Suffolk University, Madrid Campus

The euro exchange rate!!! Cell phones are outrageous, even if you are calling someone on the same block! Housing in the city was expensive about $1000/month/student. Travel- really a lot more, I don't travel to other coutries on the weekends when I am in the US :) Nightlife- there are way more hours in the night that they party in Madrid which = more hours to spend $$ and the drinks are pretty expensive. The nightlife scene can really drain your bank account. I went out a lot when I first got there, would get home at 9/10am from the night before with empty pockets, sleep until 6pm that night, and do it all over. This was a great time, but after awhile i realized how much $$ it was costing. So I changed it up, instead of going out at night I went to bed early and hopped on a random city bus early (get unlimited metro pass) in the morning and went to explore the city alone. I ran into the coolest places and bought the greatest stuff. The money I spent on drinks now went to buy clothes and other souveniers.

The clothes are all great, girls, dont buy a wardrobe when you befiore leaving! Bring underwear and bras, clothes in spain are aawesome and cheap! I also decided that I am only going to geet the oppertunities to travel like this once so I better live it up and not miss a thing. SO I am a little more frivilous than in the states.

The traveling aspect is more expensive while studying abroad, because u have so many places u want to visit and only one semester in which to do it. So overall i traveled a lot more in one semester here than i would normally do while at home, but it is very worth it.

I spent more in Spain because it was Spain. My attitude was "when will I ever get the chance to come back here again?"

American money was worth more in that country so things were cheaper. The food was significantly cheaper as were the clothes. God I miss the cheap living!!!!!

I spent more on food in Spain because I ate out all the time. I dudn't use he telephone much because I had Internet access at school and where I stayed. Nightlife was so inexpensive in Spain, it was great! Overall though it was slighly more than what I would spend at home.