Smoothing the Transition – Moving Abroad to Study

2018-11-7

If you’re leaving China to explore and study abroad, Seven Seas Worldwide has the advice you need to make sure the moment you arrive you hit the ground running. After all, it’s a big deal moving to a new country and we want your transition to be as smooth as possible.

First and foremost it’s important that you feel at home in your new surroundings. If you’ve not created a feeling of familiarity and comfort, you might not be in the right frame of mind when it comes to starting your first semester. And the fact of the matter is you need to be 100% ready when term time starts.

So a vital thing to do when settling in is personalising your room. It’s a big step you’re taking and it’s perfectly normal to feel a little bit homesick so furnish your space with comforting, familiar items such as pictures of family and friends, favourite books or perhaps an item lifted directly from home such as a wall-hanging or bedroom poster!

Having said that, it’s also imperative that you consider carefully exactly what you’ll be taking with you. Remember the less you take, the less you pay. There’s nothing wrong with holding onto items with sentimental value as long as they’re small or light! Don’t take items of furniture or expansive DVD collections because the weight means they’ll be very costly to ship. Plus some of your electrical items may be redundant when you take them into another country owing to electrical power differences. Check everything before you pack. A big plus point for leaving items behind is if you choose to sell some of those items, then you’re already giving yourself a tidy budget for when you arrive at your chosen destination!

If it’s been a few weeks and you’re still choosing clothes out of a suitcase, mentally, you’re not going to be prepared for university. It’s much easier to leave if most of your life is still in a box, so give everything a home.

Once you’ve unpacked, it’s important not to instantly turn your accommodation into something resembling the backroom of a charity shop; any Feng shui expert will tell you that a cluttered space leads to a cluttered mind (well we assume that’s what they preach, we’ve not checked to be honest) so think about storage. If you run out of wardrobe and cupboard space, buy a set of those handy storage boxes that stack neatly on top of one another. If you’ve yet to leave home for your new digs, think about how much space is awaiting you and pack accordingly so no logistical nightmares lie ahead.

Now you have your boxes packed and ready to go, all you need to think about is moving them. That’s where Seven Seas Worldwide come in. If you’re moving to a university within the same country, Seven Seas Worldwide has a specific student removals service to help transport your belongings and baggage from A to B, door-to-door. If you have a lot of boxes to transport you can arrange for collection using the Seven Seas Worldwide MoveCube®, an adaptable container inside a trailer that is brought directly to your home for loading!

Seven Seas Worldwide also has a global network of depots which makes them first choice among international students so grab a free online quote to see what they can do to make your move to university a little bit easier.