When I arrived in KI, one of the things that most surprised me was how kind everyone was, taking care of me, trying to make sure that everything was perfect for me. But not only at the beginning but also during the full year, I was really impressed by how nice and welcoming everyone was towards us students. Teachers were always very close to us and KI invited us to several events (dinners, saunas..) along the year, in the different courses I took.

I consider I was very lucky in the accommodation issue as well, since I got to be provided a room in a student residence for the whole time. But as I said, I was a lucky one, because in fact, a lot of my friends there had a lot of problems with finding a stable place where to live, since they were given anything.

I had wanted to participate in an Erasmus or any other exchange international program from the very first moment that I entered University. I have always thought that it is a great opportunity not only to get to know new people, how everything works in another country and learning or improving a foreign language, but also because I think it makes people maturate a lot and grow up psychically.

And why did I choose Stockholm and KI? I actually have quite a lot of reasons: because of KI's reputation and importance in the Biomedical world, it was an incredible opportunity for me to study for 10 months in such a prestigious institution; besides this, because I was very attracted by Northern Europe countries and I had heard very good comments about Stockholm in particular, another reason for my decision of going to Stockholm was the language as I would be able to take all my courses in English, which is the language that I was interested in improving the most.

This has been the first time I participate on an exchange program, and my time in Stockholm and KI have been the best experience. I'm sure going there was the best option since I got to learn a lot, and not only in medical aspect.

When I started my courses in Stockholm I soon realized that Swedish way of studying is quite different to the Spanish one. Here in Spain everything is much more theorist, I spend just a few hours in the hospital every week for my practices but then study for the rest of the day. But in Stockholm I spent 8 hours per day in the hospital and was allowed to do so many things that I actually got to learn a lot more that with studying during all those hours.

It was really interesting experiencing this different, more practical way of learning, which I actually consider much better than the one I was used to.