Heyyyy everybody !
At the moment I am having a study exchange in Wels, Austria. Wels is located in Upper Austria, which is one of the nine states of Austria. The biggest city within the state is Linz, which is reachable in around 15 minutes by train from Wels. In Wels there are approximately 60,000 inhabitants and it is the third biggest city within Upper Austria. Just for comparison, Linz has around 200,000 inhabitants.
Wels is located on the Traun river
I am studying in the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, which is the largest University of Applied Sciences in the whole Austria, since it has 4 campuses: one in Wels, one in Linz, one in Steyr and one in Hagenberg. Wels’ campus provides education in the fields of Engineering, Environmental Science and Renewable Energy Studies. I study Mechanical and Production Engineering at Tampere University of Applied Sciences, but now I am specialized in Machine Automation. In Wels I am mostly taking courses from Automation Technology- study program.
Exchange students gathered together in the Orientation Week in Wels
I have to admit that I disappointed a bit after my arrival to Wels. Wels is not that spectacular city and everything is reachable by foot. In the other hand the location of the city is just perfect, because the connections are so good to travel within Europe! I’ve spent 1,5 months here so far, but I’ve already been in Vienna, in Bratislava and High Tatras-mountains Slovakia, hiking in Gmunden and Hallstatt in Austria, in South Tyrol area in the northern Italy, in München, Salzburg and Budapest 😉 Especially the trips to the High Tatras Mountains and to the Dolomites (in the Alps) to South Tyrol have been magnificent!
High Tatras-mountains in Slovakia
South Tyrol, Italy
Even though Wels is not the most interesting city to live in, the friends I’ve got here have been sooo nice and we’ve had a lot of fun together! So the main point is totally to have great people around you although your homecity/hometown wouldn’t be so amazing! Yes, I also study every now and then alongside all the fun we’ve had. The studies have actually been really complicated and I’m a bit worried about the upcoming exams on January and February…
But now I’m truly enjoying my moments here! Haven’t regretted at all that I decided to go for exchange over here. Looking forward to the rest of my stay 😉
Greetings, Mikael
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