I am so happy that I chose this beautiful Hungarian capital for my exchange semester. My university, Budapest Business School the Faculty of Commerce Hospitality and Tourism, is situated in the heart of Budapest two blocks from the Parliament house and Danube.
I have been studying marketing, communication and organisational management. BBS offers courses that I have not possible study in TAMK, such as Advertisement Psychology. Because I am interested in events and fairs, I also took one tourism course called MICE tourism which I found one of the most interesting subjects during the semester. Unfortunately, our university did not offer Hungarian language course even though they promised in advance. It would have been useful to learn at least the basics of the language. I can speak only couple words in Hungarian, but I have not ever had any problems because majority of the people speak passable English language.
One of the reasons why I chose Budapest was that it is situated middle of the Europe and good connections to many countries and cities. I been trying to travel as much as possible in my spare time in Hungary and neighbouring countries. Here is so much to see in Budapest too so I have spent many weekends enjoying the atmosphere of the city. Every day is able to find different cultural events, music theatre and dance. It was so positive surprise that here is organised stand-up comedy gigs every second week in English. Those gigs have become tradition among friends.
Studying in Hungary differ from studying in Finland. Classrooms are simpler, the teachers use less technology during the lectures and we have had more individual assignments than in Finland. The schedules of the courses usually do not hold up, if there is any schedule, and teachers can change the plans middle of the semester. I have learnt that nothing works here but everything will be taken care of. Despite the mess at the beginning all the teacher have been helpful and especially the international coordinator has helped a lot!
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