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Next stop: China

HOLY COW!

I have just been informed my application to the TRU study abroad program has been accepted. In September, I will continue my studies in China at the Tianjin University of Technology (TUT). The courses I will be taking at TUT will be to those offered in Kamloops; essentially, they use the same curriculum (not just their equivalents), taught by Chinese professors in English, for the foreign students like myself.

Tianjin is a medium-sized city for China, with about 8 million people; Kamloops, on the other hand, has a population of 80,000. My province of British Columbia has a population of 4.3 million. This is going to lead to some interesting experiences. I’m told that it’s location on the waterfront, just 2 hours southeast of Beijing, makes it a great spot for seafood.

It looks like I’ve got a lot to look forward to! :-)

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 3rd, 2005 at 10:28 am and is filed under Life and living, Thompson Rivers University (汤普森河大学), Tianjin, China. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Next stop: China”

  1. Arjun Singh Says:
    March 8th, 2005 at 11:35 pm

    Couldn’t happen to a nicer fella Justin. Congrats!

    look forward to a great dialogue about China’s position and potential in today’s world

  2. Justin Says:
    March 9th, 2005 at 12:27 pm

    Thanks Argun! Each day I get more excited about it. I particularly look forward to shedding some ignorance or inaccurate preconceptions I have about China; and of course I can also learn about assumptions they make of Canadians and Americans. Who knows what I’ll learn, but you can count on me writing about it.