Freek in Shanghai

Last weekend I went to Beijing! We had the time, so a group of 7 Belgians went for a weekend. We left very early on Friday morning […]

This week I'm on the campus of Shanghai Second Polytechnic University! It's a university in Shanghai with 12,000 students, near the last stop of metro line 12. It looks […]

Hello! It's been a while since I last wrote a post. That's because I've been pretty busy at my internship. I've been given a new project (which I […]

For the past two weeks there was an auto show in Shanghai. It's a huge event here and really well known. There were so many cars and brands. That day I […]

This will be a fairly short blog post. A quick update on the start of the week. Eating out: Cantonese-style seafood On Tuesday a few of us went out to eat at a well-known […]

It's been a while again since I last wrote a blog post. That's because I was out a lot this week, so I didn't have much time. I […]

Welcome party On Friday there was another welcome party from Hutong School. They have one every month, because new people keep arriving. It was a lot busier than […]

Bank account On Saturday I finally went to pick up my residence permit. We had already tried last Monday, but apparently they had a long weekend too. So now I'm a […]

This week was only a short working week because of the long weekend I had from Sunday to Tuesday. It was a very quiet week. We had a few meetings with […]

The upside of a 6-day working week Last week we worked 6 days. The reason? There's a long weekend until Tuesday, and because two days of work would otherwise be lost […]

Internship This week is a really busy week straight away. Because we have a long weekend (Sunday to Tuesday), we have a 6-day working week this week. That means […]

Residence permit On Wednesday we applied for our residence permits. We need them because an X2 student visa normally isn't enough to do an internship. You actually need a visa […]

Chinese classes Yesterday we had our last intensive Chinese classes. From last Monday until yesterday we had class from 14:30 to 18:30. I think I learned an incredible amount […]

Chinese This week is an intensive Chinese week for me. That means I have 4 hours of Chinese class a day, from 14:30 to 18:30. As you can imagine, that's pretty […]

Weekend We started the weekend quietly. We went for a walk along Nanjing Road, a really big shopping street with every shop you can imagine. The street also runs […]

Food The food in China is delicious. Everything I've eaten so far has been really good. But of course I don't always feel like going out somewhere to […]

Grocery shopping, um… How does that work, exactly? Here in Shanghai there's a completely different way of doing your shopping, of course. First we went to Tesco. This is a […]

Apartment As promised, here are some photos of the apartment! Apparently we have one of the best apartments. Our housemate is Belgian too, from Brussels, and a really nice guy. Luckily […]

A few hours ago I landed in Shanghai, admittedly more than an hour late, but what's an extra hour on top of 13. Everything went smoothly, we got straight through […]

Luckily I got a few emails today with some more information. I should mention that I did have to send a message first before I got them! They […]

It won't be long now before I have to leave. My flight to Shanghai is already this Saturday. It's starting to get a bit more exciting now. But I have to be honest […]