The administration of Colby in Salamanca uses these bank accounts to deposit monthly allocations and other refunds into student accounts. Students may also deposit personal checks into their accounts, and will receive monthly statements. All dollars buy euros as the prevailing rate, which changes daily. Then the euros are changed into pesetas, at a rate that was fixed in January 1999 and does not change. In practice, when a student deposits a check into the bank account at Centro Hispano, or uses an ATM machine with a US card, they will not notice this procedure.
Most apartments have phones for incoming calls only.
More information on portable phones will be made available to students upon their arrival. There is no internet access from these terminals. Students will also be given a stipend to use at local cybercafes for e-mail and internet access. Portable computers with modems may not be used to access e-mail in the homestay families or apartments. Group dinners are held at the beginning and end of each semester.