Tomorrow, Wednesday 19th, I will be going on the Spring ECNU field trip to Xiamen in Fujin Provence by Taiwan. Xiamen is a "small" Chinese city noted for its lovely gardens, seafood, and for being one of the first cities the Chinese Emperors opened to the Western "barbarians." It should be fun, I am looking forward to sitting on a patio drinking Tsingtao, eating a horrifically unkosher animal, shaking my fist at the Republic of China occupied the Provence of Taiwan. I have high hopes for Xiamen, it should be fun. Hopefully ECNU's staff will let me chill a bit because that is really what one should do in a shore city. It should be noted that a shore city and a beach city in China are very different things. The only real beaches in China are on Hainan while the whole east of the country has shore. For the most part, you can't swim in good chunks of the country. I will keep the blog updated.
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For my China's Macroeconomic Impact class I am requiered to partisipate in ECNU's all new Global Business Project. I believe in the end it will be a buisness case competition type thing, but along the way we will get aditional lectures, workshops, and field trips with both internation students and students from ECNU's College of Economics and Management. Today was the opening cermoney where we, the international students, were driven about 45 minutes away to ECNU's larger and newer Minhang campus (note that both the Zhongbai and Minghang campuses are in Shanghai) for the Projects formal Opening Cermoney. We were all given matching shirts and got to meet the Chinese students we would be working with for the rest of the semester. While the Global Business Project was a suprise requierment for the internationals, it is a big deal for the Chinese students who had to go through a several step application process to get in. While I am not a business major I am actually kind of looking foward to the project: firstly I am a dork who likes aditional lectures (and making the most of my tuition yuan at work), second I am happy to get more interaction with the domestic ECNU students (while I have Chinese friends from and at ECNU I can thank Juniata for them, not East China Normal), thirdly the Global Business Project might look good on a resume, and finally I am an egotistical creture of vanity and love fancy sheets of paper signed by people I think are important which is something I will get at the conclusion of the Project.
It goes without saying that I can't really be sure of what my year abroad will be like until I actually get there, but it is fun to imagine and it is important to set realistic expectations. So with the proper clickbait title, here are my top expectations about China in no particular order.
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AuthorI am a junior at Juniata College spending a year studying abroad at East China Normal University. Please feel free to join my on my journey to China and beyond. Archives
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