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Student life
Describe host city:
Student life dominates the city
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Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
The favorite bar of the Erasmus community was "WINK", there were also two very popular bars (special to the latin community) that was "Villa Ernesto" and "Ambiorix"(this last one I didn't like it that much)
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Housing
Type of housing: Apartment/House
Arranged by: Independently - I had no other choice
If returning, I would choose: A room exchange
Why?
Because it have most of the advantages of living on your own house, but allows you to get to meet more persons, and to fit in more with the local culture
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Personal comments
They have a good housing service, that helps you with your contracts, and have a data base with all the houses/rooms available in the city (and the people that work there are very nice)
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
Generally speaking the prices in Belgium are higher that in my home country.
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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
The telephone, and some types of food (for instance fish) were a bit more expensive than I was expecting. Cost-saving tip: Lidl and Aldi
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Academic
Course recommendations
I considered the courses a little bit hard special in the final evaluation
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
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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Overall
I wish I had known...
Not that I remember
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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
Very good University, with many infrastructurs to the students and tha hole environment in the city is really good.
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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
There are several low cost travel companys that operate based on belgium search them (ryan air, jet only...)
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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: At ease in most situations
My level after: No problems in any areas (including slang)
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
Leuven is in Flanders, so they speake Dutch and (at least to latin language speakers) was a very difficult thing to learn. But that is no problem because everybody speaks English and so it's very easy to make a conversation with anybody
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