hey my name is lea i'm from france i'm a third-year dental
student in romania and this is my student profile
how i came with the idea of dentistry it's really simple because i have no family
in dentistry i have no one and i just woke up one day i was i think eight or nine and i just
was like i just want to be a dentist i think i went to the dentist for the first time he was
checking everything he was so nice with me and i saw all of these instruments all of these tools
all of the the dental domain and i just loved it and i was like okay this is what i'm gonna be so
i went back home after seeing the dances for the first time and i looked at my parents and i said
i know what i want to do i want to be a dentist and since that very moment i was like okay yeah
i really really want to be a dentist and i still want to be and it didn't change i just followed
the line i i checked what i had to do the the studies i had to do and i just stick to it
and everyone was so shocked because i was so sure in my mind and i didn't change my mind
as i said no one in the family was a dentist so everyone was like where did this coming from so
basically in high school i did a scientific branch to be able to go to medicine and after high school
you have to enroll to a university which is the same for pharmacy general medicine dentistry
and other branches and you have to pass the first year in common with all these subjects
to be able to specialize in your speciality i think in my year we were 1300 and at the end there
were only 43 places so it was really really really hard if you don't pass you can't redo it you have
just one chance so this was my one chance i tried it because i was so sure that i wanted to do that
and at the end i was so disappointed because i was like i have no other chance this is the one and if
i if i don't pass what am i gonna do so i was so desperate i i failed and i had no other option
i talked to a lot of people to a lot of friends who wanted to do the same thing
as me and who failed like me and they said oh but i think i heard something i think in romania they
have also university uh for foreign years uh i think we should try so romania i was like romania
okay i think this is my only chance and i have no other option so yeah i will go for it so i went to
romania to burkarist i took the exam yeah after that i started the first year so fast i i just
cut my emotions and i was like okay this is the only way to do it so i will go for it and
not think about anything else because i might have regrets or something so i went for it and
here i am i received a notification that i was admitted in bucharest and then i was like
what does that mean it means that i'm gonna start here i'm gonna start in romania studying
for six years what do i do i have no apartment i have nothing and we're gonna start school in two
weeks what am i gonna do everything went so fast everything was so so confused in my head but i
didn't have the time to think i found an apartment i moved in i prepared everything and i started
going to school two weeks later i was looking at all these people in the class who are in the same
case with the same look at the beginning and this helps so much this was the beginning of a new life
so i live in ken in the south of france which is a really small city
when i first came here in romania in bucharest i was so shocked because it was so different
it's huge first they have different type of people a different language different kind of
food different way of living different culture so it was kind of a shock and i had to adapt
it was also really good because i learned so many new things i discovered so much stuff
first i was kind of hesitant but then i learned how to appreciate all of this and i do now i
really like everything i like the food i like the people they are really really good they are so so
so welcoming and when you have the chance to talk a little bit and learn the language it's so good
and what i like doing here is to go to the park this is my favorite activity in france we don't
have any park like this you have to come and see it it's huge it's green it's wonderful
you have the lakes you have boats you have people running you can bring your bicycle
i have a dog here in romania because i was kind of feeling lonely a little bit
at the beginning so i brought him here and i'm so happy because i'm going every day to the park with
him i'm walking him say hi so if you hesitate and you have a dog and you want to bring him
in romania you can do it i also had the opportunity to meet romanian people
so i had the chance to travel a lot and discover so many different cities for example brush off
cluj-napoca sea view really small villages which are so so nice and maybe i don't know
this summer or next year i would like to discover the beach because i already went to the mountains
but i've never been to the beach part and i want to compare with friends so i think constanza will
be my next destination now i'm gonna talk as a girl coming to romania what i could notice is
that i was feeling a lot safer than in france when i was walking home when i was alone in the street
at night coming back home with my bag i was okay i was feeling so safe because people actually
tell you that your bag is open people take your wallet and give you back your wallet with your
money in it which would never happen in france and this is so important to me because you need
to feel safe when you move to another country another city it's something really important
so now i'm in the third year and i have so many interesting subjects it's finally like
a little bit better we have more practice we have to work on phantoms we have ability
to prepare teeth we have general surgery and which is really really really good because we
have the opportunity to go to the hospital to see real real surgeries we we are in the room
as a dentist it's something that i could never do in france we have also general radiology
the third year is a little bit more general but i think in next year it will be a little bit more
about the the teeth but it's also good to have a how can i say a general view of the the body
so i'm in third in titu my rescue which is a really good school because we practice a lot
we practice on phantoms we have our models and we prepare teeth we prepare cavities we prepare
for crown restorations we also go to the labs in the hospital for radiology and surgery we
have a lot of material we have so many things to do it's really really good in the next years
i will be able to bring my own patients which is really really good from this year we have a
new building in school if you want to apply here it's really encouraging to study there it's new
it's separated from the lab part so you have the labs in one building you have the lectures
in another new building and i think it's just amazing what i also like about this university
is that we are really close to the teachers it's a really good way to learn we can help each other we
are moving in the room there's no concurrence or anything it's a really big team and the teachers
are really close to us because in france it's really really competitive and something i also
realized after this year is that we have a lot of practice we practice a lot more than
other countries in europe and i also talked a lot with my french friends it's more based on
theory but in romania it's more based on practice because you'll learn more you'll learn better
with practice and and this is the key to success so in tito mayor school of course it's a romanian
school but they have one international class for each level so everyone can learn it
obviously i don't have the best level in english but it's also an opportunity to
talk a little bit more to practice more and now my level is really really better
than when i first came in romania this is the the language that make us really close to each other
because we can communicate i think it's even better than doing dentistry in france is that
i also have that english language which brings me a lot i think i have more opportunities now
if you don't know what to do if you failed in your country if you don't have any hope don't
worry you have one chance it's romania you can come here you can have a new opportunity you
can fulfill your dreams and this is what happened for me come here try here you will never regret it
so if you search for a place to study medicine or dentistry in romania just contact romaniac
because they will definitely help you to apply and enroll to the university or maybe another
university in romania don't hesitate just go and ask for help because they will help you
three years ago i couldn't imagine how my life would be today and
i'm so happy i don't want to change it and i think if you believe in destiny you will see that
amazing things are coming so just go follow your dreams do whatever you want don't hesitate too
much don't think about anything just take any opportunity you can have just tease it it's it's
so so thanks guys for listening i hope you enjoyed the video and this was my student profile bye
thank you guys so much for watching that was just a small insight into the life of a fellow
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