Archive for the ‘Immigration’ Category

How to Find Chinese Language Exchange Partners ASAP

I posted this message in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University online forum (English section) and got about a dozen responses in the first week:
TITLE: An American looking for language study partners
Hi,my name is Andrei and I’m a new student here at SJTU (Xuhui campus).
To complement my language studies, I want to practice conversational Mandarin Chinese. In exchange, I [...]

On the Ground in Shanghai

Wow. That’s all I can say. It’s been just a few days here in China, but it seems like ages have passed. The things that I wrote in my notebook less than a week ago now look as really old memories. Still, here they are, mostly unedited:
 
1st day in China, or rather the 1st night
 
– can’t fall asleep [...]