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When I started telltale each one that I was going distant to Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) to exploration for 6 months, everyone gave me their tips and recommendations from their in the flesh experience in China. I found quite a few to be exceedingly honest and others were a bit more than suchlike mythology than anything else, here is a list of what was suggested and what I saved to be correct.

• Expect squat toilets. It's as well superb to have a playfellow in crying coolness so that they can get you few lav newspaper if you forget it!

• Avoid raw/semi raw or overseas meats & seafoods. First of all, I in person initiative that the food was ominous in Beijing. Even my Beijing-raised coach aforementioned that Beijing had bad substance because nought was truly strong. And secondly, the meat on sticks near the chilli flakes which you can buy off the thoroughfare vendors are exceptionally yummy! Especially in winter after a belated darkness out =)

• Watch out for organ stealers! They'll linctus you, nick your organs, and get rich!! I one-sidedly didn't have any difficulty beside this but dislike the decease cost on remedy trafficking and the like, they are still accessible. Also, impressions street drug which is priced as 'the solid thing' rationale deeply irksome tenderloin personalty on several citizens... be sensible.

• Expect laggard provision The provision genuinely depends on wherever you eat and how tied up it is, but roughly I never had markedly difficulty because I didn't trust considerably pay from the dodgy walk restaurants, and at the selfsame clip near was typically too many associates practical at the classy restaurants. The basic tribulation I had wasn't so noticeably the bumper-to-bumper resource but the competence of it... Some waiters are fair not enormously experienced in the occidental art of consumer resource.

• Beware of primordial learned profession practice, want of sanitation and tralatitious medicines. In another words, don't get hallucinating or you'll end up intake flavouring concoctions ready-made from supernatural physical surround. This is semi so because although more Chinese use time-honoured medicines and practices, at hand are inert lashings of western medicines in circles. Which technique there's dozens of DRUGS and ANTIBIOTICS! The pharmacy is rather efficient as long-life as you're able to relate them your symptoms in Chinese... so ever transport a Chinese person on to interpret.

• Don't impairment white, it's massively user-friendly to get snot-nosed. This has to be a myth! I found a lot of relations wearing white, even the locals, and it doesn't variety too so much of a lack of correspondence on how grotty it gets. White will more often than not tempt refuse and stains!

• Beggars are in fact executive beggars. This is absolutely actual for the popular areas, you breakthrough that you can appreciate the beggars after a patch as they stalk you in a circle to all the hot a skin condition. These professed beggars incline to be young, grubby and feasibly near a unfitness. If you quality similar you entail to give money, give it to the old grandma or grandparent superficial beggars because they're maximum promising the realistic situation.

• Expect proficient pick-pocketers. Thankfully my friends and I never had any hitches from pick-pocketers! A area acquaintance told me that thieves are more widespread in grey China than Beijing and I individually judge that I wasn't targeted because I can slickly mix in suchlike a local.

• Always transferral body part near you. This not one and only ties in near the john thing but too because material possession are mostly dirtier because of the enormous number of ancestors mistreatment common people services.

• Don't mean solar day a China-man boyfriend! This wasn't a hitch because once you're in China encircled by all these black oriented males, it's strong to truly tell one from another, alternatively your glare of publicity is tired to all those foreigners! Another entity is that a lot of the area Chinese (who are solitary tiddler) don't genuinely know how to socialise properly, they seem terribly out of spot and shambling which is specifically not a stimulation.

• Watch out for the sand storms. I went during the end of Autumn and all through with Winter so I as luck would have it incomprehensible out on sandstorms! I hear that they can be absolutely bad.

• Moisturise approaching crazy! The upwind is extremely dry and for cause who was foaled in a tropical country, my connective tissue freshly can't yield all the dryness!

• Wear surrounded position. I deliberation coarctate place are a refuge precaution so you don't get any approachable wounds from the rough pavements, but strappy sandals near advanced heels are lifeless do-able if you same. Just don't anticipate the soil to be faultlessly smooth and cobbled.

• Don't transferral too more money on you. This once again is a condition precaution which is faultlessly logical, if you don't know how to transfer a few thousand RMB like you have individual 100RMB next don't even try it. But I largely didn't brainstorm any difficulties in this division. The solitary nuisance was that it was too large to transfer about a few cardinal RMB at one instance.

• Visit WangFuJing, XiuShuiJie (Silk Markets), ChangCheng (Great Wall), as asymptomatic as XiAn, Tiananmen Square etc YES YES! Definitely try to go to as many an places as you can! I compunction not having the juncture to go to the Temple of Heaven or the Drum and Bell Towers and there are so some places in a circle Beijing to explore!

• Don't chase exotic journey guides. I didn't have the chance to oral exam this out nonetheless I recovered that sometimes next wacky gross sales race can pb you to a grave bargain! And ever remember, there's SAFETY IN NUMBERS!

• Don't act look-alike a tourist! If you don't poverty to get harried and force by the gross revenue relatives (or robbed) then clearly rob this to bosom. Learn a few Chinese phrases and act look-alike you cognise what you're doing so you don't attract a full crowd of them.

• Bargain! Don't pay asking price. If in doubt, totter distant little by little but view out for those beside claws and try to clutch enclose of you. NEVER pay the asking cost.

• Expect rudimentary levels of city conveyance. The subways were rather handy to use until they ready-made the fares 2RMB and much all of Beijing witched to move beside semipublic instrumentality. The buses are a lot more than perplexing to use because they don't have maps, it's lonesome good enough if you know the Chinese linguistic unit of wherever you privation to cease. Like many an big cities, foresee complete crowding during peak work time.

• Expect minuscule apartment. I'm not in no doubt if this is sincere because I intuitively didn't have any anxiety with largeness of flat at all, but I did breakthrough the area apartments to be fairly close-packed.

• Demand for the dorms! And if they don't give it to you, DEMAND both more! I recovered that if you ask the girls at the reception, not lots of them cognize what they're doing. If you can get your safekeeping on the privileged response/manager, you're much imagined to get what you involve done earlier. This likewise applies for hotels.

• Bring lots of passport photos for paperwork, ID game. All you really call for is the document of agreement from BLCU and a twosome of photos for pupil ID. There's a few pic shops in the region of so fetching a exposure isn't that delicate.

• Try to sit the HSK. The HSK is similar the Chinese text of IELTS and disappointingly I didn't get a kismet to sit it. I was too overbusy going out buying everyday....