Fundação Getulio Vargas (EAESP)

It depends on kind of music you like. I like dance, techno, house, pop. So: 1) Ibiza - 4 kinds of music (dance&techno, pop, black music, chill-out), very good 2) LOV.E - techno, drum`n`base, good 3) Manga Rosa - techno, good 4) Liquid Lounge - house, ok (place better than music) 5) Marcenaria - black music, ok 6) Maeva - dance, pop, good 7) AMP Galaxy - techno, I`ve never been there but I heard it`s good 8) Love Story - FOR BOYS! ;-), go there late at night (after 2-3 a.m.) 9)A Loca - various music, it`s GLS club (gay, lesbians and symphatizants), very close to FGV, it was one of our (exchange students) favorite place There are plenty of other places - nightlife in SP is as good as in NY or London. Ask Brazilians at FGV - they know the best where to go. Apart from this FGV organizes a lot of great parties> You cannot miss Giovanna and Gioconda (once every half a year). Cervejadas are also good. You`ll find out everything when you start studying there.

The university doesn`t have its own campus. Nevertheless before coming to Brazil they send to all prospect exchange students information about everything (courses, Brazil, etc) - among others they give you the full list of possible housing. You can choose from living with other Brazilian students (have your own room in their apartment), you can rent the whole apartment (but usually you do this with other exchange students and you share with them the apartment), you can live with a Brazilian family or you can stay in a hotel. The number of places to each of these categories is given you by FGV. After receiving this list you have to arrange the place for you by yourself - I mean you have to contact by yourself places you are interested in (usually by e-mail) and make a deal. It`s really easy cause majority of owners of those places speak English (so don`t worry if you don`t speak Portuguese). I paid for my stay R$ (reais) 300 but it was very cheap cause I shared a room with my friend. We rented the whole apartment for R$1050 monthly (additionally we had to pay all the bills - around R$70 monthly in total). One room was for an exchange student form Holland (she paid R$480) and the second one for me and my friend (so each of us paid R$285). As far as I know other exchange student usually had their own rooms which they pay from R$400 to R$800 for (it depended on location, facilities, things included in the price like cleaning lady and frequency of her visits). International Relations Office may help you in finding a roommate (if you have problems with this). You have to write to them and tell them that e.g. you have a free room in the apartment and than they`ll send e-mail to all other exchange student with a question whether anybody needs a room cause you have one bla bla bla.

Computer labs at the university are great so you don`t have to take your notebook with you cause there`s no problem with Internet and computers at FGV. You can withdraw money form several ATM machines - I did it with Bradesco (ATM at the university at 4th floor), Banco do Brasil, Citibank, Bank of Boston (all banks you can find at Avenida Paulista - 2 min walk from FGV)

In case sth write me tucuruvi@hotmail.com I cannot promise to reply to every e-mail but I`ll try.

If you don`t know Portuguese it`s hard to communicate in Brazil cause almost nobody in the street speaks English. So you have to learn at least some basic phrases to survive. At the university everybody speaks English so no problems. FGV pays for you a language course (Portuguese) at three different levels (beginners, intermediate, advanced). But unless you work at home you won`t get the language.