When is roommate appreciation day 2018

Students and Chinese roommates out having lunch. From the outside looking in, you might find many aspects of Chinese culture to be curious and hard to explain. For example, why do so many cars here have Peppa Pig decal stickers? Why are all these old ladies dancing on the squares in front of the shopping malls?

Students and Chinese roommates visiting the Great Wall together. New to the country, new to the school, and new to the neighborhood, you might find yourself too timid to try out new things and end up dining at the same restaurant you went to on your first day.

These will all stop being a problem when you have a Chinese roommate. Students and Chinese Roommates at Thanksgiving Potluck. But if you have a Chinese roommate, they can link you up with the most interesting student organizations and clubs you might want to be a part of. With their help, you will have a much easier time getting to know and becoming a part of a diverse and thriving local community.

Students awarding superlatives for Chinese Roommate Appreciation Day. China has a booming tech and internet industry offering a plethora of phone apps with services that will make your life in Beijing so much easier.

Having a Chinese roommate means having someone who will tell you not only the best apps you need but also the best ways to use them. For example, almost everyone knows the app Taobao, which is arguably the best app for online shopping as it has the largest active user base and therefore the most extensive inventory of goods, but many find them difficult to access since the shops are mostly in Chinese.

However, few know that the Taobao app has a picture search feature and you can literally take a picture of someone on the street and find everything they are wearing on Taobao. Student blushing as his roommate reads his appreciation letter.

Compared to most big cities, Beijing is measurably safer. Having attended summer camps as a child, roommates or cabin mates at that point were always an exciting concept. Fortunately, that mentality did not change as I went into my freshman year of college at Furman. I have been so lucky to have roommates that have also been some of my best friends. Some of those relationships began strictly as roommates and some started as friendships that were strengthened by opting to live together.

However, I know that not everyone gets quite as lucky. When determining a roommate before freshman year of college, Furman had all incoming students fill out a survey based on their interests, room preferences, and personalities. Each year of college, you were expected to sit down with your roommates to complete a Roommate Contact or Agreement to establish your living expectations before any problems arose.

I found over the years that many disagreements between roommates generally occur because of different expectations when it comes to living together and keeping up with responsibilities in your living space.

With jobs and lives outside of school and our apartment, cleaning and dealing with general maintenance of our apartment is often the last thing we want to deal with when we get home.

Since we have already lived so well together, we knew that completing this will only continue to make our lives easier. Fortunately, the roommate agreement is easy to download and self-explanatory to fill out and will surely help to put some house rules in place.

Once we finished our agreement, we decided that keeping it on the fridge where it is always in view would help to remind us to do our part. Having cleaning supplies ready to go when we need them has also helped us to make sure that we can complete our tasks in a timely manner. Fortunately, I love cleaning so much so that in college my friends would occasionally call me Monica Geller so having some new tools certainly encourages me to do my part.

It has a dual-sided mop head that flips over, making it super easy to clean a lot of floor space quickly, and is machine-washable— super eco-friendly! I know not everyone loves cleaning quite as much as I do I have found that cleaning with your roommate can make it a lot more fun and serve as a great bonding experience.

Before dreading the idea of cleaning check your completed Roommate Agreement and put on a fun playlist our favorites are this Cleaning Oldies Playlist and the Hairbrush Microphone Days Playlist to make things more fun before getting to work.