The campus is small but it’s very small classes. Classes aren’t too hard and the professors are somewhat lenient and really cool. There’ are students from everywhere in the world and that’s pretty cool. There’s a huge gap between the semester students and the permanent students. Semesters students come from the US for one semester and want to travel all over Europe. You end up traveling every weekend. Permanent students are doing their 4 years in the Madrid campus and have either travelled already all over Europe or space them out throughout the years. Nevertheless, there’s always exceptions.
Si j'y retournais je choisirais: Appartement/maison
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I only lived in campus housing the 1st semester, as is (was?) policy by the university for all freshmen. Piso Compartidos (shared apartments) can be found around the city for very little money, or you could get your own apartment for the same price, more likely less, than what you pay to live in the dorms. Although the dorms do provide more opportunities to meet people. But SLU Madrid is a small school and its hard not to know everyone anyways.
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The house that we got to live in was pretty nice. Zenaida, the woman who was in charge of looking after was really sweet, although she did get mad at us a lot. The only freaky thing is in the middle of the night one of the guys who works for the university would walk through the house to make sure everything was ok. He was really nice and cool, but footsteps in the middle of the night can be sort of freaky.
La langue locale fut: Different than language of instruction
Apprendre le Anglais fut un élément important de la décision?
Non, pas vraiment.
Apprendre le Espagnol fut un élément important de la décision?
Oui, je souhaitais améliorer mon Espagnol
Quels progrès en Espagnol?
Mon niveau d'avant: Échanges quotidens (courses, déplacements...) Mon niveau après: A l'aise dans la plupart des cas
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You need to go outside the university to speak Spanish, or you can opt to take a lot of courses in Spanish. Its easy to make friends outside the university though, so just go out to some local bars and meet some local spaniards. Metro stop Universidad...I think was the name I can't remember...anyways there's a bar over by the spanish universities and i can't recall the name...but if you just go to where all the spanish dorms are you end up there...CAMPUS that's the name. Big hang out for local Spanish students...SLU students never go there, but I did and its cool. The bartended makes this incredible lemon drink. Also, around September they'll be doing the freshman initiation ceremonies at their dorms and the upper classman make the freshman do stupid things. If you go to local parks during this time of year you'll see it. But be careful in that area while walking around dorms and high rise apartment buildings...people dump buckets of bleach out their windows onto the freshman below.
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on campus housing is rather restrictive. it's like having parents away from home. its not your typical univeristy regulations. when i was there, americans were not allowed to get their own apartments until their second year. other nationalities were.
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my first semester was at a 'girls dorm' which later closed down. the following semester i was at a university apartment, but the girls were not my type of crew...very 'fake'. my last year there i had my own apartment and it was great. 2 minutes from school. great neighborhood too. freedom.
Vie nocturne, Voyager: A lieu principalement à la fac et/ou entre les étudiants
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Monday-2 4 1 at Chesterfields. Tuesday-Casa de Cerveza (Bilbao)all you can drink Wednesday-Bash/Barnon or whatever hip hop club is open Thursday-Cats, close to school Friday-either Velada, Kapital, Cool, or Joy. Saturday-one that you didn't go to on Friday. Sunday-Joy, pretty crazy still. Or any other night Las Huertas and Plaza Santa Ana cerca de Puerta del Sol. There's always a party there. ESPECIALLY around carnivales. For Salsa dancing check out Ramdall cerca de Plaza de Espana. Pacha is also an option but not one of my favorites. For fun craziness, check out the gay scene in Chueca. ALSO, keep track of the Fiestas en cada pueblo cerca de Madrid...like Majaronda and other places. Big carnivals outside the city that you can usually take a bus to. Outside Madrid, Fiestas Grandes in August in San Sebastian (Denostia) So much fun.
if you have dollars, spain is incredibly cheap and affordable. now that i live in the states everything just seems to expensive to me.
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Moins cher que chez moi
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there are always ways to earn a few extra euros. teaching english or just doing intercambios is a good way. i did't really experience any financial surprises. if you budget, you'll survive. try to live with out american products, experience spain for their food as well. buying spanish alternatives to name brands saves $!
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