ERASMUS MUNDUS JOURNALISM, MEDIA,AND GLOBALIZATION 2017-2019 BLUE BOOK CONTRIBUTORS

Editors Design Team Photo Alix Couvelaire Aakriti Dhawan Gabrielė Niekytė Design Jacob Nicholas Anne-Kirstin Berger Mustika Hapsoro Isabeau van Halm Sarah Jenkins Writing Shubham Kaushik Siân Kavanagh Shubham Kaushik Writing Team Anna Kate Artioli Photo Team Jacinta Molina Aashi Bhati Lucía Camblor Cecilia Arregui María José Villanueva Gabrielė Niekytė Mustika Hapsoro He Zhang Nada Abouelssad Juan Carlos Gómez Henríquez Rabiu Alhassan Mustika Hapsoro Sarah Jenkins Rocío Valderrábano Shameem Ara Sheuli Yohan S.R. Lee CONTENT Surviving Aarhus 009 BLUE BOOK / CLASS 17-19

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003 Welcome ENJOY!

Bridging by Bettina 004 and Inger Welcome to the erasmus mundus class of 2019 blue book!

Mundus ere we have collected some articles, what we could expect of the course when 005 infographic information, and insight into the none of us had any clue what was in store. Erasmus Mundus course for you to enjoy at your leisure. This year’s As we are starting to wrap up our own Blue HBlue Book is part autobiography, a snapshot Book, we look back at the Blue Books past Culture shocked of our lives to look back upon one day, as with a sense of belonging; we have made it 006 well as part love letter to Aarhus, Denmark, to Aarhus and started to carve our own paths Danish hospitality, and the new Mundus along the Erasmus Mundus journey. chapters of our lives. Do it like the Danes! So, dear reader, whether you are a prospec- 007 When we were applying for Erasmus Mundus, tive student, alumni, or curious visitor to our the Blue Books were our glimpse into the Blue Book, please find within these pages lives of the people from the past classes, and a document that will give you a glimpse Gay what? LGBTQIA+ our way to gain an understanding of exactly into our lives as part of Erasmus Mundus. 008 what it was we were applying to become a We hope you find the information helpful, part of. and that you maybe learn something about Erasmus Mundus, Aarhus, or about us, the When we were accepted onto the course, students, along the way. Enjoy your journey the Blue Books became our point of contact through the Blue Book, we have all put a for current students, and a way to figure out little bit of ourselves in it just for you. “One of Aarhus Festival’s most important tasks is to establish new connections, and by building bridges we will be able to stage spaces and settings for the good meeting, burgeoning communities, new city life and novel experiences. Connecti- vity and correlation creates trust and overview for the Festival guest, the citizen and the city, which is something we will work on in both a small and large scale.” The Executive director of the Aarhus Festival Rikke Øxner elaborates on the background of the Bridging theme Bettina

The Aarhus Festival has been an annual event since This is a very special and vibrant group! Even before Andersen 1965. The special theme - “Bridging” chosen for the course start we could sense a distinct curiosity, engage- Aarhus Festival from 2017-20 is a perfect match for our ment and energy that worked fast to bridge across the Erasmus Mundus Journalism programme. Since 2005 38 different cultures to form a united and well-working Mundus Journalism has been bridging students, alumni group. This colourful group has a special open-minde- and staff across countries and cultures! dness and willingness to listen and learn from each other – to bridge the different (cultural) perspectives Mundus Journalism has built strong bridges and has – in order to understand, discuss and handle the future created spaces and settings for the good meeting. The challenges across the world. They vividly engage in very special connectivity and correlation among our discussions on democracy and freedom of speech and students, staff and alumni has created a thriving and believe in education across cultural borders in order trustful community – a special Mundus family! Our Mu- to become better journalists that can cover the diverse ndus family embraces 500+ alumni, 100+ staff members and complex topics of the new world. and more than 100 different nationalities. We wish them all a bright future! And please be reas- With this special 2017-19 Blue Book, we want to warmly sured that Mundus Journalism will always be a bridge BRIDGING welcome 93 fantastic students into our Mundus family! over troubled waters…

Inger Munk

The Aarhus Festival Poster 2017 is created by the Finish artist Annu Kilpeläinen (https://aarhusfestuge.dk/en/) MUNDUS INFOGRAPHIC 58% DO NOT 20% SMOKE SMOKE WHEN DRUNK 23% Survey was presented to the hold of SMOKE 2017-2019 Erasmus Mundus students, 80 out of 92 students shared their answers.

4% MARRIED IN A COMMUTE 69% 3% RELATIONSHIP 74% LIVING WITH 3% PARTNER BY BICYCLE SINGLE IN A ARE LONG-DISTANCE 23% RELATIONSHIP 15% TAKE 10% A BUS WALK 24% 41% NEUTRAL SLIGHTLY OR INDENTIFY AS FOR STRESSED DENMARK MOVING TO LGBTQA+ 24% VERY STRESSED 35% VERY FEEL MORE OR CALM LESS SETTLED 58% AFTER A MONTH

DRINK 54% 71% ARE HAPPY WITH THE EXPERIENCE SO FAR 25% DRINK OCCASIONALLY The culture challenge The reasons When you make any big How nervous did you feel about moving Dealing with it By accepting our places in Most experts in intercultural changes in your life, es- to Aarhus before leaving for Denmark? Mundus Journalism, we ac- communication agree that pecially an international 24% 17% 26% 16% ReflectReflect with yourself! cepted our positions as tra- the basic cause of cultural move, you will experience 7% Journal or document your velers for the next two years. shock is the abrupt loss of disturbances in your perso- process. Make time to medi- As travelers we get to expe- the familiar, which in turn nal life. There is no need to tate or exercise. Give yourself rience a great privilege by causes a sense of isolation fret, however, as with time Average space to process everything leaving our home countries, and diminished self-im- to adjust, a good understan- 4,78 out of 10, you’ve been taking in the but immersing ourselves into portance. “Cultural shock,” ding of culture shock, and with 1 very calm and 10 past few weeks. a new country, culture, and says anthropologist Kalvero a support system of friends overcome with nerves lifestyle can also be extreme- Oberg, “is brought on by and colleagues, you will find ly draining. Culture shock is the anxiety that results from yourself adjusting to your FindFind your fun - it is impor- an inevitable part of moving losing all our familiar signs new culture in no time. How settled do you feel now after a tant to nurture yourself by to any new country, and month of living in Aarhus? doing something that makes refuses to discriminate who you happy regularly. Make it affects; you can be a seaso- 3 peolpe are 4%. CULTURE SHOCKED feeling homesick sure to set time aside for fun, ned traveler, or 50 years old, whatever that may be for and you will still experience An introduction to reasons and strategies to 15% you. the difficulty of adjusting to a Average new country. cope with the feeling of being alien. By Siân Kavanagh, UK 6,76 out of 10, BeBe awareaware - if you know what What a culture shock with 1 being very homesick and 10 being ready 25% to expect, then you will feel can feel like to stay here forever more prepared for it if (or and symbols of social inter- when) it you experience your Culture shock is an abstract course. These signs or cues bad Culture Shock days. term that is easy to talk include the thousand and 38% about, but hard to identify one ways in which we orient within ourselves or our lives, ourselves to the situation PlanPlan ahead by understan- since there are many com- of daily life: when to shake ding what calms you down in pounding variables which hands and what to say when 20% stressful situations; prepare are encompassed as culture we meet people; how to an emergency plan or box shock. Easy tasks, such as make purchases; when to 16 peolpe are . ready to stay with your favourite movie, making a phone call, picking accept and when to refuse pictures, songs, food – wha- up a package, or finding your invitations; when to take tever helps you feel better, way around the city on the statements seriously and plan for the bad days, and bus, all of a sudden can feel when not.” how to make yourself feel overwhelming and impos- better during them. sible.

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By Shubham Kaushik, India, photo by Wentao Lu

It’s a lot less stressful than it seems

Keeprience! makes for agreat bondingexpe of reading to bedonefor class online platforms andtheamount And ranting aboutinconsistent in thesamesituation asyou. get or findsomeonewhois it, for helpisgreat –you willeither Whichiswhyasking everything. feeling cluelessaboutgenerally tures, you aren’t theonlyone calmdiverse nationalities andcul- It alsohelpsthat inaclassof are always there to save theday! in place andhelpfulclassmates any way, butthesupportsystems a change, andnot asmallone in tionately stressful. Itisdefinitely make thingsappear dispropor can country weeks inanew really The general chaosofthefirst few - - 24% of the Mundus Journalism students identify as LGBTQIA+, with the following sub-categories:* THE L G B T Q I A + 8% 11% 32% 11% 19% 32% A EXPERIENCE

You’ve accepted your out which is littered inclined to keep that embol- skin, express yourself how Most of the gay life is under- ake no mistake, your fate, made the trip and with a keyword dened letter on their chest you see fit and live your best ground. You are unlikely to Mtime in Denmark is what are in a hurry to settle from the sequence: hidden from the public eye. A life. In high anticipation, you see LGBTQIA couples walking you make of it. Romance, in your new home. Of few (including may have searched hand-in-hand or friendship and memories of great concern, is the yours truly,) for “gay rights in Den- in the throes of the most fulfilling variety, all daunting identity game will throw mark”, as many of us public displays await you. The key to finding you must play to gather caution to the searched before you, of affection. The any one or all of these? Ma- clues about the adven- wind, spill the and sighed in great only gay club, king Danish friends. Danish ture ahead, moreso, tea and let relief. However, while G-Bar, is cozy, people are so welcoming and gauge how you’ll adjust you have it! In laws in Denmark do free before 12 quite instrumental in helping in the big, little (weird?) city Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, either case, there is respect legitimise non-heterosexu- and entertaining. However, you to discover treasures of of Aarhus. Queer, Intersex, Asexual for choice all-round. al lives, this is not always there may be less of a fami- people and places hidden in (LGBTQIA). It is not about represented in the social and liar community there; apps plain sight. Be open, willing n the shadows of the scores frivolous wonder but an s an international stu- cultural scenes in Aarhus. such as Grindr or Tinder, to mingle, drink a few beers Iof students who converge understandable desire to Adent, especially if you’re The city is home to many in- become your best friend; and and let your flag fly (no under the elite banner of seek out familiar grounds on from a country where tensi- teresting and diverse events, the local June/July gay pride pressure) - and soon you will Mundus Journalism, is a which to forge relationships ons are still high around the as well as a haven of multiple parade will likely have hap- socialise your way into the minefield of ‘who’s who’. that much easier. Unfor- LGBTQIA reality (like yours cultures and identities, but pened by the time you arrive. life changing experience you Each face has a story but tunately, most Mundusians truly), it becomes second it is no Copenhagen when it So much for a crash course in truly deserve. there is no control+F to find (at least in our case) will be nature to feel safe in your comes to basic gay pride. gay hygge! By Yohan S.R. Lee, Jamaica

*This survey data is taken from 80 out of 92 Mundus students. 24% equals 19 students. FIND YOUR WAY SURVIVING THE FIRST WEEKS OF AARHUS IN AARHUS

MUSTIKA HAPSORO USEFUL LINKS INDONESIA AARHUS STUDENTERHUS AARHUS FESTUGE AARHUS INTERNATIONALS

STUDENT HOUSING MIDTRAFIK AARHUS DSB

Don’t be discouraged by the Danish The Erasmus Mundus Journalism experience is a great opportunity to meet new people from all weather, we’ll all get used to it... eventually! over the world in the same field of work as you. You could make some life-long friends and partners during your study here, and it is important that you are open to doing so. Take advantage of the events and parties organised by The first few weeks of settling in somewhere new may prove difficult. Student House Aarhus, also try to get in touch No matter how accustomed you are to moving, some find it takes a with your dorm mates and Dane classmates. while to find their bearings. Good news for you, as an international Don’t be afraid to ask questions. As a new student at Aarhus University you will be well taken care of. Here are To get around the city and immerse yourself in true student, things may be quite confusing for you a few tips from my experiences that hopefully ease your transition to Danish culture, you definitely need to bike! The since you’re not yet used to the routine of your Aarhus. bus is another option to get around, but keep in mind new country. Don’t be discouraged by the Danish that night buses only operate during the weekend. A weather, we’ll all get used to it... eventually! lot of events and social gatherings“ occur during the One of the first, if not most important, things you Once you’ve been offered housing, take it! weekdays, and biking is the best way to travel. If you should do before you arrive is find a place to live. The Don’t be too concerned if it’s not located within the opt for the bus, get the periodkort as it will come in housing market in Aarhus is extremely competitive. university area because it’s rare that you will be very handy for the first few weeks in which you are O en, the demand for housing exceeds the supply. placed there. Student housing complexes usually still familiarising yourself with your new surround- Guaranteed accommodation from Aarhus University have a local grocery store, cafe, bar, sports centre, ings. is diicult, but the International Center will help with and other facilities that students need. Until you get that. If you receive accommodation via AU Housing, to know the city and how to get around, it is quite you get a furnished room which includes a bed, table, nice to live in an area that provides all of your needs. chair, lamp, and basic utensils and cutleries in the A er you’ve found a place to live, settle in! Make your kitchen. However, for those who didn’t apply via AU new place your own and decorate it. If IKEA isn’t Housing and opted for other housing websites may within your price range, a good tip is to scour the find themselves with an unfurnished room. I myself internet for second-hand goodies. The Aarhus applied through studenthousingaarhus.com due Internationals Facebook group is a great source to some mis-read information on the website, so of information for foreigners living in Aarhus. instead of enjoying the Aarhus Festuge with new classmates, I spent the first few days sorting out furniture. Photos by Gabrielė Niekytė by Photos MUNDUS MAP FIND YOUR COUNTRY AND MEET US

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MELANIE RAIDL SHAMEEN ARA SHEULI FROM AUSTRIA, GOING TO AMSTERDAM FROM BANGLADESH, GOING TO SWANSEA

23 years old 40 years old

German, Hungarian and English Bengali, English, Hindi, Basic French

Journalism & Communication Studies Mass Communication and Journalism

@ [email protected] / @meliraidl @ [email protected]

I am coming back to school stuff, I love to go upstairs gram and next to that two I came across the program- “ ” after 8 months of finishing to one of those big comfy blogs and 15 awards. Try me from one of the young my Ba- chairs, swing my legs on one to focus more on the little faculty My favourite quote is from Nelson Mandela. “It always seems chelor ‘s. of the tables and look exactly things that make you happy members impossible until it’s done”. However, straight down to the harbor and content, and don’t get from my I also worked as a full-time and the water. It is very com- anxious about having your university. He attended the editor at a daily newspaper. fy, since the sun (IF it is even life together. same programme few years It was very hard for me to le- out, in Denmark that’s a rare ago. But I could not decide ave the job and my boss was specialty) shines directly on Well, there have to apply. I was not even sure very shocked when I quit. I the harbor and you can see it been times I could be accepted. Last wanted to be in this program go down as well. where I just wished to travel year, I thought time was for more than two years, so the world as a fitness/yoga running out and it was now I want to do something that it was never a question of if Do not stress instructor and do sports with or never. Now here I am. could really I would take it, but I never out about having your life people all around the world. make a diffe- thought it would be so hard figured out at the age of 22. That’s because I love sports Life is full of opportunities, rence in people’s life, bring leaving everything behind. You do not have to be the and nature and it would be a so explore it. Sometimes some changes to society, However, I do not regret the perfect girl that has a job, a great alternative to sitting in you need to eliminate gender discrimi- decision at all! Now is the boyfriend, the best grades, 2 an office with my computer. come out from nation, reduce conflicts and time to do studies like this million followers on Insta- But sports journalism is also your comfort zone to test restore human rights. and to enjoy life and learn fun! your limits and know how new things, make friends far you can go. ... was the first around the world and to ex- day at DMJX. plore what life has for you. “Da hau i in Huat drauf” Definitely I was over- I’d be whelmed with I really fell It literally means “I throw the hat on it!” and is used when working joy to find myself among 94 in love with you are done with something, you have the results and in a media as a journalist students from 38 countries in Dokk1. When you can stop worrying. I like to say this when I try to moti- running after new stories. a room. there is a lot to read or study, vate myself about very hard tasks and I think to myself “… or if I just want to do private when you are done…you can finally throw the hat on it!” [email protected]

IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR NATIVE CELSO DE FREITAS FILHO LANGUAGE?

BRAZIL Camarão que dorme a onda leva “The shrimp who sleeps shall be taken by the wave”. I like it because it sounds good in Portuguese and reminds me IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, to stay focused WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE?

If I had the chance (and the money for it), I HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? WHAT DO YOU THINK DENMARK COULD LEARN FROM BRAZIL AND VICE VERSA? would definitely spend more of my time I applied for Erasmus Mundus a er failing to get writing. I chose journalism because I love into a Masters programme in International Danes could relax a bit their orderly habits and writing, and I have this anxiety to express what Relations in my home country. The fact that I put more spice on their food; Brazilians, on the I feel and experience in words. Maybe someday had worked as a journalist for two years other hand, could learn from Denmark in areas I will be able to write my first book. inspired“ me to pursue academic background on like welfare state and environment. journalism. As a matter of fact, I think I couldn’t WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY ANY SKILLS OR TALENTS YOU HAVE THAT WOULD IN AARHUS SO FAR? have chosen a better programme than EMJ SURPRISE OTHERS? when it comes to mixing my academic knowl- I play the guitar and other instruments, I can One of the things that most impressed me in edge in International Relations with my make good “caipirinha” and, in a distant past, I Aarhus was how you can experience urbanity professional background in journalism. AGE could breathe fire and do other circus arts 29 and the countryside in the same area. You can WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOURSELF [email protected] LANGUAGES PRT ENG ESP find yourself in the middle of the buildings FROM A YEAR AGO? WHAT WAS THE FIRST ‘TOURISTY’ BRAZIL DANIEL downtown while walking around, and one THING YOU DID IN AARHUS? ACADEMIC BA in International Relations WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? kilometer later, you can be surrounded by trees Some frustrations in life may turn out to be BACKGROUND BA in Journalism and charming little houses. One lovely memory positive. Not being able to achieve your plans Walking around downtown, running Media and Politics might be stressful and depressing at first, but SPECIALIZATION AMSTERDAM I already have here happened on a day when I by the beach. I guess my favourite was running in my neighborhood and realized with some eort and patience it is possible to spots so far are the Royal Danish

HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? that I was in the middle of the woods and achieve better stu later. A er all, you never Library and Mindeparken. WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOURSELF found this little farm with horses and goats, know what’s waiting for you around the corner. AVELAR FROM A YEAR AGO? which reminded me of my childhood. 23 AGE FRA ESP ENG PRT LANGUAGES Ever since I got my first BA in International IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? Relations in 2011, I wanted to do an MA abroad. ACADEMIC I’ve lived in Scotland as an exchange student in BA in International Relations I wouldn’t say a phrase but an expression. In BACKGROUND 2008, but felt like I needed a bigger experience

my state in Brazil, called Minas Gerais, we love WHAT WERE YOUR EXPECTATIONS COMING TO out of my country and out of my comfort zone. War and Conflict SPECIALIZATION GUIMARÃES to use the word “Uai” when we talk. It cannot DENMARK AND HOW HAS THE REALITY SWANSEA In 2012, I had to postpone my plans to do that be fully translated to English. It’s an expression MATCHED THIS? because I found a job as a reporter in Brazil. This that can be used in dierent situations – year, I finally got the courage to leave everything I expected cold weather, an expressing surprise, amazement, or simply to behind and come to Denmark. I’m very excited organized society and making new reinforce something. about the whole course (even with the everyday friends. Reality has matched and problems we face, such as the finances, the new exceeded my expectations. study routine, etc.) I really hope this journey will show me new paths in journalism and in my personal life. Uai If I could advise Celso from last year, I would say to him: don’t freak out! You cannot control your life 100%. In the end, you’re going to be just fine! “ ISABELA BONFIM JOSÉ GABRIEL NAVARRO FROM BRAZIL, GOING TO LONDON FROM BRAZIL, GOING TO HAMBURG

26 years old 28 years old Portuguese, Spanish, English and some French. Portuguese, English, German and Spanish Learning German now. Communication Science and Journalism Journalism, specialisation in Globalisation & Culture [email protected] @ @ [email protected]

I first heard about Mundus I can say this master’s suits cating myself to academic Like many decisi- be more global? If I Journalism in my last year me perfectly, because it studies, like a PhD. That’s a ons in my life, this could advise myself of ba- combines my professional second dream in my life and course resulted one year ago, it chelor’s and academic aspirations once I get tired of working as from an impulse. Since 2013 would be to be prepared for “My Name is Red”, by degree. with my personal goals and a journalist, I want to work as I’ve been freelancing while the high prices and the Kaf- Orhan Pamuk. I read it Since then, it was something lifestyle. a professor at the University traveling the world. I’ve kaesque state of Denmark. last year and I couldn’t I had in mind. I always wan- of Brasilia or a researcher help loving the characters: ted to be a finance/econo- I’d advise myself consultant at the Brazilian when I finished reading it, I mic journalist and I used to to read more in English, not Parliament, concerning the felt so bad because I would work for a major newspaper only news articles, but lite- field of Political Economy miss them. in Brazil, called Estadão. I rature and academic essays. and Development. “One who wasn’t born to annoy shouldn’t even be born at all”. covered politics and wrote I struggle daily during the It’s a catchphrase by Jorge Lafond (1952-2003), a Brazilian ac- “Tropicalia ou Panis et from inside the Brazilian classes with the fact that I The first touristic thing I did tor and drag queen. This phrase is about knowing that distur- Circencis” (1968). Great Parliament in Brasília. Still, can’t express in English all was a visit to the Deer Park bing people is important sometimes, to make yourself heard songs from an exquisite I wanted to go deeper in re- my academic, social and and a picnic at Marselisborg and to participate in society. Brazilian art movement in porting economics. I was de- political considerations in Palace’s the beginning of the worst cided to take a specialization the same level as I do in my gardens in been to 28 countries, but I don’t have a favourite phase of Brazil’s last dic- in economy or finance and mother language. late never stayed more than 3 memory in Aarhus, I strongly tatorship. Now art is being I was looking for a master’s summer. My favorite spot, months. Partially inspired by dislike this censored again in Brazil and program abroad. I decided I’d probably however, is the Moesgard a Brazilian friend who did an place, and the government is becoming to apply to City University be studying Museum. It’s not very popu- Erasmus Masters, I decided I think it is more and more dictatorial, through Mundus program. Political Economy and dedi- lar because it’s not in the city to finally apply for Mundus. crucial to make people know so it seems appropriate for center, but it is one of the I got the acceptance e-mail it, so they don’t feel like they those reasons too. “A gente dá um jeitinho.” best museums I’ve visited in the moment I arrived in are obligated to like it. But in whole Europe. I might be Bangkok Airport and got the every time I talk to a Mundi- I can eat Pizza every day ... is an informal and relaxed way of saying “we will find a way”. biased, concerning the fact Wi-Fi there: a Brazilian guy sian and get to know him/her until I die. It is the synthesis of the Brazilian culture of always finding a that I’m keen on the Viking discovering in Thailand that better is a precious moment. way to solve problems, cozily accommodate everyone and Age. he would study in Denmark I love to know people, their take it easy. later that year. Could that visions and motivations. [email protected]

IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE MÁRIO BRAGA YOU LIKE FROM YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? Never pet a burning dog BRAZIL “Never pet a burning dog”

WHAT IS YOUR DREAM PROFESSION? I’m going for a journalistic career in a broader sense: WHO IS YOUR DREAM COFFEE DATE? I’m not looking for a regular newsroom. I want to 24 AGE I have many: Aziz Ansari, Michael Longely, Mother combine it with an academic career, maybe a PhD. Teresa or any of my friends that I miss. ENG LANGUAGES I want to be able to write more analytical pieces. “ ACADEMIC Global Development Studies WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID IN AARHUS? BACKGROUND AND WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY IN AARHUS SO FAR? Media and Politics SPECIALIZATION IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, AMSTERDAM I’m not sure, but I think the first touristy thing I did WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? was go to the Infinity Bridge. The best memory is I would be either a Vintner, a farmer or a gathering everybody for the barbecue, and hanging writer. out in general with the Mundusians, having a good AGE 30 time together. LANGUAGES POR ENG ESP ACADEMIC BACKGROUND Journalism WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE YOURSELF A YEAR AGO?

Business and Financial Journalism SPECIALIZATION LONDON Just keep trying, don’t give up. It will work out.

IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? NATIVE LANGUAGE?

I believe it was a natural progression: I finished my “Liberdade — essa palavra que o sonho humano Bachelors six years ago, having had an internation- alimenta: que não há ninguém que explique, e HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF al experience during it, and in 2014 I started ninguém que não entenda”, by Brazilian poetess PURSUING THIS COURSE? applying for Masters, but I was always accepted Cecília Meireles [“Freedom — this word that the I was looking for Journalism MA programs in Europe KYLEE without a scholarship. I found EMJ in 2015, and I human dream nurtures: there is no one who online and this was one of the first ones that I found. was accepted but still without a scholarship, which explains, and no one who doesn’t understand”]. I finally got in 2016. I chose it because it is not only from my regional state, but it has to do with freedom, a universal value, and with the idea of pursuing your dreams. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE IN LIFE?

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To love others and be loved and read a lot of books. IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME PEDERSEN TO A YEAR AGO, WHAT PIECE OF ADVICE WOULD Liberdade — essa palavra que YOU GIVE YOURSELF? A good advice w ould be: “dw ell o sonho humano alimenta: WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID IN AARHUS? AND WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR in gratit ude and praise”. FAVOURITE MEMORY IN AARHUS/THE MUNDUS que não há ninguém que explique, PROGRAM SO FAR? e ninguém que não entenda Having a really great cappuccino outside on a crisp “ sunny day IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? Aperrados I think I’ll use a typical and colloquial Chilean expression to define what we, the 93 mundu- sians from this year’s generation, are. I think 生活不止眼前的苟且， we are “aperrados”, which in my country basically means to be brave. Why I think that? 还有诗和远方 Because not so many people take the risk of IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, leaving their comfort zone, their jobs, families, WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? friends for two years and travel to another Honestly, I can’t imagine myself in any other country to pursue an experience like the one IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM 34 AGE job or doing something di erent. Although we are living right now. But I believe there is so YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? much of the world to know and learn about being a 70 or 80’s rock musician is my “Live a more than desultory life, open arms ENG MAN LANGUAGES outside that comfort zone that I’m glad we had frustrated dream… just because I’m“ a huge fan to poems and distant lands.” the courage to take that risk of that music. Never stop the quest for new life. International Communications ACADEMIC WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID BACKGROUND IN AARHUS? WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? “ Journalism and Media across Cultures SPECIALIZATION AGE 29 Once I settled down, I did an Aarhus’ free HAMBURG walking tour, which is a perfect opportunity to LANGUAGES ESP ENG know part of the city highlights, like the ARoS ACADEMIC museum, the Møllenparken, and some of the BACKGROUND BA in Journalism city’s churches. However there are spots not included in the tour which, I think, are unique SPECIALIZATION Media and Politics AMSTERDAM as well as the Public Library (Dokk1), the Street Food area and the AU main Campus. HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOURSELF FROM A YEAR AGO? Since I finished my degree, I’d always wanted to pursue a master degree abroad but I wasn’t sure about what. For six years I looked through almost every university website from Europe and the U.S. At the beginning I wasn’t so sure because I thought a two year programme was too much time but then - when I was working in a very good position as a TV live reporter back

home - I realized this was the only course that IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME TO A YEAR fulfilled my expectations related to going deep AGO, WHAT PIECE OF ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE YOURSELF? as a journalist in an international context and Buy that water proof panst! Buy them idiot! with people from almost the entire world. This Learn some Danish. Be prepared to live a life isn’t just a course to improve your skills as a with great people! CHINA [email protected] journalist or only about international politics, HE

it’s a mixture of both and that really called my WHERE IS YOUR FAVOURITE STUDY SPOT SO FAR?

attention the most. If I would have had to give myself any advice one year ago, it would My dorm. Buses are so expensive. I like biking, but ZHANG definitely had been to apply for this master it rains a lot. Dorm becomes the first choice. programme for sure. CHILE IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE?

To become a pilot has always been my dream. JACINTA MOLINA INOSTROZA Feel free!

[email protected] QI TENG (CLEO) QIANCHAN FAN FROM CHINA, GOING TO AMSTERDAM FROM CHINA, GOING TO HAMBURG

22 years old 22 years old

Chinese, English Chinese, English and a little German.

Radio & TV Journalism Journalism @ [email protected] @ [email protected]

I just finished my bachelor Calm down, dear. knowledge of how to direct I moved “ ” degree at my university in Do your best a short film, and also how to Beijing, China this every day, and don’t leave to write an attractive story. capital of summer regrets. All things you want That’s really interesting and China, and did an internship It means that all the hard work would pay off - quite inspiring. so I think will come up finally at the makes me excited. in three different media, maybe I am adaptable to best time. When I play the cello, I including Reuters Beijing study life. But studying here always feel like the whole Bureau and XinhuaNet. That interested in the adventure years where summer lasts for is totally different from stu- world is in my melody. I am made me decide to continue of living and studying in a around 6 months every year dying in China - the style, the Maybe enjoyable and calm when I my study in journalism. And distant foreign country and with an average temperature mode, the content, etc. I am I would am with my “Dearest Little Erasmus Programme seemed meeting with lovely fellows of 30 centigrade. It was so really excited about all fresh like to be Princess” (my cello haha!). I to be a good choice. from all over the world. terrible. And Aarhus satisfied things and also enjoy a lot! a film director or a cellist. Be- think the sound of cello has the specific expectation of cause I really like movies (all a magic of narrative, which Enjoy the cheap but deli- Wandering in the central that. I felt quite relieved. kinds!) and classical music. is my most special feeling. cious dishes in Chinese res- area and enjoying the beau- I prefer to study at home I have learned some basic taurants as much tiful view of so far as you can. One the harbour. I’m not because I can never get used to Danish Spots: the sure if a notebook also think the food, especially the surpri- harbour, the huge lake on counts, but I’ll need to atmosphere in my room can “Wan Shi Sheng Yi.” singly high price of it. campus, the table tennis write some of my feelings, make me feel less nervous. I room in Royal library. ideas and experience down can concentrate on my work There is just like what I do in every when I am at home so I think The phrase is from one of my favorite books, and the author no other I was always looking forward ordinary day. I won’t be less efficient. By explains the meaning of this phrase as “Wish you get a result dream to living in a peaceful city the way, after I study for a little better than what you expect.” In the context of that programme for me except with cool weather and less Eason Chan’s album, a long time, I can play my book, this phrase is very sweet and warm. Now I would like this one. Actually, I did think popu- who’s a super popular cello for a while so it’s really to share this “Little but true happiness” wish to everyone in about working for a while lation, singer in China. enjoyable! our Mundus Family. before continuing to join a because I studied in a sou- master programme last year, thern Chinese city for 4 years Rice - I can’t live but I found myself more where summer lasts for 4 without rice. [email protected] 腹有诗书气自华 WENTAO LU

CHINA

IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, NATIVE LANGUAGE? WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM My mom kept telling me an old saying when I was a YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? TV editor, if I choose a normal career path. My kid, "腹有诗书气自华". It means ample reading dream job is to be a prop master. 讀一些詩吧。 makes one shine. Read more poems YOU ARE SENT INTO “EXILE AND YOU ARE ALLOWED ONE BOOK, ONE ALBUM, AND ONE FOOD FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE; WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

AGE IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING 22 I would choose to die. Just kidding! I would bring a MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? LANGUAGES CHI JAP ENG collection of Chinese ancient poetry for the book. For food, I would bring Guobaorou, a traditional dish I would be a poet then. ACADEMIC which is made of fried pork with a sweet and sour BACKGROUND Mass Media and Journalism sauce. I never get tired of it. I would choose the AGE 23 SPECIALIZATION Media and Politics album Black Dream, from DouWei, a Chinese rock AMSTERDAM singer in the 90s. LANGUAGES CHI ENG FRA WHO IS YOUR DREAM COFFEE DATE? ACADEMIC BA in Chinese-English WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID BACKGROUND translation and interpretation IN AARHUS? WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? I would like to meet Chai Jing (柴靜). A guided tour from the perspective of a SPECIALIZATION Journalism and Media across the Cultures HAMBURG homeless person.

HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE YOURSELF A YEAR AGO? MEMORY IN AARHUS SO FAR? WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOURSELF FROM A YEAR AGO? I found this master thanks to a friend who is Definitely the awesome friends I have made. I found this program on the University of enrolled in this program too. “Read the books you Amsterdam's site when I was looking for a bought!” would be a good advice. research master’s degree in Europe. I've been to Finland for summer school and found that I quite enjoyed the atmosphere there. If I could turn back time, I would work a year or two to gain some experience and apply for this program later. 讀一些詩吧。

CHINA MOHAN WANG [email protected] “ [email protected] 年轻时不大会有道德， JOANNE KUAI XIAOQIONG 道德是人慢慢变老时才逐渐穿戴上。 CHINA

WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID IN AARHUS? WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOURSELF IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR We went to Marselisborg Dyrehave to visit the FROM A YEAR AGO? NATIVE LANGUAGE? lovely deer. It’s great for a picnic in a nice weather and take a stroll by the sea later. The true beauty of life lies in its uncertainty, just 年轻时不大会有道德，道德是人慢慢变老时才逐 follow the voice within and go pursue your dream 渐穿戴上。 - Morality is like a coat, you only wear “ when you’re old. YOU ARE SENT INTO EXILE AND YOU ARE ALLOWED ONE BOOK, ONE ALBUM, AND ONE FOOD FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE; WHAT DO YOU CHOOSE? 28 AGE HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE?

I will take the collection of Mafalda, by Argentina KOR ENG MAN LANGUAGES I’m smarter than I thought. cartoonist Quino; the soundtrack of the movie The ACADEMIC Chorus; and Chinese food. BS in Business Journalism BACKGROUND AGE 28 WHO IS YOUR DREAM COFFEE DATE? LANGUAGES MAN CAN ENG POR Business and Financial Journalism SPECIALIZATION LONDON Ryuichi Sakamoto, at this moment ACADEMIC BACKGROUND TV directing and editing

Business and Financial Journalism IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, SPECIALIZATION LONDON WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY IN AARHUS/MUNDUS SO FAR? I want to be a housewife. Just kidding (or not). I would probably be studying film-making. Sitting on the beach in the dusk of the day, with a view of white sands, peaceful sea, floating clouds

HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? and clear sky in front you. Everything became WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOURSELF quiet with you. FROM A YEAR AGO? IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR It’s serendipity. Just kidding (or not). I studied NATIVE LANGUAGE? broadcasting journalism and have been working as 岂能尽如人意，但求无愧我心 - Everything is a journalist and an editor since. I chose this hard, until it’s easy. IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, program to deepen my academic and theoretical WHAT WOULD BE YOUR DREAM PROFESSION? knowledge. A year ago, I would tell myself to take it easy. Gardener

岂能尽如人意，但求无愧我心 CHINA XIYU CHEN “ [email protected] [email protected]

IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YUAN GAO YOU LIKE FROM YOUR NATIVE Chancer er ikke noget man far, LANGUAGE? CHINA Chances are not something det er noget man tager. you're daring, that's something you take. Hop ud I det, venner! Get out, friends!

IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE?

I always want to be a travel writer and this is the main reason why I apply for this HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? programme. If I wasn’t here, I think I would Through my school DMJX probably go for some literature study. But did not think about it. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE IN LIFE? AGE 25 Happiness and to make some kind of change in DEU ESP ENG DNK LANGUAGES the world –small or big WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY IN AARHUS SO FAR? “ BA in Journalism ACADEMIC BACKGROUND WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE AGE 23 Visiting ARoS I guess. So far I really enjoy the MEMORY IN AARHUS/MUNDUS SO FAR? library in Aarhus, especially DOKK1. First of all, LANGUAGES CHN ENG War and Conflict SPECIALIZATION as long as I’m super careful not to destroy the SWANSEA Seeing people from all over the world ACADEMIC BA in International Journalism facilities, I can have food in the library! That’s embracing and loving my beautiful city BACKGROUND and Communication really something unimaginable in China. Also, Aarhus. SPECIALIZATION War and Conflict there are some recreation stu in the library, SWANSEA like Ping Pong and massage chair, which is WHO IS YOUR DREAM COFFEE DATE? awesome! And the best part about Dokk! Is the

HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? comfortable seats with stunning sea views! It J.K. Rowling just turns all my su erings into some enjoyable Actually I’m sort of struggling right now because recreation! it is very di erent from the education system in WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOURSELF FROM A YEAR AGO? China. Lots of readings and group assignments. I‘m still trying to find balance between the study Don’t Stress. It will all work out in the end. and my own life. Also, everything is in English, IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR which I’m not really familiar with. I just cannot NATIVE LANGUAGE? contribute that much in the discussion, which Nothing good comes easy. This is the motto of make me depressed a lot. I would say that IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND my life. Every time when I feel life is tough, I JOURNALISM, WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM prepare yourself mostly mentally. Get ready to will just tell myself I’m actually making some PROFESSION BE? feel depressed, homesick and lonely. If you do progress. feel so, that’s fine! Just talk to someone else. I would love to be a foreign Correspondent at a other extra-curricular work! The reason why I major news outlet. chose this particular programme was because it allowed me to combine my interest in media along some of the theoretical aspects of social 好事多磨 science that I learnt through DENMARK AMALIE BORUP “ [email protected] ANNE ULRIKKE BAK DENNIS NIELSEN FROM DENMARK, GOING TO HAMBURG FROM DENMARK, GOING TO SWANSEA

26 years old 26 years old Danish, English, some German, and I will soon start taking Japanese classes Danish, English, mandarin Chinese Nordic studies and Japan studies and com- Journalism parative literature [email protected] dennis.nielsen189@gmail,com, Facebook, @ @ @nielsenden

I’ve always wanted to write I’d be a I would bring Proust’s “Trøste-gruk fiction and poetry, but last professio- In Search of Lost Time My own year I started writing for dif- nal horseback rider, for sure! for its Den, som taber sin ene handske, room; Got ferent magazines and I found Jockey, maybe. length and er heldig i forhold til den, my books, out that I slowness. som taber den ene, charging cables and shit, also liked The first thing I did was to vi- coffee and food at hand. intervie- sit the racecourse, bet on the Mort Garson’s songs for kasserer den anden . . . wing and writing articles. wrong horses and lose 300 plants “Plantasia”. The og finder den første igen.” An important aspect for me, kroner. My favorite spot is movie could be Béla Piet Hein to myself a year applying for the Mundus the flat whe- Tarr’s Sátántangó, because ago: Nope. No, program, was the internatio- re I live in Ny it’s 7 hours and 30 minutes no, no, you can’t. It’s absinth nal environment. This is also Munkegade. long and good for an exile. “Consolation grook for Christ’s sake! what I’m most fond of now, There is a beautiful energy two months into the cour- there, I feel very calm and Vegan spring rolls. That who loses his/her one glove, ...what se – my new friends from so productive when I’m home. would also give me is lucky compared to, would many great and weird places I also like Aros and museum some time to improve whom loses the one, your all over the world. Ovartaci, the reading room my rolling skills. dream profession be? at the Royal Library and the throws the other… Fighter pilot. Why? Duh. bath house “Spanien”. and finds the first one again.”

It means that everything is about perception, and about “I recommend Danish poetry!” how you take things that come your way. It’s a family thing. Framed on the wall in the living room of my child- I like Danish poetry. I can recommend reading Inger Christen- hood home. sen. Her poetry is translated to more than 30 languages. [email protected]

Ingen ko på isen IDA MUNCH

DENMARK

IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOURSELF NATIVE LANGUAGE? WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? FROM A YEAR AGO? “Ingen ko på isen” which basically means no cow on I would try to work as a freelance journalist if I had Enjoy all your freedom – and relax, everything will ice. It means that there’s not a problem. Denmark is not been accepted to the program. I have also be fine. a nice place, and as long the cows are not on the ice, considered doing teaching if I should be outside we’re good. journalism and“ media.

WHAT IS YOUR DREAM PROFESSION?

AGE 25 I already have my dream profession, photojour- WHAT HAVE BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE SPOTS IN AARHUS SO FAR? nalism, but I chose this master to pursue LANGUAGES DAN ENG GER research and test if it was for me. I like to go in When I first moved to Aarhus I lived in a van for a depth with things and gain knowledge, and ACADEMIC month north of the city, which normally only crazy Journalism research gives me the opportunity to do that. BACKGROUND tourists do. My favourite spots in Aarhus are AGE There is so much out there that we need to know Media and Politics probably: Risskov (a nice getaway from the ‘citylife’), 27 SPECIALIZATION more about. AMSTERDAM Aarhus Brætspils Café (because what is better than LANGUAGES DAN ENG GER co ee and winning in backgammon?), and the backyard volley field at Vilhelm Kiers Dorm (because ACADEMIC BA in Photojournalism BACKGROUND beach volley beats backgammon any day). WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY IN SPECIALIZATION Media and Politics AARHUS/THE MUNDUS PROGRAM SO FAR? AMSTERDAM The first touristy thing I did here was going to WHO IS YOUR DREAM COFFEE DATE? Moesgaard Forest. And… I would say my favourite John Oliver. Because he’s fun, intelligent and HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE YOURSELF A YEAR AGO? memory so far was the international potluck probably hates co ee. dinner organized by the program. When we finished the Bachelor, they held a presentation for us of Master’s options. I would say it HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? was definitely a change of plans.

I was doing a course in European journalism which IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM inspired me to apply for the Mundus program. I YOU ARE SENT INTO EXILE AND YOU ARE ALLOWED YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? ONE BOOK, ONE ALBUM, AND ONE FOOD FOR THE REST really enjoy working in an international environ- OF YOUR LIFE; WHAT DO YOU CHOOSE? “Jeg elsker dig” [“I love you”]: it’s a sentence not ment where your regular thinking about things that used that oen, you use it when you mean it, and seem obvious is being challenged. “Ned til hundene” [“Down to the Dogs”] by Helle so it’s a lot stronger than in English. It’s a powerful Helle, “Rhythm of Saints” by Paul Simon, and thing to say. Crespelle alla Fiorentina (spinach pancakes), especially those that my dad makes.

DENMARK EMIL STAULUND LARSEN Jeg elsekr dig @E_Staulund “ [email protected]

IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? JENS RENNER CHRISTENSEN Okay / Wauw I say “okay” and “wauw” a lot. It is a bad habit from some Danish satire shows. The “okay” DENMARK comes as a surprised outburst and is inspired by the character Gentleman Finn from the early 2000’s cult show “Casper og Mandrila alen”. The

IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID IN “wauw” is from a character created by Danish WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? AARHUS? WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? comedian Jan Elhøj. HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? I would have liked to become an actor. I used to One of my favorite spots in Aarhus is the Street Food - it’s fast food, but there is a lot of delicious WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOURSELF work as a children’s actor, but I didn’t feel like I had FROM A YEAR AGO? what it took to do it for a living. things within a very small area. I also recommend getting acquainted with all the student bars The journalism BA at DMJX includes around Aarhus. Almost every dorm, study and one-and-a-half year of internship, where you work “faculty have one, and they’re run by students so full time. The last 6 months of my internship was WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID IN AARHUS? in Brussels, and I decided to go on exchange in WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? the prices are low! Brussels as well, so I ended up staying for a year. 25 AGE I honestly don’t remember any more, since I moved Having worked full time made me appreciate here in 2012. I love the Viking Club Jomsborg (and ENG DAN LANGUAGES studying, and I found myself comfortable in the the beach at Den Permanente) and Moesgaard international study environment in Brussels. ACADEMIC Therefore it seemed natural for me to pursue a Forest. And café MellemFolk in Vestergade. Journalism BACKGROUND AGE 25 Master’s program when I graduated from DMJX this summer - I wasn’t ready to start my 70 years Media and Politics SPECIALIZATION LANGUAGES DAN ENG DEU AMSTERDAM on the labor market just yet. A year ago, I was very much in doubt, whether I ACADEMIC Religion, Globalization and BACKGROUND International Development (Humanities) could be accepted into this program or not. I chose to apply and in my application I tried to SPECIALIZATION Journalism and Media across Cultures HAMBURG reflect myself in the character of my answers. Luckily this was the right tactic, so my advice to YOU ARE SENT INTO EXILE AND YOU ARE ALLOWED ONE BOOK, ONE ALBUM, AND ONE FOOD FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE; myself a year ago is quite cheesy: Believe in WHAT DO YOU CHOOSE? yourself - because that gets you where you want HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? to go. Book: Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcy- In a desperate attempt to escape the unemploya- cle Maintenance bility of being a Danish Master in Humanities. Also Album: Kashmir - The Good Life IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND because of the fit of the curriculum with my Food: Mum - Quiche Lorraine JOURNALISM, WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM interests, and because of the Hamburg specializa- PROFESSION BE? tion. I hadn’t actually considered what I would do if I IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR didn’t get accepted to this program. My guess WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOURSELF NATIVE LANGUAGE? FROM A YEAR AGO? would be that I wouldn’t have pursued any other Gåbajer - the beer that you take with you when MA program, but instead I would be looking for a Eat more vegetables, go to bed earlier and don’t leaving your house party in order to go to a bar, smoke. job in NGOs or institutions like the European having the intention of drinking it on the way there. Commission as a strategic media adviser or something similar. I would also have applied for the 2018-2020 Mundus program

Gåbajer DENMARK LARS SVENSMARK “ [email protected] REBECCA BERTHELSEN SANNI JENSEN FROM DENMARK, GOING TO AMSTERDAM FROM DENMARK, GOING TO AMSTERDAM

24 years old 24 years old

Danish, English, Italian and (some) Spanish Danish, Norwegian (I’m half Norwegian), English, German Anthropology Journalism @ [email protected] @rebeccaberthels @ [email protected] and @sannijensen

It has been exactly one year I love Lynfabrikken in Vester- the newspaper, go out for “Lige ved og næsten slår ingen mand since I finished by bachelor’s gade. It’s a hidden café that dinner or spontaneously degree in Anthropology at you only find invite some friends over for af hesten.” Aarhus University, but it if you know wine. This is an old Danish saying: “‘close to’ and ‘almost’ throw no feels much longer, since I that it is there: man off his horse” (kind of). It means that being close to your spent the last six months of You have to enter a gate, I used to goal is not enough, you need to reach it. my bachelor in Nicaragua. It cross a small square, enter work on a feels real- an anonymous door and voluntary basis for Save the ly good to then go to the second floor. Children Youth as a project I applied for this cour- correspondent in Brussels or be back There is the greatest working manager for a project called se while traveling New Washington. To me politics – I’ve missed the daily feeling atmosphere at the café since ‘Homework Friends’, where Zealand and Fiji. I had been is the most exciting and of ‘brain expansion’ and many artists, architects, wri- we matched volunteers with abroad for interesting all-day-every- socializing with people at ters and students working on families in need of help for 13 months day-running movie (and who my own age. What I haven’t different projects come there the kids. I really enjoyed this at that time wouldn’t love living inside an missed is the huge amount to work. job and if I didn’t dream of and I didn’t feel ready to go intriguing movie!). of texts that makes you have becoming a managing editor home for good yet. There- a constant bad conscience My advice would be to at a big Danish or interna- fore, the possibility to study I’ve lived in Aarhus for sever- every time you (try to) relax. remember taking time off tional newspaper, I might a year in Denmark and then al years but I’ll recommend A huge Harry Potter But all in all, the feeling is some evenings: To read a consider working in the NGO go abroad again seemed Den book containing all good. book, watch a movie, read sector. It’s another thing perfect to me. Also, I wan- Gamle seven books in one (is with many of the big news- ted a more academic and By, Løves this answer cheating?). papers that I feel could use international Master’s and Bog og Vincafe (book and “Ej, hvor træls!.” some more anthropological this seemed like a perfect wine café!), Aros, a trip to the I’d make my friends and perspectives. But if I ever fit. Today I know that it was! theatre or nice drinks at FF family choose one song In Aarhus, we have invented the adjective “træls” for e.g. give up on this dream, I’m in a backyard by the river at each that reminds them when it’s raining, when someone stole your bike, when you sure I would also be happy I would any time! of me and create an album miss your bus or when you were ditched by a date. Then we working for an NGO like Save be a from that. say: “Ej, hvor træls!” (“Damn, how træls!”). You could say that The Children or Danish Refu- political it’s a good combination of “how annoying” and “too bad”. gee Council. journalist in Denmark or Sushi! IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR زي اﻟﺮﻗﺎﺻﺔ اﻟﻠﻲ رﻗﺼﺖ ﻋﻠﻰ اﻟﺴﻠﻢ ﰱ اﻟﻨﻬﺎﻳﺔ،ﻛﻞ ﺷﺊ ﺳﻴﻜﻮن ﲞﲑ. إن ﱂ ﻳﻜﻦ ?IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE NATIVE LANGUAGE? إذا ﻓﻬﻰ ﻟﻴﺴﺖ اﻟﻨﻬﺎﻳﺔ I have realized lately that this phrase describes “Everything will be okay in the me the most: “Zay el raasa eli raaset aal end. If it's not okay, it's not the selem”, it is in Egyptian Arabic and it translates end.” -John Lennon IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, to “[she’s] like the dancer who danced on the I believe in happy endings WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? staircase” as in neither the people upstairs or This is a really tough question. The most realistic downstairs could watch her. The reason I feel 22 AGE answer would be academia? Or maybe civil society like it describes my life is because it initially WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU work in the area of human rights. Or maybe I could refers to being just in the middle, too liberal for DID IN AARHUS? FRA DEU ENG AR LANGUAGES WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? be a chef? I make really good frozen“ pizza! Or I the conservatives, too conservative for the ITA ESP could start a fight club? (shit I just talked about liberals, too foreign for home too foreign for I went to DOKK1, the beautiful International Management ACADEMIC fight club!) here, and so on. Mediocre, you could say. architectural building and took a look BACKGROUND at the waterfront and the new harbor “Journalism and Media across Cultures SPECIALIZATION area. I am in love with this place ever HAMBURG AGE 22 WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID since. IN AARHUS? WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? Since I come from a city by the LANGUAGES AR ENG I haven’t really done anything touristy in Mediterranean Sea, I love any place ACADEMIC BA of Arts in Aarhus (yet). I guess I’ve been trying not to act that is next to water, that is why the BACKGROUND Mass Communication like a tourist so that the place would feel more spot next to DOKK1 is probably my SPECIALIZATION Media and Politics like home, and it worked! favorite so far since it connects the city AMSTERDAM

HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOURSELF FROM A YEAR AGO?

HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF From day one in my Bachelor studies I decided PURSUING THIS COURSE? that I would pursue a Master's degree abroad, I WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE guess I just got lucky by getting into this TO YOURSELF FROM A YEAR AGO? program! I was studying International If I could go back in time one year ago and meet Management but I always wanted to work in NADA myself, I would tell me the very cliche “It’s the Media and TV business, so I thought it would be gonna be okay”, but because it really does, best if I gained some theoretical experience about everything worked out just fine, some things Media and do a Masters programme before I enter the even better than expected. professional world.

And most importantly, I would tell myself that I I was looking for media-related Masters programmes ABOUELSAAD found a new home that is as warm is hygge! in Germany and then I bumped into this course on the EGYPT [email protected] website of Hamburg’s University. With no previous IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING experience in the Media field, I thought I wouldn’t MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, probably get it but luckily I decided to apply at the WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? last minute and I did get accepted and can finally start fulfilling my dream and make baby steps My dream profession is to have my EGYPT towards working in the Media field as a moderator or host my own show. My advice to myself a year ago own show on TV one day and to and a year from now and probably till the rest of my leave an impact on the world FARAH BAHGAT life: Never give up on something you really want. Plus, somehow and that is exactly why I you are probably better than you think you are. am here. Believe and trust in yourself. [email protected] ALIX COUVELAIRE GEORGE INGLES FROM FRANCE, GOING TO HAMBURG FROM FRANCE, GOING TO AMSTERDAM

23 years old 22 years old French, English, Spanish and a poor but creative Danish! French, English, Spanish and some Arabic Humanities - Information and Communicati- History & Politics on - Marketing and communication strategies @ [email protected] @ [email protected]

I discovered the programme An advice to my- “Jusqu’ici tout va bien, jusqu’ici tout 2 years ago coming back self a year ago? from a “Choose a warm country va bien, jusqu’ici tout va bien. trip in silly!” Mais l’important n’est pas la chute, Australia and realised I wasn’t ready James Dean c’est l’atterrissage.” to settle in France yet. It has been From the film ‘La Haine’ – the important thing is the landing, also stroke me that stu- dead for years, so my boy- not the fall. dying abroad could help me friend would do the job conciliate traveling, meeting people from everywhere in I would probably be opening the world and please my my own ranch in New- parents at the same time..! I Zealand’s had to wait one year before moun- I always wanted to do a applying and started another tains or master’s and want the skills master during this time to directing movies for cinema, associa- go back to a regular student pretty close to what I’m stu- ted with rythme. dying now right? Journa- Naked into the wil- lism so I can carry them over derness – Primitive When I discovered how great to my work in development. wilderness living & was Aarhus by day as well survival skills’ by John and as by night. Geri McPherson I will never “Aide toi et le ciel t’aidera.” Have confidence in yourself. forget that OK Computer, Radio- night I spent at the ping- ... said Jean de la Fontaine, the brilliant French poet, I would head pong bar. Best memory of who meant that if you want to go further in your life be in the the programme: Probably and achieve things, don’t wait for other people to help field wor- when I finally handled my you, make the first step to help yourself and things will king in development. Why? Salt and vinegar crisps first graded assignment. happen. We need altruism. [email protected] IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? NATHAN GALLO I love my language and my alphabet and I believe that რასაცა გასცემ შენია, FRANCE everything looks more inspira- tional when written in Georgian, რაც არა დაკარგულია because it’s like elvish. There are a lot of phrases that I like, but the one that has always proven itself IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, to be true is one from the ancient WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? Georgian poem ‘Man in a panther 22 AGE skin’. It directly translates as, Farniente teacher, in the South of Italy. “what you give out, it will always DUT ESP ENG ITA LANGUAGES come back to you, and what you WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY want only for yourself, is BA in Mass Communications ACADEMIC N AARHUS/MUNDUS SO FAR? something that you lose forever”. and Public Relations BACKGROUND This wonderful place at Street Food Aarhus in the It always gives me a reason to be “Journalism and Media across Cultures SPECIALIZATION restaurant called Grilled Cheese. Sitting outside, more generous to the world HAMBURG enjoying its delicious 3-cheeses sandwich with its around me. amazing sweet potato chips and shitty Tuborg, IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, laying in the sun WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? AGE 23 I have never imagined myself doing anything that is not somehow connected to media or WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE YOURSELF A YEAR AGO? LANGUAGES FRA ENG ITA public relations. I was very interested Just finish your research thesis and move on. ACADEMIC MA in History research in documentaries and probably BACKGROUND (Media History) would like to try directing one in the future. And if you want the SPECIALIZATION Journalism and Media across Cultures HAMBURG really honest answer, my dream job is to be a rock band photographer WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE IN LIFE? HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? and traveling with GULNARI them around new places. A friend of mine told me about this programme. Oh tough one, I don’t really want to think my life as a HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF I really wanted to travel and study journalism bullet journal, with boxes to tick. Just see what will PURSUING THIS COURSE? abroad, a er spending my whole studies in France. happen in the next few years. I always knew while I was studying that I would definitely continue with my studies further. Before WHO IS YOUR DREAM COFFEE DATE? IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? applying to any Masters program, I wanted to gain

Natalie Portman, for sure. “Comment est votre blanquette?” - (“How is your more insight into practical journalism and looked for Even if she is married to another French guy, I still blanquette (of veal)”) (Movie “OSS 117”, with Jean job opportunities. A er a while, I found myself GIUNASHVILI [email protected] have it in mind each time I watch Black Swan. Dujardin, performing the role of “Hubert Bonisseur working for one of the most well respected Georgian GEORGIA online newspaper, where I gained more than I de la Bath) IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME expected - not only I went through professional TO A YEAR AGO, WHAT PIECE OF ADVICE WOULD development, I was introduced to the new perspec- YOU GIVE YOURSELF? tives and objectives of being a journalist. A er that I knew for sure that working for media was what I If only I could meet her on the Comment est votre blanquette? wanted to do. street right no w, I w ould tell her I also always wanted to study abroad and Europe was to stress out less, stay focused my number one destination. I loved my exchange and to not lose her aim. year experience in Prague. I had friends taking parts in Erasmus Programs and that’s how I found out “ about Erasmus Mundus in Journalism. [email protected] გამარჯობა ANNABELL BROCKHUES

GERMANY

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IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, You don't need to take any opportunity you can NATIVE LANGUAGE? WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? get: take the ones you really want to take. გამარჯობა (hello) Directing and“ screenwriting Everything will be fine in the end. WHAT IS YOUR DREAM PROFESSION?

WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID IN AARHUS? Oh, that is a di icult question. I was working as a AGE 23 WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? journalist for the last five years, and that is what I love to do. But just recently I also did some Latin quarter LANGUAGES GEO ENG mentoring for younger journalism students, and ACADEMIC took part in some academic research trips to BACKGROUND Journalism countries were media is not as free as in Europe. AGE So, I would like to combine being a journalist and War and Conflict 25 SPECIALIZATION journalistic training SWANSEA WHO IS YOUR DREAM COFFEE DATE? LANGUAGES GER ENG FRA CHI Oscar Wilde ACADEMIC BACKGROUND BA in Journalism

Journalism and Media across Cultures SPECIALIZATION HAMBURG HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID IN AARHUS? AND WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY IN Mundus program is an interesting opportunity to AARHUS/THE MUNDUS PROGRAM SO FAR? deepen knowledge in globalization theories and HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? The first touristy thing I did was cycling to Den media. I’ve studied journalism in Georgia and in the Gamle By with my bike, and my favourite memory U.S. as a Global Undergraduate Exchange program It was kind of a dream for the last five years: when I so far is probably when we celebrated our first participant and I’ve worked as a news reporter at just started my bachelor's program I was attending a exam sitting in the sun at the harbour, enjoying di erent media outlets. European journalism conference in Antwerp with some nice wine and going to the wonderful students from all over Europe. There were also some Indian-Pakistani party later on. people who had just started this program, and they were so enthusiastic about it and told so many interesting stories about the classes and the people! IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM That caught my attention in an instant, and I literally YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? fell in love with the idea of being part of that. I have thought a lot about this question, and there is a saying by a quite inspiring journalist: "Qualität kommt von Qual" ["The source of quality is agony"]. GEORGIA It does actually mean that you need to challenge Qualität kommt von Qual yourself to produce good stories - rather than challenging your audience with poorly made SALOME PKHALADZE stories. [email protected] “ ANNE-KIRSTIN BERGER JELENA MALKOWSKI FROM GERMANY, GOING TO HAMBURG FROM GERMANY, GOING TO HAMBURG

24 years old 24 years old

German, English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, English, Turkish, French, Spanish, French and some Danish and now hopefully Danish

International Relations and Management Social and Cultural Anthropology @ [email protected]

“Nur wer erwachsen wird und ein Kind I found the Mundus accep- instead of Denmark – quite tance letter when I was clea- a difference, not only in cli- bleibt, ist ein Mensch.” ring my spam folder just be- matic conditions! Over the (Erich Kästner) which roughly translates to: “Only those who fore going to bed and did not last years, I have been living Sophie’s World (so I become adults and yet remain children, are human.” immedi- in different places in South could finally finish it.) ately un- America. I cannot really name I was looking at a list of Right now just one of my derstand what, but there is something Onda Vaga – Furerte y Master’s friends, what it meant. Honestly, I had about the regional culture Caliente (Whenever I courses of who live too not expected to be admitted, that fascinates me. So whate- hear this, I am back in my home- far away, but the excited heart beating ver I will do when I leave uni- some of the best moments town university, found this because I don’t see them en- I felt whenever I accessed the versity, I am sure that it will I’ve lived so far.) one and stuck with it. ough without miracle dream Mundus webpage somehow be somehow related to South coffee dates... showed me that I had to give America. Quark – this wonderful I’m still in it a try. Now, it is good to feel German milk product awe of how Well, in that the “Mundus family” is My favori- you need to make some so many people from such primary not a group of over-ambi- te spot in Aarhus is outdoors: great sweet and salty dishes different backgrounds can school I wanted to be a tious people who achieve I like the Marselisborg area (including cheesecake) and get along so well and how writer and at some point also everything they want, but with the deer park and the fo- that is really hard to find much we can learn from one a postwoman but after that rather a bunch of passionate rests close to the beach. outside Germany. another. So a nice memory it was always journalism so peolpe, who are still a bit sur- is how everyone just sticks I guess that won’t change prised themselves how they around and no one seems to much no matter the place/ came to be part of such a gre- “Tem que rir para não chorar.” want to go home immediate- studies. at two-years journey. ly after any lecture, because You have to laugh in order not to cry. For me this Portu- there are so many nice peop- General hap- If it wasn’t guese sentence is not as sad as it seems – it describes le to talk to around. piness and for this a whole life concept of keeping an optimistic view on fulfilment, but Master’s, things. Sometimes, happiness comes with a smile, and Everything will come and go how I’ll accomplish that? – I would have gone to Brazil not the other way around. in its own time. No idea. [email protected]

KONSTANZE NASTAROWITZ IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR Butter bei die Fische NATIVE LANGUAGE? GERMANY One German phrase that I really like is “Butter bei die Fische”. Literally, it means “butter to the fish” and is either a request to be more straightforward IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, or to put extra eort into something. It is a typical WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOURSELF northern German phrase and finds its roots in the I was dreaming of becoming a singing actress FROM A YEAR AGO? idea that once you prepared a fish with butter, it’s when I was younger (back in those Highschool Stop putting yourself under too much pressure a perfect, complete meal. Musical days). But when I realized that my feet and acknowledge what you have accomplished. aren’t quick and my voice is not exceptional, I It’s all going to work out just fine. wanted to go into journalism. There has never been an alternative profession a er that. I was “ HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? ten or twelve back then. One a ernoon in 2015 I was on the bus home from 24 AGE university and wondering what Masters degrees the University of Hamburg would oer. That’s FRA ESP ENG DEU LANGUAGES WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY when I stumbled across the program for the first IN AARHUS SO FAR? time – but quickly knew that Amsterdam would European Studies ACADEMIC BACKGROUND be an even better choice for me. AGE 23 Again with my dad, who took me here with our LANGUAGES DEU ENG FRA TUR camping car: We had a stroll around the city Media and Politics SPECIALIZATION and went for Burgers for Lunch. They came AMSTERDAM ACADEMIC International Relations with the best fries I have had in my whole life. WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID IN BACKGROUND AARHUS? WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? Journalism and Media across Cultures SPECIALIZATION HAMBURG One of the few sunny days my mom and I visited Den Unendlige Bro – The Infinite Bridge – and the IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR Deer Park. I like Universitetsparken, which is NATIVE LANGUAGE? basically my backyard, since I live in one of the HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? There is the phrase by the German author Erich dorms on campus. One of the first things I bought Kästner. My dad always used to say it to me was the student membership for ARoS. The The course was my first choice, because I when I was scared. It goes like this: “Every year, roo op view and the rainbow panorama are just missed some media perspectives in my you ask yourself: Is it going to be better or stunning! Bachelor’s degree. It was all politics, law and worse? But let’s be honest: Life is always economics and I was hoping for a global media life-threatening.” (Wird’s besser, wird’s outlook. However, it’s only been a month, so I schlimmer, fragt man alljährlich. Seien wir IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND cannot really give myself any advice yet. Maybe JOURNALISM, WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM ehrlich, das Leben ist immer lebensgefährlich.) PROFESSION BE? – start saving up money! “Hygge” comes at a It rhymes in German and has a funny twist to it. price. I like the idea behind it: If you want to live your A tough question, since journalism is my dream life, you need to accept that your life is always profession. But I’d probably open a small, cozy at stake. Living comes with a risk, there is no restaurant/café with a changing, international way of child-proofing your life. Bad things can menu every week. Wird’s besser, wird’s schlimmer, happen all the time, but that should not keep you from living at all. fragt man alljährlich. Seien wir GERMANY ehrlich, das Leben ist immer lebensgefährlich LISA URLBAUER “ [email protected] I would probably tell myself to wait a year after my BA to PIA BEHME do the Masters as everything FROM GERMANY, GOING TO AMSTERDAM is very theoretical and repeti- 26 years old tive of what I’ve done before, I would like to have more German, English practical experience. BA in History and Philosophy, University of Cologne IF YOU WERE Proba- [email protected] / @piabehme NOT HERE... bly a @ language teacher – not so sure why. I found this course online IF YOU WERE I’d proba- The first AARHUS just like teaching/tutoring for the first time around NOT HERE... bly work touristy EXPERIENCE languages and learning new two years ago. I initially in an thing I did MIRIAM KAROUT languages. thought I wouldn’t have NGO, tackling social pro- was to go to ARoS and then FROM GERMANY/LIBANON, GOING TO SWANSEA Ithe qualifications to apply blems as a project manager. to Aarhus Street Food where AARHUS I went to for it so I worked on that. Af- I had the very Danish food 22 years old the harbor ter my graduation, I was wor- called tarteletter. EXPERIENCE to see German, Arabic, English, basis French, and I king in a media office where the “Iceberg” and I wasn’t have a certificate in Latin they offered me a trainees- “et kütt wie et kütt.” impressed. I just don’t get hip. I had to decide whether (‘whatever will be will be’) is the second rule of Cologne’s B.A. in Media Communications with empha- modern architecture so well. to wait for the results of the Constitution, a set of eleven sayings from Cologne. sis on Political Activism and Journalism (and appli- PURSUING Although I believe that everyone is responsible also Arabic as a Foreign Language) My favorite spot is by the sea cation THIS COURSE for shaping their own future, it reminds me [email protected] @ in Risskov, close to my dorm. or to go that sometimes things just don’t go as It’s a beautiful quiet place. for the traineeship. I decided planned and that it is okay. It also not to go for the traineeship I came across the program studying about the reporting reminds me of a wonderful time and risked waiting for the before I even started my BA and journalism on war and luggage in an amazing, laid-back city results. It worked out for me! and ever since wanted to conflict is something I felt for exile that I was lucky to call apply. So, that was my first like I need in order to be a my home for the Harry Potter (because I At some point of time I was intention after graduating professional journalist in the past six years. would never get bored also considering doing a from region. PURSUING of it ever) Masters in Political Science my I did some internships in THIS COURSE but I realised that I couldn’t under- journalism and I know I want Probably something by do that with a BA degree. So, grad studies in Lebanon. to be a more professional Bob Marley to keep me this course and my specia- Since I want to be a Middle and more international jour- smiling and happy lization are like the perfect East correspondent, the nalist at some point, so the combination for me. I also specialization in Swansea Mundus program seemed Lebanese hummus wanted to approach jour- was very interesting to me – like a good choice. nalism in a more academic way.

(Time doesn’t change, time reveals) [email protected] Put in all the necessary e ort humanly possible, TANJA KUNESCH and leave the rest to Allah (God). GERMANY Destiny shall take its course.

IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOURSELF Put in all the necessary eort humanly possible, FROM A YEAR AGO? and leave the rest to Allah (God). Destiny shall WHAT IS THE GREATEST LESSON YOUR JOURNEY IN Put more eort in what you’re doing, and network take its course. DENMARK HAS TAUGHT YOU SO FAR? well. All the other major decisions I took then I’m It’s just something that I tell myself, more like a We’re all just people, not so dierent from one satisfied with. motivational quote. another. It all depends on yourself, you can start over anywhere you want to, it is no sorcery; it’s only “ HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? up to you and your mindset. 28 AGE I have been trying to secure a scholarship to pursue further studies since I completed my GA TWI ENG KOTOKOLI LANGUAGES Bachelor in 2012, so this opportunity is like a dream come true. A er working in the media Political Science ACADEMIC BACKGROUND industry for close to a decade, I felt the need to AGE WHAT WERE YOUR EXPECTATIONS COMING TO DENMARK 26 AND HOW HAS THE REALITY MATCHED THIS? pursue further studies to sharpen my skills and be GER ENG FRA LANGUAGES Business and Financial Journalism SPECIALIZATION more critical in my analysis. AR DAN ESP I did not really have specific expectations. I try not LONDON to have them and imagine how it is going to be, ACADEMIC Comparative Literature BACKGROUND with Philosophy and History because they won’t match reality anyway, neither in a good nor in a bad way. So I try to just go along WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID IN SPECIALIZATION Media and Politics AARHUS? WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? AMSTERDAM with what life presents me. However, I did not expect it to rain that much and that life mostly takes The first thing was getting lost on a bus on my way place inside. to the Infinite Bridge – that was my first attempt to explore Aarhus. HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? I tried to add a positive spin to that experience, I have found this master quite a while ago and was but my outlook changed because I suered in the immediately interested. Ever since then I have not cold while trying to make my way back home, walking to a station and waiting for a bus. But it’s found any other master that I really wanted to do YOU ARE SENT INTO EXILE AND YOU ARE ALLOWED as much as this programme, so the decision was ONE BOOK, ONE ALBUM, AND ONE FOOD FOR THE REST all good, now. quite clear then. Due to my community work at a OF YOUR LIFE; WHAT DO YOU CHOOSE? Berlin based newspaper between my Bachelor’s WHAT IS YOUR DREAM PROFESSION? Book: I would have to toss a coin between The Idiot degree and this master I have gotten more and by Fjodor Dostojewski or Harry Potter. Truth be told, I don’t know what would be my more interested in the bigger picture of journalism Album: If this is a possibility I would burn my own dream profession, but I believe I’m committed to and the new challenges it faces: How to deal with album with all my favorite songs. But I guess that’s success, and that’s my driving force in life: my the challenges of social media and what eect and not what you’re looking for… So if I had to choose ambition is to make an impact on my immediate responsibility arises from the connectivity of the on artist I would go with Neil Young. society and humanity, and be successful. world? The walls between readers, authors and Food: Pasta with Pesto texts all around the world are getting more transparent. Are we standing at the edge of a revolution of journalism? We need to deal with these questions and I hope to find answers or at GHANA least new grounds for discussion in this programme. RABIU ALHASSAN

[email protected] AAKRITI DHAWAN AASHI BHATI FROM INDIA, GOING TO HAMBURG FROM INDIA, GOING TO AMSTERDAM

22 years old 22 years old

Hindi, English, Punjabi Hindi, English

History Journalism and Mass Communication

@ [email protected] @ [email protected]

It’s been one and half year “You must understand the whole of Is has been one year since I Be positive, be since I completed my gradu- was last at school. It’s great motivated- don’t let anyone ation and life, not just one little part of it. to start or anything let you down it feels That is why you must read, that is why being or- amazing you must look at the skies, that is why ganized I was keen on studying Histo- to be back in college. I again and learning more. ry and understanding historic was missing the lectures, you must sing, and dance, and write monuments all over the wor- students and the teachers. poems, and suffer, and understand, I like Dokk1, ld. I wan- I am really drawn to the the view is ted to be enormous cultural exposu- for all that is life.” amazing a scholar re of my class. 93 students and there are always positive of ‘Role of Women in French coming from almost 38 I really like this quote by the Indian philosopher Jiddu Kris- vibes. Revolution’ countries. This is how the hnamurti because it reminds me of my father and it is some- world looks like. Glad to be thing very similar to what he always says. It stays with me, a part of it. wherever I go.

What speaking Hindi means to me... It’s the Pain is required for I’d be travelling top floor growing. Embrace it, across my country I like talking in my native language all the time and that fact I in the li- for it is the soil that and working for the realized once I came here and I was talking in English all the brary of Dokk1. It’s an ama- holds your roots firm, the development and upliftment time without getting to switch whenever I wanted to. zing place to study, with a water that of the society. As a girl, I al- view of harbor right in front quenches your ways wanted to change this of you and an amazing café thirsts. Pain world from within. Even as where you can get delicious prevents you from withering a global citizen I feel respon- hot cocoa. — don’t bury it. sible to the place I was born, and my childhood experien- ces still make me feel deeply rooted to my country. [email protected]

IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? ABRAHAM KOSHY “Uluboney mukto chhorano” উলুবেন মুক্ত ছড়ােনা Literally translated to “spreading pearls around the INDIA forest,” it’s usually a phrase meant to describe a futile endeavor where one’s knowledge, eorts, etc. is wasted or the intricacies or subtleties of a cultural production is lost on the observer. I use it when my friends are tearing their hair out trying to have logical debates with religious HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? fundamentalists or political right-wingers our age. I took A-Level Sociology and Psychology in high IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, school. I’d seen myself becoming a researcher in the WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, social sciences but I wasn’t able to pursue it in WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? I would make films. college. In my country, parents usually decide what Like a lot of teenagers, I wanted to be a you study in college and I was considered lucky in “ musician while I was growing up. Performing in that I got to study something like Media Science a few bands and recording a couple EPs got WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY instead of medicine, or engineering. that dream out of my system though, by the IN AARHUS SO FAR? I started leaning more towards journalistic writing time I got to college. in college, and I started working as the Going to the harbor. Favorite spots: Salling editor-in-chief of a New Media startup and AGE Roo op, Mikkeller & friends. WHAT WAS THE FIRST ‘TOURISTY’ 25 graduated with a job in the Digital Department of a THING YOU DID IN AARHUS? WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? [email protected] LANGUAGES ENG national news channel. That’s when I seriously INDIA ADRIANA started considering the Erasmus Mundus program, I went to LegoLand! It was one of the ACADEMIC YOU ARE SENT INTO EXILE AND YOU ARE ALLOWED among others. BACKGROUND Broadcast Journalism most fun days ever. I’ve never been ONE BOOK, ONE ALBUM, AND ONE FOOD FOR I realized that getting into the research focused THE REST OF YOUR LIFE; WHAT DO YOU CHOOSE? on a roller coaster as big as the Polar SPECIALIZATION Media and Politics Hamburg specialization in Erasmus Mundus would AMSTERDAM Book - an empty one so that I can write in it Express. be the best way to go about getting into academics Album - In Rainbows by Radiohead and research. Food - Tibetan dumplings 22 AGE

HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? JAP BEN ENG HIN LANGUAGES ETERNITY

I wanted to do a research-oriented course in BSc in Media Science, ACADEMIC IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR specialization in Journalism in New Media BACKGROUND Media studies. This course happened to be a NATIVE LANGUAGE? great intersection between media and interna- Journalism and Media across Cultures SPECIALIZATION tional politics. It was also cheaper than all my "My God! How did I get here?" from Once in a HAMBURG other options. Lifetime

WITH WHICH FAMOUS PERSON WOULD YOU LIKE

TO HAVE A COFFEE? HAZRA Margaret Atwood, maybe. I’d really like My God! How did I get here? to discuss society and literature with someone like her and try to understand the way she looks at society and the world. But from all of the interviews of hers that I’ve read, I feel like the whole thing might blow up in “ my face. ursuing media and RONIT BORPUJARO journalism wasn’t the SHUBHAM KAUSHIK FROM INDIA, GOING TO HAMBURG most obvious option FROM INDIA, GOING TO HAMBURG after studying Eco- 21 years old 23 years old Pnomics in my undergradu- Hindi and English Assamese, Hindi, English and German ate studies. I did well in my studies but I was never quite BA in Economics BA with Hons in Journalism and as passionate about it as I [email protected] Mass Comm. was for my work as a student @ [email protected] journalist in my university. / @RonitBorpujari @ You know you love doing so- mething when you willingly wonderful women I met and a photo of the coffee with spend 40+ hours in a week in love with the idea of love)! the very European-style doing it even when you’re buildings in the background, not The first touristy thing I did of course! AARHUS I’ve been adamant of the fact ago I’d say: “Just keep doing if not in front of the camera PURSUING was to go to a super “hygge- That was THIS COURSE getting EXPERIENCE that I wanted to be a journa- what you’re doing…you’ll be as a journalist I’d probably paid for lig” café in the city center. I a very list since I was in 9th grade fine. But maybe work a little be in front of the camera as it, and I was doing it while immediately Instagrammed millennial-touristy thing to (14yo). Almost a decade harder in your application an actor. That or a con-artist, also being a full-time student do, I’d say! later, I’m still stuck with it and get the scholarship” whatever’s more fun. and juggling other extra-cur- and I have no regrets regar- ricular work! The reason ding my decision. It started Ever since I was a kid I was Honestly, the most touristy why I chose this particular off as a joke. Parents in India IF YOU WERE fascina- thing I’ve done in Aarhus programme was because it think that the ideal career ted with was a walk through the These are a few lines from a song I have been listening to a NOT HERE... AARHUS allowed me to combine my lot. It roughly translates into: “Let yourself get drunk on life, choice of their ward is either acting. Canal road interest in media along some to become an Engineer or a I would mimic away all my where I EXPERIENCE what do you have to lose? Drink up in one go, be high on it.” I of the theoretical aspects of regret not appreciating my mother tongue when I still had the Doctor. Thankfully I’m one of favorite actors, do their took a few social science that I learnt the lucky ones to have been voices and enact their pictures of a street band. I opportunity to use it in daily life. I grew up a lot more comfor- through my undergraduate table with and appreciative of English than Hindi. I’m trying blessed with two amazingly scenes over and over again. did more touristy things in course. The fact that I get to understanding and beautiful I even participated in drama Copenhagen when I had an to change that now, mostly by listening to Bollywood music do this in two different coun- because it’s the most accessible source right now. human beings as my parents courses back in school and 8-hour layover on my way to tries in Europe is a bonus! who PURSUING ended up getting the lead Aarhus for the first time. have roles in two major plays. So, THIS COURSE I would probably be working sup- on my ideas for a book – ported me in every decision I full of have made. Lifestyle jour- IF YOU WERE colourful nalism was my first choice. “petot aate, sokut naate” NOT HERE... and bold I am a travel buff; I travel at women It’s in assamese and its literal translation would be “Fits in every opportunity I get and I taking on their fears and the the stomach but not in your eyes”. It means that the food you meet new people and learn world while also finding the cook, order or that’s just in front of you is ALWAYS more than about their culture. That’s great loves of their lives (I what you can eat but at the same time, you think you can why I chose Hamburg as my am a sappy romantic who finish it with no problem. That’s why I’m particularly fond of specialization. If I had to give grew up admiring the many myself some advice a year that phrase because it always happens to me. culture; otherwise, showrun- MUSTIKA LARASATI HAPSORO ner for an educational FROM INDONESIA, GOING TO AMSTERDAM program. I am ambitious, 26 years old organized, passionate about culture, and I thrive in social Indonesian, English, French settings, so I believe a posi- Broadcast Journalism tion that IF YOU WERE could [email protected] @ make NOT HERE... me help improve the world through my natural skills, was a contributor at the is around the Vestergade who you’re with. even just from a marginal Jakarta Globe, an English Street. So many cafes to role, would be a perfect fit. language daily newspaper hang out at. A COFFEE Rebecca ANNA ”KATE” ARTIOLI when I was an undergra- DATE WITH Gom- FROM ITALY, GOING TO AMSTERDAM Just a few days in in Aarhus, I Iduate student. After gradua- QUOTE “Who are you perts, went to the Infinite Bridge to tion, I was hired as a televi- when no one is founder of Women On Waves 24 years old meet for the first time some sion reporter at their sister watching?” It reminds me to of my future classmates, but Italian, English, French compa- PURSUING be true to yourself. No matter since then I haven’t visited ny, The Bachelor’s in Communication Sciences Aarhus as much as I would Jakarta THIS COURSE like to. Still, I can recom- [email protected] Globe News Channel. I @ mend the deer park -- it’s the enjoyed working very much “Ojo dumeh, eling lan waspodo.” perfect place for everything: but after learning about dates, hanging with friends, the Mundus programme, I There’s this one phrase in Javanese, I’m from the Java region Last Autumn I wasn’t sure had a rather literary-huma- personal reflection… especi- decided to take a break from in Indonesia. It can be roughly translated as “don’t get cocky, what to do next with my ca- nistic education and I did toy ally if the sun’s out! my career and get back into remember yourself and always stay ‘aware’”. The philosophy reer; hanging out with a guy with the idea of journalism I’m also a member of Den studying. behind this is to always know your place and don’t get com- who knew of the EM Mas- at the end of high school, AARHUS Perma- ters, he suggested I browse but I also feel there are many fortable with your conditions. EXPERIENCE nente: the IF YOU WERE I would through them. And, well, other “natural progressions” sensory ex- have here I PURSUING that lead here. perience is really something, NOT HERE... am. either THIS COURSE and even more enjoyable pursued a career as a psy- I would My dream profession would if you go with a friend -- or chologist or learn traditional say this is a natural progres- be in the diplomacy world, someone who will quickly Chinese medicine. sion of my studies, since I’ve possibly as ambassador of become a friend, after spen- ding time together naked. When I arrived, I was recom- “Gutta cavat lapidem.” mended to AARHUS GREATEST Take a check out deep EXPERIENCE Can I be super-pretentious, and use the loophole of the Ro- LESSON the Aarhus man Empire to go with Latin, rather than Italian? If so, “Gutta breath Street cavat lapidem” [The drop pierces the rock]. before reacting. Even better, Food by my Airbnb hosts. So I actually do believe that determination and perseverance take two. far my favorite spot in town will allow you to overcome any obstacle. [email protected]

IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE Questa stanza é piena come un uovo. BIANCA FERRARI YOU LIKE FROM YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? Trovare il pelo nell'uovo. ITALY Italy is famous for its food-related Chi mangia pane non fa briciole idioms. Things like “this room is as full as an egg”, “finding the hair in the egg”, “if you don’t eat bread, you’ll never make IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, breadcrumbs”, are some of my WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? AGE favorites. Things are so much 21 I have actually arrived to journalism in a very more relatable when they’re DUT ESP ENG ITA LANGUAGES roundabout way. I have moved around Europe to about food. study languages and work in comms and project management, so I guess if I wasn’t here I’d be Liberal Arts, ACADEMIC WHERE IS YOUR FAVORITE STUDY SPOT majoring in Communication and Literature BACKGROUND doing something related to travel or cross-cultural SO FAR? WHAT MAKES IT SPECIAL? communication. “ Media and Politics SPECIALIZATION AMSTERDAM Favourite study spot is probably the Dome of Visions. In theory, it would be WHAT WAS THE FIRST ‘TOURISTY’ THING YOU DID IN AARHUS? inspiring because of its plant-filled WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? environment and beautiful architec- AGE 24 I have not seen much of Aarhus in the touristy ture, but in practice it’s too far, so I end LANGUAGES ITA ENG FRA DEU sense. But I love hanging out with the deers, up choosing my desk or the library. chilling by the beach and getting some sun in the ACADEMIC BACKGROUND Applied Foreign Languages parks! Media and Politics SPECIALIZATION AMSTERDAM

YOU ARE SENT INTO EXILE AND YOU ARE ALLOWED ONE BOOK, ONE ALBUM, AND ONE FOOD FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE; WHAT DO YOU CHOOSE? HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? I choose “Don’t Hassle the Ho ” by David Hasselho , Pink Floyd’s “The Dark side of the Moon The story of how I found out about this course is - a Katatonic Trap Remix” and sprinkles. Because I HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE YOU actually quite fun. I was travelling in Serbia and I always need some unicorn dust. WERE LAST IN SCHOOL? couchsurfed at a guy’s who worked for a website HOW DO YOU FEEL BEING BACK?

listing master’s degrees, internships and other The last time I was in school was three months ago LAURA opportunities for young people. He told me when I graduated. I simply couldn’t get enough of about Erasmus Mundus degrees and the idea university, so here I am. Being back feels like I never IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR stuck with me because I loved the concept. NATIVE LANGUAGE? le the academic environment! Years later, while wondering about where I was “Tutto il mondo é paese” is an Italian proverb. IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, going to end up, I looked if there was a Mundus IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME ITALY WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? TO A YEAR AGO, Journalism programme - and here I am. It means “the whole world is a village” WHAT PIECE OF ADVICE WOULD GALANTE I’d love to be a professional musician. Playing guitar YOU GIVE YOURSELF? like David Gilmore would be so sick. Or a professional Don’t be afraid to stand up on modern dancer, actress or singer. I feel like I would your own two feet and don’t try own anything related to Arts. Still, I play guitar in my to please everyone. Also, shit free time, and I could take on Gilmore any day, give or Tutto il mondo é paese happens. “ take a hundred years. YOHAN S.R. LEE FUMIHITO NAKAMURA FROM JAMAICA, GOING TO HAMBURG FROM JAPAN, GOING TO SWANSEA

27 years old 35 years old

English and Jamaican Creole fluently; very basic Japanese and English Spanish and even less Danish. For pokker (Damn)! Law and International Relations Gender and Development Studies; Journalism [email protected] @ [email protected] @

In terms of the city, it is certain, it is only an appoint- Three-way definitely that first moment ment for an even greater fu- date with I took a stroll ture. Don’t lose hope in your Britney “ through the dreams and aspirations; you Spears and Michael Fass- streets, on have what it takes to make bender but we would have foot, and realised no one was it all come true. Be open to to drink something other . ” taking the time to heckle me evolving. than coffee. or cause me to feel insecure/ unhappy in my skin, gender I want to get Jamaica could learn from “To contribute to our society is our noblesse oblige.” and sexuality expressions. to a point of Denmark to be more Regarding Mundus, what can fulfilling the plans I have laid progressive I say? It was when I first met out for myself; make my mo- in its laws, the people behind the online ther even more proud of her about welfa- presence I had interacted support and investments; re, healthcare, taxes and One of my best friends who My mentors who gave me the with in the weeks leading up become a positive and so much more. Denmark majors in creative media deep insight into the nature to getting to Aarhus. T’was influential force in the fight could learn what partying introduced me. of international relations. so lovely to see their faces! for human rights, especially really means, to relax a bit They know themselves. where gender and sexuality more and add a few spices I would are concerned; fall in love and colour to meals. Talking with like to be a Disappointments and make a home some- classmates diplomat. come in various where progressive (Up for it, who have forms but one thing is Denmark?). diverse backgrounds. To reach academic truth, alt- hough I know to myself a year it’s impossi- “Pit inna de sky, it fall inna yuh y’eye.” ago: Dear, Fu- ble. Neverthe- mihito. Do not forget your less, I seek for. If you spit in the sky, it falls into your eye. This means, what starting point because it’s you do to another could be the cause of your own downfall. also your final destination. Treat others with the respect you seek. [email protected]

IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR Art is where we make a stand. NATIVE LANGUAGE? BRENDA OKOTH If we don't make it there, “Art is where we make a stand. If freedom of expression is lost for everyone - KENYA we don't make it there, freedom of expression is lost for everyone - for artists, for journalists, and for everyday people for artists, for journalists, and for

IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, everyday people” by Lucien WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? Bourjeily, who is a journalist and director. It resonates with me I would be a DJ. because I also have an artistic 21 AGE background, but at the same time WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY I’m a journalist and an activist, FRA ENG AR LANGUAGES IN AARHUS/MUNDUS SO FAR? and I feel he combines all three Making connections with people in the programme aspects very easily. BA in Media and Communications ACADEMIC with a minor in Theater and understanding what brings them joy. BACKGROUND “Journalism and Media across Cultures SPECIALIZATION WHAT IS YOUR DREAM PROFESSION? HAMBURG WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE YOURSELF A YEAR AGO?

Dear B, although the butterfly and caterpillar are I want to become a foreign correspond- completely dierent, they are one and the same. ent in the Middle East, because I feel there’s a bias towards how it’s portrayed. AGE 34 “Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in But my ambition is to become a LANGUAGES ENG KISWAHILI LUO no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that Lebanese diplomat abroad, and to fight corruption. I know I’m on my own, but ACADEMIC Communication and counts.” ― Chris Bradford. we’ll see. BACKGROUND Media Technology Journalism and Media across Cultures SPECIALIZATION HAMBURG

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE IN LIFE?

HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? To paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson words, “To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy I applied for it a er seeing the details of the child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social programme online. condition; to know that even one life has breathed WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID IN AARHUS? AND WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR easier because I have lived - that is to have succeed- FAVOURITE MEMORY IN AARHUS/THE MUNDUS ed.” PROGRAM SO FAR? WHO IS YOUR DREAM COFFEE DATE? During my exchange I went to ARoS, which was DEMI IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR the worst: at the time the exhibitions weren’t so Hmmm, this changes every couple of months, at NATIVE LANGUAGE? interesting, and the rainbow panoramic thing the moment it's American director and Kila chombo kwa wimblile.- Every vessel has its own makes you dizzy. As for the new memories… I [email protected] screenwriter Ava Duvernay. waves. don’t have one yet LEBANON IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME TO A YEAR AGO, HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF WHAT PIECE OF ADVICE WOULD KORBAN PURSUING THIS COURSE? YOU GIVE YOURSELF? I would say it wasn’t really a big change. During my Explore y ourself further, don’t bachelor I came to Aarhus in exchange, and I’ve limit y our capabilities. Kila chombo kwa wimblile always been trying to find ways to come back, and that’s how I discovered EMJ. It opens opportunities, especially in Europe – and the only way to thrive as a “ Lebanese person is through connections. .. ming barbecue afternoon GABRIELE NIEKYTE we organised with food, JUAN CARLOS Gómez Henríquez FROM LITHUANIA, GOING TO SWANSEA drinks, guitar songs, random FROM MEXICO, GOING TO SWANSEA and honest conversations, 23 years old 33 years old sharing experiences and Arabic, English, Lithuanian, Russian, og lidt simply sharing the feeling of Spanish and English Dansk a family. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Uni- Asian Studies (Arabic Studies), Vilnius dad Xochimilco University Center of Oriental Studies Don’t hesitate to grab the op- portunity before it slips from @ [email protected] @ [email protected] your fingers, and if you made a decision - stick to it. This is how you find your place oming from an aca- the only hesitation was my anywhere you land. Nobody efore I started to demic background own experience, strength knows the struggles one has apply for the Master’s degree I worked as a of Middle Eastern and skills. Having struggled advice for to over- studies, I was to stay in a single place for a come to journalist in different yourself? Clooking for options to stay in long time, I just went for it, reach the Bregional and national news- papers the field, PURSUING with all my passion, stub- destination, but at the end of PURSUING a day, what matters the most in Méxi- but to bornness, and enthusiasm, THIS COURSE change THIS COURSE trying to prove that my place is the experience you gain on co. Just the specialty. When I stum- is there. Erasmus Mundus the way there. before I received the notifica- bled across the programme, presents an incredible pos- tion about the program I was The first AARHUS GREATEST Mackerel sibility, all one needs to do is I would IF YOU WERE working for AM Newspaper, thing was EXPERIENCE LESSON salad is not to take it - and here I am! possi- NOT HERE... covering mostly politics. to visit the ice cream bly be City Center. My favorite spot Brabrand is far from the uni- So far, one AARHUS working on my path to UX/UI in Aarhus is the University versity and it can be difficult Lake because it’s calm and of the best EXPERIENCE development and digital de- moments sign. Or would already have to be part advice for there are ducks. of many From all the people I’ve met was seeing how bright dropped everything and yourself? luggage and full of stars the sky started travelling around the things if from different parts of the is, being the single world. Who knows? Maybe you live far. world, I identify most with for exile the Danish; most of them are light source when it’s still on the way Escape from Exile by I would rational. you have to IF YOU WERE Robert Levy love to cycle home That’s a difficult NOT HERE... Mexico can learn about or- GOALS be an der, welfare, lack of corrupti- to the edge one. My answer The Smiths of the city. is not very original - the astronaut so if there is any on from Denmark. Denmark program about that could can learn about food and But maybe, greatest achievement would Pizza the best be to leave something worth have been nice. passion. moment so discussing for future genera- far was the tions, make a path where no- heartwar- body has set a foot yet. Spirit of journalism at its best! “LA LUCIDEZ ES UN DON Y UN CASTIGO.” Lucidity is a gift and a punishment IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR Lo que nos ocurre es lo IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? que construimos nosotros mismos NATIVE LANGUAGE? Apapachar “Lo que nos ocurre es lo que construimos nosotros mismos”, which could be translated to “What “Apapachar” It’s my favorite word. It’s the Mexican happens to us is what we build ourselves”. I read this way to show aection to your beloved ones. phrase in a book from Pierre Lemaitre and I keep going back to it, it means I am the only one responsible for what happens to me and for building IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? the life I want. WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID IN AARHUS? WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? 28 AGE A chef in a five-star restaurant. For a brief period I WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID The day I arrived, the weather was sunny FRA ENG ESP LANGUAGES considered studying Gastronomy since I love IN AARHUS? WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? and windy. I knew I was in the right place. cooking, but I love writing even more. One of my first memories of Aarhus is going to the “ ACADEMIC BA in Communication Sciences City Festival in Molleparken, where I first met some “ BACKGROUND of my classmates. We sat under a big tree, chatted, Journalism and Media across Cultures SPECIALIZATION drank beer and listened to live music; those were HAMBURG AGE 25 great days before the classes and the cold rainy days started. LANGUAGES ESP ENG FRA Some of my favorite spots are ARoS Museum, Dokk1 ACADEMIC where you have a great view of the harbor, and the BACKGROUND BA of Arts in Journalism greenhouse in the Royal Library is the best spot to study. SPECIALIZATION Business and Financial Journalism LONDON

HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE?

I found this course back in 2013 when I got back to Mexico a er a semester abroad in the University of Leeds, England. That experience ROCÍO changed my life and I started looking for a Master's degree in another country. As soon as I HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF saw the Erasmus Mundus Journalism program I PURSUING THIS COURSE? knew that I would be accepted and appear in VALDERRÁBANO the Blue Book one day. Online, through Amsterdam University website

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME TO A YEAR AGO, WHAT PIECE OF ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE YOURSELF? WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE YOURSELF A YEAR AGO? Do not stress that much about the application Take the risk, it’s worth. process, and more importantly, do not be afraid of leaving your family and the people you love MEXICO [email protected] back at home. The change will seem scary, but WHO IS YOUR DREAM COFFEE DATE? IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING your loved ones will always support you and MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, Gabriel García Márquez WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM this new life is worth it. You will be fine. PROFESSION BE?

Archeologist CABRERA MEXICO WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE IN LIFE? Hard question, but I’ll try to achieve one dream at a MARIA JOSE VILLANUEVA CARDENAS time.

[email protected] ION CALCEA (NICU) VILDE SKORPEN WIKAN FROM MOLDOVA, GOING TO LONDON FROM NORWAY, GOING TO SWANSEA

23 years old 26 years old

Russian, English, French Norwegian, English

Kindergarden, Philosophy & Contemporary Phi- International Relations losophy. [email protected] @ [email protected], @nicucalcea @

I just finished my master in “Hey Nicu, if someone tells “ Jeg har en høne å plukke med deg. ” Moldova before coming here. you to go back in time a year I was from now, don’t “I have a hen to pluck with you.” Means that I have an issue skeptical do it, you’ll be with you I want to discuss about stuck in a causal loop. Well, I going back to studying since, guess it’s too late now.” After completing a degree The first you know, I’ve been in school in International Relations I touristy continuously since I was 6, I would like wanted thing I did but I hope it will be worth it. to be a gar- to gain was to stroll along the canal. bage truck some I like to study in my room man so I could ride in the practical skills in wwriting, since all back of the truck all day. editing and publishing. So, the other I attended U.C. Berkeley’s spots are Summer Journalism pro- either too far away, meaning gram. During those months they’re outside my dorm, I realized that journalism Jordbærmus and/or it’s raining outside. is the career I wanted to Also, I’m lazy. pursue. Jordbærmus I would “ ” be a goat недоперепить herder. Jordbærmus Not my mother tongue, but I like this Russian word. It trans- lates as “underoverdrank”, used to talk about a person that drank more than their limit, but still not enough to be satis- fied. Basically, when you drink more than you can but less than you want. I think it encapsulates my country quite nicely. on, filmmaker, but I want to take up as much as I can, and UMER ALI then give back in Pakistan FROM PAKISTAN, GOING TO SWANSEA acade- IF YOU WERE 22 years old mia, NOT HERE... whose Punjabi, Urdu and English l uGGAGE offer is not really satisfying; Mass Communication for exile I want to be a teacher and a journalist, if I can. @iamumer1 Pale Blue Dots by Carl @ Sagan I haven’t AARHUS All Nusrat Fateh Ali done any- Yes, I have been looking up Aarhus EXPERIENCE AARHUS Khan songs thing yet: this course for the past three EXPERIENCE Festival I saw my room, the univer- years. In my Bachelors, my in the last Biryani TARTEEL RAO sity and libraries because of concentration was in journa- week of August was brilliant. FROM PAKISTAN, GOING TO AMSTERDAM studying. The best memory lism, but it was my profes- so far is the relief when IT sional PURSUING 29 years old fixed the technical error of work “Pewasta reh shajar say, umeed-e-ba- my account so that I could through THIS COURSE English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi submit the exam. That was a which I learnt more as har rakh..” M. PHIL in Mass Communication good sight to see. compared to academia. My English translation: “stick to the tree, hope for the journalistic beats included [email protected] spring.” It is an Urdu stanza which addresses a leaf @ Come to this program if you terrorism, human rights and metaphorically asking it not to give up on really want to challenge free speech, so Swansea was hope until the spring arrives. It is, in fact, I applied last year, and was and everything “house- yourself – it’s not as journa- a natural choice. However, I a call for all the humanity to not accepted, but I chose to go keeping”. listic as many think. Make a take active interest in inter- give up on hope and to keep somewhere else; this year I good habit of reading often. national politics as well, so holding on to tomorrow. And, once again: learn to overall, this course offered PURSUING applied I am not actually working again, towards my dream professi- bike, if you don’t already. me the perfect combination. THIS COURSE and was re-accepted and I decided IF YOU WERE Well, my dream to come. So, this program is NOT HERE... academically connected to professi- my previous studies, but not on has always been journa- to my ideal profession, which lism, so I’m living my dream would be filmmaking. right now. But, if not journa- lism, I would have certainly advice for Learn gone for studying history or discourses. yourself? to bike by Bulleh Shah already! “Demolish the mosque, break away temples; break every- And, learn to be self-depen- thing in sight. Just don’t break a person’s heart. It is there, dent and on your own, in where God resides.” It reflects my philosophy on how I see regard to cooking, cleaning, life: just… care about humanity. [email protected] IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE?

ANTONIO RAMON H. ROYANDOYAN I'd suggest a lovely Vietnamese word that I'm fond of as there is no alternative with the equal PHILIPPINES meaning in English. The verb "thuong" in ??? Vietnamese means a kind of love which is developed through compassion and empathy in IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, a relationship. To "thuong" somebody requires a WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? deep level of understanding and sympathy I have two answers for this. The realistic one is I work without a sexual attachment. I would say the meaning stands somewhere as a cyber security specialist or as an economist; the WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE YOURSELF A YEAR AGO? fantastical one is playing guitar for a heavy metal HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? band. I’m quite certain that the latter is the Learn how to cook and bike. frustration of a teenaged version of myself. I’ve always worked in media (journalism and advertising, which is a strange mix, I know) and was WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE IN LIFE? taking my MA Sociology back home when I decided WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY IN “I want to understand and help people understand. that I wanted to switch to a program that combined AARHUS/MUNDUS SO FAR? media/communication with political science. I Also, fight fascism, dismantle the patriarchy, guard Hard to say but I love the fact that Aarhus is started looking for programs online, and the my country from the return of the Marcoses, and surrounded by water and you can explore it by bike. Mundus Journalism program (specifically, the help close the obscene gap between the rich and Hamburg specialization) seemed really interesting. the poor in the Philippines. And pet all the dogs. AGE 26 YOU ARE SENT INTO EXILE AND YOU ARE ALLOWED ONE BOOK, ONE ALBUM, AND ONE FOOD FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE; WHAT DO YOU CHOOSE? LIANA [email protected] LANGUAGES FIL ENG WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY IN PHILIPPINES AARHUS/MUNDUS SO FAR? ACADEMIC The book would be I Lost My Love in Baghdad by BACKGROUND BA in Journalism Michael Hastings, the album would be Crack The I love walking by the beach in Aarhus. As for the Skye by Mastodon, and for food I’d pick Food for the program, the international party where we got to try SPECIALIZATION War and Conflict Studies snacks from everyone’s home countries and dance SWANSEA Gods! CARINE to a truly global playlist is a great memory. It was HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR definitely worth the hour-long walk home at 3:00 am NATIVE LANGUAGE? in the pouring Aarhus rain. 28 AGE I decided last year that a Master’s degree would This is not a phrase you would say in daily conversa- ENG FIL LANGUAGES help me improve my reporting because I’ve worked tions but it resonated deeply for me ever since I was with reporters from foreign media that stumbled in high school. This phrase, written by Filipino English Literature, ACADEMIC GANCAYCO into good journalistic opportunities because of national hero Jose Rizal in a poem, “Ang hindi Creative Writing, Sociology BACKGROUND their universities’ connections or from their MA marunong magmahal sa sariling wika/masahol pa programs. I’ve been working as a journalist for five sa hayop at malansang isda” (He who loves not his Journalism and Media accross Cultures SPECIALIZATION HAMBURG years since graduating from my BA and I needed to own language/is worse than a beast and a stinking fully convince myself that this is the best path to be fish), spoke volumes for me because I’ve always IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND able to improve my reporting. I didn’t have much maintained a love/hate relationship with my native JOURNALISM, WHAT WOULD YOU DREAM preparation for this because it was only in Decem- tongue. Then again, this is meaningful for me PROFESSION BE? ber 2016 that I made the decision to apply to this because the Philippines is being threatened by A screenwriter or sociologist. program. another dictatorship. It could still happen! BARCIA

Ang hindi marunong magmahal sa sariling wika masahol pa sa hayop at malansang isda“ NINA ANDREA UNLAY BARBARA ERLING FROM PHILIPPINES, GOING TO SWANSEA FROM POLAND, GOING TO AMSTERDAM

26 years old 23 years old

English, Filipino Polish, English, Indonesian, German

Communication; Interdisciplinary Studies: Journalism and Social Communication, Indo- Psychology and English Literature nesian languag @ [email protected] @ [email protected]

“The people are mortal, but it’s still It’s a long story. But I almost On the first day of class, I re- didn’t apply, and I almost alized I was in a room full of not the worst. The worst thing is didn’t journalists from all over the that, it turns out that a people are pursue world. That the same night, mortal very unexpectedly.” program when I found out I was in a I was accepted. I sent in my room full of journalists from This is not at Polish phrase, it is a quote from one of my favori- confirmation when I was all over the world playing If I weren’t here, I would te books “The Master and Margarita” written by Mikhail Bulg- on a bus on an island in the beer pong. study something connected akov. It means for me that every day we should take from our Philippines during one of the with inter- life the most precious things that we can take. And when I will toughest weeks of my life. It A voice actress. national be old I can proudly say that I did a great job. felt right. Maybe a Poke- relations. mon. To be more specific, I wan- ted to work in the Ministry to myself a year ago: Learn of Foreign Affairs and step how to cook. by step become an Ambas- sador of Poland. However, I think that journalism is a very satisfying professi- on. Therefore I decided to I would I haven’t seen that much in continue my development like to Aarhus in this area of studies. have a yet but coffee with the president the Nothing’s impossible. of Russia, Wladimir Putin. beach It means for me that if I I found him a mysterious in Risskov was the first place really want person. He likes dogs as I visited and I liked it a lot. It something, well as I do so, so at least we is quiet and peaceful place nothing can stop me. That’s could have a nice talk about to chill both with friends and my life’s motto. puppies. alone. background is concentrated mostly on international rela- ANI OGANESIAN tions but I didn’t think about FROM RUSSIA/ARMENIA, GOING TO AMSTERDAM working in journalism. 23 years old If I could give some advice Armenian, Russian, English, Spanish, Croatian to myself from a year ago I BA in Journalism (major in Media Management, minors in would tell myself to want International Journalism and American Studies) more out of life and take [email protected] advice for more ris- @ ks. Also, yourself? even if It’s only been a couple of doubt is present when taking “Россия будет свободной!” months, as I graduated in a decision or action, one June 2017. When the classes Means that Russia will be free, said by the free people of should not shy away from a ALEXANDRU COSTEA just started, Russia at the 2011-2012 demonstration challenge. In this regard, cu- BACK TO FROM ROMANIA, GOING TO HAMBURG I often was riosity should be the engine STUDYING feeling 28 years old in life. IF YOU WERE “dazed and confused”, it Romanian, English was really helpful for me to Now, NOT HERE... reflect on the reasons I went Political Sciences and International Relations besides journalism, my back to school. (BA) and Diplomacy Techniques (MA) dream profession would be researching in biology and [email protected] Dokk1, @ the natural sciences. As I FAVOURITE as there’s usually am a person driven took the decision of tion. I worked for almost 4 SPOT great coffee, by curiosity, seeing how the pursuing this programme years in the Romanian press. table ten- environment around me in January 2017 when My experience in a Romanian nis, and sea view (I’ve always unfolds is a delight. Looking looking for Journalism financi- wanted to live next to cold PURSUING at what many people call IMasters programmes in Euro- al new- sea). pe. I was initially looking into THIS COURSE spaper “the natural world”, we can understand more about our- the possibility of working made me want to pursue If I could selves, as human beings. At advice for abroad in a news organisa- this career. My academic go back a the same time, anthropology yourself? year and is also a very attractive field give myself adivice, I would fiecare pasăre pe limba ei piere for me. All sciences are more “ ” say this: stop plucking your or less connected and each eyebrows and that guy is a A very fitting phrase about life in general, that also stuck offers a viewpoint on the jerk. in my head, is this Romanian proverb. Translated it means world. Journalism gives me ‘every bird dies by its own tongue’, which means that everyo- an opportunity to explore I would ne is accountable for their actions and words. This phrase is different viewpoints, alt- IF YOU WERE want to ethically refreshing for me, because it reminds me that wha- hough not always in depth. NOT HERE... tever we do or say, at least once in our lifetimes we suffer the be an consequences of our actions, be them positive or negative. architect. Architects are sexy! Even not doing anything in life has consequences. [email protected]

ALICIA MEDINA SEGURA VielErfolg!

SPAIN

IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? NATIVE LANGUAGE?

When I was a kid my dream was to be an actress. Hmm, I can think of an expression in German that WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY Later, I took a theatre course and I really liked it. I really like! Although it is not my mother tongue, I IN AARHUS/MUNDUS SO FAR? So, I guess I would be a theater actress. use it a lot with my German friends. “VielErfolg!”. Sunny morning in Bellevue beach. The translation is “lots of success”, and you say it “ to someone instead of wishing “good luck”. I like the philosophy behind it - destiny is not a matter of luck. 24 AGE WHO IS YOUR DREAM COFFEE DATE? GER ENG ESP LANGUAGES I am a tea drinker. ACADEMIC HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? Journalism and Communications BACKGROUND AGE 27 I wanted to gain more journalism expertise and to have the opportunity to study abroad, so when I ESP CAT ENG LANGUAGES Journalism and Media across Cultures SPECIALIZATION AR FRA HAMBURG saw this Masters program, I realized it was exactly what I had been looking for. I also contacted a ACADEMIC IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, BACKGROUND Journalism WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? friend who was enrolled in the program and he explained to me how cool it was. A good advice to War and Conflict Studies Host in a mountain shelter in Corsica. SPECIALIZATION SWANSEA myself would be – “Stay confident, the best is about to come”.

HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE IN LIFE? WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID IN I wanted to have a chance of becoming a journalist Meaning. AARHUS? WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? in the international field. A er the classic first IKEA stop, I went to the Botanical Gardens. In the middle of it, there is a greenhouse with tropical plants. I was with my mother and my brother, and I have to laugh now WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOURSELF IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR FROM A YEAR AGO? NATIVE LANGUAGE? when I remember that she said to me, “When winter comes, and you miss Spain, you should Caminamos lentos porque vamos lejos Keep trying. come here, even just for a while”. (We walk slow because we are going far)

SPAIN Caminamos lentos porque vamos lejos LUCÍA CAMBLOR “ [email protected] [email protected]

Costa abaixo tódolos santos axudan AN-YU LIN

TAIWAN

IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? NATIVE LANGUAGE? WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? My favourite phrase from my native Costa abaixo tódolos santos axudan. (All the saints I would be a chef. language can be translated to English as help you, when you are going downhill) ‘life will always find the exit and the way to WHO IS YOUR DREAM COFFEE DATE? continue.’ Whenever I face problems and diiculties or feel frustrated, I always tell I would like to meet as many dierent people and “ myself that there is a solution and places as possible, to become a journalist, to be just everything will be arranged in an appropri- happy with what I do everyday… ate way. Life will always find the exit, and AGE 23 everything will be better LANGUAGES GL ESP ENG CAT WHO IS YOUR DREAM COFFEE DATE? ACADEMIC Ryszard Kapuscinski. BACKGROUND BA in Journalism IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, AGE 26 WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM SPECIALIZATION Media and Politics AMSTERDAM PROFESSION BE? IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME TO A YEAR LANGUAGES TWN MAN ENG It was always my dream to be a AGO, WHAT PIECE OF ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE YOURSELF? BA in Education with a minor in ACADEMIC guitar player and a singer. I’m not Save more money, Denmark is expensive. BACKGROUND Department of Education Psychology and Counseling saying that I don’t like to work in the SPECIALIZATION Media and Politics area of media and journalism but I AMSTERDAM am really fond of music, and I enjoy WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID myself when I am focused on IN AARHUS? WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? practicing guitar and singing. The first days, when you start meeting a lot of HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? people and they are from everywhere in the I have always desired to become a media personal- World. That is amazing. ity who is able to have a positive influence on the WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE world. MEMORY IN AARHUS SO FAR? I already possess a great deal of work experience in HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? I’ve been really enjoying my life in Aarhus so far, the media industry, from program assistant, especially because I met so many amazing people in A er doing Erasmus, I realized that I wanted to recording and post-production to program host the Mundus programme. My favourite memory is study abroad again. That was when I started and news reporter. The training that I have every moment shared with the Mundusians, like looking for a Master’s in Europe. The Mundus received through these positions has enabled me during the parties or the barbecue. Journalism Master was the one that seemed to deepen my appreciation for media. I wanted to more interesting to me. learn more things in this field, and this program provides a great opportunity for me to both improve myself and study aboard.

SPAIN 生命總會找到自己的出口 JAIME LLINARES TABOADA [email protected] “ the program. But everything turned out well in the end. JOU I (ZOE) CHEN FROM TAIWAN, GOING TO AMSTERDAM IF YOU WERE Being a foreign 26 years old NOT HERE... reporter is my Mandarin, Taiwanese, Japanese dream profession, so if I Japanese and Political Science weren’t here I would still find a way to pursue that. @ [email protected]

One of the AARHUS first days, EXPERIENCE after I arri- ISABEAU VAN HALM ved, I just FROM THE NETHERLANDS, GOING TO SWANSEA explored the city on my bike. I graduated from University before, it would be perfect if IF YOU WERE non-pro- My favorite part is the Latin in 2014, and worked as a it closed later! NOT HERE... fit 23 years old Quarter; it has a lot of great news editor for about two- organi- Dutch, English, German café’s and cute shops. ARoS and-a-half years, so it’s been advice for Nope, zations, specifically animal a while since I was in school. because rights-focused ones, because BA in Journalism, Hogeschool Utrecht with is also a great place, not only yourself? to watch their exhibitions, PURSUING Being a I already I love animals with all my a minor at Ryerson University student made the best decision I heart and really want to do but also to have a drink or go THIS COURSE [email protected] @ to their special events. is the could- join the Mundus Jour- something for them. I did most luxurious thing to me nalism family! If anything, it volunteer work for the ani- because I can spend all my would be “Read more books mal protection organization After I studied in Canada I chelor’s in journalism when l uGGAGE for exile time in the knowledge I want in English and quit your job before, to me, nothing better knew I wanted to pursue I applied - and I still had to to gain, and as a student as soon as possible!” than spending time with my Master’s degree outside graduate when I got accep- The book I’m current- we can always get a lot of those beautiful creatures. of my home country; that’s ted. Thankfully, I graduated ly reading so I could opportunities such as free Aside from studying journa- when I PURSUING two months before the start finally finish it: The access to academic events lism and writing coverage, I found of this program. My advice THIS COURSE Bloody Chamber and or student discount. LOL, I would also like to work for out to myself would be not to Other Stories by Angela really treasure this chance. about this program. I still worry too much. I was really Carter had to graduate from my Ba- stressed about getting into Danish Royal library! It not A playlist with different only offers comfortable seats “NU KOMT DE AAP UIT DE MOUW!” artists, mostly 70’s and silent area to help stu- and 80’s music (like dents concentrate, but also This is my favorite phrase in Mandarin, which can be transla- This is my favorite Dutch expression (translated: now the Patti Smith and David provides entertainment faci- ted into “Boat to cross the bridge”, meaning that everything monkey comes out of the sleeve). It means that something fi- Bowie) lities like will work out in the end. This is the phrase that I always use nally becomes clear, or that someone finally shows their true favourite massage to encourage myself when facing difficulties in work or life, intentions or character. I like to use this expression because study spot Lasagna and ping which gives me the courage to believe that nothing is unma- it is silly and the expression has a strange origin (legend is it pong room for us to relieve nageable. originated from jesters pulling monkeys out of their sleeves the pressure of study, I’ve as a trick). never seen a library like this How long has it been since you were last in school? How do you feel being back? JACOB NICHOLAS It has been just under three years since I was last in school, I graduated from University of Oregon winter term, 2014, and it definitely feels a little weird getting into the academic groove jacob-nicholas@ UNITED KINGDOM again after a few years of working as a journalist. Even though outlook.com it’s strange, it is also enthralling to be studying again in a new environment, surrounded by such wonderful classmates.

“Trying is the first step towards failure. If you weren’t here, studying media and jour- nalism, what would your dream profession The lesson is, never try” be? There are two careers I would pursue if journalism doesn’t work out; beekeeping (save the bees!) but I guess I could keep bees AGE: 21 How did you find yourself pursuing this course? and be a journalist! Or I believe I would make a good nurse or I’ve always wanted to be a journalist, so it was more of a question EMT, as not much grosses me out after being a nanny for years of where to study. I couldn’t afford to do a MA in the UK and I had a when I was younger. LANGUAGES: brilliant time on Erasmus in Toulouse as part of my undergrad, so ENG FRE WEL studying abroad seemed like the best idea! As for advice, it would just be: don’t worry, you’re on the right track, everything will be fine - I What was the first touristy thing you did in could have saved myself a lot of existential stress! ACADEMIC BACKGROUND: Aarhus? What are your favorite spots so far? Bachelor’s Degree in Politics and I first felt like a tourist in the car park of Dokk1- have you been What advice would you give to yourself from a there yet? Go watch someone park their car in Dokk1, it’s like International Relations year ago? the future and I was just fascinated. It sounds really nerdy, but Don’t worry, you’re on the right track, everything will be fine - I could trust me. My first proper tourist excursion in Aarhus was ARoS Specialization: have saved myself a lot of existential stress! museum with my family and I could’ve spent all day there; I’ve AGE: 25 Media and Politics - Amsterdam been back twice since that first time. It’s a really lovely museum. If you weren’t here, studying media and journa- I’m a big museum nerd – I also loved to Moesgaard Museum LANGUAGES: lism, what would your dream profession be? for the views, having a picnic on the roof, and the awesome exhibits, the bog man alone was worth a visit. ENG SPA DUT POR Music! It’s my favourite thing in the whole world (apart from jour- nalism, obviously), I play a bunch of instruments and I record loads of albums myself. It’s the most fun, expressive, life-affirming thing If you could go back in time to a year ago, ACADEMIC BACKGROUND: ever and I’ll just do it anyway, so if I could make money out of it that what piece of advice would you give yourself? Batchelor’s Degree in Journalism would be great. Don’t spend too much energy worrying about the future, it may be unclear now but your path is about to find you. Don’t get Specialization: What are your favorite spots in Aarhus so far? caught up in your own head, either, remember to enjoy your I went to the Infinite Bridge - if the weather’s alright it’s really nice! time while you are still traveling and free, the studying will start Media and Politics - Amsterdam Favourite spots at the moment are LYNFabrikken and Løve’s Bog-og faster than you can imagine. Vinecafé for working/having coffee, Le Coq and Ris Ras for drinking, and Atlas, Vøxhall and Radar to see bands. Godsbanen is also a very cool place I recommend checking out. “‘Hiraeth’ is a longing or nostalgia for You are sent into exile and you are allowed one book, one album, and one food for the rest of your life; what do you choose? a place that no longer exists” Book: Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami - it’s just a perfect work, everything about it is so melan- sian.kavanagh@gmail. cholic and surreal and otherworldly but the writing is still so concise com/@sianjkavanagh and punchy. UNITED KINGDOM Album: Open Season by British Sea Power - a record that changed how I think about music forever, I love it so much I want a tattoo of the cover. Food: Pizza, though I guess then it would be a pretty short life... SIÂN JOAN KAVANAGH [email protected]

WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID IN AARHUS? STELLA ELENA VASSILEVA ALEXANDROVA WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR? IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? One of the first touristy things I did in Aarhus was UNITED KINGDOM One German phrase that I really like is “Butter bei die to enter the Aarhus Cathedral. Being agnostic Fische”. Literally, it means “butter to the fish” and is myself, I come from the region of Ukraine where either a request to be more straightforward or to put religion is quite an important part of people’s life. extra e ort into something. It is a typical northern It was very unusual for me to discover that I am German phrase and finds its roots in the idea that once actually used to living surrounded by faithful you prepared a fish with butter, it’s a perfect, complete people and religious buildings and that I IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, associated all this with some kind of comfort and WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? meal. tranquility. So, I went to the cathedral just to feel A writer, all I have ever wanted is to be able to tell the familiar atmosphere and I liked it very much. If stories, whether they were true or not, so I would talking about my favorite spots in Aarhus, it is a write but just in a di erent medium. seaside just near the dorm that I live in. Another nice place for relaxation and contact with nature is the deer park. 22 AGE HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? WHERE IS YOUR FAVORITE STUDY SPOT SO FAR? WHY DO YOU LIKE IT/WHAT MAKES IT SPECIAL? RUS ENG UKR LANGUAGES Initially, I was looking for an English language MA AGE 23 My desk in my room, because I have a window a ACADEMIC BA in Journalism BACKGROUND in journalism in Germany. I have some friends great view of my garden there and a general grasp of the culture as well. LANGUAGES ENG BUL Journalism and Media across the Cultures SPECIALIZATION HAMBURG So, I wanted to get to know the society better, ACADEMIC Combined Honors in learn German and gain a Masters degree in an EU BACKGROUND Social Sciences, focused in Sociology country. I started searching in advance, and the Business and Financial Journalism IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME TO A YEAR AGO, best option I came across with was the Erasmus SPECIALIZATION LONDON WHAT PIECE OF ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE YOURSELF? Mundus in Journalism and Globalization. It I wouldn’t, because I am really happy with where I attracted me because of the focus on globaliza- am now and I would want to risk changing that in tion, diverse composition of the students and last HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE YOU WERE LAST IN SCHOOL? but not least – the scholarship opportunity. For HOW DO YOU FEEL BEING BACK? any way… or maybe the lotto numbers. me, the preparation for the program begun long before I actually came to Denmark. Specially for I entered this Masters straight from my undergrad the EMJ, I passed the IELTS, started collaborating so for me it di erence is not in a separation from with English-language media outlets and even studying in time but rather the method and IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? chose a Bachelor thesis topic which would be manner in which we study. Personally I am consonant with the subjects of the second year of enjoying this environment so much more and I feel I love to use a lot of colloquial British phrases as that my study here. Today I realize that EMJ has been far more comfortable now studying then I did in my is my first language, but the ones I tend to use most contributing to my personal and professional undergrad. oen are: hunky dory, hodge podge, cool beans or formation since I decided to apply. But for this cuppa and these are my favorite because it makes “motivator”, I would hardly ever make such a long me feel like I have a bit of home with me. Also they way in such a short term. So, my advice would be sound funny to not doubt so much as I did getting on my own and my darlings’ nerves.

Hunky dory UKRAINE KOSTIANTYN YANCHENKO “ [email protected] MARIIA BONDARENKO SASHKO SHEVCHENKO FROM UKRAINE, GOING TO LONDON FROM UKRAINE, GOING TO LONDON

21 years old 21 years old

Ukrainian, English and Russian Russian, English and Ukrainian

Journalism and Mass Media Communication Journalism @ [email protected] @ [email protected]

I had been looking at the An advice for myself a year “Борітеся – поборете!” Erasmus Mundus Journalism ago would be to have a more program productive time This is the line from a poem of the most famous Ukrainian Gabriel García Már- for two catching up with poet Taras Shevchenko. In English it is translated as “Strug- quez’s “One Hundred years. everything. gle on – and be triumphant!” I like this phrase because it has Years of Solitude” It was a hard work for me actually become widely used during Euromaidan revolution. to get a spot, because I I would have gone to the One of the protesters from my home city read this poem and Simon and Garfunkel’s was working towards my Le Cordon recorded it. In a month he was shot dead by the government. Greatest Hits Bachelors degree in the Bleu school This phrase has become an inofficial motto of those who meantime. Now I’m proud to become a fight for people’s dignity and rights. Spaghetti Bolognese. to be the youngest person world famous chef. Cooking who joined the programme is my passion and I dedicate I always wanted to do my I would do another master’s favorite places in Aarhus. It is this year! I decided to do this my free time to it. master’s abroad in one of program. the most romantic one. Don’t go because one year ago I did the western countries. I Probably, Table football – everybody outside Erasmus in Greece as The first “Danish” heard in inter- in Denmark plays it. You without an umbrella. an exchange student, thing I did: I tried that EU national relations. A year can play it everywhere: in where I had one of the a Smørrebrød. Commis- ago I felt I needed to deepen the bar, in the dorm, in the best experiences in my life. The favorite spot so far is the sion gives scholarships and my knowledge in order to library, in the Denmark After that, I understood that rooftop of the Salling shop- started my research. Alt- become a better journalist. university. could learn I would like to have more of ping mall. The best place to hough I didn’t get a scholar- But I wouldn’t change my from Ukraine how to put it, combining it with doing enjoy the sunset. ship, I am very glad that profession. I would definitely your mind at ease and be Masters. now I have this opportunity consider journalism as the “Kharkiv 1938” by less conservative. Ukraine to study here. As for the only option. Oleksandr Irvanets could learn how govern- course itself, I had not that “Найскладніша людина проста.” ments can work without many options: I wanted to I visited the channel area. I “Meds” by Placebo corruption. “The hardest man is simple” The person who seems to be do master’s specifically in walked ‘complicated’ and ‘extraordinary’ at first glance often just tries journalism, but now I think I along it chocolate flakes with to look like this, but the one who seems to be ‘simple’ may will need further education in the milk have something that you’ve never expected from him. after I finish this program. evening. It is still one of my CECILIA “CECI” ARREGUI How long has it been since you URUGUAY ceciarregui@gmail. were last in school? How do you com/@ceciarregui feel being back? I graduated a quarter early so I’ve been out of the classroom since April but I love school and really like being in a classroom, reading and writing “The courage to do the impossible lies about and discussing topics I don’t understand or haven’t learned yet. in the heart of men ” Where is your favourite study spot so far? AGE: 26 How did you find yourself pursuing this I really like DOKK1 because it’s so open and has course? lots of places to sit and read or study. I need to be LANGUAGES: A Master’s Degree in Europe is something I have been thinking in a light place to study, windows are distrac- SPA ENG POR ITA for the last few years. I started looking for the perfect one last ting but necessary. If I’m in a tiny dark cafe or year and found one that offered a specialization that suits my something, I get too claustrophobic and stressed ideas and dreams perfectly-War & Conflict-and allowed me to out. ACADEMIC BACKGROUND: live in Denmark for a year, a country and culture I always wanted Bachelor’s Degree in to get know. If you could go back in time to Communication and specialized a year ago, what piece of advice What advice would you give to yourself from a both in Journalism and Filmmaking would you give yourself? year ago? Don’t talk to your ex-boyfriend, he’s a fucking AGE: 22 Advice for myself: be patient, the right opportunity is just around Specialization: the corner. loser. War and Conflict - Swansea LANGUAGES: If you weren’t here, studying media and jour- If you weren’t here, studying media ENG SPA nalism, what would your dream profession be? and journalism, what would your When I was a teenager I dreamed of becoming a cryptologist or dream profession be? ACADEMIC BACKGROUND: novel writer. I also wished I could play in rock band, even though Dream profession would be a TV writer for a show Batchelor’s in English my skills as a musician are very limited. But I think that over like 30 Rock. But I’d also write for a more serious time, my dream profession has become journalism. I am very HBO type show like The Night Of. I just really like passionate of what I do and grateful of all the experiences and to write and would want to spend my life doing Specialization: opportunities I’ve had so far. something creative and new every day. Journalism and Media Across Cultures - Hamburg What are your favorite spots in Aarhus so far? During my first day as a tourist in Aarhus (after a few trips to IKEA in order to make my apartment lively and comfy) I went to Den Gamble By (the old town) and then walked around the Latin “‘Wag-n’-bietjie’ is an Afrikaans word Quarter, Mollestien and Iceberg. At night, I went to a beautiful brew pub by harbor: HantWerk. that means wait a bit - my mom uses it” You are sent into exile and you are allowed one book, one album, and one food for the camcloughlin13@gmail. rest of your life; what do you choose? com/@cmloughlin13 UNITED STATES/IRELAND Book: One by Amélie Nothomb, for sure. Probable Fear and Trembling or The Life of Hunger. Album: Wasting Light-Foo Fighters. Food: It’s hard to pick only one! Probably salmon or paella. CLAIRE McLOUGHLIN How did you find yourself pursuing this course? I was not considering graduate school until the last year of my EDMUND “AUSTIN” RUFF Peace Corps service. My main goal had always been to pursue music journalism, but that changed during my time volunteering in the Dominican Republic. Because I was living there during an UNITED STATES ethnic cleansing, I focused many of my projects around human [email protected] rights. I decided I wanted to continue with journalism, but focusing on human rights and refugees. After doing extensive research of programs all over the world, I decided on the Erasmus program. “The best time to plant a tree is 10 years What advice would you give to yourself from a year ago? ago. The second best time is today” A year ago, I was still in the Peace Corps and fully unprepared for finishing and returning to the US. I had a general plan, but every- AGE: 21 How did you find yourself pursuing this course? thing seemed out of my hands. I would tell myself that my instincts I felt the need to seek a master’s degree when I neared the end of my are almost always right and that everything will work out! LANGUAGES: bachelor’s studies, but with an American-sized mound of debt, I took to the professional world instead of academic. I had only casual interest If you weren’t here studying media and journa- ENG SPA BUL in media and politics prior to this point, but 2016 changed that, with lism, what would your dream field be? Brexit, the U.S. presidential race, and other inflammatory narratives. I I could see myself pursuing archaeology, specifically maritime ACADEMIC BACKGROUND: became a political junkie and wanted to expand my understanding of archaeology (scuba excavations) because I love to explore and Batchelor’s Major in journalism the world’s body politic. At one point after that, I read an article about understand people, many of the same ideas as journalism. I find how runaway costs of education in the U.S. have driven some to seek and mass communication, the idea of exploring sunken ships or caves so enticing that it was education abroad, where many schools offer more affordable and even difficult to choose my career path. At least I can scuba dive for fun! international studies Minor in tuition-free programs. That inspired my search for a master’s program AGE: 25 English in Europe. Eventually, I found the Erasmus Mundus program, which What are your favourite spots in Aarhus so far? caught my eye for its two-year, two-country format. A bunch of us went to the Infinite Bridge for the afternoon on a rare Specialization: sunny day. My favorite spots thus far have all been along the water LANGUAGES: If you weren’t here, studying media and and of course, Cafe Paradis. ENG SPA CRE Media and politics - Amsterdam journalism, what would your dream profession be? If I weren’t here studying... I don’t think I’ve ever know what my dream You are sent into exile and you are allowed one ACADEMIC BACKGROUND: job would be. I mean, when I was 6, I really wanted to work at McDo- book, one album, and one food for the rest of nald’s. Does that count? It would probably be something that would Bachelor’s in Journalism and allow me to read books at will, watch films, bake breads, race my your life; what do you choose? Anthropology, focussing on bicycle... So, I guess professional hermit. Album: “Within and Without” Washed Out Book: “Welcome to the Monkey House” Kurt Vonnegut Archaeology What are your favorite spots in Aarhus so far? Food: Mangos First touristy thing I did was ARoS. Anywhere along the bay, particular- Specialization: ly the beaches up by the town of Risskov and the Infinite Bridge south War and Conflict - Swansea of Aarhus. The cycling trail around Braband Sø is another, newer favorite. “It is better to ask forgiveness than You are sent into exile and you are allowed one book, one album, and one food for the rest of permission” your life; what do you choose? Book: War and Peace; in five years of reading, I haven’t finished it yet. herel.hughes@gmail. I suppose that bodes well for repetitious entertainment in exile. Not com/@herellybelly to mention the cast of characters and luxurious story found within its UNITED STATES/IRELAND pages. Album: None come to mind; I prefer the sound of ambience. Food: Give me hummus and a spoon, and I’m good HEREL HUGHES JULIA RIGNOT KARIS HUSTAD FROM USA/FRANCE, GOING TO LONDON FROM USA, GOING TO LONDON

22 years old 26 years

English, French English

Broadcast Media and Production, Women Journalism and Sociology and gender studies [email protected] @karishustad @ [email protected] @

I was researching Master’s degree in “Il faut profiter.” Journa- “To take advantage of something” - it resonates with me be- lism in cause it suggests the idea to live life fully, to take advantage of Europe specifically, to get whatever you can. “The greatest Risk is one not taken.” an international perspec- tive. I am particularly interested in videojourna- It has been four years since I lism, and some people in Well, I participated to a femi- graduated kanel snegle for procrastina- my bachelor were Aarhus nist panel, in the first days with my tion eating. alumni, who recommended here, bachelors DMJX. I believe this is a radi- and that “Glass Castle” by Jean- degree. It feels quite odd Don’t let external cal change from my studies, was nette Walls to get back in the habit of pressures drown it is a departure from my awesome. My favourite mo- readings, writing papers, out your gut feelings. Also, bachelor, while still ap- ment so far were the inter- Fuck. This is so hard. group work and academia. take a deep breath, a step plying it. national potluck dinner, and It’s a tie between “Melo- While the logistics can be a back, and everything will the running dinner. Food and drama” by Lorde, and… bit tedious (I stress out way make more sense. It’s actual- A documentary filmmaker. people together! shit! I don’t know. I guess an more than I ever wanted to ly evergreen advice. I still tell Or something in non-profit Earth, Wind and Fire album. about citations) it is also myself that today. work addres- Don’t neglect living so close intellectually challenging in sing women’s to the water, and appreciate A burrito from Gordo’s a way that isn’t possible in a I would be an urban planner health; social it: I think it’s really special. with carnitas al pastor, hectic daily reporting job. who fo- justice through storytelling Shop at Farmer’s or shawarma. cuses on is something I connect markets, meet dif- Dokk1, as making with, and I believe jour- ferent people, and it is close cities nalism studies would give support your local produce! to my apartment, it is gene- more bike and pedestrian me better tools to research And trust that you will fall in Trust the timing rally quiet, there are many friendly, a greeting card with. love with biking. of your life. places to work, and there’s a designer, or a coffee roaster cafe with delicious coffee and in Sri Lanka. [email protected]

SARAH JENKINS

USA Thuong

IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM PROFESSION BE? YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE? I have wanted to become a journalist since I was in A film critic who also somehow hangs out with I'd suggest a lovely Vietnamese word that I'm fond college, but never once thought of getting into dogs all day. of as there is no alternative with the equal meaning politics until my hometown was poisoned by an in English. The verb "thuong" in Vietnamese means environmental disaster and it was caused by a a kind of love which is developed through compas- long-term business plan which happened to be “ sion and empathy in a relationship. To "thuong" corrupted. Ever since I tried to get engaged and WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY IN somebody requires a deep level of understanding AARHUS/MUNDUS SO FAR? educated myself about politics and wanted to study and sympathy without a sexual attachment. I would more about it. However, doing a master's degree say the meaning stands somewhere The first time I was able to walk home without requires a deep knowledge and intensive using Google Maps or getting lost. background and there're not many available AGE 36 options out there. Fortunately, I found the Eramus @_DungPhan LANGUAGES ENG ESP Mundus program that combines both journalism VIETNAM DUNG WHO IS YOUR DREAM COFFEE DATE? and politics, both of which are my interest. BS in Journalism & Mass So yeah, here I am!!! ACADEMIC Communication - Electronic Mark Twain. BACKGROUND Media/Multimedia Production; Psychology WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOURISTY THING YOU DID IN AARHUS? WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS SO FAR?

Business and Financial Journalism SPECIALIZATION LONDON WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE IN LIFE? Too bad I despise touristy things and have PHAN Time travel. done none here. But I love wandering around 24 AGE forest parks in Aarhus. FRA ENG VIE LANGUAGES

HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF PURSUING THIS COURSE? IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, STUDYING MEDIA AND JOURNALISM, WHAT WOULD YOUR DREAM ACADEMIC IS THERE A PARTICULAR PHRASE YOU LIKE FROM YOUR Economics PROFESSION BE? BACKGROUND I wanted to study international journalism. NATIVE LANGUAGE? I wanted to be a human rights defender or a Media and Politics And Google. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. SPECIALIZATION political journalist covering social issues in AMSTERDAM A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any third world countries. time.” - Mark Twain I don't think it needs a "why" though.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any“ time K K O O What advice would 2017 2017 you give yourself a O O year ago? 2019 2019 B TION B Keep trying hard and staying ERASMUS MUNDUS positive. ERASMUS MUNDUS MY PHAM E JOURNALISM, MEDIA AND FROM VIETNAM, GOING TO AMSTERDAM Who is your dream ERASMUS MUNDUS E JOURNALISM MEDIA AND coffee date? U GLOBALIZATION , 24 years old L U GLOBALIZATION Vietnamese, English, and a little bit of Chinese Barack & Michelle Obama. B L BA in International Finance If you weren’t here, [email protected] what would be your B @ dream profession? K How did you find your- What has been your Influential journalist/writer JOURNALISM, MEDIA AND GLOBALISA self on this course? favourite memory in O Aarhus/Mundus so What do you want to 2017 Online, via the Erasmus far? achieve in life? O 2019 Mundus website. BLUE BOOK Wandering around on sunny B Happiness and a meaningful 2017 days. & memorable life. ERASMUS MUNDUS 2019 E JOURNALISM, MEDIA AND U GLOBALIZATION BL Live fully every single day.