Originally Posted by ema_mckay (Post 7827592)

Hi,

Im moving to Oviedo in September for a year. I will be studying at Oviedo University. My worry is that I am a single mother with two children 12 and 7years, from the West Midlands, and here in the UK I have great support from family and friends. I worry that I'll miss there support and friendship and that I'm really making a huge mistake.

I only have to study a year in Oviedo before completing my degree in Spanish back in Coventry, So its not a long time but your thread on not being able to settle in and making friends really confirmed what I have been thinking.

I chose Oviedo instead of Malaga or Valencia because of the lack of British expats there, and me really wanting to improve my spanish. But Im worried that in doing this, my quality of life while I'm there will be compromised. I'm also worried about the children settling in. My 12 year old son is feeling very anxious about the move, my daughter not really understanding the enormotity of it.

Do you have any tips of your whole move. Finding a house, schools, car, flights, how did you transport your belongings? etc

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think you have been brave and couragous to do what you have done so far, so be proud of where you have got to and hopefully these doubts that you have about your ability to speak spanish will soon fade. I just hope that I make it as far as you!:thumbsup:

Originally Posted by Chiclanagir (Post 7828883)

How will you support yourself?