Summer in Oviedo,Spain

Oviedo, 28 July 2010

First impression when I arrived in Oviedo was wooow this city was very clean and tidy! I found almost no garbage in the street when I was walking from the bus station to my sharing flat.
I was very lucky to choose Oviedo as the city that I would like to study in, because it  is a small charming city, I wouldn't need transportation to get around the city, we could walk to go every where in the city, and it is relatively cheaper comparing to the bigger cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia.

I was very lucky too that I managed to find a sharing flat which is only 5 minutes walk to my campus, again it was cheap only 200 euro per month including all bills (electricity, internet etc)..wasn't it great?
You can easily find your own flat or sharing flat through internet and visit website such as easypiso or when you arrive you can look the board at the university, every pat of university will be an advertisement on sharing flat, trust me it is easy. I even helped my german friend Moritz to find sharing flat near the campus, it was a piece of cake :)

Universidad Oviedo, Campus Milan

Plaza De Escandalera, Punto De Encuentro

La Maternidad, Escultura De Fernando Botero

The old building in yellow color is my campus where I study Spanish Language and Culture, It is Universidad de Oviedo, Milan Campus. Oviedo is city of sculpture, we can easily find beautiful sculptures in the centre of the city even every corner, the sculpture in the picture is located in Plaza Escandalera, which is the meeting point of us, and it is from the famous colombian artist Fernando Botero.

Anyway, school was very exciting, I met international students from all around the world, I mingled easily. Hahahha even in our first day of school we went to the nearest city Gijon to play in the beach! Oviedo has no beach if we want to go to the beach, the nearest is Gijon, about 40 minutes away by bus and it cost 4 euro for return ticket. There is plenty of buses from Oviedo to Gijon or vise versa, I'm not really sure but I think the buses operate until 10-11 pm in the weekdays and up to late in the weekends. We went to Gijon very often after school or during the weekend.

Gijon

La playa

Asturias drink, Cidra

The amount of scholarships that I received is excellent, with the money it will allow you to have a decent student life heheh (meaning eating out, go to clubs, shopping and travelling). I felt blessed!
This was one of my dream to experience study in europe at the same time exploring other part of europe without paying, in this case I got a scholarships :)

I choose Oviedo because I watched Vicky Christina Barcelona movie, why not Barcelona? Because Oviedo sounds more mysterius and exotic for me, not as famous as Barcelona which I think most people know the city. And I really love Oviedo :))

La catedral

La estatua de Woody Allen

La Estatua de Culo :)

La iglesia san julian de prado, era en la pelicula Vicky Christina Barcelona

Vicky y Christina

La Iglesia San Miguel De Lilo, era en la pelicula Vicky Christina Barcelona

Nuestra favorita, Bar Champa y Calle Mon

El descanso :)

As student, my classes start at 9am, I got a break (El descanso) around 11.30am then continue my classes until 2pm. During the break we go to the nearest supermarket to buys some pastries and water then we sit down in the park, eating and talking, as you can see in the picture, that what's we normally do.
I feel like spanish people when it reach noon, I want to have a nap (siesta) hahahahha..so I went back to my flat, having 1-2 hours of nap. By that time I feel more fresh to go out for a walk, to the park reading a book or just to walk around in the centre of the city.

Spanish people have dinner pretty late, normally 10pm and i'm still Ok with that, I normally ate at home or cook together with friend then have dinner together at one's place.
Dinner normally followed by going out at night to the bar or clubs in Calle Mon, a street for bar hopping! Our favorite bar is Bar Champa, they severd the big bottle of Mahou Beer only for 2 euros! End up going back to my flat at 4 am even in the school days (this really not good :D)
Weekend was crazier, end up going home at 6am with a hangover and shoud be awake at 8 because normally there was an excursion during the weekend, well we continued sleeping in the bus anyway.

Having the experience to study in Europe was really fun, living my youth to the fullest, you study hard to get the best grade as you were with the scholarships, you made a really great friends, you party even harder nearly every day, and you travel a lot!