Universidad de Sevilla (US)

On San Fernando, across from the Rectorado, there are many cafés/bars open until around 10pm on the weekdays. La Carbonería in el barrio Santa Cruz has a number of flamenco shows that are less "touristy" unlike those found at El Patio by the Plaza de Toros. In March/April is the Feria de Primavera where you can drink rebujitos while dancing sevillanas in Los Remedios. If you know any local people, you might even be invited into a caseta that usually houses its own bar, bathroom, and speaker system. Across the Guadalquivir, you can visit places on the Calle Betis. The best way to pass your time is tapas hunting in the area behind the Avenida de la República, on the opposite side as the cathedral (I forget the name of the neighborhood.)Also, the Alameda de Hércules has great jazz venues with univerisity jam sessions-- an easy way to meet other ERASMUS students from countries like Italy, France, and Germany.

The apartment itself was fine. I shared a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom space with 3 other university students.

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Get a Bono Bus card, use Eurovoice to call home, get a cell phone with Vodafone, beware of pick-pockets, walk on the opposite side of the street from the cathedral to avoid being hussled, and don't walk around alone at night esp. in Santa Cruz and around the Torre de Oro.

Andaluz is very difficult to understand at first. None of the courses are taught in this dialect, but rather in traditional castellano, where the soft c's and z's are pronounced like the soft "th" in English, and the s's are pronounced like an "sh". If you are not used to this accent, it will be a bit difficult to understand spoken Spanish in Sevilla (in- and outside the university), and by the time you leave the country, you might notice that you have picked up on some of the accent and much of the slang.