Livinging Life to the fullest outside your comfort zone Past Review
By Johanna (University of Birmingham) - abroad from 08/01/2016 to 09/23/2016 with
The Intern Group: Hong Kong Internship Placement Program
I have definitely gained alot of social skills due to my multi cultural work place where I could meet people from across the globe. Furthermore I have gained many practical and organisational skills required at a work place. This experience have given me a lot of self confidence and thought me that initiative and hard work are key to be being successful.
Personal Information
| How much international exposure did you have prior to this program? | 6 months+ |
Review Your Program
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* Overall educational experience
Academic rigor, intensity, resources, etc. |
Working at a start up company is the best opportunity for anyone to obtain new skills and get challanged at a daily basis through an unprecedented degree of responsibility and self motivation. |
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* Host Country Program Administration
On-site administration of your program |
The Administration Team of the Interngroup Hong Kong is tremendously helpful and pretty much available 24h whether this is during or pre internship. |
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* Housing:
How satisfied were you with your living arrangements? |
The housing opportunity is well looked after and selected carefully by the team and definitly one of the better options within Hong Kong. |
| * Food: |
It is Hong Kong, what can I say. |
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* Social & Cultural Integration:
How integrated did you feel with the local culture? |
Locals in Hong Kong are extremely polite and friendly which many tranditions and customes. |
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* Health Care:
How well were health issues addressed during the program? |
I broke my foot before my internship and had to go there with a cast on. It was very easy for me though to follow up with my treatment in Hong Kong. Both modern as well as traditional chinese medicine facilities are easily available. |
| * Safety: |
Personally I feel very safe in Hong Kong, and I believe the crime rate and danger is extremely low unless you are a local gangster. |
| If you could do it all over again would you choose the same program? |
Yes
The InternGroup Hong Kong has provided me with an outstanding program that made in many ways the impossible possible. At the point when I applied to the InternGroup I had already tried myself for over half a year to get an internship in Hong Kong and was unsuccessful despite all the hard work and effort I put in. However once the InternGroup stepped in, everything turned out to be quick and easy. |
Finances
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* Money: How easily were you able to live on a student's budget?
(1 = not very easy/$200+ on food & personal expenses/week, 2.5 = $100/week, 5 = very easily/minimal cost) |
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| Not including program expenses, about how much money did you spend on food and other expenses each week? | Maximale 500 USD |
| Do you have any general money-saving tips for future study abroad participants? | Don't go into the shops you are used from home. Chances are that these goods are being imported at a higher cost. Try local food shops and restaurants as this reduces the cost significantly. |
Language
| * Did your program have a foreign language component? | No |
Other Program Information
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A Look Back
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| * What do you know now that you wish you knew before going on this program? | - |
