Open day chat

I think this is related to my blog...

Anyway! Today I went to my very first University Open Day! It was pretty quick seeing as I only thought about where I'd like to go two days ago but it looks like I'll only be able to go to 2 of the open days due to being too busy before I go, or actually being away in China

I had a lot of questions lined up to ask before we went as I think I'm quite a rare case - the fact that I'll be away during the whole interview process and that I haven't got any qualifications for Chinese yet (but hopefully that won't matter seeing as I'll be pretty good by the time I get back!)

There was a guy who's at SOAS already who I had a loooong chat with as he's on the course I want to be on... he mentioned that he's about to go on his year abroad (the course spends a year in Beijing for the 2nd year) and we got to talking about my year in Xinjiang! Long story short, he was soooo jealous that I was going to Xinjiang. After studying the country for a while he thinks that Xinjiang is one of the best places to go in the whole of China! I already assumed it would be really different even compared to 'normal' China as it's right on the boarder to Kazakhstan and other countries so there's a huge mix of people there. But he just kept going on about how amazing it would be and just HOW different it's going to be! So that got me so much more excited.

I also talked to a girl who's doing her last year at SOAS and apparently she got in with BCC from her A Levels, which makes me feel better. So if I don't quite make AAB then I'm hoping they'll let me in!

Also the Uni has 1.2 million books in the library (there's a whole floor dedicated to Chinese studies) so that'll be fun!

So yes. Exciting stuff.

The rest of the week looks like a mixture of psychology revision for my exam on Monday and cycling training for my bike ride to Paris next Wednesday - Good luck Squibb!
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