Erasmus: keep your family calm & actually live your year abroad
New country, new language, new time zone. One "I'm okay" every day or every week—whatever pace you agree on—and back home they stop asking.
Going on Erasmus means really leaving. And back home, even if they don't say it, every night someone wonders whether you're okay. What usually happens: the first few days you text a lot, then less, and by the third week your mom sends a "are you even alive?" that doesn't sit well. There's a better way, and it starts with agreeing on a rhythm before you leave.
The deal: an "I'm okay" at whatever pace you choose
Every day, every three days, every week. You set the pace. One tap and your people can breathe; you stop feeling watched and they stop asking. That's the heart of what Mi Estela does during Erasmus: presence, not surveillance. You share your exact location only if you want to (or just the city, or nothing at all), and you can go invisible whenever you feel like it.
Your new city, broken down for you
The first few days you need four things: a grocery store, a pharmacy, a bank, and the nearest health center. Plus the embassy, just in case. Estela finds them around your area and you pin them on your map: home, uni, hospital, grocery store. Your city map starts empty and you light it up with your own spots.
The paperwork
Registering your address, the embassy, getting yourself set up properly. Estela looks it up and explains it clearly. It's not legal advice—it's making sure you don't get lost in the bureaucracy of your first month.
Their time and your time
Two homes: the one you're in now and the one that's always been there. Estela knows what time it is in your city so your family doesn't call you at 3 a.m., and what time it is back home so you don't call your grandma during her afternoon nap.
If something goes wrong
Theft, doctor, lost, out of money. You say what's happening and Estela walks you to the solution, with the country's emergency number and whatever local contact you've saved. And the SOS alerts your people with your location. Free, always.
Shared apartment: the common pot
Who paid for the toilet paper, the electricity, Saturday's dinner. The common pot logs it in three taps and tells you who owes what to whom. Not a single euro passes through the app.
Other Erasmus students
If you want—and only if you want—you can meet other Erasmus students in your same city. Adults only, with permission, without sharing your exact spot, and both of you accepting before you talk.
For the parents
What you'll see: the city where they live, what time it is there, and their last "I'm okay." What you won't see, unless they choose to share it: their exact location. Agree on the rhythm before they leave and stick to it. A kid who feels watched uninstalls the app; a kid who feels accompanied hits the button. Everything the app does is at Erasmus on Mi Estela.
