Interview: Daniel Fernandez

• Introduction! ( where are you from?, at which faculty are you studying? why Romania?)

For those who don’t know me, I am Daniel Fernández, and I am a new member of AIESEC Galati. I come from Palencia, Spain, and I was here in Galati last year enjoying an Erasmus Scholarship. I decided to come to Romania among all the opportunities the Erasmus program offered because it was the further destination I could choose. Otherwise, maybe I never had known this country, that have bad things (like all countries), but with some time you also discover really beautiful other ones.
Last year, I finished my degree on Mechanical Engineering in the Politechnic Faculty of the University of Valladolid there in Spain. But I was feeling like my knowledge in some areas of mechanical engineering was not as extense as I liked, so I decided to continue with my studies in a second degree, and now I am a student at the Faculty of Mecanica of the University Dunarea de Jos in Galati in the specialitation of mechatronics.

• How do you feel in Romania?

Actually I feel very comfortable. It may be because our latin origins, and our close habits. Here, you can feel that people are warm with other people and everyone want to help you whatever the situation you are in.

• What's your opinion about Romania and is it the same like it was before arriving here?

You know Spain is full of Romanian people, and the news in television make a wrong idea of what Romanian people are. We must not forget all the compatriots that get up very early and help the country where they are working to rise up with their hard work. People should travel here and see that what appears in news on television is not always the truth and you have to check by yourself what is happening.

• What would you say to a person who is not sure if he wants to go and  live for a while in another country?

When you live alone in a foreign country and you face to some situations that are new for you, you discover a person that you didn’t know, and in most cases you are pleased of what you can achieve by youself.

• You are from Spain. Are there any similarities between Romania and  Spain?

A lot of!! As I said before, it may be because our common origins that we are so similar. Also the religion is not the same, but almost. Ortodoxism and Catholicsim are almost the same and only some habits differenciate one from other.

• What do you like in AIESEC?

In the association I found people that understand me, I feel that I can count on them, maybe because they are more open-minded than the rest of the people in this country because they keep in touch everyday with foreign people. Also people in AIESEC want more and more from themselves. I think that I am always looking for the same thing.

• Can you describe yourself in 4 words?

Empatic, positiv thinking, tireless, self-confident.

• Is there any difference between the actual Dani who lives in Romania and the Dani that came from Spain?And if so, in which way has Romania changed you?

It is 15 months now since I first arrived in Romania ( but actually 11 months living here because I spent last summer in Spain). In many ways it was very difficult to start a life here, even although I was almost always with other spanish people because of the Erasmus program. That is also a reason why I can’t speak romanian yet,  and also that many people here in romania can speak castellano. Maybe now I worth some things that Ididn’t before and the other way round.

• What are you planning to do in the future?

In the close future, I will say goodbye, because I will spend the summer again in Spain with my family and working there, but in October I will be back to work hard in AIESEC and to finish my studies at the faculty. For further, only time has an answer.

•  Is there anything else you would like to share with our readers?

I have to say that I never regret having taken the decision to come in Romania. It is being a fantastic experience. One of my principles is that every single person in the world has something to teach the others, even if the person who is learning is the most wise person in the world. With this, I try to say that we have to be opened to other cultures and other life styles. There are more out of us, and it is exciting to learn about it.

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