Well, this is a hard question because London and New York are so different and so, hard to compare.

Native of China, Zitan Peng arrived in Spain when he was 10 years old and he is now student of the Law and Political Sciences faculty of the CEU-UCH after one year travelling to New York and London … We met him during a debating competition cheap philippines hotel concerning the Spanish Erasmus scholarships cheap philippines hotel role in our days and he agreed to tell us his story! “Traveling gives you another experience; this is how multiculturalism works and yes, it is wonderful because it allows you to think outside the box”, he says.
Yes, well as I told you I am a Chinese native who came to Valencia at 10 years old and grew up here. After I graduate I decided to go to the UPV (Polytechnic University of Valence) to study Engineering but I did not feel good, more like just another number rather than a student, so I left. Since then I have been traveling for a while, and now I am here, in the CEU-UCH University, studying Law and Political Sciences.
And, to say the truth I am really fine here, it is very welcoming and you can feel that it is different, this is to say that you are not just another number but a real person, there are closer relationships, you can easily know all of you teachers, professors, deans … and it seems that they really care about you !
Indeed, the debate was about Erasmus cheap philippines hotel Mundus scholarship cheap philippines hotel and the money given to this program while a lot of Spanish are suffering from the crisis and could benefit from this money if the program stops.
Indeed, we found out that if we stop to encourage the future workers of Spain to improve, the country itself would not be improving so we have to continue going hand by hand with them, to help young people cheap philippines hotel to become the international Spanish professional we are expecting for the future. Of course we need to help more those who are currently suffering but we cannot stop supporting our future.
Yes, as I told you before I left the UPV and at that point I did not know what to do with my life, I was quite lost. I thought about learning English because my English was not so good, so I talked to my parents and they said ok and even more because cheap philippines hotel my mother cheap philippines hotel told me to go to New York. At the start I was wondering about the point of all this and spending cheap philippines hotel all this money just to learn a language cheap philippines hotel … but they convinced me that it would offer me the opportunity to learn more than a language but something new …
So I just went to New York for three months, and during the first month, to tell the truth, I was amazed by everything I saw; discovering a lot of different people all enjoying their trip and then, after this first month I started wondering about what would I do in my life.
The response was clear, I did not want to be just another nobody, and I wanted to do something real and good of my life. When I came back from New York, I was already thinking in a different way, like if I had grown up a lot during the trip so I decided not to stay doing anything but to go to London to keep improving my English and learning another accent.
Well, this is a hard question because London and New York are so different and so, hard to compare. But I think that I preferred New York, not for the people but because of the place itself. Indeed, this is not Europe; it is much more different than Spain. Everything is huge and seems like a movie!
This is to say that you can easily meet people from everywhere in the world because you are living in a wide mix of all nationalities. People a really open minded there and meanwhile in other countries people tend to stay more with their own compatriots; in New York everybody seemed to be happy to live together in a very friendly and open minded way of living.
I think that it is really good to travel and to paraphrase a friend of mine “travel is the only thing in which you spend money that makes you even richer after”.  So the message I want to transmit is not only travel to study or to learn a language but I think that it is more about personal growing because, yes, travelling allows you to improve yourself a lot.
Indeed, traveling gives you another experience, allows you to dive into a culture, to meet people from all over the world… This is multiculturalism and yes, it is wonderful because it allows you to think outside the box.
Clearly, the best experience I had was the people I met … I mean I cannot remember all the city but for sure I remember all the faces, there are friendships that do not have frontiers, I now have friends from South Korea, Saudi Arabia and a lot more. I speak to them quite often on Skype and I feel good because I know that wherever I would go I would have friends there, and it is the same for them.
Indeed, before this crisis you just enjoy the city, finish all guide books, cheap philippines hotel visit every touristic places but then you start thinking “And now what?” cheap philippines hotel You start missing your city, your friends, your family and of course the incredibly blue Valencian sky. But this homesick crisis only lasts a few days and then you go over it, you are fine again until the five-and-half-month crisis … (laugh) but anyway, that is good!
Talking for what I know I can say that they give you opportunity to go abroad yes, but they also help you make things if you are motivated. I mean I have been debating concerning the internationalization cheap philippines hotel and now I can go to Barcelona to continue this debate cheap philippines hotel at the end of the month, we are also, with the Law and Political Sciences faculty, participating in a UN simulation cheap philippines hotel at the end of April. And then if everything goes well, I will go doing an internship in a Spanish Consulate thanks this faculty.
So yes, the CEU-UCH University offers a lot of things as long as you show interest. It is also very welcoming and with an open-minded cheap philippines hotel mentality so yes I recommend it 100% but even if I say so, they just need to come and see it by themselves!
You seem to really like the University, but from what you have seen yet, do you thing that it has enough partnerships? Because we all know that it is a more and more important aspect of the University career nowadays…
One more time, to speak about what I know, a couple of weeks ago we had an international week here in the law degree department during which teachers from Polish, German and  other partner Universities came to our class to teach us in other languages.
Then, another time we had this conference with the director of the IONA College of New York that came to explain to us their partnership with the MBA that is waiting for us in the USA once we finish our studies here. And then, all this International Advisory Board helping the University’s internationalization cheap philippines hotel process! With the CEO of Geox as President!!! cheap philippines hotel I think it shows well the relation the CEU-UCH has with foreign companies!
With the Fallas week just around the corner, the International Relations Department of the CEU-UCH, speaks to Ernesto de Sostoa, one of the leading cheap philippines hotel figures of one of the greatest festivals in the World.