I am currently on an Erasmus year abroad from Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland, Hochschule München, Germany. I was of course quite nervous to move to a completely different country to study abroad but the staff and students in HM could not have been more welcoming and helpful. Before I even arrived, I was assigned a local buddy from the college who quickly became a good friend of mine. All my classes are in English, which also draws a lot of international students, meaning my lectures are made up of students from every single corner of the world bringing in whole new perspectives and opinions, which makes for very diverse learning. The class groups are small, with typically 10-20 in a class. This makes the learning feel almost one to one, with the smaller classes making it much easier to ask questions and start discussions, in my opinion, leads to easier and better learning opportunities. The whole process from start to finish of enrolling in HM and attending classes was all very straight forward and it removed so much of the stress of moving to a foreign country.