but I was able to get some money from my school.  They like it when students go to different countries to study and help out.  So, my advice would be to go to your school’s dean’s office and/or the financial aid and/or the alumni office to ask them to help support you with maybe housing aid or travel expenses.  Thats what I did and they were able to reimburse me some of the money I used for my trip.

—information to get money back from studying abroad