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Person 100 Basic Information 1. Name Johanna Sj¨ oholm 2. E-mail address: [email protected] 3. Exchange university Murdoch University 4. City Perth 5. Country Australia 6. First semester of your exchange Swedish spring semester (VT) 7. Academic year 2013/2014 8. What subject area/s did you study during your exchange? Exercies Science 9. Level of studies at the exchange university Undergraduate 10. What are you studying at Uppsala University? Fysioterapi 11. How many years of study had you completed before going on exchange? 2

Studies 12. Tell us about your studies on your exchange. If you are stuck for ideas you can for exemple write about: The differences between Uppsala University and the exchange. What were the teachers like? What courses would you recommend (or not) for future exchange students? The relationship between teachers and students. The academic level and quality of your courses. Access to computers. Examinations... Den st¨ orsta skillanden f¨ or mig var att vi l¨ aste alla kurser p˚ a en och samma g˚ ang. Det var v¨ aldigt intensivt i vissa perioder eftersom inl¨ amingar och tentor oftast var under samma period. Att ha slutexamen i alla ¨ amnen var inte s˚ a farligt som jag trodde att det skulle vara. Det var sj¨ alvklart mycket att plugga men tentaperioden varade i tv˚ a veckor och vi hade en veckas ledigt innan sluttentorna b¨ orjade. F¨ ordelen med att ha b˚ ade midterms och sluttentor ¨ ar att du kan kugga en tenta och ¨ and˚ a klara kursen. Betygssystemet ¨ ar annorlund mot f¨ or vad jag ¨ ar van vid. Det kr¨ avs till exempel bara 50% f¨ or att f˚ a Godk¨ ant p˚ a en tenta. Jag var den enda utbytesstudentern i flera av mina kurser vilket gjorde att l¨ ararna snabbt l¨ arde sig vem jag var och de var alltid trevliga och hj¨ alpte till n¨ ar jag hade fr˚ agor eller problem. Alla lektioner spelas in och det g˚ ar att titta/lyssna p˚ a dem online. M˚ anga valde d¨ arf¨ or att inte g˚ a p˚ a lektionerna utan att lyssna p˚ a dem sj¨ alva ist¨ allet vilket gjorde att det var f˚ a elever p˚ a f¨ orel¨ asningarna. Jag hade ¨ aven obligatoriska tutorials. De utg¨ or ungef¨ ar 10% av betyget och det kr¨ avs att man ar delaktig och diskuterar under lektionens g˚ ang. ¨ Jag upplevde att det var mer att g¨ ora i varje kurs vid Murdoch i j¨ amf¨ orelse med i Uppsala. ordelen var att sluttentorna inte var lika omfattande men det var mycket att g¨ ora under F¨ kursernas g˚ ang. Jag anser att kvaliteten/niv˚ an med studierna vid Murdoch University ¨ ar likv¨ ardig med Uppsala. Jag brukar inte anv¨ anda datorerna p˚ a universitetet i Uppsala men p˚ a biblioteket p˚ a Murdoch gick det alltid att hitta en ledig dator. Vetenskapsomr˚ adet f¨ or medicin och farmaci, Uppsala universitet

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Orientation and reception 13. Tell us about how it was to arrive and settle in. Vid Murdoch University ¨ ar alla v¨ aldigt ar till f¨ or utbytesstudenterna m˚ ana om sina utbytestudenter. Under orientation week som ¨ annordnades det kortare infom¨ oten under de f¨ orsta dagarna och vi fick gratis lunch varje dag. Det annordnades ocks˚ a mycket aktiviter s˚ a som surfing, gudidad tur i Fremantle, resa till stranden och en resa till Caversham Wildlife Park. Vi blev ocks˚ a tilldelade en fadder. Orientation week gjorde det l¨ attare att l¨ ara k¨ anna alla andra utbytetstudenter och att f˚ a en inblick i hur samh¨ allet och skolsystemet fungerar i Australien. Under terminens g˚ ang arrangerades resor l¨ angs hela v¨ astkusten.Vi fick m¨ ojlighet att ˚ aka p˚ a en endagsresa till Pinnacles d¨ ar vi ¨ aven fick testa p˚ a sand borading. Under en helg fick vi ˚ aka ner till Albany och Denmark. Vi fick bland annat vandra upp till utkiksplatser, bes¨ oka en ving˚ ard i Margaret River och g¨ ora en tree top walk. Under loven arrangeras en 10-dagarsresa l¨ angs nordv¨ astra Australien. F¨ ordelen med att ˚ aka p˚ a en arrangerad resa ist¨ allet f¨ or att ˚ aka sj¨ alv var fr¨ amst att man slapp k¨ ora de l˚ anga ackorna sj¨ alv. Vi fick vandra i Karajini National Park, se delfiner och snorkla i Coral str¨ Bay och mycket mycket mer.

Accommodation 14. Describe your accommodation. What type of accommodation did you have, where you satisfied? Do you have any tips for future students? Det ¨ ar mycket l¨ attare att hitta boende i an i Uppsala. Vi bodde p˚ a hostel f¨ orsta veckan och letade under tiden efter boende via Peth ¨ gumtree som ¨ ar ungef¨ ar som blocket. Vi hade m¨ ojligheten att f˚ a boende via universitet. D˚ a delar man l¨ agenhet p˚ a campus med 4-5 andra studenter.

Your finances 15. Describe the cost of living. Did you find CSN adequate? How was the rent in comparison to your rent in Uppsala? Did you undertake part-time work in addition to your studies? K¨ ott ¨ ar billigare ¨ an i Sverige annars ¨ ar det mesta lite dyrare. Jag klarade mig ¨ and˚ a bra p˚ a stuidemedlen eftersom man f˚ ar mer ¨ an hemma i Sverige. Vi var tre pesoner som delade p˚ a en trea ganska centralt i Perth och det kostade 12000 kr. Jag jobbade inte extra under terminen eftersom jag hade sparat pengar sen innan k¨ ande jag inte att jag beh¨ ovde det.

Free time 16. What did you do in your free time? Did the university arrange any special activities? Where there any activities specifically for exchange students? Were you happy with what was on over resorna anordnades inte s˚ a mycket aktiviteter speciellt f¨ or utbytestudenter. Men offer? Ut¨ det finns gott om klubbar av olika slag som man kan g˚ a med i om man k¨ anner att man har tid ¨ over.

Your exchange on the whole 17. Please sum up your exchange experience. If you have any other tips for future exchange students, or any other comments feel free to include them here. Jag ¨ ar mycket n¨ ojd men min Vetenskapsomr˚ adet f¨ or medicin och farmaci, Uppsala universitet

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tid som utbytesstudent. F¨ ordelen med att studera vid Murdoch ¨ ar att l¨ arare och personal ¨ ar v¨ aldigt hj¨ alpsamma och m˚ ana om att man ska f˚ a en s˚ a bra tid som m¨ ojligt. Resorna som anordnades under helger och lov var verkligen ett stort plus.

Approval 18. Your report will be available for future exchange students in printed form at the International Office and will be sent by email to individual students requesting it. Do you also approve the publishing of your exchange report on Uppsala University’s website? Yes 19. Do you have any photos you would like to upload and include in your exchange report? 20. Please tell us a little bit about the picture/s. 21. Publishing of pictures Thank you for submitting your exchange report!

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Person 123 Basic Information 1. Name Martin Larsson 2. E-mail address: [email protected] 3. Exchange university Murdoch University 4. City Perth 5. Country Australien 6. First semester of your exchange Swedish spring semester (VT) 7. Academic year 2013/2014 8. What subject area/s did you study during your exchange? Juridik, Historia, Ekonomi 9. Level of studies at the exchange university Undergraduate 10. What are you studying at Uppsala University? Juridik 11. How many years of study had you completed before going on exchange? 3

Studies 12. Tell us about your studies on your exchange. If you are stuck for ideas you can for exemple write about: The differences between Uppsala University and the exchange. What were the teachers like? What courses would you recommend (or not) for future exchange students? The relationship between teachers and students. The academic level and quality of your courses. Access to computers. Examinations... UTBYTESRAPPORT Hej! Jag heter Martin Larsson och har under det g˚ angna ˚ aret, 2013, varit utbytesstudent p˚ a Murdoch University i Perth. Efter att ha studerat sex terminer juridik i Uppsala best¨ amde jag mig f¨ or att det var dags att prova p˚ a n˚ agot nytt. Jag valde att s¨ oka utbyte genom internationella kansliet och lotten f¨ oll p˚ a Australien och Murdoch University i Perth. Det har varit ett l¨ arorikt ˚ ar, b˚ ade p˚ a ett akademiskt- och personligt plan. STUDIER Det ¨ ar n˚ agra grundl¨ aggande skillnader i studierna mellan Murdoch University och juristutbildningen p˚ a Uppsala Universitet. I Uppsala har jag l¨ ast en kurs per termin d¨ ar examinationen till st¨ orsta delen best˚ att av en sals-tentamen men ¨ aven av PM skrivande. Undervisningen kretsar kring seminarier som har en problembaserad utformning. Undervisningen p˚ a Murdoch University ser till viss del annorlunda ut. P˚ a Murdoch University l¨ aste jag tre olika kurser parallellt varje termin. I och med att jag valde kurserna sj¨ alv och att p˚ agick parallellt var de inte samordnade p˚ a samma s¨ att som i Uppsala. Det innebar att examinationer och uppsatsskrivanden kunde sammanfalla f¨ or flera kurser, vilket bidrog till att det blev intensivt om man inte planerade sina studier i f¨ orv¨ ag. Den mesta undervisningen skedde genom f¨ orel¨ asningar ¨ aven om flera kurser ¨ aven hade seminarieundervisning. F¨ or att seminarierna f¨ or de olika kurserna inte skulle krocka fick man ¨ aven v¨ alja sitt eget schema. Det var praktiskt eftersom att man kunde f¨ orl¨ agga alla obligatoriska moment, n¨ ar man var tvungen att vara p˚ a campus, till tv˚ a eller tre dagar i veckan.

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Den f¨ orsta terminen l¨ aste jag f¨ oljande kurser: LAW120 Research and Writing F¨ or att kunna l¨ asa juridiska kurser p˚ a djupare niv˚ a var det bra att f¨ orst b¨ orja med en metodkurs i juridik. Det var fr¨ amst nyttigt f¨ or att l¨ ara sig de australiensiska och brittiska databaserna som var n¨ odv¨ andigt f¨ or att kunna skriva senare uppsatser. LAW150 Australian Legal System Den h¨ ar kursen var viktig f¨ or att f˚ a en inblick i den australiensiska r¨ attstraditionen. LAW257 Law in China: Continuity and Change Det h¨ ar ¨ ar en kurs p˚ a andra ˚ ars niv˚ a som ger en intressant inblick i hur Kina fungerar. Den andra terminen valde jag att inte bara l¨ asa juridiska kurser: BUS161 Introduction to Economics Micro- och macro ekonomi. Det var en intressant kurs med duktiga och engagerade l¨ arare. HIS182 Turning Points in History Den enda kursen jag ¨ ar lite missn¨ ojd med. Som namnet p˚ a kursen indikerar s˚ a handlade den om skeenden som f¨ or¨ andrade v¨ arlden. M˚ anga amnen som avhandlades var intressanta men kursen var d˚ aligt strukturerad vilket gjorde att ¨ jag aldrig fick n˚ agot riktigt grepp om vad som var m˚ alet med kursen. LAW339 Shipping Law En tredje˚ ars kurs som inriktar sig p˚ a den kontraktsr¨ attsliga delen i sj¨ ofartsr¨ att. Det var en stimulerande och intressant kurs med en duktig l¨ arare. Sammanfattningsvis tycker jag att undervisningen h¨ oll en god niv˚ a. Eftersom att jag l¨ aste flera kurser p˚ a f¨ orsta˚ arsniv˚ a var tempot ocks˚ a behagligt.

Orientation and reception 13. Tell us about how it was to arrive and settle in. MOTTAGANDE Mottagandet fr˚ an Murdoch University var bra. Vi fick h¨ amtning redan vid flygplatsen av en or som skjutsade oss till v˚ art hotell. Veckan innan studierna b¨ orjade anordnades taxichauff¨ en orienteringsvecka f¨ or alla internationella studenter. Under den veckan fick vi n¨ odv¨ andig information inf¨ or studiestarten och tillf¨ allen erbj¨ ods f¨ or att tr¨ affa andra internationella studenter. Det anordnades bl a. en utflykt till Caversham Wildlife Park d¨ ar vi fick ett f¨ orsta m¨ ote med det australiensiska djurlivet.

Accommodation 14. Describe your accommodation. What type of accommodation did you have, where you satisfied? Do you have any tips for future students? BOENDE Ist¨ allet f¨ or att bo i Murdoch Village valde jag och tre kompisar att hitta ett eget hus. Huvudanledningen till detta var att vi ville bo i Fremantle ist¨ allet f¨ or att bo alldeles bredvid Universitetet. Fremantle har, till skillnad fr˚ an ¨ ovriga Perth, en ¨ aldre och mysigare stadsbebyggelse och det ligger vid havet. Det ¨ ar dessutom enkelt att b˚ ade ta sig till Universitetet och in till Perth. Det var lite kr˚ angligt att hitta ett hus men redan efter en vecka kunde vi flytta in. Vi s¨ okte f¨ orst hus genom olika m¨ aklare, detta visades sig dock vara sv˚ art och ist¨ allet fann vi v˚ art hus genom en privat annons p˚ a www.Gumtree.com.au. Vi bodde fyra stycken i huset och delade p˚ a hyran som l˚ ag p˚ a 675 dollar i veckan, exklusive gas och el. Vi hade inte heller internet i huset. Internetstandarden ¨ ar generellt sett d˚ alig i Australien d¨ ar ADSL ¨ ar det som erbjuds. Vi best¨ amde oss f¨ or att inte ansluta internet till huset utan vi anv¨ ande ist¨ allet 3G n¨ atet p˚ a v˚ ara mobiltelefoner. Datatrafiken ¨ ar dock begr¨ ansad hos alla operat¨ orer, det ¨ ar d¨ arf¨ or viktigt att v¨ alja r¨ att sim-kort om man vill ha mycket datatrafik. Woolworths pre-paid sim card var det som vi anv¨ ande oss av.

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Your finances 15. Describe the cost of living. Did you find CSN adequate? How was the rent in comparison to your rent in Uppsala? Did you undertake part-time work in addition to your studies? EKONOMI Perth ¨ ar en dyr stad. De olika gruvindustrierna runt om i Western Australia har inneburit ett ekonomiskt lyft f¨ or regionen och framf¨ orallt f¨ or Perth. Perth ¨ ar kanske d¨ arf¨ or den dyraste staden i Australien. Med det sagt hade jag inga problem att klara mig p˚ a det CSN-l˚ an som jag tog under ˚ aret. Hyran var den st¨ orsta kostnaden. Mat kan man hitta billigt om man letar efter nedsatta priser och som student f˚ ar man ofta rabatt, bl a. i lokaltrafiken. Om det ¨ ar sv˚ art att f˚ a pengarna att r¨ acka till finns det goda m¨ ojligheter att hitta arbete vid sidan om.

Free time 16. What did you do in your free time? Did the university arrange any special activities? Where there any activities specifically for exchange students? Were you happy with what was on offer? FRITID V¨ adret i och omkring Perth ¨ ar fantastiskt vilket ger m¨ ojligheter till utomhusaktiviteter. Vi hade en bakg˚ ard till v˚ art hus d¨ ar vi ofta grillade och hade middagar. Str¨ anderna runt Perth ar l˚ anga och vackra och det ¨ ar v¨ aldigt sk¨ ont att ta sig ett dopp i havet, framf¨ orallt under ¨ sommarm˚ anaderna d˚ a temperaturen kan stiga upp ¨ over 40 grader. Jag gillar att vara ute och springa vilket man kan g¨ ora ˚ aret runt i den behagliga temperaturen. I Fremantle finns inga stora parker men man kan b˚ ade springa efter Swan River eller efter havet. D¨ ar finns ocks˚ a ¨ strategiskt utplacerade utomhus gym. Aven om fotboll inte ¨ ar den st¨ orsta sporten i Australien finns det m¨ ojligheter att spela i lag. Jag spelade futsal med ett lag som jag kom i kontakt med genom en kompis. Niv˚ an var inte speciellt h¨ og men det var roligt och ett bra s¨ att att tr¨ affa m¨ anniskor. Murdoch University har ocks˚ a ett skollag i futsal som jag spelade en turnering med, d˚ a m¨ otte vi de ¨ ovriga universiteten i Perth. N¨ ar man ¨ ar p˚ a andra sidan jorden som utbytesstudent m˚ aste man ocks˚ a passa p˚ a att resa. Det s¨ ags att Perth ¨ ar v¨ arldens mest isolerade storstad men att resa runt efter kusten b˚ ade i nordlig och sydlig riktning ¨ ar att rekommendera. Norrut finns Ningaloo Reef, ett fantastiskt korallrev d¨ ar man f¨ oretr¨ adesvis passar p˚ a att dyka och snorkla. I Exmouth kan man under vintern simma med valhajar och se kn¨ olvalar n¨ ar de migrerar till och fr˚ an Antarktis. S¨ oder om Perth finns legendariska surfvatten och vackra ving˚ ardar. Margaret River ¨ ar ett m˚ aste som bara ligger tre timmar med bil s¨ oder om Perth. Innan jag ˚ akte hem bilade jag ¨ over ¨ till ¨ ostkusten med tv˚ a kompisar. Det tog ca fyra dagar och var v¨ aldigt h¨ aftigt. Aven om ar platt och rak med exempelvis en rakstr¨ acka p˚ a 146 km! f˚ ar man se v¨ aldigt stora delar ¨ mycket. Ut¨ over de o¨ andliga vidderna finns ¨ overd˚ adiga kustlinjer, djupa och h¨ oga skogar samt praktfulla stj¨ arnhimlar. K¨ anguruer f˚ ar man se i ¨ overfl¨ od, ormar om man har tur och om man ˚ aker the Great Ocean Road i Victoria kan man f˚ a se vilda koalor. Ut¨ over att resa inom landet har jag ¨ aven ˚ akt till Nya Zeeland och till Indonesien ˚ akte jag tv˚ a g˚ anger. Flygf¨ orbindelserna ¨ mellan Perth och Bali ¨ ar bra och biljettpriserna ¨ ar ¨ overkomliga. Aven om det ¨ ar roligt och over till den mindre exploaterade intressant att utforska Bali skulle jag rekommendera att ˚ aka ¨ grann¨ on Lombok. Det ¨ ar en lugnare ¨ o med delvis annan kultur. I och med att turismen ¨ annu inte har boomat d¨ ar ¨ ar ocks˚ a prisbilden l¨ agre ¨ an p˚ a sin grann¨ o. Tv˚ a heta tips ¨ ar att bestiga Gnung Rinjani och surfa i Kuta p˚ a Lombok.

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Your exchange on the whole 17. Please sum up your exchange experience. If you have any other tips for future exchange students, or any other comments feel free to include them here. HELHETSINTRYCK Jag ¨ ar glad och n¨ ojd ¨ over att jag beslutade att ˚ aka p˚ a utbyte till Australien. Det ¨ ar ett stort ar ett ypperligt tillf¨ alle att ˚ aka dit p˚ a utbyte under land som har mycket att erbjuda. Det ¨ studietiden vilket jag starkt rekommenderar. Om du har n˚ agra fr˚ agor eller funderingar f˚ ar ni g¨ arna h¨ ora av er till mig p˚ a email adressen: [email protected]. Med v¨ anliga h¨ alsningar/ Martin

Approval 18. Your report will be available for future exchange students in printed form at the International Office and will be sent by email to individual students requesting it. Do you also approve the publishing of your exchange report on Uppsala University’s website? Yes 19. Do you have any photos you would like to upload and include in your exchange report? 20. Please tell us a little bit about the picture/s. 21. Publishing of pictures Thank you for submitting your exchange report!

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Person 61 Basic Information 1. Name Sara Persson 2. E-mail address: [email protected] 3. Exchange university Murdoch University 4. City Perth 5. Country Australia 6. First semester of your exchange Swedish spring semester (VT) 7. Academic year 2013/2014 8. What subject area/s did you study during your exchange? Psychology & Sociology 9. Level of studies at the exchange university Undergraduate 10. What are you studying at Uppsala University? Samh¨ allsvetarprogrammet 11. How many years of study had you completed before going on exchange? 3 years

Studies 12. Tell us about your studies on your exchange. If you are stuck for ideas you can for exemple write about: The differences between Uppsala University and the exchange. What were the teachers like? What courses would you recommend (or not) for future exchange students? The relationship between teachers and students. The academic level and quality of your courses. Access to computers. Examinations... The studies in Australia is quite different comparing to Sweden. They have absolutely less lectures in Australia, I had about 1 lecture a week per unit. It was about the same amount of readings that you had to do for every lecture as in Sweden (about one chapter). The seminars (or tutorials as they are called in Australia) were quite different from Sweden. You didn’t have to be well prepared and most of the time you discussed topics with your own personal experiences as a help, so you didn’t have to know many facts. The assessment during the semester were a lot though, in my three unit i did five essays and one mid-term exam, excluding the final exams. You did not get a lot of information about how to write the essays, which made it a bit more difficult. The relationship between student and teacher (or tudor) were very different. In Uppsala we often do not have any kind of relationship with the teacher, often they don’t even have to learn your name. At Murdoch, your tudor often knew your name after a few weeks and you were highly recommended to develop a good relationship with your tudor. This was were different to me, but it made the tutorials more fun and you did not feel like you had a lot of pressure on performing all the time. The tutorials were not at all competitive, it felt more like a big discussion were all the student help each other to become better. The examinations I had were both short answers (about half a page/question), multiple-choice and essay (about three pages/questions). You had between 2-3 hours per exam, which is not that much time and it was something that worried me before I made my first exam. If you’re a slow writer you will probably have some difficulties with finishing on time, but I did not consider it as a problem after i finished my first exam. I think the exams are also more straight forward than at Uppsala. In two units i got some questions or terms beforehand and Vetenskapsomr˚ adet f¨ or medicin och farmaci, Uppsala universitet

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later they picked out a few to the exam, so what we got on the exam did not come as a surprise. I think the quality is a bit higher at Uppsala University, sometimes the assessments and the tutorials more felt like high school to me than as they were on university level. You could for example do a song about a subject instead of writing an essay. But the level of the material you learn is very similar to Uppsala, they are very scientific minded. All the units I took were good, I took Psychology: Abnormal behavior, Psychology: Drugs and dependence and Health and society. They all were 2nd year units and quite different from the psychology and sociology units i’ve taken in Uppsala. The one i recommend the most is Health and Society. In that unit you got to learn a lot about the Australian system and culture, which i found quite interesting. At the campus they had a big library were pretty much all the people at the university hung out and studied. They had a lot of spaces to study, it wasn’t often that you couldn’t find a place and they had a lot of computers that you could use.

Orientation and reception 13. Tell us about how it was to arrive and settle in. Our orientation started a week or two before classes. The first day we got A LOT of information about Australia, Perth and the university. It is quite similar to the first day at Uppsala were all the different institution, like the student health center and library people come and talk about what they do. We got free lunches every day we had to be in school for orientation (i think only 3 days was mandatory) and we got to do a lot of games to get to know each other. Murdoch University also made a lot of fun trips for their exchange students and we got a better price. It was trips like going to see koalas and kangaroos over the day to a 10 day trip to see the north coast of western Australia. I Think Murdoch University took very good care of us, especially in the beginning. They checked with us all the time to see if everything was fine and their international coordinator was awesome, he learned everyones name and was very involved.

Accommodation 14. Describe your accommodation. What type of accommodation did you have, where you satisfied? Do you have any tips for future students? At first me and my two friends lived at a hostel for the first week, the plan was to stay there until we found an apartment. We decided rely that we didn’t want to live on campus, since the people staying there were a lot younger than us and you had to live in an apartment with 4 other people (much nicer than a corridor in Uppsala, though). We looked through Gumtree.au for apartments and only went to look at one apartment until we found a two bedroom apartment in Highgate (which is like one kilometer from Perth CBD), which we got after only one week in Perth. We probably had a lot of luck. I was very pleased with the apartment and the location, although it was a 15 minute walk to the train station and from there 20 minutes with train and bus. But since you didn’t have to be in school that much, it didn’t matter.

Your finances 15. Describe the cost of living. Did you find CSN adequate? How was the rent in comparison to your rent in Uppsala? Did you undertake part-time work in addition to your studies? It was definitely more expensive to live in Perth than in Uppsala. We were three people who Vetenskapsomr˚ adet f¨ or medicin och farmaci, Uppsala universitet

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shared a two bedroom apartment close to the city centre, and we payed about 4500kr each every month for the rent, electricity, internet and the AC (which is very necessary to have in february). The food is also a bit more expensive. Some meats are cheaper in Perth, like minced beef and fresh chicken, but pretty much all vegetables and fruit are more expensive. The good thing though is that eating out is about the same price as i Uppsala, and you can pretty much eat out to the same price as you cook a meal on your own. Since you get more money from CSN, I didn’t notice that it was a bit more expensive here. You really noticed at first but after a while you just adjusted. So the money from CSN was absolutely enough to survive. I did not even get a job, so no worries about not having enough money. The expenses in the beginning can be quite a lot, so it is necessary to have some saved money to bring with you. You often have to buy all your books from school in the beginning, which are expensive, and it can be hard to find used books. We also had to pay a bond, which was one month rent (2000 dollar), that we didn’t get back until we left the apartment at the end of the semester.

Free time 16. What did you do in your free time? Did the university arrange any special activities? Where there any activities specifically for exchange students? Were you happy with what was on offer? The university was very good at arranging special activities for all the exchange and study abroad students. We had to pay for all the trips, but they made them much more cheaper and you got to go with all your new friends. They arranged a surfing lecture, a trip to a zoo were you got to pet koalas and kangaroos and a day trip to a place called the pinnacles were you got to see wild koalas and try sand boarding on the way. They also arranged two longer trip one 3 day trip to the south and one 10 day trip to the north. I only went on the southwest trip, and it was amazing. They had a packed schedule and we really got to see everything you wanted to see at the same time as you really got to know all the other exchange students. A part from this they arranged a lot of night activities, like dinner hanging out at the school pub(!) and watching movies together. They also had a buddy program were you got set up with an Australian student. We also had a student who took extra care of us during the semester and arranged a lot of fun stuff. I was very very pleased with all the activities, you had things to do a lot of days every week if you wanted to.

Your exchange on the whole 17. Please sum up your exchange experience. If you have any other tips for future exchange students, or any other comments feel free to include them here. My exchange has been amazing. Australia is quite different from Sweden, which is a part of the fantastic experience. People are way more relaxed and it’s all about having fun. It is very easy to find friends for life among both exchange students and Australian students. The university was quite similar to a Swedish university, although it could sometimes feel more like high school (which can be a good relaxing thing). The beaches in Perth are indescribable, so you should definitely hang out a lot there. I highly recommend you to go here if you enjoy amazing weather, fantastic people and if you are looking for a fun adventure. You won’t regret it at all.

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Enskilda enk¨ ater f¨ or Utbytesrapport/Exchange report 2013/14

Approval 18. Your report will be available for future exchange students in printed form at the International Office and will be sent by email to individual students requesting it. Do you also approve the publishing of your exchange report on Uppsala University’s website? Yes 19. Do you have any photos you would like to upload and include in your exchange report? http://doit.medfarm.uu.se/kurtattachment/1403866648637420897.jpg 20. Please tell us a little bit about the picture/s. View from King’s Park over Perth CBD 21. Publishing of pictures I approve of my pictures being published and used in Uppsala University´s marketing of international exchanges Thank you for submitting your exchange report!

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