I started my journey in Porto in the beginning of February. I loved city of Porto at the first sight. City was super pretty, and the size was just perfect to walk around. All the people I met were super kind and helpful.
I did my studies in ISCAP, which ended up being really nice school for foreign students, as there were a lot of exchange students and also a lot of organized events for us.
I study business administration and ISCAP was good school 
for business students. The whole master’s degree was in English, which is nice for the international students. Even though we do bachelor’s degrees, ISCAP offers the master courses for the exchange students also. Some of them are quite hard, but some of them can be compared to lectures in TAMK.
Lectures were similar than in TAMK. Some of them were really difficult as the teaching was also in English of course, and in Finland we have been used to study in Finnish and the vocabulary is new. Some of the courses were really practical and had a lot of group works. One thing I found out that was really different there, was that students were not allowed to question the teacher. While in
Finland the teachers want students to question them.
I spent my spare time with my new friends I got to know there. I really loved the city of Porto. We loved to go to see the sunset and enjoy picnics with some wine and baguette.
We travelled together to Lisbon and one smaller city called Aveiro. One of the best things in exchange is to get to travel around. That was one of the reasons I selected Porto, because I wanted to be able to travel around and also enjoy the ocean. Actually, I just had time to go to Madrid also right before corona exploded. Coronavirus certainly interrupted my Erasmus exchange which was stupid and sad. That means that I needed to quit my exchange period in Porto after 1,5 months. 🙁 But I will go back for sure 🙂
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