Chinaproject EA 2008

Chinaproject EA 2008

• Travel schedule• Practical things• Task

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• Friday 14/03 • 06u00: To meet at Groep T

• T-shirts, booklet, tickets, name cards, passport

• Load suitcases

• 07u00: by bus to Paris CDG• Bring some sandwiches

• 13u20: take-off • Arrival on Saturday 08u local time

Travel schedule: departure

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• Saturday 15/03: arrival in Shanghai• Exchange money in airport

• Keep the receipt!

• Transrapid + metro to hotel• Nanjingdong lu (sightseeing)• Bund• Eating together

• Sunday 16/03:• Pudong• Jin Mao tower• Old part of Shanghai• Bekaert presentation

Travel schedule: Shanghai

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Travel schedule: Shanghai

• Monday 17/03:• Company visit: netwerkcompany

• Museum Old arts

• Boat trip on the huang pu

• Tuesday 18/03:• Company visit: Telecommunication company

• Free afternoon

• Eating together

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Travel schedule: Suzhou

• Wednesday 19/03:• Bus to Suzhou• Welcome ceremony• Suzhou vocational school • Making dumplings + welcome performances

• Thursday 20/03:• Company visit: PC – factory + Wuxi IC factory• Movie studio’s

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Travel schedule: Suzhou-Hangzhou

• Friday 21/03:• Cycling + gardens• City visit• Bus to Hangzhou• ZJUT welcome tour• ZJUT officials• Welcome dinner

• Saturday 22/03:• West Lake• Hefang shopping street• Free city walk • Karaoke21/02/2008 alexander.marien@student.groept.be 7

Travel schedule: Hangzhou-Beijing

• Sunday 23/03:• Farmers teahouse• Lunch at tea plantation• Ling Yin temple• Night train to Beijing

• Monday 24/03:• BJT welcome

• BJT Campus tour• Company visit: telecom• Temple of Heaven

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Travel schedule: Beijing

• Tuesday 25/03:• Tian’anmen • Mausoleum• Exhibition center• Forbidden city• Caol Hill• Beijing duck

• Wednesday 26/03:• Great Wall

• Sanlitun

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Travel schedule: Beijing

• Thursday 27/03:• Company visit: Barco + Ericson• Olympic tour• Art district + UCCA

• Friday 28/03:• Haidian Lu: Computerstraat • Confucius temple• Hutong• Silk street

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Travel schedule: Beijing

• Saturday 29/03:• Summer Palace• Flight Beijing-Shanghai• Flight Shanghai-Paris

• Sunday 30/03:• 06u20 landing at Paris CDG• Bus to Leuven• Arrival at GroupT around 12:00

=> chinaproject.groept.be : “reisschema”

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Travel schedule

• Presented each day at the hotel• Local schedule can be different from this schedule

due to weather, company visits...

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Chinaproject EA 2008

• Travel schedule• Practical things• Task

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General

• Respect (“kowtow”)• Cultural differences

• Thousands of years

• Open mind• ‘Culture shock’

• Forget your prejudices

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Behave in China

• You can have fun

• You can have drinks

• At a cultural visit, you’re sober, awake and on time! • At a company visit, you’re sober, awake and on time!

• Drunk in public: NOT OK!

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Going out

• Min 50RMB for taxi• Never go on your own!

• Address of hotel• Booklet!• Name card

• Let us know!

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Emergency numbers

• General emergency number: see booklet

• All teachers + coordinators have a mobile phone number

• These numbers will be made public on the first day => Take note of these numbers (booklet)!!

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Something happens

• Let us know!

• Pay for the damage

• Never leave an ill student behind!

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First aid and insurance

• First aid kit

• World Assistance Card + SIS card

• Provide yourself :• Medication

• Allergy pills

• Pills against sore throat!

• Water!!

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Bird flu• “Avian influenza A”, “H5N1”

• Transmitted by air, not by eating

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Watch out with…

• Water: only drink water from bottles• Water from the tap makes you sick

• Food: never buy raw food (fruit) on the streets

• Make sure everything is thoroughly cooked or baken

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Climate• +/- like Belgium in march (15-18 °C):

• Can be hot during the day

• Mostly quite cold in the evening

• Very dry (polluted!) air in the big cities• Drink often

• Take pills against a sore throat

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Passport & ticket• Departure: keep them safe!

• Arrival in Shanghai: return ticket

• Leave passport on your room (in suitcase or locker!)• Cleaning staff can have loose hands

• Take a copy with you on the streets => you get one

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Money

• Don’t exchange too much at once• Exchange on the streets = better rate but SURELY FAKE

MONEY!!• ATMs available• Keep your money and valuable stuff on a safe place

• Lock your suitcase!• Never leave your money openly in your room• Don’t take valuable things with you all the time lock them up

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Prices in China• Taxi : 20 - 40 RMB• Chinese meal: 20 - 50 RMB• McDonalds and other fastfood = European prices• Breakfast sometimes included

• If not: help yourself (there should be shops nearby)

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GeldSouveniers 18 Rolex Eten 2,40€ In Frankrijk Pot EA 100

110 DVD-R's 55 Drank 1002 Wierrook In Tempel 30,5 McDon 10

0,5 Offer In Tempel 8,5 Eten+Drank 210 TOT RMB

500 4 Zwaarden 20 Bier 21,39€ TOT IN EUR

25 PostKaartjes 30,5 McDon100 Groene Thee 122 In De 88Bar

10 Spiegeltje 3,4 Chips Internet 7

30 Microfoon USB 8 Sprite 2480 MP3 Speler 20 McDon 3

10 Cadeau 18 McDon 420 Ring 135 In De Jazz&BleusBar 4

25 DrakeBeeldjes 20 Chips 20 TOT RMB

35 Emperor's Hoedje 12 Snickers € 2,04 TOT IN EUR

100 3 T-Shirts 50 Pot Café15 Belletjes 31,5 McDon

36 Postzegels 22 Eten+Drank Transport 2 Metro

10 Chopsticks 5 Popcorn 10 Taxi205 3 Sportshorts 50 Eten+Drank 22 Taxi

30 DrakenPet 35,1 Inkopen 2 Metro180 Basketschoenen 5 Cola 2 Metro108 Slof Marlboro v. Zus 12,3 Inkopen 2 Metro

38 Chopsticks 42,7 Inkopen 7 Taxi

2087,5 TOT RMB 61 PizzaHut 5 Taxi

€ 212,65 TOT IN EUR 5 Water 0 Taxi+Bus

30,5 McDon 5 Taxi

DVD Films 35 35,1 Inkopen 8 Taxi

# 155 369 5 Ijs 3 Metro

39 2 Popcorn 4 Taxi48 5 Drank 20 Bootje

192 14,2 Inkopen 8 Taxi24 26 Bier 5 Taxi

226 3,30€ In Frankrijk 13 Taxi

100 5,70€ TOT EUR 20 Packing

1033 TOT RMB 920,3 TOT RMB 138 TOT RMB

105,23€ TOT IN EUR 99,45€ TOT IN EUR 14,06€ TOT IN EUR

161 TOT RMB McDon303 TOT RMB Uitgaan

TOTAAL ChinaReis 2007 = 4408,8 RMB + 5,7 EUR = TOTAAL Zonder Souveniers&DVD Films = 1288,3 RMB + 5,7 EUR =

€ 455€ 137

Afgerond tot op 1 EUR

1 RMB = 0,101868 EUR (27 oktober 2007)

Souveniers

Internet

Pot EA

DVD Films

Uitgaven ChinaReis 2007

1 EUR = 9,8166 RMB (27 oktober 2007)

EtenTransport

Chinese guides• Chinese guides don’t get paid

• Ask them as many questions as you can

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Transport in China• Cheap taxi and metro

• Bus is very crowded => don’t use it

• Don’t go on your own• Safer

• Also cheaper in taxi

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Communication in China• Chinese SIM card: 60 RMB• Prepaid : 100 RMB

(10 RMB = +/- 1 euro)

• Fang can help you

• Internet bars• Mail en messenger • Skype

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Communication in China

• Message to the parents (& girlfriends): • only use chinaproject.groept.be in emergency cases.

• Don’t post too personal messages on the forum (tell this to your mom and girlfriend NO miss you and stuff like that on the forum, you have your own email for that)

• They shouldn’t get worried if you don’t reply for a lot of days we don’t always have the chance to go on the internet

• For you: write something on the forum• chinaproject.groept.be

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Rooms• You broke that cup? Pay it!

• You took that towel? Pay it!

• You want to sleep in an other room? Let us know!

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Definitieve Kamerlijst EA: Meisjes: Kamer 1 : Fang Huaiyu en Elke Matthijs Kamer 2 : Diane Steppe en Anne Linden Jongens: Kamer 1 : Luc Geurts

Kamer 2 : Lambda Verdonckt

Kamer 3 : Alexander Marien en Jelle verhoevenKamer 4 : Karel Claesen en Nard Achten Kamer 5 : Jan Vencken en Wim Elen Kamer 6 : Bart Lauwaert en Quentin Perdeans Kamer 7 : Jonas Lejeune en Kenneth Van Gyseghem Kamer 8 : Nick Evers en Maxime Vincent Kamer 9 : Bart Ophelders en Johan Peeters Kamer 10 : Benjamin Poels en Michiel Van Minnebruggen Kamer 11 : David Mat en Daan Willems Kamer 12 : Ophalvens Jens en Marten Montaine Kamer 13 : Nico Lammens en Peter De Roovere Kamer 14 : Jan Carremans en Willem Van Schil Kamer 15 : Laurens Van Wiele en Borai Beelen Kamer 16 : William Peeters en Bert Schuyten Kamer 17 : Jan Poesen en Quentin Vaquette Kamer 18 : Martijn Meyers en Simon Van Laer Kamer 19 : Andy Verhoeven en Mine Toon

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Photos• Dates are all set the same on the same time.

• No need for another 10.000 photos...

• Power socket

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Luggage

5kg

20×40×55cm20kg

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What you SHOULD pack

• Decent clothing for company visits• Decent shoes for walking

• Older shoes for playing football or something

• Pills against sore throat and other medication• A backpack is always handy• The ChinaProject booklet

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What you should NOT pack• Sharp things

• Laptop

• Sheets, towels, … • Maybe some extra towel

• New airport rules

see chinaproject.groept.be under ‘voorbereidingen’

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Chinaproject EA 2008• Travel schedule

• Practical things

• Task

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Tasks

Question• The great wall?

• Easy walking => at your ease a => a• Difficult walk => 10km from a => b

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