Category: China
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The past three weeks have been a whirlwind of animal cafes, shopping at fake markets, ancient water towns and every single type of Chinese food under the sun. It still felt surreal that I was going to live in China for the next 6 months until I stepped out of the airport and got hit…
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Hi there! My name is Cherise and I have recently begun my exchange at the Beijing Institute of technology. It is currently only week two but I have been up to so much! Classes have started rather staggered (so half of my classes started in week 1 and the others will start in week 5)…
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This is my fourth week at my host university and finally everything has been settled pretty well. Life here in China is very different from life in Australia, like very different. I’m not sure about the other universities, but for my host university – Sun Yat-Sen University we have 5 campus, and each has a…
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I imagined that my semester in China, although culturally different, would still be structurally similar to that of studying in the United States and Australia. This was an assumption that was very quickly proven false over the course of my first few weeks studying at Tongji. One of the most exciting aspects of my journey…
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On the 1st of December, I packed my bags ready to depart Australia for the first time and undergo a two week BUILD Abroad program in Shanghai, China. This was my FIRST time travelling overseas, and it got my parents a little bit worried as to how I would manage my safety and communicate in…
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“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard Since I set foot out of the taxi from the airport, Shanghai immersed me in its great abundance of culture present on every street. Shanghai a city likened to a relatively clean and amazingly safe ‘Asian New York’, is usually bustling till late (bar Chinese…
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New Opportunities Abroad Never did I imagine that my first trip to China and first study abroad experience would be under Huawei’s awesome global initiative: Seeds for the Future (24 November – 13 December). With the support of the Australian government’s New Colombo Plan, it was an invaluable unique experience of Chinese culture, ICT education and…
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This was my first time going to Chengdu. I was born in Guangzhou, grew up in Shanghai and spent the last forty plus years in Sydney. And so, having spent more of my life in Australia than China, the chance to go back to China to study Traditional Chinese Medicine was a dream come true…
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Through Immerqi and UTS BUILD I was given an opportunity to undertake an internship in Shanghai, I had family in Shanghai, so this trip would cover multiple bases. My flight arrived in Shanghai early which was nice but when I came out of the airport it was sub 10 degrees which was quite a drastic…
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I participated in the January 2019 UTS intensive language course at Beijing Institute of technology. Having just finished Chinese 4, I wanted to go on an intensive language course that enabled me to put into practice what I’ve learnt from my Mandarin classes and gain new cross-cultural skills. Intensive language classes took place every day…
