The problems with studying at this university are solved, the teacher is happy with a photo of us and I got my first salary in China. The first lecture 'CNC Machining Technology' was again a rehearsal of what we had already done in Finland. Luckily next week we will go to the lab for the practical part of the class, which is basically till the end of the semester. That's something new so that will probably be interesting. One of the teachers yesterday asked ...

Riding a bicycle as a European in China feels like having superpowers and eating spicy food here has degrees from very spicy to nearly fatal. We got a message from the International Office that we had to meet her and then record a movie today. When we went there after the first class, we met Rulis (the Finnish guy from Tampere) and a foreign teacher from Africa. Just none of us knew what the movie would be about or what we would have to do or say. First up wa...

After three weeks we found out that we are actually not really studying at this university, we are just here. Strange situation at the international office but compared by a very tasty dinner. Difficult. The project that we're having on Monday morning is very interesting, but unfortunately it is so difficult to understand the teacher and the students helping him. Also asking questions doesn't really work, nobody actually understand what we mean and we always ...

To compensate for the holiday we should have had classes today, should have had, and I never would have thought that I would find Dutch souvenirs in a shop in China. It is Sunday today but that doesn't matter for the Chinese students. Student life goes on 24/7 over here. I don't mean the Western student life, but Chinese people study as much as they can. Lately I was advised to go to the library early in the morning, otherwise it will be full. And they meant ...

The first stage of the Qilu UT marathon started with a head-start for me and a lot of eating. Also, the coach already gave up before the second half of this stage. Because of the holiday last week, classes will start again today, followed by tomorrow and then we continue with our normal schedule. So today we thought we had to be at the university at 8 a.m., but when we got to the classroom there were already a lot of Chinese students in the room and that was d...