Universität St. Gallen (UNIVERSITY OF ST. GALLEN)

Swiss Deutsch is not easy to understand at all.

By looking for your own apartment, going to Germany to do the big shopping.

Have a clear idea what you would like to achive with your exchange semester. There are a lot of Parties, ofcourse not as much as in a Country located Southern Europe. For skiing it is great but quite expensive. Travelling is better by car, train is also quite expensive. The Halb Abo (half price travelling) and after 7 travelling for free is worth to consider buying, but they are both around 150-200 CHF for a year. For a group of people travelling by car is better. However, watch out for the funny parking system in St.Gallen. It is better to find a house with a Private Parking place on the first place. Otherwise it is 26CHF/month in the district where you live. And it is not a definite parking place. It is only the Blue Zone.

Local night events were mostly organised by CEMS buddies. Others by exchange students, up till now I do not have any special place I would really recommend. The degustation part at the OLMA fair was pretty good, but that is during the day.

The Wohnungsdienst is quite expensive. With some effort one can find better accommodation for a better price. The internet is quite usefull - unisg.ch - search - Wohnungsmarkt