Universidad San Pablo CEU

its recomendable to search for a language-school outside the university, too, because the course in universitiy includes all levels in one class. really good and cheap is the ecuela oficial de idiomas (institution of the ministry of education), courses of 3-4 months, 50 euro!

take as much money with you as you can, you will never ever have a time like that again in your life! do everything you can to know that country, travel in other cities, go to all the museums an sightseeing-spots, shop´til you drop and eat more than only bread and "nutella"!

it is sooooo usefull if you are capable of the language arriving in the country. if not, you cant follow the courses, it costs you too much time to traduce and make take notices, and its hard work to learn for the examens. you learn a lot there, and if you allready have basic knowledge in the language, you might already bring it to perfection...

"priscilla" in chueca (barrio en madrid), most of the people are gay, they now how to party there! generally, chueca is a graet neighborhood to go out, also is la latina. don´t miss to sip a cool caipirniha in one of the bars, for example bar "yesterday" in the center (hard to find, but it is worth to seek...)

i lived with a spanish, a french and a german girl. so i spoke pretty much german, wich isn´t really helpfull for learning spanish, but otherwise, it can help you if you feel disappointed or sad, just to talk with someone in your language. like for everything in the world, there are advantages and disadvantages in living with a student from your country. but what is absolutely necesary is living with someone from the host-country: it helped me a lot!!