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Student life
Describe host city:
Students equally interact with the local and student community
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Travel: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Activities: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Pamplona is really a great place to go out. We went out every week, more than once a week while in brussels I never went out and still don't.
Best cafés are : el Meson de la Navarreria, bar Los Portales, Otano, Garazi, El Portal, and many many more.
The hottest day is the thursday, everyone at Los Portales, happy hours till 1pm, then arround 2pm, everyone swithes to El Marengo(nightclub), free entrance till 3pm, incredible place to meet and danc with people from spain and from the whole "erasmus and other programs students".
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Housing
Type of housing: Apartment/House
Arranged by: Independently - My choice
If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House
Why?
I had a great experience with my room mates whoe were from brazil, portugal and dominican republic and to be all together in an independent apartment is I think the most interesting experience
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Personal comments
Everything was perfect to me. How we were welcomed, how everything was well organized to guide us to choose our classes, access to every facilities local student enjoy, etc...
There's a lot to tell!
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
Personal savings
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
Level of life in spain is lower than in Belgium for instance, but there was also the fact that Pamplona is a small city and where housing for exemple is much lower than in Barcelona where I had some Erasmus friends as well as in Valencia and Madrid.
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Telephone:
was the same price as at home.
Overall, Food, Nightlife, Travel, Housing:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
Eroski, Lidl, and other cheap supermarkets, I lived with €350 per month, every cost included. I don't say it was easy, bue it is possible and I had as much fun as anyone with €700 per month.
Money doesn't matter...
University gives already some good advice to save money.
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Academic
Course recommendations
take your time to make choices : we all had one month to change our minds before registering ourselves
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
oblige foreign students to mix themselves with local students because it is not so easy for shy people in Spain
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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...
that time runs out quicker than ever and second thing, love doesn't last forever.
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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
take it easy, follow the spanish classes and talk to everybody and there will be no problems to pass the exams...
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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
the most amazing thing that happened in my life. Now I can't be happy not travelling and sharing cultures with people I don't know.
Erasmus makes your "normal" life look more boring than ever.
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Languages
Language of instruction: Spanish
Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?
Yes, I wanted to improve my Spanish
How much did you improve your Spanish?
My level before: Basic phrases
My level after: No problems in any areas (including slang)
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
very slow at the begining because everyone hangs out only with people they know from somewhere and people of same language/country.
But one month later was everyone mixed and then well obliged to use only the local language.
As far as I'm concerned, I met a girl from argentina which boosted my learning in an incredible way.
Everything was perfect over there...
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