Universidad de Sevilla (US)

I wanted to have known that it would be so tuff to learn the exams in Spanish. My Spanish is basic to good and even for students with good Spanish language skills it is really hard to pass their exams. For fluent speaking students is already easier to read the study books and to get everything in the class. For me this was really a problem. Reading the study books in Spanish was really hard for me. It took me a really long time and in comparison with your exams in the home country you have to put like 4 times as more time and effort in the exams to pass them. You learn a lot from studying in Spanish and my vocabulary is bigger now but I find it tuff to really study in Spanish. Further one I do not have anything I wanted to know before hand. I rather want to find everything out myself and experience new things.

The university has to spend more time on the personal being of the student. There are a lot of students went home because they did not get any information about the school and how everything goes around here and did not meet other students because they did not knew anything about parties or trips. I would recommend them to have in the first week an introduction week and in this way the international students can get to know each other and the city. These introduction periods have to arrange by the Spanish students so that the international students straight away get to know some Spanish students and in this way get to know the culture and the city better. In my home university we have a introduction like this and all international students really liked it. I hope next year the University of Sevilla will also pay more attention to this.

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Going out for dinner is here cheaper. You often only pay 1 euro of 1.50 for a beer or a wine. For 10 euro per person you can go out for dinner really good. He housing is also less than in my home country. I rent my room now from an agency and than you pay a little bit more but still about 40 euros cheaper than in my home country. In nightlife clubs you pay the same amount for a cocktail or beer. The daily groceries are here more expensive than in my home country. This is mainly because of the small choice.

We are all here for the same thing; to get international experience. I live here with international students (Spanish, German and French student) and get to know different cultures. I really like it here and know you really notice the small differences between cultures and you learn how to adapt to strange situations.