Bex is a 3rd year student from Lancaster University, studying French and Spanish. She is spending her first semester studying at the Institut Supérieur de Traducteurs et Interprètes (ISTI) in Brussels, Belgium, before she goes to Granada to study for the second semester. Here she passes on her advice about living in Brussels for the first time, but for the latest, check out her blog which she's keeping updated, so there are more hints and tips to be found there!

T minus 3 days until take off… Literally! My flight leaves the UK at 11am Monday morning and it’s all starting to hit home that this time Monday night I’ll be in my empty, probably half-painted apartment, frantically trying to revise the basics of German grammar for my Einstufungstest (placement test) the following morning. The past week has meant many frantic e-mails (the last of which I’ve just finished writing!) to ensure that I can get into my apartment on Monday, despite it being a bank holiday, that I know exactly what’s going on when I arrive in Munich and how on Earth I’m going to live on Monday night until I can get to a supermarket on the Tuesday!