Before going and after arriving to Umea (Pablo en)
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This is a recopilatino of all my advice and helps that I have been doing by my erasmus experience (en)
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Presentation
It is important to plan ahead all you have to do before going on Erasmus. Once you're gone, you have surely realize that you forgot something. the things that you forget, can often be solved quickly, but other things are more difficult. Usually there is a mystery, but I...
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Before leaving
There are some things you have to prepare before Erasmus. The first, without any doubt, the validation and the money. Have you closed your validation yet? Are you sure you have enough money to make the Erasmus at least until you get the scholarship? You have to do all...
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First Aid kit
Prepare a good first aid kit before you leave and carry it. In other countries health care is different. In Sweden, drugs are different and more expensive. In addition, pharmacies are not open at night (no all-night chemist's) Each person knows what is often needed. But...
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Join all phones
Write all the telephones and put them also in the laptop. If something happens, maybe you do not have internet to find them. The international office phone, your coordinators Erasmus in Spain (in Sweden there isn’t a coordinator). Your parents, someone you know that...
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Unlock your mobilephone
You need a free mobile to fit a Swedish phone card. I advise you to always have Swedish card because you will save a lot of money. Think you're always calling friends who have met here, not much call to Spain (usually). The phones can be unlocked easily, though often...
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Baggage
It is important to have a suitcase prepared before. When you are bagging, you see are realizing things you missing and things you have to buy. They sent me after another 20 kg box, whether I had to decide what to put in and what things to leave. When you get it’s...
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Food
The supermarkets are open until 10 (all of alidhem) so if you arrive at a decent hour, you can go quietly to buy things for dinner or breakfast the next day. If you arrive later, you bring from Spain the food needed for a travel day, dinner the same day and something...
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The pockets of coats
Do not underestimate what you can fit in the pockets of their coats. My advice is to carry more warm than the coat you put on the plane. Such coats used to have many pockets, you can put them all! Usually have problems with excess baggage or the limitation of hand...
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Collect memories
When you get to your room, you will find a cold, empty room. with bed, a bookshelf, a table, a nightstand, a small table, 2 chairs and an armchair. Nothing else. This may be a bit depressing. It is always good to take pictures and memories of mate, friends and family....
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arrives when the international office is open
It is important that you get when the international office is open to grab the keys from the residence. For 2 days (days on which it is best to arrive), it’s open later. If you can not arrive before that time, the best is to contact someone to pick up the key for you...
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First contact
We assume you've already made the case perfectly, take an extra kilo in the suitcase that you pray to be sufficiently low as anyone call you attention, you've gone to the airport and you've caught your flight, alone or accompanied. After all your scales, you've come to...
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After the bus
Taking the bus, be very attentive to the stop where you have to go down. If you have to go to the international office for the keys, stop at Universum. Is into the university. Just you'll get down, a circular building with a glass is on the left hand (and a bit behind)....
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International office
Once you reach the international office, there will be people with red shirts that are for whatever you need. It helps you with all their goodwill. On the left is a door, and if you continue in this;corridor; you will found a door marked houssing international. There...
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Alidhem
Among all the residential areas, the only one I know well is Alidhem, there are more, but only I can help you with this one. Without any doubt, I recommend it 100%, it mix the university environment and the proximity to the university. At first you will think it is a...
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Residences
Try to give an idea of what homes are, and how are the rooms. The residences are large blocks of rooms. They generally have between 3 and 4 plants (mariehem have even 6) The buildings are fairly similar in all Alidhem, although some have been remodeled. The fourth plant...
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The corridors
Each building is divided into a number of corridors. A corridor is like a floor of several rooms, with shared kitchen and common room. The number of rooms per corridor relies a lot, from 5 until 12 (as I know). I live in one of 9 rooms. The corridor is closed by a gate...
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The kitchen and the common room
As I said, each corridor has a kitchen and common room. The kitchen is equipped with 2 panels of 3 / 4 burner stove with hood and 2 ovens. A microwave and 3 refrigerators, 1 locker per person (a top cabinet, a drawer and a cupboard under the counter) and a common...
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the room (I)
The next step is the bedroom. Upon entering there is a mini appetizer before the room (sometimes has a door that separates him, sometimes not). Just to the left is a strange kind of rack, where you can leave shoes and others things. On the right are the closet, which is...
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The room (II)
Another important thing to know about the room is that there is 2 radiators, one in the bedroom and the other in the bathroom. You can adjust the radiators to control the temperature, but only slightly. Actually you can only turn it off, the owners of the buildings...
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The bathroom
The bathroom deserves a separate post, because it is rather;peculiar.; Almost as soon as you arrive, you can notice a thing there isn’t a shower! There is only one hole, and the water goes there. What does that mean? Well, every time you shower, the whole bathroom......
