Category: China
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As I reached the bottom of the stairs of my airplane, I hoisted my over-weight hand-carry up one stair at a time. I’ve never had to walk up the stairs of my flight before. I felt like a celebrity until I got up to the top entrance of the plane where I’m supposed to look…
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Shanghai has proven to be an astonishingly multifaceted city to live in. Seven months drifted by in a flash, and I find myself dumbfounded by how much time has passed since I first landed at Pudong Shanghai International Airport with my humungous luggage and a few phrases of Chinese. Thanks to all the advices from…
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Week 5 in China and boy has been one heck of a roller-coaster ride. So firstly, I just have to say, Shanghai is bloody amazing. Shanghai is the largest city proper in the world with a permanent population of 24 million people. This a city that fascinates and intrigues… around every corner a different scene…
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This is my first time travelling to China. Since it has such a big influence on Australia (people, immigration, food, economy, trade, politics…) so it made sense to me that I come over here to check it all out! I chose Guangzhou because it wasn’t one of the larger cities (Shanghai and Beijing), it’s in…
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I remember the moment I found out I had been accepted for exchange in Ningbo, a city in Zhejiang in China. I would be studying at the University of Nottingham, which has campuses in England and Malaysia. I was overjoyed. One of the questions I asked of me was “Why are you going there?”. At…
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Life at Tongji University in Shanghai has begun. As seems everything in China, the campus is huge. Each day the huge Chairman Mao waves hi! and bye! at the front gate. There are about 100 international students on exchange, many are French or German. I have not met another Aussie studying at Tongji yet. Every 40 minutes the school bell rings. It rings…
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Studying in Wuhan China at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) has been a great experience so far. The city itself is huge with a population of over 10 million Chinese. Wuhan itself is a combination of 3 key surrounding cities. The campus itself is huge, taking about 40 minutes to walk from west…
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The thought of going on exchange excited me throughout uni life. After months and months of preparation, here I am in Guangzhou My first impressions of the city were – chaotic, polluted and people, so many people. For the first few weeks of my stay, I experienced culture shock. With 15 million people in…
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Since living in Shanghai for just a little over a month, I feel like I’ve found my new home away from Sydney. At first, the idea of being in a foreign city for a year seemed daunting with only limited Mandarin to get me by. Even arriving at Shanghai’s Pudong airport, I felt disorientated by…
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The thought of going on exchange excited me throughout uni life. After months and months of preparation, here I am in Guangzhou city. My first impressions of the city were – chaotic, polluted and people, so many people. For the first few weeks of my stay, I experienced a little culture shock. With 12.6 million…
