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Student life
Describe host city:
Students interact with the local community without much university involvement
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Nightlife, Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Activities: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
My favorite place to go at night was a coffe shop around the corner from our apartment called La Farola. It was on the calle Santa Fe, which is a very busy street, and we would go in and get cafe con leche y dos media lunas and sit and look out on the street for hours. For actual nightlife stuff, surprisingly we mostly ende up going to other exchange peoples apartments and listening to music and drinking cheap wine and beer. None of had much money and B.A. is a pretty expensive dance club kind of town. We did often go to the Rincon Dominicana to dance salsa. Unfortunately, they closed down at the end of our stay, due to the economic instability that was just beginning to crash down.
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Housing
Type of housing: Apartment/House
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: With a family
Why?
Living with fellow student on study abroad, and only them, I was not able to fully immerse myself in cultural experience.
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Personal comments
Although this was a wonderful arrangement, due to the wonderful natures of both of my roommates, I still did not retain as much language and culture as I would have liked to because we were all from the states, all english speakers.
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Government assistance
Other sources of funding:
Family<br>
Personal savings
Work opportunities:
I worked during my study abroad experience
Personal spending habits
Well, housing and all that comes with it is certainly more expensive in the states than in Argentina. However, there was much more of a culture of having a good time while I was down there, so I did end up going out more.
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Nightlife:
was more expensive than at home.
Travel:
was the same price as at home.
Housing, Telephone, Food, Overall:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
I think the way to do it was do as the locals do. They eat very cheaply all week. All meals are eaten at home. Then on the weekend, why that's the time to appreciate what you've saved up all week for.
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Academic
Course recommendations
They taught an excellent History of Tango course, offered only to exchange students. Also I loved the professor who taught Russian Lit. The other literature professors had no energy to speak of.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
My biggest problem was that we were treated completely as though we were exchange students (which, I do realize, we were) but no matter what we got pretty good grades with very little feedback, unless we pressed.
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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...
I wish I had known what the living situation was going to be like. I loved my roommates very much, but I think that all of us would agree that we would have benefited from more interaction with local people.
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In my opinion:
Most people loved it.
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
I was actually quite pleased with this university. They put a lot of emphasis on the intellectual, they take their studies seriously. B.A. has a rich literary history and the USAL takes advantage of that. Also the professors for the most part were very helpful and interesting and imformative.
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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
Hmmm,I think you could go just about anywhere and if you spend enough time, you grow to love it, in whatever way you can. I love the city of Buenos Aires, it is alive and vibrant and crumbling and decadent and brilliantly haughty yet inviting. Man, its a strange place and it makes you ache with weird loving for it. I just say go there, and spend as much time as you can digging right down into it.
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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: At ease in most situations
My level after: No problems in any areas (including slang)
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
I went to Argentina straight from Venezuela, where my father's family lives. I feel that this allowed for me to really become acquainted with Spanish and its everyday usage. I was definitely a good communicator when I got there. And after spending time there and coming to understand the very distinctive slang of B.A., I feel that I was definitely fluent.
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