+ Air-ticket
+ Insurance
+ You should take along with you a copy of the financial
documents that you already applied for visa at the
Embassy, as it will be very important to extend your
stay in the future.
+ Academic records (translated into English and
notarized)
+ Pocket money
+ Photographs of your family and friends which will be
useful for relieving homesick at the first days you live
far from home.
+ A handbook to write down the telephone number,
address, email
+ A diary notebook
+ Medicine such as antitussive, medicated oil, medicine
for headache and fever, antidiarrheal,
2 – Notes when you arrive in foreign airports
+ When you arrive or transit in a foreign airport, you
must come to the “All other passport holders” counter or
“ Asian passport holders” counter to do immigration
procedures.
+ Politely greeting the immigration officer and show
them your documentations including passport, immigration
form, and air ticket. They sometimes ask you how long
you will stay in their country, what area of your study,
where you will stay. You should show them all the
documents to prove for your answers. If they still
wonder anything, ask them to call to your school or
university where you will study to deal with the
problem.+ Remember your flight number in order to pick up your luggages
at the appropriate luggage chain. The TV at the airport will
show you which chain carries your luggages.
+ Do not take the gifts for other when you do not know what it
is.
+ You should come to the information desk to get instruction of
how to take transit flight or what means of transport to take
such as by taxi or bus,etc.
3 – Ways of informing your parents of your safe arrival
+ If your family live in Ho Chi Minh city, you must dial as
follow : 00 84 8 and your telephone number in Ho Chi Minh city.
+ If your family live in Hanoi, you must dial as follow : 00 84
4 and your telephone number in Hanoi.
+ If you dial a mobile number, you must dial as follow : 0084
and mobile number ( remember to obmit the first 0 before 9)
Eg. If you wish to dial mobile number 0913 226 478 you must dial
as follow : 00 84 913 226 478.
4 – Ways to get used to new custom habits and life styles
+ For those who live abroad for the first time, although your
study must place at the first, you should pay attention to
getting acquainted with new friends and finding a suitable
accommodation. Your adaptability to new life will affect your
study success, communication and your health.
+ When you study abroad, you must adapt to new, active and
diversified culture in a new country. Despite you are good at
observing and know well your new friends in that country, you
will sometimes be surprised at their behaviour. So what will you
do before your study time? First, you should smile and get
relaxed. Then observe and hear from all around. Feel the
cultural differences that you have just experienced in a
humorous way.
+ Your punctual start is considered as the respect – in foreign
countries, the people really respect nimbleness. They will lose
their respect on you when you are late, especially for the first
time. If you arrive late even just 5 minutes for your interview,
you will lose your right to be interviewed. Any punctual start
can be considered as unrespect. If you are about to remember
only one thing, that is : To be on time, even earlier. If for
some unexpected reasons you are late, you should say “Sorry”.
+ Shaking hands is considered as a greeting, whoever you are,
male or female, young or old. However you must be careful not to
touch any stranger. If you unintensionally touch any stranger in
a crowd, always remember to say “Sorry” to them.
+ You should keep away from the strangers and your classmates 3
footsteps during your communications or in a queue. When you get
closer than that, they will feel uncomfortable. Whenever you do
not know anything, do observe the people around. And if there is
something wrong, you should smile and ask “ What’s wrong?”
+ You must anticipate that you will have to suffer from the
process of adapting everything, even you have good adaptability.
+ You should find some Vietnamese friends to share your feeling.
+ Participate in some activites of your university or school
such as : sport, Student’s club, or works within the school or
university. Make a group of friends.
+ You should agree if someone invite you to have meal with them.
Otherwise you will lose the chance. If there is no one who
invite you for meals, do invite someone for meal with you.
+ Prepare in advance some questions to get acquainted with the
native students about the weather, sport, festival dates, or
their family members, etc.
Success in adaptability to new culture is so wonderful! Your
harmony with another culture will support you much in your
future life.
5 – Notes for your study – Effective ways of study
+ You’d better prepare well a foreign language for your specific
study areas ( English, French, German, Chinese, Janpanese, etc
according to which country that you study)
+ Normally, you must study in the lecture room with additional
assistant professor in a small group where you can feel
comfortable to exchange and present your ideas to the professor.
Such activities will help you develop more initiatives and new
ways to achieve your goals. You should be self-confident using
up the time. Although the interaction between students and
professors is strong, you still should pay attention to
self-study.
+ As it is not compulsory to be at class everytime, so you will
have more time for self-study. Therefore it is so important for
you to arrange self-study. You should balance your self-study
and playing.
+ How should you get the lectures? You should self-consciously
attend the class for getting the lectures, you can experience
the bad results from absence from the lectures.
+ If you are absent from the class for one day, you’d better
borrow your friend’s notebook to rewrite the lectures.
+ You should read the lectures before coming to the class, it
will help you easily understand the lectures.
+ You should have a comprehensive understanding about the
lectures, fast copy and take notes main ideas and index for
further study.
+ After listenning to the lectures, you should read it again to
understand more about the major issues and rearrange it
systematically and add some further informations or references
in order to have a complete lecture.
+ Self-study and self-confidence are highly evaluated.
6 – Methods of using Automatic Teller Machine (ATM)
+ Only use the ATM at the places where there are lights and many
other people coming to withdraw money.
+ You should not go to the ATM to withdraw money alone.
+ You should not count the money right at the ATM.
7 – Self-protection
+ You should learn how to use Alarm bell system
+ Before departing for somewhere, you should tell your
roommates, close friends or your relatives where you will go and
when you will come back.
+ Always remember to lock your room door and save emmergency
phone number in your mobile.
+ Do not go out with strangers or the drunk
+ Do not tell your phone number to those who misdial to you. Ask
them which number they dialed and ask them try to recall.
+ Do not tell the caller that you stay at home alone. You should
hang up on impolite call.
+ Do not provide any information to strangers
+ Call the safeguard or police when you see suspicious or
desolate things.
+ Always bring your mobile phone with you.
+ Bring with you neccessary phone numbers and credit card.
+ Look around and do not take a short-cut.
+ At night, you should accompany with one of your friends or
relatives and use public transports.
+ You’d better go along the roads with lights.
+ Go on or near the roads
+ Remember emmergency phone numbers/ make sure that your
mobile’s account and the battery are enough for whole trip.
8/ - Properties Safety
- Always lock the door while going out, event for a while.
- Keep your properties’ model and series along with you.
- Put all your laptop and other portable equipments in your
locked room when you do not use.
- Write your full name on your books. Do not put your wallet,
handbag, etc untidily everywhere in the class, library or at the
canteen.
- Put your bycicle at the light places, or at the place where
there are many people travelling. Use the U-shaped or chain lock
for your bike.
- Always keep your money, wallet, credit card and other valuable
things along with you.
9/ - Notes for room leasing
- Is it far from your school.
- Is it comfortable for travelling? Is it near the railway or
bus station?
- Is the price reasonable?
- Is the area safe?
- Can you share the room with your friends ?
- Is it near the shopping centre or market?
- Are there any washing machine, air-conditioner, rediator or
refrigerator?
- Is there any desk for studying?
- Is it suitable for your studying environment?
10/ - If you have your own car, Please take note these
advices
- Always remember to lock your car when you get out of your car.
- Take a look around your car, car-floor, and back seats of your
car before getting in.
- Park your car at light places.
- Do not drive your car alone in dark.
- Lock your car’s door and event the windows when you are in
your car.
- When your car is broken down on the way, if there is someone
stops to help you, you’d better ask him or her to call the
police rather than to ask him or her for a lift.
- If you see the police’s light signal behind your car, do not
hurry to stop your car at the roadside, but slow down your speed
and drive to the place where has light or crowd, the police will
then understand your worries.
- If you think that you are followed by someone else :
+ Drive to the police station, fire service, hostel or the
nearest building.
+ If there is no nearest safe places, please sound the horn
loudly.
All of these above advices are extremely useful for you, do
remember them !
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