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Welcome to Jungle Jam!
This podcast is featured on www.mobilitytoday.eu/
People behind are three Bulgarians Ivan, Ivo, and Alex
Executed by My Mood on My Mind team members.
mymoodonmymind.com/
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Congratulations! You are listening to our last episode for the first season of Jungle Jam.
We apologize for the strange noise in this episode, Ivo was just cold.

"You are never too old to learn and you are never too young to teach" Jim Ron

Send us your story about Erasmus related experiences in whatever format you prefer(mp3, mp4, written, etc) and you will get a free list of lifehacks.


Quick Review of this season:
This 1st season's main theme is Erasmus+
#1 episode [Introduction to Meet the Team - Ivan & Ivo & Alex]
#2 episode [Global Citizenship]
#3 episode [Intro About Erasmus+ Programme]
#4 episode [How to Optimize Your Budget During Erasmus+ programme?]
#5 episode [Foreign Culture]
#6 episode [How to Manage Your Free Time During Mobility?]
#7 episode [Effective Communication]
#8 episode [Possibilities After School/Universtiy]
#9 episode [Post-Erasmus Experinces] + our guest Lorena

In this episode, we talk about:
+ How we see the world?
+ What is our vision about this podcast?
+ What is Season 2 gonna be?

Resources we have mentioned:
http://bit.ly/2zYbUTP => Youth Wiki
http://bit.ly/2BhKxUN => Euro Desk

Books we mention:
The Red Queen - Mat Ridley
Radical Honesty - Brad Blanton
Vagabonding - Rolff Potts
How Real Is Real? - Paul Watzlawick

Heads up for season № 2:
We continue with mobilities and want to further extend our reach and dive deeper in long-term traveling and ways to sustain yourself.

Coming soon in mid January.

If you have any ideas that you would like to share with us please do at

contact@mobilitytoday.eu

Stay tuned!

Welcome to Jungle Jam!
This podcast is featured on mobilitytoday.eu/
People behind are three Bulgarians Ivan, Ivo, and Alex
Executed by My Mood on My Mind team members.
mymoodonmymind.com/
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Introduction to our special guest
The organization
Acseso
Past mobility in the United States
Time to explore Europe
Why choose Erasmus
Writing projects
EVS
Benefits
Combining the fun with the work
How did you hear about these opportunities
Getting experience
Volunteering
Developing yourself
Expanding your perspective
Knowledge gap
Erasmus Mundus - https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/opportunities/individuals/students/erasmus-mundus-joint-master-degrees_en
Learning about the culture
The best thing about youth exchange
Meeting people
Scholarship for the US - https://www.uwc.org/
Negative versus Positive thinking

Welcome to Jungle Jam!
This podcast is featured on mobilitytoday.eu/
People behind are three Bulgarians Ivan, Ivo, and Alex
Executed by My Mood on My Mind team members.
mymoodonmymind.com/
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What to do after graduation?
What happens when you graduate highschool?
The path of life?
Listening to your parents
Being told what to do
Everyone tells you what to think, but not how to think
Seth Godin - what is school for? - https://seths.blog/2009/01/super-bowl-laziness/
Cycle of going around - being influenced by your family
Transition - being cared about - taking care of yourself
University degrees
School nor university is the final education you get
Learning is an ongoing process
Being left behind and following the herd
Path of Mastery
The social norm
Vagabonding - https://vagabonding.net/
What are the options?
Volunteering
Traveling
Working
Interning
Career
Finishing high school - what ' s next?
Discover EU - http://www.youdiscover.eu/
Quitting school
Jeremy Jones - https://www.jonessnowboards.com/
Business
Take time to think about it
Choices that you take - build your life
Don't rush to work
Gary V video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBXZlYdiizk
How to figure out what you want to do?
Time + Courage
Commitment
Dropping what doesn't serve you anymore
Feeling and thoughts
Make a decision before jumping into the action
Patience, drudgery

Send us a message at contact@mobilitytoday.eu

Stay tuned.

Welcome to Jungle Jam!
This podcast is featured on mobilitytoday.eu/
People behind are three Bulgarians Ivan, Ivo, and Alex
Executed by My Mood on My Mind team members.
mymoodonmymind.com/

Immerse yourself in a foreign culture.

The first question is the culture?
Culture is a story. It is the story that we tell ourselves and the story we tell others.
Cultures come from colera from Latin meaning nurture and flourish.
Culture is like a water to the fish.

The cultural shock can help you realize the cultural bubble you are living in.

Let’s talk about cultural barriers and how to cross them.
- Language
- Labeling people
-Stereotypes
People focus on differences and not the commonalities. Focus on the positive and the commonalities we have within different cultures.
Assumptions come from a culture and they are this sometimes I the reason we do not approach strangers for a conversation.

Different cultures - Western civilisation vs Eastern civilisation.
Seek to understand is to be understood.
Fundamentally first we need to become aware of them that they exist. Afrawards accept them and be less judgemental.
Tip: Do not take things personally.

Growth mindset vs fixed mindset.

How do you completely immersed in a different culture?
-It is a really good idea to start with learning some basic phrases.
-Engage with people.
-Explore the culture, restaurants, and museums.
-Subcultures - for example going to the local gym and meet the people that workout. Because even before starting to speak you already have one thing in common. It can be anything basketball, surfing, football etc.
- Attend meetups.

Do not be explore afraid to explore, that way you will be able to stretch your horizons.

Send us a message at contact@mobilitytoday.eu

Stay tuned.

Welcome to Jungle Jam!
This podcast is featured on mobilitytoday.eu/
People behind are three Bulgarians Ivan, Ivo, and Alex
Executed by My Mood on My Mind team members.
mymoodonmymind.com/
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In today episode we will be talking about communication and how to be an effective communicator.

Communication - It is how we deliver our message to the world.
Make sure that the message is delivered clearly.
Communication is not what you said, but how you said it and the energy behind those words.

What happens if someone has misunderstood you.
Miscommunication is the cause of a lot of drama between people.
Pro tip: Convey your message in your mind so that you can say it in such a way you will be understood.
Own what you say.
Asertivness
Empathy
Authentic

How do you meintain your opinion and being open-minded at the same time?
Stand behind your words and do not believe anything you heard from someone, but also keep in mind that this person knows something you don’t so you might wanna dig deeper into it.

What is a good conversation:
It is about listening, appreciating and respecting the other. Everyone wants to be heard.

Seek to understand in order to be understood.

How to be an effective communicator.

Conversational treading
Cold reading
Storytelling
Honesty
Empathy
Solitude

Internal communication:
How do you speak to yourself is the way you speak to others as well.

Welcome to Jungle Jam!
This podcast is featured on mobilitytoday.eu/
People behind are three Bulgarians Ivan, Ivo, and Alex
Executed by My Mood on My Mind team members.
mymoodonmymind.com/
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1. How to Manage Your Time?
- get your exams final dates.
- schedule your classes on Google Calendar
- Find your syllabus
- Take initiative to make and present projects first to finish first.
- plan your week
- create gamification
* after every big task, have a big reward
2. Routines
* think ahead how to construct your habits, new place = new habits
- laundry & housework
- eating & canteenes/cooking
- sports
- friends/erasmus parties
- studing

3. Leisure
- Events/ local or not
- Night life
- Sport Games
- Get to know yourself
- ESN
- See your friends abroad
- Travel solo