{"id":8596,"date":"2021-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smk.lt\/naujienos\/smk-student-shares-her-erasmus-experience-during-the-pandemics\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:00:00","slug":"smk-student-shares-her-erasmus-experience-during-the-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"naujienos","link":"https:\/\/smk.lt\/en\/naujienos\/smk-student-shares-her-erasmus-experience-during-the-pandemics\/","title":{"rendered":"SMK student shares her Erasmus+ experience during the pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":8597,"template":"","naujienu_kategorijos":[85],"class_list":["post-8596","naujienos","type-naujienos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","naujienu_kategorijos-news"],"acf":{"renginiai_naujienos_1_photo":8597,"renginiai_naujienos_1_contain":false,"naujienos_1_author":"","renginiai_naujienos_1_caption":"","renginiai_naujienos_1_short_description":"","renginiai_naujienos_1_is_important":false,"renginiai_naujienos_1_flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_text","text":"

Monika Gerdvilyte, a last year student at SMK University of Applied Social Sciences, shares her exciting Erasmus+ experience in Malta during the pandemics.

Monika writes, \u201cHey students, my name is Monika Gerdvilyt\u0117 and I am a 20 years old, currently undergoing my last scholastic year at SMK University of Applied Social Sciences in Kaunas, Lithuania. For my study programme I have chosen a Professional Bachelor of Tourism and Recreation. This programme gives a good overview of all the skills required for working within the tourism industry. Being a student at SMK makes me very happy because this university has given me everything I expected it would - with the cherry on top being given the opportunity to go to another EU country as part of the Erasmus+ program and do an internship, not once but twice. On both instances, in 2019 and 2020, I went for 3 months to the sunny island country of Malta. The first time I had a great experience where I faced various challenges working as a hotel receptionist.  could only learn from such an opportunity, highlighting how not to give up and move forward. In 2020, when COVID-19 started spreading, I couldn't believe all the plans I had were facing sudden doom and gloom. I really didn't think I would be able to go to Malta with the Eramsus+ program anymore, but as the situation got better and thanks to SMK (especially Donata Dulk\u0117, who helped me a lot), I managed to pack my luggage and do my final internship. I think that COVID-19 situation made it more challenging for everyone, creating extraordinary situations in every corner of the world. I never regretted choosing the Erasmus+ program as it gave me the proper understanding of the tourism industry away from my home country and gave me wonderful memories I will take with me in the future. If I had a chance, I would use the opportunity and go abroad many more times. So I want to tell everyone not to be afraid of anything and encourage you to get out of your comfort zone and try everything in life. Thanks, Erasmus+ and SMK!\u201d<\/p>

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If you are considering joining Eramus+ programme and going abroad, now you have a great chance to get Eramus+ scholarship for your studies and traineeship!<\/p>

Apply here<\/a> <\/span><\/p><\/div>"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smk.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naujienos\/8596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smk.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naujienos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smk.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/naujienos"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smk.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smk.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"naujienu_kategorijos","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smk.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naujienu_kategorijos?post=8596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}