Type of housing:

Arranged by: Independently - I had no other choice

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why? Because it is really nice to live together with other people (depends as well on kind of people). But privacy is also important for me

Personal comments:
University did not arrange accomodation, so it was independantly

Describe host city: Students equally interact with the local and student community

Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment

Activities, Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
There are too many places to go out in Madrid.

Course recommendations:
Classes are taught in a different way as I was used to. Just making a lot of notes while listening to lecturers. My home university is more practical

Personal comments:
That lecturers realise more that foreign people perhaps are not used to language and way of studies, so more help and understanding of them.

Language of instruction: Spanish

Main source of funding:
Government assistance

Other sources of funding:
Family
Personal savings
An ERASMUS grant

Work opportunities:
It was not legal for me to work

Personal spending habits:
Because in the Netherlands I live with my parents and do not have so many costs. And your life is a lot different when you are abroad. More going out,travel etc, so you are spending a lot more money.

Telephone: was the same price as at home.

Food, Travel, Nightlife, Overall, Housing: was less expensive than at home.

I wish I had known...
Not not really, because you never know what will come. I just wanted more help fidning a place to stay, because that was not that easy. Also arrangements of residences and working permits can be arranged a lot faster. Now I recieved it in February, so before I couldn't even look for a job, and after that, so it was too late allready.

In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!