Type of housing: Apartment/House

Arranged by: Independently - My choice

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why? Your independent in your way of life but still have to commit to compromises while living with roommates

Personal comments:
The university usually gives you a list of phone numbers of rooms to be rented. There are dificulties because of the catalan language. Overall access to help if needed!

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

Activities, Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment

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

Personal comments:
there are few discos in the city itself but enough bars to have a drink or two. only an our to barcelona by train. two university parties during semester which are fantastic!! our favorite place to have a cold beer is the "agora" (no kidding, it´s really called that way) in the historical part of town.

Course recommendations:
Well it was a shame that the spanish courses were of a very low level. I was supposed to improve my grammar and writing skills but all we did was talk. Law and economics were the best courses and at the same level as in Holland which is pretty high.

Personal comments:
Well the thing that was striking, was that the Spanish students don't have a mature and professional additude. For example: they don't show any respect when a fellow student is doing a presentation and they don't seem to look at the professor as a professor but as some guy who talks for 2 hours. It annoyed that people studying at a university could behave like children at a kindergarten. Maybe courses on "how to behave professionally or at the workplace" should be introduced.

Language of instruction: Spanish

Main source of funding:
Personal savings

Other sources of funding:
Government assistance
An ERASMUS grant

Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options

Personal spending habits:
Regarding food, telephone and accomodation, I normally don't have a lot of expenses because I live with my parents. Nightlife and travel was definitely more due to the fact that the way of life in Spain is really different than that of Holland. We went out from Thursday to Sunday which I normally don't do. Travelling is obvious, when you have some spare time you'd like to go out and see some more of the country

Travel, Nightlife, Overall: was more expensive than at home.

Housing: was the same price as at home.

Food, Telephone: was less expensive than at home.

I wish I had known...
I wish I knew I could extend my stay with another 6 months.

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