13 Day Information Technology Summer Program in China

The preparation before the trip started was not so great. I know it was the first BusIT-week and Jan was pretty busy, so I don't really blame you for anything! For the next time I would say you probably need to start making the preparations sooner and do more follow-up!

The trip itself is pretty cool! When we arrived at the airport, there was someone to pick us up and bring us to the hostel. Afterwards, we met our guide, Hope, who is my new favourite Chinese person! She's guiding us around very well, and we can always ask questions! Thanks to her, our trip is even more fun!

We're doing a lot of activities, which are pretty interesting as well, for example: Escaperoom, KTV, a boat on 西湖, company visits, etc.

The only thing I can say is maybe lower your total price by a bit. I'm not sure how much the hostels, food, and activities cost in total, but 1500 euro seemed a bit much to me, since we had to buy for our flights and visa as well.

To summarize, it's a nice experience, and I would recommend it to other people as well! I don't want to go back to Belgium!

Bertijn

The guides were really helpful and kind and there English was really good! The hygiene in the hostels weren't that good but the beds and the other stuff in the hostels were okay. The company visits where very interesting but I think that when you aren't interested in entrepreneurship that the company visits can be boring! The workshop can be interesting as well when you're interested in business analytics but I already got a course off business analytics at my school so already knew all the theory. So the theory was sometimes boring for me but that is pure personal. But the R language is very interesting. The trips to all the places are really interesting!

I really liked our guides! Thay very enthousiastic and energetic, they give a positive vibe to the group.
Ktv was extremely fun and i dont understand why we dont have this in Belgium. The cultural visits were educational .
The company visits were very interesting and inspiring.
I find the workshop less fun and i can't understand everytjing what the teacher was saying altough it is prepared very well, just a personal thing.

China was a wonderful experience. The major cultural differences with Belgium were really interesting and brought a lot of new insights. Both all the workshops as the company visits taught me a lot about the Chinese business approach and inspired me to come back to China and start my own company here. Even though we spent quite some time in companies and in workshops we had plenty of time to enjoy China itself as a tourist. We also had a great and fun guide. Everything together it was a great trip!