At last! The trip is going to start only in a week and everybody is looking forward to arriving to Shanghai. My family and friends have asked me a lot of questions and I have had to answer them in a not very enthusiastic way, I think.

• (Friends) ‘Were not you doing an MBA?’ (Me) ‘Yes, I was!’.

• (Dad) ‘But, Is it a leisure and pleasure trip or what are you going to do there?‘ (Me) ‘I’m going to continue with my MBA’s studies’ Dad.

• (Mum) ‘Are not you afraid? China is so far away and you are the treasure of my life!‘ (Me) ‘No, I am not, don’t worry Mum’.

• (Brother, sister, girlfriend) ‘Will you buy me many gifts?’ (Me) ‘Yes, I will’.

But this morning, I woke up looking forward solving all this questions better because the “day” is coming!

We are 80 young students from the EOI Business School. All of us are not study the same program, there are people from Full Time MBA (for example, me), Global MBA, Master of Quality, Master of Management of Water and Master of Renewable Energies. This people come from Madrid and Seville -EOI has some of these programs in both cities- and we are going to be together during the travel, so I think it’s a good opportunity to meet the Sevillian guys and girls.

There, in Shanghai, we are going to have classes all days in English -of course- in order to know and learn how to do business in China, how the Chinese businesses work and how we can deal with Chinese companies. But we also could learn others different useful lessons for my repertory of soft skills like getting an international perspective in order to do businesses or knowing which is the main factor to succeed negotiating in China.

In the afternoons, we are going to visit some huge factories such as Lenovo (computers) or Volkswagen (automotive), so we will not have enough time to be bored.

Obviously, in the weekend, we will have free time to do whatever we want, so some people says we could visit Beijing to see the Big Wall and the Forbidden City, but I’m not sure if it will be possible. Don’t worry family! I will try to spend some time shopping as well, because I have a big list of many things which my family and friends would want.

Eventually, I want to make you a promise: I will write every day in my blog telling you this unique experience daily in detail.

See you from Shanghai! 再见!

At last! The trip is going to start only in a week and everybody is looking forward to arriving to Shanghai. My family and friends have asked me a lot of questions and I have had to answer them in a not very enthusiastic way, I think.

• (Friends) ‘Were not you doing an MBA?’ (Me) ‘Yes, I was!’.

• (Dad) ‘But, Is it a leisure and pleasure trip or what are you going to do there?‘ (Me) ‘I’m going to continue with my MBA’s studies’ Dad.

• (Mum) ‘Are not you afraid? China is so far away and you are the treasure of my life!‘ (Me) ‘No, I am not, don’t worry Mum’.

• (Brother, sister, girlfriend) ‘Will you buy me many gifts?’ (Me) ‘Yes, I will’.

But this morning, I woke up looking forward solving all this questions better because the “day” is coming!

We are 80 young students from the EOI Business School. All of us are not study the same program, there are people from Full Time MBA (for example, me), Global MBA, Master of Quality, Master of Management of Water and Master of Renewable Energies. This people come from Madrid and Seville -EOI has some of these programs in both cities- and we are going to be together during the travel, so I think it’s a good opportunity to meet the Sevillian guys and girls.

There, in Shanghai, we are going to have classes all days in English -of course- in order to know and learn how to do business in China, how the Chinese businesses work and how we can deal with Chinese companies. But we also could learn others different useful lessons for my repertory of soft skills like getting an international perspective in order to do businesses or knowing which is the main factor to succeed negotiating in China.

In the afternoons, we are going to visit some huge factories such as Lenovo (computers) or Volkswagen (automotive), so we will not have enough time to be bored.

Obviously, in the weekend, we will have free time to do whatever we want, so some people says we could visit Beijing to see the Big Wall and the Forbidden City, but I’m not sure if it will be possible. Don’t worry family! I will try to spend some time shopping as well, because I have a big list of many things which my family and friends would want.

Eventually, I want to make you a promise: I will write every day in my blog telling you this unique experience daily in detail.

See you from Shanghai! 再见!