Travel stories

Impressions of the Country

Italy seemed like a peaceful and beautiful country. Compared to Spain, their schedules are different but easy to adapt to. A great thing was that, even if people didn’t speak English and saw that you didn’t understand the language, they tried to communicate using gestures and simple words.

Trips

In Turin, I visited two museums — Fablab and Toolbox — the Royal Palace (where you can see the old rooms they used), and the Royal Gardens. I recommend taking your time to enjoy it calmly.

I also visited the Egyptian Museum of Turin, which was very interesting. You can easily spend about 2 hours between both.

We went to see the facilities at Fablab, a digital fabrication lab for making small projects. Fablab is inside Toolbox, which we also visited.

We also visited Milan. To get there and back we took a bus that cost about €43 in total. Milan is a very busy, touristy, and beautiful city. I recommend doing a free tour there — they explain the history of Milan’s most iconic spots. The tour lasts 2 hours and I suggest doing it in the afternoon. In the morning, you can visit the Duomo, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the Sforza Castle, and more places if you stay more than a day. In our case, we had only one full day.

Internship

During our stay at Engim Torino, we worked on various projects to improve the school environment and assist teachers.

This included fixing adapter issues for connecting to screens, repairing devices like laptops and PCs, and installing apps and software to resolve tech issues.

Our main focus was a workshop where we did dual boot setup with Windows and Ubuntu, installed applications and antivirus (ESET), and implemented monitoring tools like Zabbix to ensure optimal performance.

We handled both hardware and software repairs for laptops and desktops. We also configured VLANs and set up access points using UNIFI devices.

Throughout Erasmus, I learned how to install multiple packages over the network, use tools like Clonezilla for efficiency, and when I was left alone, I learned to manually edit GRUB.

Once a week, students from other schools or volunteers would come by to share ideas, socialize, and learn how to repair various devices. This workshop-like setup was called Artigianelli.

The Company

I hadn’t worked anywhere before, and I was quite surprised to be working in a school. I thought it would be more difficult, but thanks to how kind and supportive the staff were — especially Michelle and Antonio, our supervisors — everything went smoothly and was easier than expected.