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Student life
Describe host city:
Students equally interact with the local and student community
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Activities, Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
FERIA, FERIA FERIA!!!! it's the last week in may and it's to die for! also check out "carmen's" right next to the universidad, THE BEST place for coffee and bread with fresh tomatoes (it sounds weird, but it's also to die for!) for clubs....all of them on Gran Capitan. also, the veternary school has great outdoor parties at night.
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Housing
Type of housing: With a family
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: With a family
Why?
living with a family provides you with a first hand look at the life and culture that you would be unable to get living with other americans or even with spanish students in a dorm type setting.
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Personal comments
living with a family was great! i'd highly recommend it....if for nothing else then the food was so much better then dorm style food. and you are really and totally emmersed in the culture and forced to speak the language.
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Languages
Language of instruction: Spanish
Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?
No, it wasn't.
How much did you improve your Spanish?
My level before: At ease in most situations
My level after: At ease in most situations
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
when i first got there i didnt think that they were speaking spanish, i couldnt understand a word for the first 2 weeks because the accent was so different. but after that i was fine and learned a lot of the phrases.
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Personal savings
Other sources of funding:
Family
Personal savings
Work opportunities:
I didn't want/need to work
Personal spending habits
it's so cheap there. i didnt have to pay for food or houseing (it was all included in the cost of tuition). the only thing i spent money on was fun stuff!
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Nightlife, Travel:
was more expensive than at home.
Food, Telephone, Housing, Overall:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
i was fine financially...i just used my visa card to get money out of the atm.
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Academic
Course recommendations
the music teacher is the sweetest person in the world...she brought us cookies on the first day of class and then invited all of us over to her house for dinner at the end of the semester.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
the teachers were regular spanish professors and they didnt understand the american system of grading. we were grading spanish style and most of the spanish students dont expect to pass a course/exam the first time around. so it was frustrating that the grades that us americans got effected our gpa's when we were really graded the same way that we were used to in the states.
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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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Overall
I wish I had known...
nope, an all around excellent experience!
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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
highly!!!! but there is only 1 study abroad program in cordoba, and i was on it. the program consisted of 6 schools in the US--trinity college (CT), wellesley (MA), smith (MA), wheaton (MA), oberlin (OH), and college of wooster (OH)
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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
definitly do the euro-pass thing! so to spain in the spring, and definitely go to southern spain, it's where all the culture is! (yes, i'm bias)
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