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good morning and welcome back to erasmus
TV what to do when you're all alone in
your room and all your roommates left
you or what to do when you are your
parents and you have no friends near
well my 2-day guests are well bringing
student life back online and welcome
Ricardo and semca you guys created stay
a Rotterdam a month ago Ricardo can you
take me back to the moment when this
idea popped into your head so basically
what happened is that in a time span of
today's ad my volleyball season
cancelled and then the university
canceled physical classes and exams so
in a time span of two days all the
people that I spent time with went back
home and I started thinking okay this is
gonna be a lonely period it's gonna be
such a bored period and I started
thinking what can I do what can we do
and then around 2:00 in the morning I
had this idea okay we can do this and
then I called probably one of my
favorite people here in Rotterdam family
and I was like this is what we need to
do like let's do this together and then
during the weekend we created the
platform in and Monday we launched and
now we're here yeah so the platform is
stay Rotterdam what is it
okay so we host online events through
Zoo mostly and we use a slack platform
to talk up and we separate it into
different communities for example we
have games which is that not only like
for hardcore games like video games but
also for fiction air and stuff and then
we host daily online events I think
right now we have like four on average a
day and those can range from cooking
tutorials to to a beer Kansas and it's a
lot of fun the beer Kansas was yesterday
Dragon Kings day okay well we have a
small video not of the beer kenter's but
we decided to take a look to the events
through the eyes of a students let's
take a look everyone my name is Paco
student at Erasmus University basically
I live at my parents place right now the
beginning it was very nice living
but after six seven eight weeks in the
starting to become very very annoying
I'll do as you can see times are getting
rough luckily I have say Rotterdam which
is an amazing platform hosting so many
events which really help kill all the
boredom and bring back the socializing
aspect that we've all been lacking right
now now we're going to jump straight
into the say Rotterdam event off tonight
it's gonna be random games I'm not sure
what it is but I'm gonna explain I
believe we're gonna do tonight so the
first game we're gonna play is
racketeering and it's about it's the
description states that it's the game of
strong opinions about stupid things
yeah femke my students days are behind
me that's my get I might get too old so
you understand is I get that the student
is frustrating it first stated at home
he has to do all these awful stuff like
cleaning the kitchen but I don't
understand the game so what we did is
you have yeah - you get a theme and then
you have to write a word and then you
can vote on the words I get submitted we
use jackbox games in this case we can
use other platforms as well but you we
use Jack books here and then the most
silly word will win because that makes
sense we would have to vote yes yes you
vote online and it's it's via the gaming
platform so when you answer the call
will like explain the game send all the
links that you need and then beforehand
will provide a short description for the
game is gonna be about but the actual
technicalities will be shared during the
call itself because that's when I can
explain it the best and as we saw you
are joining a lot of the events do you
have some favorites
yes I think for both of us I think the
favorite one was the corona lyrics so
basically we did we picked up songs for
example like Mamma Mia from ABBA
and we reconstructed the lyrics to fit
with the current situation and for me
was one of my favorite ones because
everyone was just being there weird
ourselves and express themselves through
music so that was really fun
apart from that I really liked the
improv show we did it while theater we
managed to make to create an improv show
through zoom so I think that was really
really interesting and I think in 3rd
place I think was yesterday actually we
did with a student from Villa Monaco Nia
we did a drink and draw session well
where we received prompts for example
draw yourself as the king or the Queen
or draw a puppy and it was really really
fun
do you still remember the lyrics you
made on Mamma Mia I think is better not
to disclose here yeah I still remember I
still remember some of them but I'll
rather not disclose it here ok well
let's imagine we could turn back time
and I could still be a student and I'm
interesting in joining you guys how
would I do it so we shared the link to
our slack group everywhere and then you
can join our slack group and we will
send the links to the zoom calls in
there with the tags and a little
description of the events and then you
can you can join whichever call you're
interested in because you have 500 well
people joining you regularly since a
month you have more than one session a
day and you have to maintain everything
do you self time producer yeah actually
because I don't have to go to university
right now so I have a lot of free time
on my hands I still have to study
obviously but it's really nice to have
something to put your energy in and to
help it grow because it's like life
stopped right now or its unpause society
in that sense but by doing this I still
have time to make something grow and to
meet new people
and to still keep my student life alive
yes you have now kind of platform what's
an upcoming event that you would really
like to get out and do man if I had
something to the previous question sure
how we managed to the time I think one
really important thing to also mention
is that this is only possible because we
have an amazing team behind us we have a
board that is composed by Alene Paco's
fun and Dheeraj that they made this
happen and all the admins and all the
organizations that are helping us even
for some of the universe in terms of
marketing there are some sports and
tourism sustainability hub union life
and all the organizations we are doing
and I think that's the crucial part to
make it happen I think for example
answer to your question what's an event
that I'm really looking forward is on
Thursday we actually are doing an event
with twenty over twenty boards of ceará
organizations here on campus because
they are all are recruiting now for
their current boards so then we thought
okay why don't we pick all of this and
put it on the same platform then we
reach out to a lot of organizations and
on Thursday from 4 to 5 we're actually
going to have all board organizations
that people can actually join and talk
with the board to kind of know more what
they can do to be more involved on
Erasmus community and on next year next
time now well everybody if you want to
tune in check stay Rotherham on Facebook
they will share links on that platform
and that's how you can join I want to
thank you all for watching and I will
see you back here on Thursday morning
thank you
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