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4.21 / 5 based on 249 reviews
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Housing
Type of housing: with young spanish people
Arranged by: Independently - I had no other choice
If returning, I would choose: another time with young spanish people
Why?
easier to improve your language knowledge and get in contact with the natives there
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Personal comments
my apartement was in the center of the city very close to the beach, which offered you a lot of possibilities to arrange your freetime outdoors. i´m very glad that i didn´t choose the opportunity to live with other germans because that isolates you a bit from the place where you actually are and the unique possibility to get a deeper idea of what the real life with all its customs and habits typical for this country is.
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Student life
Describe host city:
Students equally interact with the local and student community
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Activities: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
if you want to relax from the hard time of your studies you can go out the whole weekend: in the night there is one part of the city where are only bars and pubs to dance with an amazing streetlife and atmosphere because it´s overcrowded of young people, during the day you can do a lot of sports in the atlantic ocean or the mountains, especially the trips to the mountains, i loved them, the nature seemed to be "untouched" of any human. but the best experience was a trip with an italian friend of mine along the north coast of spain to santander, bilbao and san sebastian where we could see a dolphin living there wild and free in the sea! this and a lot of other short trips on the weekends where i did know a lot of other students from all over the world visiting all the old buildings, eating typical food and going out with spanish friends to get really close to there way of life discussing about the life in general, political or historical issues or "only" about the experiences you´ve made in your life and the wishes and dreams you have, i don´t want to miss this moments and i´m happy that i have had the luck to make them.
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Overall
I wish I had known...
a deeper knowledge about the subjects you can choose there, but that´s difficult for my university and even for my own, because spanish universities do not work very fast and they only things with a very short period of anticipation.
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In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
if you really want to go ahead with your studies it´s necessary to stay a year because a lot of interesting subjects you need to attend for one year.
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During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot
Became familiar with another culture
Met people from other countries
Experienced a change in life
Advanced my studies & career
Final comments
i think that it should be obligatory for every student to stay in a foreign country. when you are young you adopt much easier to another way of living and never in your life you will forget this experience. at any time of your life you will remember this period and you regress to your home country with a view a bit wider than before, maybe a bit more tolerant and interested in other cultures, which is in my opinion the fundamental for the peace in the future.
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Academic
Course recommendations
i can highly recommand the course about the historical development of the three sectors of european economies. with the help of this course i have now a better overview of all connections and dependences between the single states. this knowledge i can use as a base to have a better understanding of the inner-european developments and actual political decisions.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
they could improve their standards of teaching in some subjects especially in marketing, where the teacher only dictates the stuff you have to learn. this does not support your ability to make your own decisions later on the job, they have to emphasize the dialog between teacher-student and student-student in group-projects.
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My opinion of the university assessment
Exams throughout the course
Essays and/or projects at the end of course
Essays and/or projects throughout the course
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Languages
Language of instruction: Spanish
Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?
No, it wasn't.
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
at the beginning the spanish people did not want to understand my southamerican accent, but later i adopt myself and it really worked well. i did not have any problems communicating to people there. because i studied and traveled during 7 month in chile and had just returned from there.
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Personal savings
Other sources of funding:
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
my accommodation in germany was really cheap, but this was for reason of luck, usually the price level is the same.
the nightlife in spain is a lot cheaper than in germany because the drinks are less expensive and with more alcoholic content than in germany and in general you don´t pay entrance in spanish pubs and bars. there you can dance and so it is not necessary to go to a disco to dance which is common in germany and overall there you have to pay high entrances.
what about my travel costs? i think it´s obviously that you travel a lot more in a foreign country than you would usually do in your own country. that´s why my travel costs have been higher.
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Housing, Travel:
was more expensive than at home.
Telephone, Overall, Food:
was the same price as at home.
Nightlife:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
using the public bus system you can save a lot of money in comparison to german cars ( which is the cheapest way to travel there ). they offer a flexible timetable and a very good service.
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