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My Year Abroad in Cádiz!
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Useful Shops and Supermarkets!
Our first few days were spent trying to stock up on all of the things that we would need but couldn’t pack in suitcases, such as shampoo and sun tan lotion. We wasted loads of time either looking for shops, wandering around the wrong type of shops, going to the shops...
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Preparing for Year Abroad
I thought I would post on some of my experiences preparing for Year Abroad, as everyone I have spoken to has found it just as confusing and stressful as me. Step One: Choosing a destination This will obviously be mainly dictated by your degree, I read History and...
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Registering with Cádiz University
I feel like registering with Cádiz University should earn me a degree on its own! First of all you had to visit the International Office and hand over your acceptance letter (if you had one) and European Health Insurance Card. If, like me, you didn’t have an...
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Erasmus Beach Party
The event on Facebook advised us to hide our alcohol discreetly as drinking on the beach is illegal, but it assured us that as we are professional Erasmus students we would surely be able to manage it. Some of the girls that we had met out and about came to our flat in...
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Erasmus Welcome Party at Soumat
After our siestas, we began to prepare for our first proper Erasmus night out. We were aware that most nights out in Spain didn't end until the morning so we all had a nap in the hope that we would last the night! Again we had pre-drinks at our flat in Plaza de Mina as...
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Feliz Cumpleaños Kath!
Another of the girls who came from Birmingham University is called Kath, and her 22nd Birthday was on a Sunday, so Claire and I, who are the only other people from Birmingham here decided that we should celebrate! We had already agreed that we would all go out, so we...
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Rainy night = Cinema!
Unfortunately the stunning weather in Cádiz hasn't lasted =( the heavens decided to open and absolutely bucket down, the temperature dropped. So with no beach to sit on all day, we were at a little bit of a loss as to what we should do to entertain ourselves. We spent...
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First Day at Uni - Panic!
Luckily for me I don’t have classes on Mondays in the first semester of university, so I had a lie in, I think that having 9am starts for the rest of the week more than entitles me to a Monday morning lie in! I waited for my housemates to get home and tell me how...
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Second day of Uni – It’s not looking good!
So today was my second day at university, another early start and no, it didn’t get any easier. I went to my literature class first, to be honest I don’t remember any of it, I was half asleep and I didn’t really enjoy it. I then came home, thank goodness its only...
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Cumpleaños Feliz Emma!
The Third Birthday of the year so far, more excuses to go out and have a good time, Emma’s 21stBirthday! It also coincided with an ESN event at Soumat, ‘Red Hot Chilli Party’, so we decided to combine the two. We had been sneakily buying presents and a card for...
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ESN Trip to Gibraltar
The day had finally arrived, we were going to Gibraltar! I had spent so long thinking about everything that I was going to buy now that I was finally able to go to some of the shops that we have back home. For once there was no snoozing of my alarm when it went off in...
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ESN Trip to Lisboa
The time had finally arrived for the ESN trip to Portugal, we were all up bright and early ready to meet the bus at La Caleta at 9am. At 9.25am the bus finally showed up, we put our larger bags under the coach and took our smaller bags on the coach. The English...
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Halloween in Cádiz
I finally made it back to Cádiz at 6pm, just in time to unpack, wash and be out to meet Kath and Claire, the other girls from Birmingham University, as we had a pastoral meeting with Rosa from Birmingham University. We met her at Café Royalty, and she bought us drinks...
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A quick visit to England
Being back in Blighty was so exciting that I didn’t even mind the freezing cold weather; it was just good to be back in familiar territory and I had a very exciting reason for being there. Next year I will be going to Canada with Scouts from all over the world for the...
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Travelling back to Cádiz after Christmas
It would seem that you really can’t take us anywhere, especially on a plane, without there being some form of luggage drama, so we really should have been expecting it on our journey back to Cádiz. Kath, Claire and I decided to meet in Birmingham as it was easy for...
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An Afternoon at the Football
Since arriving in Cádiz, going to a local football match had been on our list of things to do, but somehow we had never got around to actually doing it. It was only mid way through the first semester when we actually found where the stadium was, this was after a...
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The journey to Cádiz
I wasn't sure what to expect from my Year Abroad in Cádiz, I felt so unprepared it was untrue, how was I supposed to fit everything I need for a year into one case weighing less than 20kg?! I packed the bare essentiels and ended up at 17kg, so I threw in a few extras...
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Bread with dinner
Remember to turn away bread and breadsticks that waiters bring to the table if you don't want them, you will be charged for them in most places regardless of if you eat them or not! We went out for dinner the other night and ended up paying for bread that we didn't...
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Settling in
The first morning in Cádiz, I woke up early, I met up with Claire and we both headed to the University, only a short walk away to sort out registration. We walked along the sea wall, blown away by how pretty it was, this was the first time that I had seen Cádiz in the...
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Trip to El Corte Inglés
Source We had decided to make the trip to El Corte Inglés after having been bombarded with adverts proclaiming its wonders on the TV every time we turned it on. Claire had been to one before in Madrid over the summer, and assured us that we would find everything we...
