My experience
I chose this experience because it was related to my degree and I also got the insight of China and the advantages and disadvantages of working there in future. I studied various courses in this experience and a few of them were digital marketing and cross cultural communication. I found it relevant to my degree and my favourite aspect of studying abroad was a classroom full of diversified students and having different opinions on different aspects.
How has the experience changed you?
I have gained many friendships that I still keep in contact with to this very day, I have explored a few smaller cities away from Shanghai and their development. I also got to enhance my Chinese language skills as I have learnt Chinese when I was younger.
Favourite memory
The whole experience was my favourite memory as I never had a dull moment on the 3 weeks I was there.
Top tips
I would just advice students to download VPN from their home country as china has blocked every type of social media except for WeChat and Yahoo. I never knew that before arriving there and I found it a trouble for the first couple of days then I got it sorted.
Funding
Travel Grant- I used the travel grant by applying for my China visa and also I used it as my expenses while I was there.