Todo fue perfecto. En la escuela no se pierde el tiempo para nada y a pesar de que solo fui tres semanas, aprendí cosas que no sabía. La familia mejor no pudo haber estado, de verdad que no me hicieron extrañar a mi familia aquí en Costa Rica y además, la señora cocinaba delicioso. La ciudad es preciosa y tiene un buen ambiente para jóvenes, me encantaría volver algún día. Nos llevaron a Oxford y a Cambridge, además al Making of Harry Potter y a Londres. Increíble. Lo único malo fue que estaba hospedada un poco lejos de la escuela, pero valió la pena. 

I attended the EF school in Brighton with my brother from the 19th may to the 11th july. The school is simply awesome. Teachers are skilled and nice. Classes are really interesting and consist mostly in speaking. The staff is great too: everyone is really nice and friendly and this make the activities really funny.

I chose the host-family because I thought that living with native english people would have been useful. Firstly they sent me to a family made up of 3 people: a 27-years old mother and her two sons. The house was really dirty and messy so my brother and I decided to complain about the situation to the apposite office at school. The immediately found us another home stay and so we moved to this new one. The second home-stay was really better. We were 5 students and the host-mum with her dog. She was really good in cooking and always available to talk with us about everything. She even took care about us when we were sick or sad. 

I started the school with the B2.3 level, after 3 weeks we made a progress test and so I reached the C1.1 level. At the final test I achieved the C2 level which is the highest level you can reach in this school. My speaking is really improved with this school and of course I learned things I didn't know before.

Value for money: Comparing to other English schools, the EF is not that expensive. I paid about 4800 euros for 8 weeks and this included: breakfast and dinner everyday at the home stay and all the meals during the weekend.

The best thing of this experience certainly is the giant amount of new friends you'll have. 

I'm really glad I chose this school, it was the best experience of my life. I'll never forget it.

In Summer 2011 (when I was 16) I spend 3 weeks together with other german students with EF in Brighton.

I chose the ABIPrep course. At this time it was the course that fit the most because I had to make

a big decision depending on my LKs for the A-level. (German Abitur)

After all students arrived at a meeting point in Brighton we were picked up by our host-families

which bought us to the place we called 'home' for the next few weeks.

Every morning there was enough time for having breakfast with the family before we went out

for school.

The first day of school, organization issues and our timetable were set done. Afterwards

we had to do a quiz/test so that our english skills could be determined, because 

there is a 4-Level system that devides us in groups depending on our skills.

The next day lessons already started :)

Every day we had three blocks of 90min. Two of them were held by a german teacher who exactly knew which stuff is important for our A-levels and the other block was held by a native speaker. This course was about speeking freely about a given topic.

After or before classes and on the weekends we had a nice activity program.

We went on two trips to London, Sealife, Devils Dyke or the Pier for example. Did a lot of sports and funny stuff.

So the programm wasn't all about teaching it was also about meeting new people, doing things with them together and being active.

We also got tasks for at home like watching a movie in english language or doing an interview with native speakers.

In the end of the course, we wrote a test again. This time it was used to determine our level according to the cambridge english level test.

On the last day we got our results.

Everyone passed and we had a little party with lots of fun stuff before we got the rest of the day of to do whatever we like to do.

For example going shopping the last time or spend some more time with our host families.

All in all it was an experience for a lifetime.

I met so many people during my course and because of the special Ambassador program, after my course.

I'm still in contact with many of them.

Furthermore I got more self confident, self consistend and I feel more safe using the english language