South Bank University

Take the chance to travel to European capitals, it´s just one night trip. Go out as much as you can and mingle up with everyone, having fun is also a good way to achieve your objectives.

Well, I didn´t get a debit card, the bank just issued a savings card for me, so I couldn´t use it to pay, just to get money at ATMs... Cost-saving tip: walking from the campus to central London only takes half an hour, so it´s a nice walk when it´s sunny and you can spare the tube

Learning English was my reason to go to England as an erasmus. As I was in London, unfortunately for my command of English I could only interact with international students. So I learn many words and expressions (their level was usually very good), but always from foreign students. I could develop aurial and reading skills through attending lectures, listenning to the radio and reading books and newspapers (they're very cheap for members of the university), but I couldn´t really learn the language naturally from English students with a certain continuity as it was difficult to interact with them. London is a big town with many people with their own routine, so if you´re not working for a company or in high-school it´s very difficult to get to know locals well, which is want I intended. As a result, at the end of the year I'd learnt many things but not precisely what I'd planned.

Bar Madrid forever! Any local public house. Cafés at Covent Garden

Despite the high fare, sharing a flat of the halls of residence with other five international students was good fun. I feel curious about what living somewhere else, with standard londonners (if they exist at all!), would have been like, but I´m happy to have lived by the uni, that entails quite a number of advantages.