Type of housing:
Apartment/House

Arranged by:
Independently - I had no other choice

If returning, I would choose:
Apartment/House
Why? It gives you a lot of freedom and the possibility to find your own roommates.

Describe host city:
Students equally interact with the local and student community

Travel, Activities, Nightlife take/s place mostly outside the university/student environment

Course recommendations:
The strategy courses of Mr Parada are quite interesting. He is a very enthousiastic profesor who teaches very well with very interesting real life cases.

The language of instruction was:
Spanish

My proficiency in the language of instruction:
before: Everyday knowledge (shopping, directions, etc.)
after: At ease in most situations

Learning the language of instruction was a factor in choosing my host country

Main source of funding:
Family

Other sources of funding:
Socrates scholarship

Work opportunities
I didn't want/need to work.

Personal spending habits:
I spend a lot of money on telephone, because my boyfriend was at the same time doing an internship in Bangkok and calling to Thailand was very expensive. Nightlife was more expensive for two reasons. One is that the drinks and entrances in Spain are higher than in my home country. The second reason is that I went out a lot more in Barcelona than I normally do in Holland. I spend more on travelling because I wanted to see some cities outside Barcelona and didn´t have a public transport card like I have in Holland.

I wish I had known ...
I wished I had known more time in advance that I was going to Barcelona. Then I would have studied more Spanish in advance and my Spanish would have been even better.

In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!