INSA Lyon

It's also an opportunity to travel, meet new people and doing things that you can't when you live with your parents.

Please, don't get a bank account in France unless you have to. When you walk in the first thing they tell you is get one but it's because the school and the bank are partners. Unless your parents are sending money directly on that french account it's not worth it because you will pay to withdraw money from your bank to put on it and pay a fee anyways. Take a mass amount every month and keep it in your room. That keeps your home account active and increase your credit history. If you have a check being sent ask your bank how to cash it on your account. Seriously that will save you the hassel of having your card swallowed up by the machine because you don't remember the pre-assigned pin that you have to keep the whole time, not being able to take money out without a card because the bank next to the school doesn't keep cash in there, having to go to two banks in order to close your account. I find that to be a big hassel because I like to maximaze my time.

It has been pretty good but I don't know why I had to answer twie the same block of questions regarding the improvement of my language skills. We had a Franch intensive course in the first month. Then we had a regular course with a tremendous stupid teacher, who epitomises "The Stupid, The impolite". Good learning by attending regular courses (not so much via French courses)