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Hello Everybody!

 My Name is Charlene Van Limbergen and I'm from Belgium. 
I study primary education in Diest, UCLL. At the end of this school year I hope to graduate so I can finally become the teacher I've always wanted to be. But first I need to finish the coming months. 

 In the beginning of last year, I had the opportunity to go on Erasmus in Portugal. At first I wanted to go really bad but after a while I began to doubt. I don't know why, but I just did. I didn't do anything related to Erasmus, I just dropped it. 
After the final exams of last year, I got a call from my teacher at school. 
She told me that all the teachers discussed the fact why I didn't want to go on Erasmus anymore. I had good grades so they were wondering why I didn't want to do it anymore. 

 I talked with her about the benefits of going on Erasmus and all of the experience I would get from it, so it didn't take a while to convince me. I got excited again and I wanted to start the adventure. 

 So.. Here I am! 

I will be staying in Portugal for almost 5 month, together with my friend Stefanie. I'm going to the school of education, IPS, to follow many different courses related to my studies in Belgium. I hope I will learn a lot of things I can use for the future. But I'll keep you up to date! 

 On my blog you can read the things I did and learn here in the IPS. I hope you enjoy reading it. 


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