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Student life
Describe host city:
Student life dominates the city
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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
_ Best coffe: THe Hart
_ Good concerts: Stair Way To Heaven
_ Dance: Winkel Van Sinkel
Tivoli
The Jam
Events: "QUEEN´S DAY"
Blues´s festival
Sinter Klass
Anothers: to practice canoe
skating on ice
WALK ALWAYS BY BIKE!!!!!
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Housing
Type of housing: Apartment/House
Arranged by: Home university
If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House
Why?
I like it because I can be independent and at the same time it permits me to share my life with another foreign students and dutch students too.
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Personal comments
It was really interesting to know another kind of culture.
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Languages
Language of instruction: English
Was learning English a key decision factor?
No, it wasn't.
How much did you improve your English?
My level before: Basic phrases
My level after: At ease in most situations
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
It´s was difficult and in several times teachers didn´t help me.
With the other students was good.
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Other
Other sources of funding:
An ERASMUS grant
Other
Work opportunities:
I worked during my study abroad experience
Personal spending habits
Holland is more expensive than Spain in all the situations.
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Food, Telephone, Housing, Nightlife, Travel, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
In most of the shops and in the train it´s impossible to pay trough VISA.
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Overall
I wish I had known...
I think I knew most things before to go there. I knew people ( students) who were there and I looked for in other sources
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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
Teachers should be more patiently with visitent students and they should put in our side sometimes..
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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
Utrecht was a nice city. There the life is quite and there are a lot of students.
It´s cheap to travel if you bye a card for trains and in two or three hours you could go to belgium, german...
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Academic
Course recommendations
You must know really good the English language if not it´s a little bit difficult at the begin.
It would be interesting to know a minimun of dutch language.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
I think teachers could have consideration trough foreign students and more if we are spanish students, our level in english among european countries is worst and it is difficult for us. In Spain we never before speak in english and I think everybody knows...
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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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