits to German cities, as well as to Greece and Netherlands: “I love traveling, but due to the pandemic, we could not travel for a long time. But in the last months as things were going back to normal we met more with the other students and we even started to go to nearby cities and countries for traveling. We had a trip to Schwarzwald, the astonishing place for its endless forests as well as to some other German cities such as Hamburg and Berlin. Additionally, we travelled to Greece in the last weeks, where we enjoyed the sun, beach, and food so much. In Greece I swam in the sea for the first time in my life. We also had a trip to Amsterdam. We went to the Van Gogh museum and saw plenty of amazing paintings of Van Gogh”.

G.Mikayilli considered herself very lucky and happy that she met and made friendships with really kind and nice people from all over the world. She thanked the Sprachen/Internationales team and exchange students, and everyone else for making her semester unforgettable and irreplaceable: “Recently I noticed that I was using the sentence “It is my first time (doing something)” during this semester .It is proof that I tried a lot of things for the first time in my life there such as staying away from my home, the first time swimming in the ocean, the first time doing camping and a lot more. I think the one who reads this student experience you should go to exchange semester. One more tip for the next exchange students is to know the value of every moment, to join all activities, events, and parties, not to sleep early, not to miss any moment. Because after the semester ends you will miss every single detail of it”.

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