Expenses Reviews
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Nathalie G
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Other
Other sources of funding:
Other
Work opportunities:
I worked during my study abroad experience
Personal spending habits
Food, nightlife and travelling are less expensive i Peru than in Belgium, so I spent proportionnaly less money in Peru for these matters, even if I travelled and went out a night maybe more that in Belgium. In another hand, it was the first time I lives on my own, so obviously I spent more money in accomodation in Peru than in Brussels (even if my appartment wasn't that expensive), and maybe also in food, even if food in Peru is really really cheap. Telephone was a big expense for me, but it was my choice, to keep in touch with my famialy ans most of all with my boyfriend. But it wasn't a disaster neither because I soon found a Internet telephone system (Net2Phone).
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Telephone, Housing:
was more expensive than at home.
Overall, Food, Nightlife, Travel:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
Food ans tipical dishes are so delicious in Peru, that I recommend to eat the "Menus" that people cook and serve in small restaurants, anywhere in the city (even in the some posh neighbourhoods such as Miraflores where I lived) for small prices (2 dollars is a maximum price). Eating those menus, you can eat current peruvian cook, and more global dishes arranged i the peruvian way. It's not worth it to got to a fancy tipical folkloric restaurant to eat the delicious ceviche, ají de gallina, cau-cau, chupito de camarón or arroz chaufa. The chinees restaurants, CHIFAS, also offer abundant and cheap menus of delicious asiatic-peruvian gastronomy, simbol of fusio between those two cultures.
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Sean B
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Government assistance
Other sources of funding:
Personal savings
Work opportunities:
It was not legal for me to work
Personal spending habits
Most of my friends preferred the clubs in Miraflores which were pretty expensive.
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Nightlife:
was the same price as at home.
Overall, Food, Housing, Telephone, Travel:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
Don't take travellers cheques, the banks charge a high rate to exchange them. Stick to the atm machines - using your check-in account card NOT your credit cards which are also quite expensive
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Yuri L
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Personal savings
Other sources of funding:
Family
Work opportunities:
I worked during my study abroad experience
Personal spending habits
cost of life, more expensive that Peru
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Travel, Housing:
was more expensive than at home.
Nightlife, Overall, Food, Telephone:
was the same price as at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
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anonymous
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Language, Undergraduate, Independent
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Personal savings
Other sources of funding:
Family
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
cause the prices were higher than at home
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Telephone, Food, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Nightlife, Travel, Housing:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
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Arnaldo G
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Personal savings
Other sources of funding:
Family
Work opportunities:
It was not legal for me to work
Personal spending habits
Nightlife, Travel, Telephone, Overall, Food, Housing:
was more expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
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