Seville: A Life Changing Experience Past Review

Academic rigor, intensity, resources, etc.

The workload was extremely light and mostly in class but gave you a very good description of the history, architecture, ect. of Spain.

On-site administration of your program

The faculty took us on a number of trips, gave us a tour of the city and was their to answer all of our questions. By the end of the program we were all extremely close with on another. They spoke to us in both English and Spanish.

How satisfied were you with your living arrangements?

I lived in a residencia universidad, which was an apartment building owned by my host parents but we had our own separate apartment. The neighborhood was safe except for at 3am where there was a man masturbating outside. There was a gate on our door to get in so it was imposible for intruders unless they were buzzed up. We were cooked 3 meals a day 6 days a week and were allowed our own fridge. Cookware was provided for us. We were treated by our host parents like a guest. They would clean for us and allow us into their apartment at anytime.

We had 3 meals a day 6 days a week and if we went on a trip our host parents would make us sandwiches to take. It was authentic Spanish food mixed with french fries and pasta. We always had salad and soup as well as our main entree.

How integrated did you feel with the local culture?

We went to Rhonda, Portugal and Granada with our program during weekends and had 3 scheduled long weekends to be able to travel by ourselves.

How well were health issues addressed during the program?

Americans are way more trusting then Spaniards so a couple people in our program got put into difficult positions. During the day the city is extremely safe but at night, you need someone else to walk with. I didn't need any vaccines to go and the city was very clean. A girl in my program was put into the hospital and our program helped us to work through it. They sent a CEA representative to be with us because we were out of the country.

(1 = not very easy/$200+ on food & personal expenses/week, 2.5 = $100/week, 5 = very easily/minimal cost)

We had a 1.5 hour long class 2 days a week. The people in the office also spoke to us in Spanish but knew fluent English. Our host parents knew no English so we practiced speaking it everyday.

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• Americans

• The people
• the trips I took

• informing people before arriving
• not just living with Americans