Welcome to UAG!
The below information comes directly from UAG’s website as well as CIRRECA (the organization which coordinates your host families)
As you may already know, UAG, one of the 102 French universities, is not located on the European continent but 7000 kilometres away from France. However, UAG is particularly privileged as far as the original geographical context in which it evolves is concerned: it has 6 campuses on three different territories, namely Guadeloupe, French Guiana and Martinique which are known as DFA’s (Départements Français d’Amérique) or DOM’s (Départements Français d’Outre-Mer).
UAG is at the crossroads of the South American continent and the Eastern Archipelago of the Lesser Antilles. You may have to travel by plane or by boat from one campus to the other. It takes three hours by plane to travel from French Guiana to Martinique, and four hours by boat from Martinique to Guadeloupe (although only forty-five minutes by plane!).
As you arrive on one of UAG’s five campuses you will probably be charmed by the temperature and the vegetation around but, without a good preparation ahead, you might very soon be disappointed because life on the islands or on the South American continent is very different from what you have been used to so far.
If interested, you are welcome to read the UAG International Student Handbook for more information about the university and being a student in Martinique. Please note that much of the information does not apply to you, as you are not an exchange student or participating as an ERASMUS student.