Glad you iight. Just use this as a life lesson: Shit can and will go wrong in life. Don't freak out, just work the problem as best you can and be willing to accept if you can't. Ask for help if you can.
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I'm having a breakdown, please someone talk to me !
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Glad you iight. Just use this as a life lesson: Shit can and will go wrong in life. Don't freak out, just work the problem as best you can and be willing to accept if you can't. Ask for help if you can.
This is another good life lesson. Lots of people legitimately don't care about your well-being. Others just operate on the idea of tough love. You cast a huge net by posting to the web about your problems, expect to filter out some responses or to not get any help at all. The truth is, you fucked up and with that usually comes some eating of shit. It's totally ok. Everyone fucks up. Learn from this and become stronger.
Facts. I nair'd my balls once and asked for advice to stop the burning and bleeding once. Got nothing but "LMAO, oh no what was you thinking?!" Sometimes ya just gotta take the L.
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OK, got some more things out of the way:
I finally paid for my accommodation
I was able to register and start my classes
I am still not 100% out of the clear though, I would say that I need to figure these things out:
I need to open a bank account
I need to link my bank account to WeChat Pay
I need to figure out how to put money onto my student card to be able to pay for the food at the cafeteria
I need to speak to someone to figure out how to approve the release of my forms to my home university so that I actually get credit for my work here.
I finally paid for my accommodation
I was able to register and start my classes
I am still not 100% out of the clear though, I would say that I need to figure these things out:
I need to open a bank account
I need to link my bank account to WeChat Pay
I need to figure out how to put money onto my student card to be able to pay for the food at the cafeteria
I need to speak to someone to figure out how to approve the release of my forms to my home university so that I actually get credit for my work here.
Nairing your balls isn't quite the same as being stuck in a communist country with no money.
Response is as expected.
You'll get there OP. Culture shock happens. I've travelled a lot, and I'm used to hopping on a plane on short notice, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't get a little bit of culture shock for my first trip to India.
Did you know that the army (if not army some heavily armed police) won't let you enter HYD airport if you don't have a boarding pass? Not a big deal until your coworker realizes his data connection is crap and he checked in online.
There is always a challenge but you can make it through if you just take a breather, think it through, and move forward one step at a time.
Also, important life tip from Mammoth Jones there. Don't put Nair on your balls.
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OK, put money onto my food card, so now I at least have food and accommodation security. Once I get these last few things sorted I will be on my way to being able to properly focus.
Been lurking on both of your threads and following them, glad you're getting there and almost to a point this is all resolved.
Good luck! Glad to read things are getting sorted for you. Hope the rest of these 5 months goes smoothly and you are able to learn everything you want and have a good time while you are there. :D
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Oh yeah, about that... Despite the offer saying it's until the 15th of July, in actuality my accommodation ends the 1st of July so it's two weeks shorter. The issue is that I already paid for a Greyhound and plane ticket on the assumed date of the 15th.
Well the good news is you have a few months to figure out what to do with those two weeks. Make connections with other students and see if anyone is local and would be willing to host you for 2 weeks, or a week, or even a few days. Couch surf a bit, or save your money and book accommodations during that time.
You've got a bit to figure it out, just don't leave it to the last minute. :)
Actually maybe the first step is to call Greyhound/Airlines and see if you can move up your booking date and seeing if that's cost prohibitive. Being nearly 5 months out, hopefully wouldn't be too bad.
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Better, but my VPN has been out for the past 2 days so I'm not too happy about that!
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OK I got a bank account and set up WeChat Pay. Next on my list are getting a subway card and figuring out the system, along with setting up Taobao.
Subway card should have been one of the first things you got. Have you not been going anywhere or just buying one way tickets every time?
Taobao unless your chinese has already made vast improvements you'll probably just wanna ask chinese friends to order things for you. You've got your address saved in chinese in your phone right? Just c/p and send to a friend plus the name of whatever you want to order, they'll be able to find it cheaper and faster than you.
Have you done anything yet? Sanlitun? Some Hutongs? Temple of Heaven? So much to do in Beijing.
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I live on campus so I just haven't been going anywhere by transportation. I know my Chinese address but I guess I will wait if I can't figure it out.
The subways are easy to use. They are very clearly labeled. Even a foreigner can figure it out quickly.
I say that as in foreigners might not know that the subways are super friendly even to foreigners.
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Well, I am having some classmates help me learn how to use it in any case.
You need to start working more on your independence, you don't want to be that guy that needs carrying everywhere.
https://www.travelchinaguide.com/cityguides/beijing/transportation/subway.htm
All the signage is in English and unless you've never used a subway before it's not hard to work out as other have said.
Baby steps... he didn't know how to flag down a taxi a few days ago. lol
Tbf. though without Didi I wouldn't wanna take a taxi in Beijing again, especially as a foreigner even if you can speak Chinese. It seems after Didi became popular they still try to scam you even more now.
Well look at it this way -- one day this will be a funny story to tell your friends/family. Life lessons.
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If you ever get the chance there's a French Canadian comedy movie called "1991" where the main character (from Canada) basically gets in a similar predicament to you (worse actually as he loses all his money basically his frist day) in Italy. He has to go to the Canadian consulate.
Is Didi even available in English? Luckily, I had a friend who helped me with the app. On my own, I would have been completely lost.
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OK, I also just set up a Taobao account and well... I purchased a Sega Saturn game!!! (Some Neon Genesis Evangelion title as it was dirt cheap). Let's see how it goes.
If he did, now is where he learns about NTSC and PAL AND 110V and 240V.
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I have a Sega Saturn with an Action Replay back in Canada. I'm not going to be able to play it while in China but it was literally only 10 kuai so I mainly wanted to see if it'd actually ship to me.
Fair enough, my first Ebay purchase was a Japanese copy of Road Avenger for the Mega CD because it was low risk/low cost.
Oheao ask a mod to change the topic title becuse most people just read the OP and hit reply. Also edit the OP.
How could I have only read the op while replying to message 361?
Thread locked at Op's request. If you'd like to follow Oheao's updates and journey, please check this thread - https://www.resetera.com/threads/tomorrow-i-leave-for-china.100018/
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