Accommodation at Huanghe S&T

[Guest]

Hi,

Can you tell me what the accommodation for teachers is like at Huanghe Science and Technology College please?

Many thanks,

[edmason]

Hi,

I caught this one in another thread, but to reiterate, the accommodation here is actually pretty good. It was built in the summer of 2010. It's less than two minutes on foot from the teaching buildings (School of International Studies or Foreign Languages), 30 seconds from the main cafeteria and the apartment building itself has a Western restaurant on the ground floor.

Everywhere on campus is reachable on foot.

The apartments are modern and come furnished with: single bed (mattress, sheets, duvet, pillows), bedside table, two wardrobes, two desks with comfortable chairs, a flatscreen TV, a desktop computer, air-conditioner, microwave, water cooler, hotplate, double sink and fridge.

Your personal bathroom is more of a 'wetroom': Western toilet, shower, boiler, sink, heating lamps and large mirror. To be clear, it's a private bathroom, not shared.

Internet is free, is slow by Western standards, but decent enough. You have no bills, other than buying water for the cooler (10RMB).

There's a gym and a laundry room, with dryers, at one end of each of the two floors. These are the only shared facilities in the building - everything else is your own.

I have to say, having heard horror stories on the Internet and seen the old teachers' accommodation here, that having somewhere decent to live here has made settling into China much easier than it might otherwise have been.

Yeah, I sound keen, but honestly with so much else to think about when I arrived in China for the first time, to be a teacher for the first time, having a nice place to live was such a relief.

I've posted pictures of the apartments on my blog here.

I hope this helps,

[anna]

One warning, Chinese beds are very hard! You might want to buy a foam mattress cover when you get there to cushion it a bit, I know some of the other teachers bought some. I