Universidade Fernando Pessoa

I made a student exchange in Brasil in 98-99. So I was speaking portuguese before to go in Erasmus. I choose Portugal because I didn't need to learn the language before to go there. But it was difficult to understand the teachers and sometimes to understand portuguese people because they have a different accent.

Take Ryanair! Choose Vodafone Yorn (free sms)! Send me private email! I will get you acquinted with Miguel-Gratest Local, who will help to meet Portugal! Stay calm and open! First two weeks are hard afterwards is like one day! Enjoy, prabbably best time in your life!!

Definitely go shopping to Mini Preco and LIDL supermarkets if u wanna save on food. The DIA trademark products are the cheapest ever. Obtain a MINI PrECO club card to get even more discounts. If u want to live cheap u can rent a room/house/flat with other students but it is never cheaper than 120 euros/month. A big surprise was that we had to pay so much for our campus residence. Beware of taking too much luggage on cheap ryanair flights through London Stansted because they may fine u there! Another big finansial surprize was the cost of travel by bus within portugal and the cost of tickets for music fests and concerts. If u want to buy the cheapest and the best fruit and vegetables, go 2 Arcadagua fruit shop near the faculty. The cost of drinks in nightclubs is huge! And the cost of things like manicure, pedicure and cosmetologist is immense whereas the quality is not worth this money.

My italians friends and I were to Lisboa. The only thing I can say don't complete in my experence Erasmus, just is that it was the only travel I did there.

it's a very nice campus, but there was just a real problem: campus closes at 1:00 AM, so it's a little bit complicated because is not always possible to come back at campus at that hour, specially if working during the night!!