How to have a happy year abroad
October 27, 2014
By Shivali Mistry, MSci Accounting and Finance for Contemporary China As I embarked upon my journey to Asia last August, I felt highly unprepared. The idea of a year away from home still felt so surreal. Naively, I had dealt with the entire situation in a very relaxed manner. I began my voyage with a …
My homestay in Tianjin, China
April 20, 2014
By Jóhanna Magnusardóttir from the Faroe Islands, studying BA International Studies and Chinese. Moving abroad to study is always a big step. Moving to China to take your whole degree is a full-on man-on-the-moon giant leap – or so I thought before actually putting on my figurative space suit and starting my three-year- educational journey. …
Why I chose to study in China
April 8, 2014
By Emmie Studencki. I knew I wanted to do a masters abroad and I wanted to study in an up-and-coming place, but somewhere with a highly-ranked, English-speaking university. Coming from Sweden where my study is all funded, I knew that if I was going to pay a tuition fee I wanted to have good value …
Serendipity and a cup of tea…
July 13, 2012
Hello people! A few days ago I was wondering what might possibly surprise us, people from the 21st century? We have already seen everything possible, and even beyond that. Well,at the weekend I decided to find out something special, in order to try something different from the usual Lao WaiTan haunts. My first stop was …
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