Part A Reason to Participate -I participated in the program to gain the understanding on foreign culture. To understand, what it takes to manage everything on our own. I also wanted to meet new people and share new ideas. I wanted to gain knowledge from foreign faculties and wanted to understand their approach and point of view about professional life. Preparations -We started by booking our flight tickets and started searching for our accommodation, which took long time and we nearly did it just few days before leaving. Alongside, we were also in touch with a travel agent who was guiding us for the Visa process. Our first visit to Bangalore for our visa process was not successful as we didn’t have few required documents as our travel agent was also unaware of these requirements. For our second visit, we went well prepared with all our documents and we successfully submitted our request. Few days after the submission of request we received our passports with the Visa in it. -We also planned and did some shopping of the essential things, which were required for our journey. Onward Journey -For our onward journey we slowly started packing our bags along with shopping for the essentials. We had to make sure that it doesn’t exceed the permissible weight requirement. -Once the travel date arrived, we left for the Bangalore airport to continue with our onward flight journey, the duration for the same was around 15hrs. -We had to cross the security and immigration before boarding the flight. Arrival and Settling -We reached Barcelona airport on 1st March in the afternoon. We collected all our luggage after crossing the immigrations. We took a cab from the airport to the place where we had booked our accommodation. It was a flat in an apartment and the landlady welcomed us by saying “Hola” along with a smile. -We were shown our individual rooms where we arranged our luggage and settled down. About the host institute and university -The coordinators at the host university were really welcoming. We were asked to reach the institute before the class timing for a small orientation program. We were welcomed by the program coordinator and the academic coordinator. -They gave a brief inside about the college and the program and about the faculties related to our program. They asked us if we had settled down or not. -They also gave us the bags with institute name printed on it and the institute brochure inside it. Later we were giving the tour of the facilities in the institute like, library, canteen, common area. Academic Life -Academic life in the institute was interesting as the classmates and the faculties were quite friendly. The classes used to be interactive and faculties used to pay individual
attention also. Throughout our stay in Barcelona, academic life turned out to be one
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