Cádiz
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My Year Abroad in Cádiz!
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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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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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ESN Trip to Tarifa y Conil
After missing the trip to Seville because I didn’t have an ESN card I decided to get my act together and get a place on the next trip, which was to Tarifa and Conil. I finally got round to getting an ESN card then decided to sign up for the trip, I had to fill in a...
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Meal at Mare's
Time to celebrate another birthday, Anissa’s 21st! We had been out the night before and had to be up early the next day for the ESN trip to Tarifa and Conil, so Anissa decided that we should go out for a meal. We had a discussion about where to go, we tried booking a...
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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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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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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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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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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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Packing for Year Abroad
Packing was possibly the hardest part of preparing for year abroad; there were so many things that I would love to take with me as well as things that I needed to take with me and only 20kg to fit it into. The first thing that I had to decide upon was a suitcase to put...
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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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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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Old Town city walls Walk
We decided to spend some time exploring parts of the old part of Cadiz that we hadn’t yet seen, but our first stop was a postcard shop, I selected a couple of postcards with views of Cadiz that I was familiar with to send home to my grandma. We then stumbled across...
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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...
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A day on the beach
On Thursday Claire, Kath, Alice and I decided to spend a day at our local beach, La Caleta. We arrived at the beach at around 11.30am, it was already quite busy, most people seemed to have their own chairs and parasols, we quickly resolved to buy our own when we found...
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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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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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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...
