If you have decided to study in Latin America, but you are not really sure how does everything works, you can fallow these tips, step by step:
You must be sure where you want to stay. Normally the universities offer three options:
- family
- hall residence
- apartment
- family
- hall residence
- apartment
THE FAMILY
Advantages:
- You will be around people all the day and so you will adapt to the new culture easier. It ist a good option because you have all you need and for the first time it could be very advisable. You won´t be alone and if you if you need help, your new family will do everything for you.
Disadvantages:
- As you don´t know the family till you arrive, you risk that they aren´t as you think, what can disappoint a lot. Sometimes it is not very easy to live with a lot of people you don´t know before. Besides, if you change the family it will be very difficult.
Advantages:
- You will be around people all the day and so you will adapt to the new culture easier. It ist a good option because you have all you need and for the first time it could be very advisable. You won´t be alone and if you if you need help, your new family will do everything for you.
Disadvantages:
- As you don´t know the family till you arrive, you risk that they aren´t as you think, what can disappoint a lot. Sometimes it is not very easy to live with a lot of people you don´t know before. Besides, if you change the family it will be very difficult.
HALL RESIDENCE
Advantages:
- In the residences there will be a lot of people in the same situation as you, so you won´t have any problems. It is a good way to make new friends! And, they probably study in the same university as you.
Disadvantages:
- You should know that your room is okay and that the residence has got all the things you need, also the kind of people there will be staying with you.
APARTMENT
Advantages:
- You can make your things on your own and choose if you want to live with somebody else or not. You musn´t explain nothing! So you can be indepedent and free.
Disadvantages:
- You are alone and so you have a lot of responsibility and you risk that your “new home” is not so good as you thought and / or that you have problems with the neighbours. :P Besides, normally the universities don´t pay the apartments.
TIP! It is very important to know if the university is near o far from your home and if it is a good zone to live with all the things you need, like supermarkets, financial banks, bus stations,…
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Hey!
I studied in Peru for 9 months and I was living in a house with european and peruvian people. I recommend everybody to live together with people from the country where you are staying to achieve a better knowledge of the new culture!
I studied and lived in Peru por 10 months. Earlier i studied i Costa Rica for a year and lived with a local family. The clear advantages of living with a native family is that you pick up the language (if it's not familiar from before) a lot faster and get to know the country's customs better. For university students, living with a host country can be challenging as there's not as much freedom as when living "on your own" and you're required to live to some extent according to the host familus rules (it's just common courtesy).
I agree that if you live in a students residence with several other people, it's a good idea for some of them to be locals. Otherwise an exchange-group is easilly formed and one misses out on the host country's reality and culture.
Vengan a Peruu!!!
y vivan la mejor experiencia de su vida...
Peru is great country....!!!!
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