After some three weeks of being in China I have finally applied for my residence permit and in the evening there was a combined farewell and welcome party for international students. There was only one class scheduled today, a four hour 'Workshop Measurements' class. It seemed like a very long class, because the teacher's English is really bad and he's very difficult to understand. Luckily he's reading from the slides so we can just read it ourselves. Still, ...

After three weeks in China I've already become a bit more Chinese, I have finally started to learn the Chinese characters and got an introduction into writing them, plus I went to the barbershop to get a Chinese haircut. The class in the morning wasn't so special, just a normal class. Also lunch was just an ordinary Chinese lunch, which means something with rice and people taking photos. It is not very much different from any other day. The second class was ...

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 ...