I went to the Uni in the US, stayed on campus and it was quite fun. Every night was something going on, and house parties over the weekend. It was up north, so we got a lot of snow and blizzards and such. Sometimes you didn't want to wake up and the Sun came out late in the day and went down pretty early. So you only had a few hours of sun everyday. But it was fun, friends got cars, and went to clubs and dinner out of campus and it was fun ridding with them. It was the US so it was very multi-culti, I had my Arab friends, my Japanese friends, my white friends and my latin friends. I was pretty welcome everywhere and was fun when we mix and stay over. A friend of mine move into having their own apartment and we stayed there every other day all night, downloading music, talking, watching stuff and playing dreamcast.
It was very fun, although living in different countries meant that it would be impossible to hang all together. I still hold to those relationships although just there here and there message. I recently flew to Turkey and met a friend from Estonia there. It was interesting talking to him about his kids and exwife and life in Estonia outside of college life.