In spring semester of 2011, ESN UPJŠ Košice was pleased to be a host section of the third part of ESN Slovakia national event called “International Students’ Days ”. The event, organized mainly for Slovak Erasmus students, started on Friday April 29 and lasted for a whole weekend till the 1st of May, 2011. To the OC’s delight all sections of ESN Slovakia participated in this event, bringing altogether more than 80 Erasmus students from all over Slovakia to capital of Eastern Slovakia, city of Košice.

 

 

 

The event began with an official ceremony held in the main building of the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik. The participants were welcomed by Rector of our university and representatives of the International offices from all four universities located in Kosice. After each participant was given a welcome pack, we all gathered for delicious dinner in the restaurant near the Main square. Because that time Košice was also one of the hosting cities of World Championship in Ice Hockey 2011, right after the dinner we joined the crowd on the Main square to cheer for Slovak national team. As a surprise our international group was welcomed by the moderator of the show preceding the match. The atmosphere was outstanding and the fact that Slovakia won over Slovenia by 3:1 was just another reason to continue our celebration in one of the finest night clubs of Košice, Ibiza club. As a welcome drink everyone received a glass of champagne, and various kinds of refreshments were also available in a private lounge.

Saturday was dedicated to a wonderful project based on ideas of SocialErasmus. Our initial plan was to plant trees in order to start Erasmus forest. Even though at the end we ended up doing various types of gardening jobs around the whole Zoo, this event had a great success. The help was much appreciated by all Zoo employees. The OC believes, that such event inspired other sections and SocialErasmus spirit will be spread not only trough Slovakia. After lunch served next to roaring bears the OC and a few students that stayed until the very end of this event went for a tour around the Zoo. Afterwards we decided to try a bob slide which is located next to the Zoo.

The day program followed by dinner and a theme party at Retro club in ´school boys, school girls´ dress code. The first shot was at the hostel, another welcome drink was mixed by a bartender of Retro club to start another great evening in the hockey centre. Back to school party was a great success since some students left in the early morning hours.

On Sunday morning, when there was nothing harder than waking up from bed, participants enjoyed beautiful weather in Old town of Košice. They had time to explore the city where due to the celebration of May the 1st lots of cultural events took place. Some of them were lucky to find a stand with a free goulash soup! The others listened to Slovak bands and enjoyed the last moments with people they made new friendships with.

International Students Days is always a great success but vol. 3 was special thank to implementing the idea of SocialErasmus into cultural and social activities of Erasmus students while getting to know interesting places of Slovakia. It was a pleasure for the OC to host guests from 12 countries in order to proudly present beauties of the European Capital of Culture 2013, KOŠICE.