Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)

ninguno

I didn't get the housing I requested at all. In my housing questionnaire I asked to live in a dorm with 8 students, including international students. I wound up living in a three person dorm, with two other students from the University of California. I felt isolated from the Spanish students and felt that my Spanish didn't really improve with respect to more mundane things, only academically. The dorms are also nowhere near the classes and I felt like I wasn't near the local students either. The housing situation could have been much better.

I had a lot of opportunity to use Spanish in my daily interactions with people outside of my dorm and I felt like my Spanish improved a lot, but most specifically in academic contexts.

ninguno

Get yourself out there. It was really easy for me to become more isolated from the people there and just hang out with Americans because there's *so many* Americans there. Go meet other people, meet other exchange students meet Spaniards.