Terra FM, Teacher Education Radio Austria, das Studierendenradio der Pädagogischen Hochschule Oberösterreich. Ja, herzlich willkommen zur heutigen Ausgabe von Terra FM. Heute geht es um Erasmus. Und ich werde jetzt gleich dann wieder auf Englisch wechseln, weil meine Gäste hier Englisch sprechen sind. because my guests are speaking English here. I'm John and I come from Ireland and the reason I sort of chose Erasmus was because I wanted to just sort of experience more of the world. With Erasmus there's a lot of great opportunities to sort of go around Europe and just experience sort of new cultures and sort of Austria and Linz specifically. I didn't really have a specific idea of where I wanted to go to with Erasmus, but I was given the opportunity to come here to Linz and I said, Austria, it's in a great sort of position in Europe, around the middle, and you can sort of go travelling, and then Linz, you could go Salzburg, Vienna, and even just while I'm here, like Linz is, it's a very sort of nice city, and I'm, like, I've been here about two weeks now, and I'm loving it so far. So, yeah. So, my name is Maeve, and I also come from Ireland, and I have a lot of the same reasons as John, so I feel like it's a very central position in Europe. It's really good to get the other countries to travel. But one thing, one big thing for me was that for my job, I want to travel away from home. So I saw Erasmus and coming to Austria as kind of an opportunity to test myself and see if I was able to move away from home and do well by myself, because here I still have the safety of I can go home.'m in university I'm not like completely adult by myself but if I start my job like I could be going as far as Asia or America and I don't have any of that sort of safety so I sort of felt like if I could do this then I would be able to do my job. Thank you. Well my name is Maria I'm from Greece and I chose Erasmus because I wanted to experience more of the world. It's my first time living my country. And I wanted to travel as well. It's a new experience. It's a very good experience to have, like, coming out in the world and, like, seeing different cultures, meeting new people, sharing ideas and, like, conversing generally. it's a very nice experience and that's what i was thinking about nice thank you and yeah i also back in the days i did erasmus and it was very like it's not a normal holiday where you sit in hotel room and watch the touristic thing you just go and then you experience a totally new system so how is the university system back home compared to Linz are there any differences so far did you experience anything um well um we're like me and Maeve go to Smyrry's College in Belfast and it's quite a small university too So in that way it's actually similar to the PH here So we're sort of used to having a small classroom almost environment Compared to other universities at home and even here where you're in a massive lecture hall we're sort of used to having like a small classroom almost environment compared to like other universities at home and even here like where you're in a massive lecture hall and we're here like the big or back at home sorry like the biggest class I would have would be about like 70 students compared to other like bigger universities where you could be in a lecture full of two 300 students and so on that way it's actually very similar to home. I haven't really noticed many big differences yet, but we're here for four months, so I'm sure we'll get a bit of a shock. So for me, one of the big things I noticed in universities is you're in a lot less here I think so back home for my course like most days I'm in nine to five and it would be like complete classes with maybe an hour break whereas here I may be in for like two hours one day three hours the next and then I get to go home so that's a bit weird for me because I have so much extra time and I sort of don't know what to do with myself whereas at home I'm like trying to find time to do the things I need so in a way it's kind of easier actually to go to university for me anyway. Well I haven't noticed any big differences yet at least for what John said for us like I'm used to like having a big group of people like usually in our classroom they're like around uh 100 people i mean there are classes that usually five people or 10 people show up but that's really really rare um our classrooms are just a little small a bit a bit smaller than they are in the university here but other than that i haven't noticed any huge differences and with linds um yeah compared to your home city is it bigger is the same size is it a village so how you also how is the orientation for you it's like oh yeah where i have to go and how long does it take you? And so, like, I come from a small, small city in Ireland, so about 20,000 people in it. But what I've noticed about Linz, it's, yes, it's a lot bigger, but it's not too big. Like, you go to some cities in Europe. I know I was in Berlin before, and I found it was almost, it was too big. So it was like I feel here it's from my accommodation to the university back in the city centre. I think that's it's fairly easy to sort of navigate. And then the tram system, bus system, it's all very sort of well compared to Ireland, it's all very efficient. So there's Ireland like it's very hard to get in between places. so there's Ireland like it's it's very hard to get um in between places um so here it's um it's it's taken a bit to get used to actually having good uh a good transport system so it has yeah I think a lot of the same things John said is like if I want to go anywhere I can literally just go out and there'll be a bus or a tram, whereas in Ireland, you can be waiting, like, an hour to get the next train to anywhere. And there's only trains or buses. There's no trams, so you're just... You're waiting forever to get anywhere, basically. You have to plan well in advance. But one thing I will say about here that me and John both found was the traffic light system. So in Ireland, if the light's green, no cars will move at all. So when I first... It was one of the first days I was here I went across the road and the cars came at the same time and I thought I was going to get ran over so I started like sprinting across the road so it's still even two weeks in I'm like scared to cross the road sometimes because the cars like come at the same time so that's a little bit weird to me it's taken a little bit of getting used to but I like the city in general I think Belfast is almost like where I go to university it's not where I live but it's very small you sort of get a bit like you've seen it all at this point two years in whereas Linz is there's more to do I think it's a bit better well I also come from like a small city back home so I usually walk everywhere. So like taking public transportation is not it's not new to me, but I just don't do it as often in Greece. It's I think it's a pretty. Yeah, it is the thing she said, like it comes like usually you get out and even if it's not there, the bus is probably going to come in 10 minutes because they run around like around like i think every 10 15 minutes yeah uh in greece it's usually around half an hour like they do rounds have every half an hour so it's also like that um what i'm not used to is like cars stopping at the crosswalks in greece that doesn't happen as often and yeah and i just stop at the crosswalks and the drivers look't happen as often and yeah and I just stop at the crosswalks and the drivers look at me and I just yeah I'm shocked a little I'm like why are you looking they're just expecting me to just cross the road so they can just leave yes very safe in Austria like usually everybody's very friendly and I think there is even a law if you put your leg on the zebra crossing they have to stop so they have to wait until you pass the whole road it's the same law in Greece they just don't so let's talk about school you all attending to primary education school. Did you already visit schools here in Austria so far? So I haven't yet, but we sort of do our school placement every Wednesday mornings. But I couldn't go yesterday because the school I'm going to was on a ski trip. But I'm looking forward to getting started next week and getting to know what the Austrian school system is like, getting to know the teachers, getting to know the children. Because I think it'll be a good experience because I feel if I'm able to do it in a completely new country and a completely new system than what we're used to at home, a completely new country and a completely new system than what we're used to at home then um I shall be able to adapt to sort of what I am like used to at home so I will so I'm looking forward to getting started and like I'll be able to tell them about myself um and then I'll find out what they want to sort of learn about and then I like I'll be I'm looking forward to getting to sort of teach them. So I actually started at a school yesterday. It was my first time. I'm with really tiny ones. They're about six. And it's a little different than schools back home. So I've done two teaching placements at home so far. And back in Ireland, where very high tech now it is, we have like smart boards and all the kids have iPads and so coming from that to schools where they're using chalkboards still and things like that it's a little bit different and I've had to think about how when I start to teach the kids how I'm going to change the activities that I already would use for kids at home because a lot of that would require maybe powerpoints or like the smart boards they can play games on it or things so that's a little bit of a difference that I think I'll have to work on and figure out you know how I can change it around but yeah I really liked it I think the kids are very well mannered especially that age whereas some kids at home nowadays are starting to get a little bit a little bit um well I'll say a word in case but they're yeah the kids here I like them so I think it'll be really good and the teacher is very lovely too um I also started yesterday uh with my school placement uh I the kids I in my class are also like young or like they're like around seven or eight um so they're quite young uh i'm not used to like this much handy crafting because we did a class that they the kids like made some things like uh i saw that they had hang from previous classes things that they had needed yeah so in greece we don't have those kind of classes we have like drawing classes but we don't have that heavy handcraft thing they were quite friendly as well they liked me so that was nice yeah I was taken aback when they hugged me I was like yeah so they were very friendly like that but aren't kids in Greece friendly? No they are friendly I just never really had someone like hug me from like the moment they like it's like an hour after meeting me yeah and what about the school system in greece like how when do they start at what age and how many years do they have to go to school? Well, primary school starts at six. It ends when we're around 11, 12. Oh, six years. Yeah, six years. And then we have three years of middle school and then another three years of high school. And then it's the university. So, but you just have the middle school or do you have higher middle schools like gymnasium or stuff yeah it's gymnasium that's the word and then for middle school in greece and then it's like uh high school okay yeah so you have you have two parallel lines where they can decide like for example in austria like if you don't have good marks you're not allowed to go to the gymnasium so you have to stay in middle school so in greece it's just like one school well you you don't really have to have high marks to get into middle school but like to move from one grade to another you have to like pass the um yeah the middle yeah it's like above 10 yeah so that's yeah if not you have to like repeat the class the the year okay and also you can you have also to repeat but we separate them at the age of 10 so if you have good marks or your parents want you to go to better school so-called they put which is also all other smart kids. And yeah, usually back in the days, it was for like for normal people and for the lords and stuff. And it still exists now. So in Greece, it doesn't exist? It's not like that. There are private schools for like if you want, but usually they're all in the same schools. We don't like, there's not, yeah, no, there's no separation. And Ireland? It's kind of, there's, so our primary school, we've just primary and secondary. So primary goes from about, it depends on the age. You can go from between three and five, you start. So I started quite young. I started like three and a bit. So then I had to take like an extra year because I started quite young. And then you do that until about 11 years old. And then your secondary school is from 11 to 18. Wow. Wow. But this is nice that you have to go until 18 to school. No, you can leave at 16. So you do your two years of GCSEs up to 16. And then if you don't get high enough grades in your GCSEs, then you can't go any further in school. But there are other sort of schools called TACs. And you can go to those if you want to, if you don't qualify. Some people go to them because they offer different air levels that your school mightn't offer instead. That's nice. You go, because usually in Austria, at the age of three, you go to kindergarten, and then at the age of six or seven, you go to elementary school, and then at the age of six or seven you go to elementary school and then under ten like after four years you go to middle school and then after the eighth grade you can either do because we have nine years every student has to every pupil they have nine years of school education so if you don't let's say repeat one class so you there is a school is called polytechnic um so you can go and try to find what kind of branch you want to work in. So either you are like technique or you work with wood or you want to be a hairdresser or creative jobs and stuff. Yeah, that's similar. We have them back home too, so we do. So like as we have said, people that like don't get the right grades at GCSE or if they just decide that they don't want to continue on at school. There's a lot of people that almost don't really like the school system. School's not for them and they get to 16 and just get out whenever they get the chance. And then go on and do things like being a carpenter or as you mentioned like hairdressing, becoming a barber and at least they have the opportunity to do that there. To get a job. So I think it's time for the first music piece. I'm looking to the techniques and yeah, in this point i will say thank you to ditma ene and katarina hara who are supporting the techniques team and yeah let's hear some music Beim ersten Spielplatzbesuch übten wir Sand in die Augen schmeißen Und ganz egal, was andere Kinder sagen, drauf zu scheißen Abracadabra, dreimal schwarzer Tater Spielen Mutter, Mutter, Kind oder Vater, Vater, Vater. Gar nicht so leicht aufzuwachsen in ner Lebenswelt, in der man Jungs die rosa Kleidung tragen, gleich für Mädchen hält und selbst wenn man dagegen hält. Es fängt schon beim Geburtstag an, sie sprechen um Hilfe, eine Frau, der Opa ist ein Mann und so weiter. Ganz egal wohin man sieht, der Kindergartenleiter leitet, die Erzieherin erzieht, Jungs spielen Batman, Mädchen spielen Eisprinzessin. Eigentlich ist die Welt nicht gemacht, um Kinder reinzusetzen Wie soll ich hier erklären, es gibt da ein paar Unterschiede Die sich nicht erklären lassen, aber sie soll unterliegen Ob sie studiert oder ackert auf dem Bau, sie wird weniger verdienen, denn sie ist eine Frau Wie soll ich hier erklären, wo liegt da der Unterschied Der die einen oben hält und die anderen runterzieht Wie soll ich hier erklären, wo liegt da der Unterschied? Man redet nicht darüber, denn man macht sich unbeliebt Wie soll ich dir erklären, wo liegt da der Unterschied? Man muss nicht auf Wunder warten, weil es keine Wunder gibt Wie soll ich dir erklären, wo liegt da der Unterschied? Wo liegt da der Unterschied? Wo liegt der Unterschied? Ich brauche keine Blumen und Bienen-Metaphern, um zu erklären, dass es ganz normal ist, Liebe zu machen Aber wie soll ich ihr erklären, ohne Röte im Gesicht, dass man sie eines Tages nur auf ihren Körper reduziert In der Schule, auf der Straße, in der Supermarkt, für Jahre, jeden Tag wird sie mal irgendwer begutachten Wie Ware im Vorbeigehen? Wird sie eingeteilt in sexy oder hässlich? Jede Frau wird im Verlauf des Lebens sexuell belästigt Komm mir nicht mit einer Armlänge Abstand Ich empfehle eine kraftmage Handkante Empfehle Vätern ihren Söhnen zu sagen Bevor sie irgendwen berühren Erstmal höflich zu fragen Was für eine Erfahrung Als Vater einer Tochter hab ich auf Die meisten Rapper einfach gar keinen Bock mehr Eure gut gemeinten Liebeslieder sind das Hinterletzte Ich hab keine Zeit für so ne Scheiße, ich muss Windeln wechseln Wie soll ich hier erklären, wo liegt da der Unterschied? Der die einen oben hält und die anderen runterzieht Wie soll ich hier erklären, wo liegt da der Unterschied? Man redet nicht darüber, denn man macht sich unbeliebt Wie soll ich hier erklären, wo liegt da der Unterschied? Man muss nicht auf Wunder warten, weil es keine Wunder gibt Wie soll ich dir erklären, wo liegt da der Unterschied? Wo liegt da der Unterschied? Wo liegt der Unterschied? Wie soll ich dir erklären, wo liegt da der Unterschied? Wie soll ich dir erklären, wo liegt da der Unterschied? Wie soll ich dir erklären, wo liegt da der Unterschied? Wie soll ich dir erklären, wo liegt da der Unterschied? Wie soll ich dir erklären, wo liegt da der Unterschied? Ja, willkommen zurück nach dieser Musik-Piece. And yeah, welcome back after this music piece. Meanwhile, I was very curious, like you said, you didn't, there was no specific thing for Austria, you just say, oh, it's nice in the middle of Europe. But did you know anything about Austria before? And what was the picture you had? Okay. So whenever I sort of first found out I was coming here, I think back home there is like, there's a sort of positive image of Austria. Like a lot of people, whenever I told them I was coming to Austria, kept telling me it's a lovely place. They've been here, they've been skiing here, and they loved it. So I was coming to Austria and kept telling them it's a lovely place and they've been here they've been skiing here and they loved it so I was looking forward to it and like I'm a history student so I'm I was very interested in the sort of history around Austria and obviously you know some of it uh dark um but but um I think it's still important that we sort of learn about it. And so I'm sort of trying to find out as much about Austrian, Austrian culture, Austrian history as I can while I'm here to sort of learn more about it and immerse myself in the culture here. So I am. Yeah, a lot of the same things as John. Whenever I told anybody at home that i was coming to austria they were quite happy um my mom and my granny both said i should find an arnold schwarzenegger while i'm here and that's what i got a lot but other than that it was yeah generally positive or yeah and i was a history student too, so it's interesting. All our Arnold Schwarzeneggers are in California. Yeah, but my mom was very interested in that. Well, very much of the same. Yeah, I had positive feedback, not just because of Austria, just for Erasmus in general. They were telling me it's a great experience and all that. We have a family friend who has lived in Germany before, and I think she's visited Austria. And she was telling me about things to be aware of, what to look out for, where to shop and things like that. For example, what should be aware of? I mean, not exactly aware of. She told me, for example, for the system with the trash cans, there's different for plastic, metal and all that. Yeah, and things like that mostly. Mostly about the everyday life. But let's do some Austria quiz. What is Austria in your can you name one product this Austria known for in your country yeah so So skiing, Red Bull, Schnitzel, Schwarzenegger, Hitler. Yeah, he was Austrian, yeah. He went to Linz to school. Yeah, but there's much more to find out. What did you eat so far? Did you eat Schnitzel so far yeah yeah but the schnitzel is usually it's from milano the typical vienna schnitzel is from milano but the croissant was invented in Vienna, not in France. It's Viennese. Yeah. Yeah, what do you want? Is there something you want to visit in Austria so far? Yeah, like Linz is in a very, as I mentioned at the start it's in a very sort of nice location where it's very close to a lot of places like Salzburg, Vienna even Munich that's one thing I talked about before before I go home I want to at least go and see a football game in Munich or Salzburg I want to see L go and see a football game in Munich or Salzburg. I want to see LASK, Blau Weiss. I want to watch them while I'm here. I'm a massive sports fan, so that's one thing that I want to do while I'm here. So I'll add that to my bucket list. Nice, yeah. With these two words, if you want to go to go to last game, you should go with Didi. If you want to go to Blauweiss, you can contact me. So that's our fight, like, your team sucks, my team sucks all the time. Thank you. What about you, girl? Here in Linz, well, my mum is a massive music person and they're music in the musicals. So when I go home, she's going to come over and help me bring all my suitcases back. So we're going to go to Salzburg to visit the Sound of Music field. She wants to go there and maybe see some operas and stuff like that. But before you have to know how to yodel. Yeah, I'll practice very hard uh well i also want to like visit the typical like yeah salzburg and vienna i haven't really thought about traveling anywhere else for now at least maybe later i'll just plan something. There are still four months to go. I mean, yeah. Yeah, there's typically like, I think also the touristic route is Vienna, Salzburg, which are the most famous for classical music. And the Orleans is just a stop in between. But we have the Ars Electronica Center. You should definitely go there. We already did with the school, yeah. It was very interesting. but we have the Ars Electronica center you should definitely go there which is oh yeah so now you saw everything you can basically go tomorrow now if the mayor of Linz is listening I'm sorry there is much more to do sorry yeah so we talked about like it's not sorry yeah so we talked about like it's not only the three of you, you are 16 17 people so and there is a difference like English is your mother tongue, mother language for you not I guess yeah so probably you experience something different than you guys i think you have to to slow down your english and to be like really on kind of talk very not slang that people can understand you um so sometimes i feel as if I'm talking a second language because I sort of have to change what I'm saying around everyone so that's sort of taken a bit to get used to. It feels as if I'm not even speaking English as well as I have before I came here. It feels like my English has taken a downturn. So it has. so everybody has to kind of speak in another language but to you you probably are you the only one from greece from greece yeah at least for this semester and they told us that in previous semesters there were more greek people yeah so but you have to english all the time? No, I've been learning how to speak English from a very young age, so like around eight. So I don't really, yeah, I'm fluent now. Okay. Now I'm fluent, yeah. I didn't used to be. Yeah, nice. Yeah, I think this is one, a big, big, let's say, Ja, das ist ein großes Thema. Wenn du irgendwo gehst und nach einiger Zeit beginnst, Englisch zu denken und zu träumen, weil alles Englisch ist, around you. You attend German courses, German classes as well? So what did you learn so far? Not an awful lot so far. Before I came I tried to learn a bit on my own. I picked up basic German sort of phrases but then whenever we got here, obviously Austrian German is very different to German. Like you learn phrases like Guten Tag and then you come here and they're Grüß dich. They start saying things like that and you don't know where that's coming from. So that was a bit of a shock whenever I got here. But I think I've started to pick up a little bit of German it's still it's still quite scary whenever I go into like a coffee shop and I order a coffee in German and they start speaking German back to me and then I have no clue what they're saying to me but at least I can try so I can that's always somehow a trap if you ask in German and then probably people assume that you know more so they answer in German like oh yeah why did I ask what about you you also practice at home some German yeah I learned a little bit before I came and then I am still taking because I took in my first semester this year um some classes some German classes but I didn't get to finish them because things came up so I still have all the recordings so I'm trying to make my way through them now so that I can learn the German but um I'm at a state where I can understand more than I can speak so when people like when I was in the class yesterday the kids were talking to me I could understand what they were saying, but I couldn't speak back to them, which is a bit like difficult, but It's at least I can understand. But you communicate in English with them. Yeah. Yeah, which is good for them to like have a native speaker Like because like when you're a teacher They always know, they don't have to find the words. So they just say it in English and the teacher will understand it anyway. But with you, they have to really go. And if they don't know the word, they have to look it up or they have to describe it. It's like fighting your way through the language. This is where you develop skills. Yeah. Well, for me, I had the choice to learn French or German in school, and I had picked German, but there have been some years since that, so I have forgotten most of it. So still, if I go to a coffee shop i will ask if people are speaking english so and if they don't just point what i want and yeah one of these yeah yeah international language yeah and probably all your colleagues. Are you mixed in your classes you attend at the university? Are you mixed with regular students, or is it just like Erasmus? For some classes, we are. Maria was trying to take a swimming class, but she didn't get to, but she would have been taking that with Austrian students. I think there's some sport and some music classes that are mixed but mostly it's just Erasmus students in our class. There's only like five or six students in it and which is nice like because you get to you get to know everyone better and so I sort of like it that way so i do familiar but but you see that you come along with english so where's what is the need for german so and yeah i think if you go to vienna or salzburg people are used to the tourists tourists and so they speak English all the time. Which I think is the nice thing of Linz, because so far we have tourists but not so many of them. But it's nice that for example the coffee costs almost everywhere the same. So you go in the main center, like the main square, the coffee costs the same as like two or three streets, like somewhere different. Which if you go to Vienna and you go to the first district, the main spot is like, wow, coffee, a lot of gold so this is a nice thing in Linz we don't care if we're tourists or not actually we can't choose and in Salzburg it's the same there are these touristic areas and I think it's totally normal wherever you go it's like touristic places things are more expensive in Greece it's like with touristic places things are more expensive in greece it's almost everywhere that way because it's a very um it's a very tourist like yeah it's a place where tourists really we have a lot of tourists it's a yeah it's a tourist destination yeah um so like if you go to the main square in my city specifically the coffee goes lower than if you go to like the beach yeah it's the prices are higher because more tourists go there and yeah they come usually in summer yeah in summer especially yeah greece has nice beaches yeah Yeah. So far we have a few more minutes to talk about. Maybe we play some more music because our boss, who sits usually here, he is in Ireland and he sent us a video which we will play after the music and then we will talk a little bit and then we play Christian a little bit and then we play Christian's Greetings from Ireland. Ich bin Felicia, ein bisschen Butler, sie schreibt mich kompliziert Ich will nur, dass du das Prinzip von Feminismus kapierst Wir sind nicht da, um dir was wegzunehmen, du wirst nichts verlieren Lass uns das Stück vom Kuchen gemeinsam servieren Frag mich nicht, wessen Freundin ich bin, wenn in meinem Backstage sitzt, pass mir nicht an den Hintern Wenn du mit mir ein Foto schießt und krieg in deinen Kopf, dass es viele Frauen gibt Die spielen Google, sieh halt mal, ich bin nicht Frauenquote, sondern eine von vielen Ah, du brauchst noch ne Frau für dein Line-Up Ah, Opener-Slot, aber wirklich Leinwand Ah, Geld ist leider kein Star, du tust mir keinen Gefallen Junge, du machst's ja einfach und sag ich das als Frau, bin ich gleich voll arrogant Sag das mein Kollege, ist ja eh cool und auch entspannt Er ist halt Businessman, ich hab viel zu viel verdammt Gleiche Bezahlung? Nein, denn Girls just wanna have fun Girls just wanna have fun Und gleiche Rechte, gleiche Bezahlung Ist das etwa zu viel verlangt? Girls just wanna have fun und gleiche Rechte, gleiche Bezahlung Ist das etwa zu viel verlangt? Girls just wanna have fun, pack dein Ego an der Nase Hör mir zu und fangen wir von vorne an Und ich hab auch gern Spaß, ich arbeite auch gern hart Und trotzdem werde ich nicht eingestellt, ich könnt ja Kinder haben Das ist keine Theorie, das sind recherchierte Fakten Das ist ungerecht, das ist kein Spaß, darüber kann ich nicht lachen Ich will nicht in ein Bild passen, das ich nicht selbstestellt, ich könnt ja Kinder haben, das ist keine Theorie, das sind recherchierte Fakten, das ist ungerecht, das ist kein Spaß, darüber kann ich nicht lachen, ich will nicht in ein Bild passen, das ich nicht selbst gemalt hab, Meinungsbildung über Frauen findet im Patriarchat statt und ja, ich bin genervt, wenn du das nie hinterfragt, dass du mir jetzt erklären willst, ich sollte einfach bisschen Spaß haben, aus taktischen Gründen, leise zu treten hat sich immer noch als Fehler erwiesen, ich zitiere so nah laut, denn ich versteh es, ich stehe auf den Schultern von Riesen, die eine Rolle spielten, die sie für sich trieben. Wer zuletzt lacht, lacht am letzten, wenn man lang braucht, um's zu checken, wenn man zu bequem ist, sich in andere Lagen zu versetzen. Versuch es bitte mal und denk immer daran, Girls verdienen viel mehr als nur ein bisschen Fun. Girls just wanna have fun Und gleiche Rechte, gleiche Bezahlung Ist das etwa zu viel verlangt? Girls just wanna have fun Pack dein Ego an der Nase Hör mir zu und fangen wir von vorne an We'll see you next time. Let me break it down for you again Musica Das Studierendenradio der Pädagogischen Hochschule Oberösterreich. as you might heard we played some music which is dedicated for tomorrow for the International Women's Day try to kind of support them yeah because they still don't get much paid and there is no special protection for them and blah blah blah and I hope also the government will do some regulation. So, but back to Austria, Linz and Erasmus. What did you experience so far, like by being here two weeks, you said? Yeah. So, are there any activities that you did and maybe they were new for you just tell us yeah so last week was more so just an induction week for us so Monday and we we had a breakfast at the college and we had sort of meetings later on in the day and Tuesday was an introduction to Austrian culture I think yes and like German beginners and and then Wednesday Christian took us on a walk in Tower of Lince and we went to Ars Electronica on Wednesday so Christian made us do an awful lot of walking so we did and the steps the step count was very high that day and then um thursday and we went christian took us to daxstein um so again an awful lot of walking um but it was very nice um because like compared to like the mountains we have at home, the tallest mountain in Ireland is about 1,000 metres. So whenever you're sort of twice the height of that, it was a very enjoyable experience. So that's what I like about here, is that there's mountains sort of everywhere you look around you. You can sort of get in a bus half an hour and then you can do a nice sort of hike. On Sunday, actually, the sort of five of the Erasmus students went and we walked up to Pusslingberg and it was a very enjoyable walk. It was tough. We went like the kreutz kreutzweg um so it was tough but it was it was worth it at the top because you get like very very nice uh views up there um but we found that coming down was just as tough as going up and because it's so so steep and so we were we were coming down and near falling so we were just by just by trying to walk down that's very thank you you have snow in ireland because i think it's it's more mild the climate yeah like the the climate's slightly different from here so it it wouldn't get as warm as it does here um like i i i went to university the other day um in a pair of shorts because i i thought it was warm compared to um like what we're used to at home um but it was only like 15 16 degrees um but so yeah we're not used to um like warm weather in ireland but at the same time it doesn't get like extremely cold so like we don't get an awful lot of snow in ireland like even like at the high peaks of the mountains like there wouldn't be that much snow compared to here so that was a bit of talk about getting used to like into the mountains and then it's just covered and covered in snow yeah sometimes yeah like also when i was younger it was like minus 10 minus 20 it was very common it was like minus 10 minus 20 it was very common yeah and we just like sometimes it's easier if it's minus 20 than if it's minus one it's it's dry but it's just cold so you just wear two pairs of shorts or like trousers yeah and it's like okay now you can deal with it yeah greece we we don't have snow as well we do have snow in mountains and in south uh cities and all that uh not in the city i live in but the mountain that is like near the city you can see the snow during the winter it's not as much as here obviously but yeah but it's also less and less so it's 45 thank you for being here i have to interrupt our dialogue our talking thank you for being here thank you for listening watching and yeah we will play now the last 15 minutes of our greetings from Christian from Ireland. And yeah, all our watchers and listeners, thank you for watching and listening. And next episode is on the 4th. No, we have one more in March. And yeah, see you next time. Thank you for being here. Thank you. Thank you. Tune in to Culture Shock every Friday at 6 p.m. on Wired 99.9 FM. My name is Ray Burke. I'm the manager of Wired 99.9 FM here in Limerick City. We're the city's college radio station and the station is owned by two institutions, MIC, which we're in right now, and TOOS, which is the Technical University of the Shannon. Basically the station is a partnership that involves those institutions, but we have an open door policy for every student in Limerick so member like students from UL the University of Limerick and students from like LCFE which is a post-leaving circle like school or college they we have an open door policy for students from those institutions and also secondary school students and at the moment which is you know our high school students we have about four programs from students who come in to do work experience as part of their school and and they just rip this state doing shows so we you know we broadcast we we primarily are I suppose ran by students from the two main institutions. And by extension of two, there's the art college, LSAD. So we have a lot of students from there as well. But we do have a few others from the other institutions. So we're primarily run by volunteers from those institutions. And there's a staff of two here. by volunteers from those institutions. And there's a staff of two here. There's myself and Paul O'Connor, who is the volunteer coordinator and program controller. It's not really program controller in the conventional sense of commercial radio, but he kind of looks after the programs and I look after the kind of bigger picture operational stuff. Yeah, and how is it run? I mean, you run a 24-hour program, is that correct? No, well, kind of. I mean, it broadcasts 24 hours a day, but the scheduled programs are from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and then overnight music and various different programs and stuff go overnight though the kind of programs that suit our listeners um at that time so we have a lot of and this is it's not like we have served surveyed this like but we get a lot of messages from like taxi drivers or factory workers or people who are listening in late um And there tends to be a preference for alternative music and the kind of stuff that they can't pick up elsewhere on FM at that time. So we kind of cater for that audience in mind. But yeah, we do 24 hours a day, Monday to Friday. And then what we do, and it's kind of coming to an end this year because it's been 10 years that we've had this relationship. There's another community radio station in Limerick. It's called Limerick City Community Radio. And they have been using our frequencies on Saturdays and Sundays for several years. But it's becoming too problematic, especially with like Amazon Echo and Google Home and things like this because they use 99.9 FM in their branding which is problematic because sometimes if you ask like Alexa for 99.9 you'll get them instead of us and also just it's been I mean we were giving them kind of a helping hand to establish more permanently themselves. But it's been 10 years now and we have to kind of think about the stuff that we want to do on weekends. Like we have lots of stuff that we do on weekends, but we can't broadcast in FM because we've made a commitment to them. So the likes of Record Store Day, which is happening in April, like we're going to do a live broadcast from Steamboat Records which is down in in the city and and then there's a bunch of stuff that happens during the summer like festivals and things like Filling the Grain and Mick Moo Festival that we're involved in and we just want to be able to be broadcast broadcast content on Saturdays and Sundays that's relevant to our audience but yeah more or less 24 like I mean there's like you're not going to tune into 99.9 FM and hear nothing like you know so people listen to YRFM it's not just something uh students do that they do something if there is a community a listener's community yeah well it's like listening it's it's like all college and community radio there There's a kind of, like, I suppose, a knownness on the students to promote their own shows. Because, and that's part of why the reason why we changed our branding. Like, you'll know that, like, college radio and community radio are very different from commercial. In that the commercial radio stations want to, you know, want to grab listeners in the morning and keep them there for the day like you know or grab them in the evening and keep them there for the night depending on what the listener is whereas we our schedule is so diverse and and sometimes diverse diverse in terms of like program content but also diverse in aptitude you know because we have to have like um an inclusive space and we want everybody to participate. So it's important that we have space for people to learn as well. But so that, so sometimes that's not, you know, the easiest thing to like keep a listener. If somebody's trying, if somebody's doing their first couple of shows and finding their feet, people tend to change the dial, like, you know, but we do have a have a like we have a community of listeners some shows i mean we done a really successful hip-hop show a couple of years ago that um it ended up like you know from that show that was a a label um was established um that came out of it from the the person who was presenting having met all the local hip-hop artists and stuff like that. So the genesis of this label is in Wired. But we found out that there was so many people listening to our stream for that specific show that was crashing. So we had to expand the amount of listeners that we could, that were listening online. But because the way it works here in um in Ireland the only people that really pay for the information on like the amount of listeners that have is they uh commercial um stations because they're dependent on knowing that information for their advertisers but it's but really it's it's kind of it's an imperfect kind of system anyway because what happens is each quarter of like they uh survey like a couple of thousand people and then that they they kind of get like um a percentage of the listenerships from that so it's it's imperfect it exists solely to take you know sell advertising um and And to get those figures would be, for the annual cost, would probably outweigh our whole budget. Because they're expensive to get those figures. So we know how many people listen to our stream, but we also do know, especially what we found out during lockdown, is there's a lot of people listening. Because as soon as we started kind of having to run material where there wasn't presenters all the time like say like so if we had just a playlist of music you know we were getting messages look asking what was this song that was played at this time or I heard an excerpt of an interview but there was no like you know maybe it was something that we used that didn't have, might have had an introduction, but no back intro. So we realised during lockdown when we were kind of running on a skeleton staff, how many listeners were out there. I think what happened a couple of years ago with Irish Radio is that people started kind of being really reliant on text messaging for the production of their shows and then that we're gauging that's their listenership on the lack of people texting I'm passionate about radio I'd say I've texted the show about twice you know it's not a good barometer Wired 99.9 FM From punk to politics. Soul to cinema. Jazz to GAA. At Wired 99.9 FM, you decide. And what kind of programs do the students do? What is it, what they do? Well, we have, like, we're obligated by our license to deliver, you know know certain types of content so when we look for our license we what we essentially do is write a manifesto saying we will deliver on on this and they they license us like um to to deliver that it's called the program policy statement so there's a certain amount of Irish language programs that we would have to produce each day we have two hours of current affairs that we have to do and you know and within that there's sports literature arts programs that are part of our remit it's 40% talk 60% music and then it's just like you know you know breakfast shows afternoon magazine like a lot of magazine shows magazine shows that are kind of entertainment based but they kind of cover a range of topics they would be kind of our bread and butter but like then you have like specialist music shows that would be like traditional Irish like hip-hop at one stage you know like two or three years ago like everybody wanted to do a hip-hop show it's kind of I suppose we have by our license as well we have to do a hip-hop show it's kind of um i suppose we have by our license as well we have to play a certain amount of irish music which really is has uh because the the quality of like contemporary irish music um and i'm not talking about traditional irish although that's very much part of it now um it's so healthy at the moment that we're averaging about 50 or 60 percent um on Irish music like you know which when I first took over it was you know the sound of the station was very different it was like a pop like a pop station and we that's what we really don't want to do we really don't want to be a diluted version of what the commercials are doing you know we want it to be an alternative listen and that doesn't always mean like alternative music although that would be my like preference of what I listen to like but um it's just an alternative listen like you know uh if you listen to any commercial station in Ireland that the only thing that will change are the regional accents and sometimes they don't even change because that people still use that kind of mid-Atlantic kind of you know Radio Luxembourg Atlantic 252 type of approach um but they're all doing the exact same thing so what we want to like offer is an alternative so people can listen to it in Austria as well oh yeah yeah absolutely uh if if you don't have like, it's not, we pay a license so it doesn't get geo-blocked. Which is, the license is minuscule, but the paperwork is not. So we have to, like, kind of, you know, take, we have to take the percentage of listeners from each country annually, put it into an an excel sheet and then they give us a license based on that the cost of the license is way less than the the resources it takes to fill out all the forms like it's just it's ridiculous but yeah you can listen from austria like austrian students do if they want to listen you can listen the The best thing, even though, the best thing, the easiest way to listen to it rather than giving you kind of apps that maybe mightn't be available in Austria is wiredfm.ie. Although I will flag that we're in the process of developing our new website. So the website is a little bit archaic. It does need updating and we're in the process of finding a web designer for that at the moment. So I would encourage you to go to wiredfm.ie but it wouldn't be, you know, the website is a little bit outdated, WordPress kind of cracked. TuneIn? It's on TuneIn, yeah. It's on TuneIn. It's on TuneIn. That's a good option. Yeah, well, TuneIn, go for TuneIn. So it's on, like, it's on that's a good option yeah we'll tune in go for tune in so it's like it's on every like relevant radio app you know um and uh yeah so you'll find you'll find it on deezer like tune in all those places perfect well thank you so much wired 99.9 fm from punk to politics soul to cinema jazz to at Wired 99.9 FM, you decide. Teacher Education Radio Austria, das Studierendenradio der Pädagogischen Hochschule Oberösterreich. I'm a woman, I'm a woman My heart is full of love My heart is full of love I'm a woman, I'm a woman I'm a woman, I'm a woman ¡Gracias! 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