Overcoming pushback from family and how to survive the first week abroad – Chrysa in Romania and Turkey Part 1

Today, my guest Chrysa is sharing her journey abroad with us,
leaving Greece to study in Romania. She also shares her
experience being paid to doing a European Voluntary Service in
Turkey for a few months and how you can do it, too. 

This is part 1 of the interview with Chrysa. Make sure to check
out part 2 to learn how to land a job in Denmark.
 
Listen to this episode if you want to learn: 


How to survive the first days when moving abroad and wanting
to go back home

How to finance your stay abroad 

How to deal with pushback of your family of your dream of
moving abroad 

Why it's so important to move abroad and travel to break down
stereotypes

How to move abroad for free in Europe for a few months
program



These are my favorite quotes of the episode:


02:37: “I always had a feeling that...You know, Greece was
really nice. I grew up in Greece. But there was something
missing. I had always the curiosity of how the people outside of
my country look like. Because, you know, when you travel for a
week or five days, you don’t really see and experience the same
thing.”  

04:48: “And someone translated that to me, but it was the
first time that I realized ‘OMG what am I doing? Where am I
going?’” 

04:53: “The first days were a struggle. Exactly because I was
like maybe I did a mistake or I miss home. Then I was like ‘no -
let’s go and make the most out of it’. Because the worst-case
scenario is that it's just 5 months and you can just go back. It
turned out to be one of the best experiences of my life. But I
did struggle a lot in the beginning.” 

05:35: “You get to know yourself better. You get to know what
your boundaries are and who you really are because you’re kind of
forced to be with yourself a lot.” 

07:12: ”I started meeting people. I started going around
walking in the city and I started to see how beautiful the city
was and then I started classes in uni. I was like ‘Try to find
good things’ because not everything is bad. Our mind is
programmed to see the negative stuff first. But if you start to
think about it and start listing and writing down the good
things... I think in the end of the day I saw that the good
things and what I am learning is more than the bad.”  

09:54: ”We have a lot of stereotypes in our minds about
everybody all over the world. So, we have a lot of negative
stereotypes about what other people are and this was also my main
motive behind going abroad. I wanted to see whether these
stereotypes were actually true and I found that they are
not.” 



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