Road to Beijing (1)
You might wonder why Beijing, well as so often it all starts with a girl. She moved to China this year to continue her studies, and as I wanted to be closer to her I was looking for Universities in China (preferably near her) so that we could spend more time together. As I’m studying European Ethnology I tried to find something that would be in that field. And lucky me there is actually an ethnology University in Beijing, the Minzu University. So in November I went to China to get to know the country a bit. I visited the Cities of Tianjin and Beijing (I will try to add some pictures from that visit here in the next days) and what I saw there stunned me and I wanted even more to go to China to get to know this country.
When I was back in Innsbruck I tried to find out if I my University would credit me the hours if I would go to china and study there. The initial plan was to take courses in English about Chinese Ethnology. But then I thought that it would be better to first study the language (and they teach you about Chinese Culture there as well) cause knowing at least the basics of the language from the place you intend to live at is in my eyes essential to get to know the local culture. So I decided to write a demand for language courses at the Minzu University (I actually wrote them an e-mail if it would be possible to take both courses, the English ones and Chinese language courses but they never replied to my e-mail, but the plan is to go to Beijing a bit earlier and ask. I’ll try to get some of the English courses in Chinese Ethnology as well [ at least the museology course]).
I sent the demand around the 9. of December and was since that day waiting for an answer to know if the enrolled me or not. I was somehow worried that the mail was lost on the way to China or that I didn’t send them the right stuff and so on. But then on the 29.12. I got an e-mail telling me that they accepted me! Lucky me Bisi, Vic and Chris were here, so that night we could celebrate a bit.
So that leaves me with around 2 Months time until the semester starts in Beijing, but as I want to be there earlier cut that down to 1,5 months. Now I need to plan everything!
I made a to do list
- Tell my landlady that I’ll move out
- Unsubscribe mobile phone, internet and the fitness studio.
- Buy a plane ticket (and decide on which day to fly)
- Make a list of stuff I need to take
- Move out of my flat in Innsbruck and get my stuff to Luxemburg
- Finish some papers for University
- Get my Visa as soon as I get the papers from the Minzu University
I guess that would be the most important, but I’m sure that there is more to do but I can’t think of it at the moment.
