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Student life
Describe host city:
Students interact with the local community without much university involvement
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Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Nightlife, Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Best pub ever:
- El Rouge (very chill out - red lights artmosphere)
- But keep in mind that the most alive night spots in Barcelona remains the street!!
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Housing
Type of housing: Apartment/House
Arranged by: Independently - My choice
If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House
Why?
To share an apartment with people of other countries was one of the best experience of my life.
Moreover, compare to a compus accomodation, managing your own apartment (bills, facilities, ...) gives you more responsability and independence
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Languages
Language of instruction: Spanish
Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?
No, it wasn't.
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
Communication was the key word of my experience: a lot of people very open minded, from plenty of different places around the world. And the amazing point was that everybody was talking in spanish all the time even if we could speak english (even better sometimes)
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Personal savings
Other sources of funding:
Family
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I worked during my study abroad experience
Personal spending habits
Spain is cheaper than France, and you can do a lot more (travel, night/daylife)than in France
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Housing, Travel:
was more expensive than at home.
Food:
was the same price as at home.
Telephone, Nightlife, Overall:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
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Nicolas M
Academic
Course recommendations
Every semester there is an intensive 1 month spanish course for foreigners.
I really advice people to do it: I met half of my current friends in that course, and I improved my spanish a lot, straight from the beginning.
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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 in particular.
The best is the surprise...and I was very well surprised!
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In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
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
It's difficult to talk about my student experience in Barcelona without a word about the Catalan culture.
As a lot of people may think, it's not problem at all.
Catalan and Spanish culture are very well mixed together in Barcelona. If you go there, you have to learn Catalan. And not because you need it (everybody speaks spanish) but because it's part of the culture and the people who live there.
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