A Young Anthropologist's Notebook

28/12/2017 Here we are again. It's the eve of an other departure day, my luggage is next to me, ready to be filled again, my boarding pass is printed and in an hour I am going to say goodbye to my friends for the second and last time in 2017. I came back home eight days ago but it might as well been a month. To be honest, the whole concept of time is a little bit messed up in my mind right now because when I talk to people I am always quite sure that I have been gone for something like six months, not only three (and a half). How is it possible that everything (or almost everything) stayed the same here? I can only see that I have been gone from new shops and restaurants around the city, because otherwise it might have been only a weekend. The University of Coimbra, destination of our last trip of 2017 The first part of my Erasmus ended with a trip to Coimbra and Aveiro with my friends Alice and Andrea. It was a proper way to say goodbye to this country, one last t...

5/12/2017 I arrived in Lisbon with my friend Alice exactly three months ago, on the 5th of September 2017.  Three days later, on Friday the 8th of September, we met Andrea and Jara, both from Germany, at the Welcome Day of our faculty, in the very nice (but very far away) polo universitário de Ajuda . On September 14th, in a hostel in Anjos, we met everyone's favourite Czech boy, Tomáš - with whom, an hour or so later, I became flatmate.  The next Sunday I moved into my new home for good and I can say that my Erasmus experience really started. This Erasmus Life Is Killing Us (or The Defenestration of Evora), 14/10/2017, Evora Cathedral roof I have been intending to start this blog for ages - there were so many things I wish I had noted down before they faded away in my memory, but somehow it was never the right moment. I don't know why I believe that now is the right moment, maybe it's because I'm flying back home for Christmas in ten days or so a...