Dove c’è amore c’è vita.

by Hanane Bouadid (Spain)

Making a local connection Italy

November 4, 2016, on this day I consider it , the official day my life made sense. This day will go to the story of my personal legend. I began to feel the true feeling of living, I started to be 100% me, I began to grow as a person and as a professional. I began to realize my dreams, which today are memories, the best memories of my life. Those who have given me the strength to fulfill all my dreams and create new ones. On November 4, I headed for the unknown, with a little fear but at the same time looking forward to it. Typically, when you take an 8-month trip, you inform yourself where you are going and what you are going to find, in my case I didn’t have that curiosity, mine was different, I wanted to escape from my routine and I wanted to go as far as possible. That special day I was heading to a town that is located nothing more and nothing less than in the heart of my beloved beautiful island, Sicily, the most magical and special place I've known so far, wonderful people, great climate, great gastronomy and especially those beaches where one falls in love. Mussomeli is the exact place where my life began to make sense. Volunteering to help, and when you are there you realize that the one who needs help is you, yes, that's right, it is me who needed the most help. My volunteering was to be in a family home to help the children who lived in it and at the same time teach Spanish in village schools. Definitely they were eight months full of love, new friends, new loves, new experiences, new follies, new trips ... As they say Erasmus is not a year in your life, it is your life in a year. Erasmus changed my life completely, since than I stared traveling in Europe, Since then I started traveling more, I began to learn language and I realized that I found what I love, but above all and more importantly I began to live, to smile more, to give thanks every day of my life for one more day, for the opportunity of one more day to know any corner of this wonderful world. I learned to travel and traveling I learn to improve all my skills and adapt new ones.