As I am studying on my year abroad, I think it’s essential I do a blog post on what life as a student is like. Me and my friends arrived in Valencia a few weeks earlier than the semester start date because we had a welcome meeting at the university, this was quite helpful and gave us a lot of information that we needed however, we only had one email about this in July and that was it, so if you missed that email you wouldn’t have a clue about the meeting so I’d say preparation is key, although that long summer break before moving away might be the time to do nothing, you certainly have a lot you need to prepare and I wouldn’t have had any idea about the enrolment or the term dates if I didn’t go to this meeting. Everybody was given a date and time to go and enrol, and although the welcome meeting was helpful the enrolment process was terrible. It was very much unorganised, and I got the feeling that the staff didn’t want to help you. I didn’t have enough credits to begin with as they said the classes were full but after I got in touch with NTU, and NTU got in touch with Valencia university, I got given the classes that I originally asked for. Luckily, I was eventually given a timetable with enough credits to pass the year so I could start to attend more classes, although attendance isn’t compulsory, I think it’s a great opportunity to get better at the language and make new friends. I am loving Valencia so far, I 100% made the right decision coming here and I am glad that I knew a few girls who were coming from NTU and got the chance to make some new friends here too. Valencia is the perfect place for a nice meal and some drinks, I would recommend trying Agua de Valencia if you haven’t already! It’s a mixture of cava, orange juice, vodka and gin and tastes amazing! My favourite places to visit in Valencia are Oceanografico, Atneo Sky bar, Bioparc (which is amazing if you love animals!) I will write more on places to visit in another post.
From Valencia to Verona... 