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Student life
Describe host city:
Students interact with the local community without much university involvement
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Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Activities, Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
nightclubs: Apolo (at mondays you have a really awesome night there), Razzmatazz, Plataforma, Sidecar(...) cafe: fragile(next to macba). You have so so so so so many events and places to visit in barcelona that 6 months is not enough to visit each one
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Housing
Type of housing: Apartment/House
Arranged by: Independently - I had no other choice
If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House
Why?
The university campus is really far from the center of Barcelona, like 30km. You will enjoy much more your experience ir you're living in the center. you will find prices in range of 300 to 400 (normal erasmus houses) depending on the location, facilities and so
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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
Some courses are taught in Catalan, wich is kind of a bummer. It's not that easy to learn that language, so try to choose courses in Spanish. You don't need to learn Catalan, thought there's many free courses in the university. in language courses you'll meet many erasmus students, try to take advantage of that
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Academic
Course recommendations
Much more easier than in Porto, Portugal.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
Try to take advantage of the academic part of eramus, because it's easy to get good grades if you don't skip to many classes and keep studying a little bit
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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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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
Personal savings
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
you don't pay to enter in many nightclubs, you just have to register in their guestlists. But the price of a drink inside were like a shock to me! For groceries try Mercadona, Carrefour or Lidl. Dia is also cheap but lacks to much in quality. As for telephone use Yoigo
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Telephone, Housing, Nightlife, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Food, Travel:
was the same price as at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
It's not that different from Porto, Portugal. Taxes are lower than in Portugal, so the prices are kind of balanced
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Overall
I wish I had known...
Try to go before september to find a place to live, you'll find the better places and use couchsurfing in the first days without a place to save some money
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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
The life at campus is great. You relaxed environment, many exchange students, events and so
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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
Barcelona(Girona) airport has many routes to another contries by Ryanair, even to Morocco! ESN will also arrange many trips for Erasmus. You'll have the best time of your life in Barcelona, you don't need to know much things now, it's funnier to learn it there
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