I know one blind girl (18/19) that did her eurasmus in Spain in 1st year of uni and loved it so much she returned for a 6 or 8 week au pair stint as part of her language requirements. I believe with eurasmus there were about 3 of them going together.

She didn't tell anyone about how poor her sight was and did have a few mishaps (trips on steps, got the wrong bus etc)

She had a blast, nothing bad happened while there. Enjoy!

I'm from Switzerland and have participated in three different exchange programs. The first one was a high school exchange year where I spent one year living in the US. I lived with an American family as their "child" and attended the local high school. The second program took about 4 months and I once again visited the US (though a very different part of the country). During those 4 months I attended a language school where I perfected my English and eventually took the official language exams (Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency).

My third exchange experience happened during my Bachelor (undergrad) studies. There, I went to live and study in South Korea for one year.

Since you're talking about Erasmus, I will focus on my last exchange experience here. The reason I decided to visit Korea for a year is because 2 years earlier I met a very cute girl from there who was doing a study-abroad exchange year in Switzerland. We fell in love, became a couple and are now married. After my girlfriend's exchange year was over, she had to return home and we had no idea if we could ever see each other again. The whole thing was really tough and painful; we both missed each other terribly. We desperately wanted to live together in the same country but didn't know how to do this. After one year of long-distance relationship where we could only talk to each other via skype, I decided to go on an exchange year to Korea. That way we'd be able to be together (at least temporarily) and I would have the chance to get to know my girlfriend's country and culture better.

Like you, I was legally blind. My eyesight was very bad, though still significantly better than it is today. For example I was not yet using a cane, so I had a bit of functional vision left.

Originally, I thought it would work out fine because my girlfriend would be there to help and support me. The problem was that we saw much less than I would've liked to. My girlfriend had to keep me a secret and make up lies towards her parents because they would've freaked out if they had found out that she's got a boyfriend (let alone a foreign boyfriend, LET ALONE a handicapped boyfriend). She still lived at home, which is very normal in Korea. Her dad made the rule that she had to be home by 9pm. But because they lived in a city outside of Seoul, the bus ride took her about 1.5 hours. So, she'd visit me after her Uni classes were over and stay until 7 or maybe 8. We usually couldn't eat dinner together, which made me quite sad. My girlfriend tried to visit me as often and as long as she could (about 3 times per week) but I still spent a lot of time on my own. Originally, I was going to live on-campus but those dormitories were terribly small... like, literally the size of a prison cell (and there was no window). But made it even worse was that the university did not allow any male students to bring women to their dorm rooms or vice versa. They controlled this very strictly, with a turnstile at the entrance of the building and a security guard who checked every student that was coming or leaving. There was no way to smuggle in my girlfriend and I hated the idea of only ever being able to meet her in coffee shops and other public places. So, instead she helped me organize an off-campus studio. I was extremely lucky to find this. It was a cozy place and without the help of a local, I would've never found it. The downside was that living off-campus was quite isolating. I only made one good friend during that year (a really nice guy from Norway).

As for support, I didn't get any. I don't think the university even offered any support to disabled people. Most professors thought it was surprising that I was handicapped but also studying at a university. Though I must say I was very lucky with my professors. I explained my situation to them and they all treated me very kindly. In some cases my girlfriend accompanied me and did the explaining for me because the professors didn't speak any English and my Korean was still very basic.

A lot of stuff just sort of had to be figured out I realized. But I was okay with that because I enjoyed the adventure. One time I went hiking in a small forest near the university. It was mid-December and extremely cold. I planned to just go for a short walk and dressed lightly but then I got lost. In the end I fell down a slope, didn't get hurt because of all the snow but couldn't find my way back to the trail anymore. I had to crawl through a hole in a metal fence and wade through a shallow stream. When I finally got back to my place I thought I was going to die of hypothermia but in hindsight it's a fun adventure to think about.

Overall, I really enjoyed the experience. It was a lot of fun, despite the fact that it was super tough and challenging at times. Sadly, my regular eye doctor check-up in January of that exchange year went really badly. My eye doctor back in Switzerland advised against me going to Korea but we eventually agreed that I could go if I would have a regular check-up once a month (my eye situation has always been very unstable). The first few check-ups went well but in January, my pressure had suddenly increased dramatically. My Swiss eye doctor urged me to return home but I didn't want to finish the exchange year early. So instead I had to take diamox, a very strong medication against glaucoma. I had to take 1,000mg per day, which is the maximum dose that doctors are allowed to prescribe. The medication gave me really horrible side effects, both physically and mentally. So that second half of my year turned into a big odyssey health-wise, though I'm still proud that I made it till the end. When I came back home to Switzerland, I had to undergo emergency surgery just a few days later. Sadly, the glaucoma medications made it impossible for me to study normally and I had to drop almost all of my classes. This meant I was almost always home and for this reason very lonely. It's really unfortunate that these eye problems attacked me in the middle of my exchange year. I wish they had come a bit later, so I could've enjoyed the second half of my experience as much as the first half.

Get in touch with blind lead organizations in Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Union_of_Blind_and_Partially_Sighted_People