Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.