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| shoppingwise |
Posted
on 17-Jan-02 12:11 PM
SOOPPINGWISE:
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Gambhir Man, one of the stars of your SLC my english book preferred to travel
light. So, should you. Dont bring anything and everything you want to bring here.
Dont bring too many clothes, just because they are cheaper there. Just bring
enough, enough to last you for perhaps one or two years. Once you come here,
you will find other clothes you like more, and with time, the ones you brought
from back home may start to seem out of place. Though I do admit that some of
them will be real favorites for a longlong time. So select your clothes wisely.
Yeah, it might be wise to bring some essential stationary items like pens, pencils, small note pads. Stationary items are relatively quite expensive here. Even for you to have the stuffs you really need, you might end up spending about 30 dollars.. ie about 2500 rupees, almost enough to open a stationary stand in the sidewalks of ratna park back in Nepal.
And yeah, textbooks are real expensive here. One textbook might cost around 100 dollars or more and total amount spent on textbooks for one semester, I swear, is enough to open a private library for you back home. The total cost of textbooks for one semester is usually around 300 dollars avergae for undergrads. After some time when you get little settled here, it might be a good idea to buy books through online sites like half.com for instance. Selling your books on those sites might be a good idea, as sometimes your college bookstores pay outrageously litle money for the books you bought there for seemingly exhorbitant amount.
Electronic items are relatively much cheaper here. So, you dont have to bring them to the US unless its something like your favorite walkman which, even though you love your younger siblings very much, there is no way, you will give it to them.
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| shoppingwise |
Posted
on 17-Jan-02 12:18 PM
Please note that the tips and advice can be on any topics, and need not be restricted only to shopping in case it was slightly misleading. Thanks. Look forward to inputs from the prolific sajha.com folks.
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| Exchange Student |
Posted
on 17-Jan-02 01:25 PM
Watch a lot of TV, most of the conversations are about TV shows and TV characters. Until you can talk about or understand what others are talking about, you're going to feel left out.
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| NK |
Posted
on 17-Jan-02 04:01 PM
That sounds like a very good advice, indeed!
" Watch a lot of TV, most of the conversations are about TV shows and TV characters. Until you can talk about or understand what others are talking about, you're going to feel left out."
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| joie de vivre |
Posted
on 17-Jan-02 05:21 PM
>Watch a lot of TV, most of the conversations
>are about TV shows and TV characters. Until
>you can talk about or understand what others
>are talking about, you're going to feel left
>out.
On the flip side, TV programs are mostly filmed in big(ger) cities and Nepali viewers expect the entire country to be one big concrete jungle and are ill-prepared when they land up in godforsaken places like Nebraska, Wisconsin and Iowa!
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| Horizon |
Posted
on 17-Jan-02 05:45 PM
Nebraska is a great place. What r u talking about JDV ? NEBRASKA THE GOOD LIFE.
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