One, clothes: The weather in the UK can be described as unpredictable, seven kinds of weather in one day, rain, snow, hail, sunny days, too. Therefore, rain-proof clothes are necessary, and many times in the United Kingdom are raining, it may be a minute before the sun is still shining the next minute immediately on the drizzle. So, it's best to bring a raincoat, all kinds of good use. Umbrella is best to bring ultra-light, so that every day running around on your back, more lightweight.
There is a big difference in temperature between day and night in the UK.
But because most dormitories or houses have electric heaters that can be switched on and off at any time, so in the winter, a thick jacket, a T-shirt inside is good, and underneath is a pair of jeans on the ok. because I live in the south of England, so the temperature is a lot warmer, and the girls, you can stockings all year round ah, the thickest you can wear up to 100 D. However, the Scottish region is very cold in winter, the temperature difference is very large. The winter in Scotland is very cold, the temperature difference is big, you need to prepare some thick clothes.
Summer is not to say it, but the British summer will not be very hot, the temperature is generally very comfortable.
So, T-shirts and hoodies can be brought, and jeans are also recommended because they can be worn in all seasons. Clothes actually do not need to bring too much, enough to wear on the line. Because, in fact, some of the British clothes are also very cheap, especially when the sale of a variety of cheap, than over the domestic are much cheaper.
For example, top-shop (women/top-man have discounts every year, a piece of clothing ￡ 10 or so can be bought. Otherwise is TK MAX also have a lot of discount clothes. Other what H&M
NEXT and so on are not very expensive clothes, if you like sportswear, then it is sport world
is a good choice, although the store is more messy some, but most of the things inside are still more suitable for everyone, footlocker to buy shoes is also good. So, bring your money, buy what you need, and bring a lot of old clothes, you won't always be able to wear them when you get there.
Two, food: The vast majority of cooking ingredients seasoning can be sold in Chinese supermarkets, such as cooking seasonings such as soy sauce, vinegar, cooking wine, five spice powder, chicken essence and so on. The most classic one is Lao Gan Ma (老干妈), which is a bottle of about 1.7 lbs. for international students, which is very practical. If you like spicy food, you can bring some good quality chili peppers. You can also bring some mushrooms and fungus, as they don't take up much weight anyway. If you like shabu-shabu, you can bring Little Sheep or Haidilao's powder seasoning, which is very convenient for cooking noodles and eating a hot pot. Other than that, due to the luggage weight limit, we have discretion, and many cities have Chinese supermarkets, this can rest assured. As for the chopper, if you do not have to chop ribs, bones, in fact, there is no need, the British are also the same cut vegetables. Early to go, read the language students chopper ah, rice cooker ah can not bring, the older siblings will be a variety of pre-departure sales, as long as the eyes of the forum, free or a few pounds can buy a lot of things. Chopsticks can bring a pair of their own use, otherwise is to bring some of the more beautiful gift. Bowls and plates and so on, go and then buy, a pound store ah, or a poor small store are not expensive, large supermarkets to buy their own production of those are also cheaper. The price is usually around 1 pound, some places a plate/bowl is cheapest
Tens of pence only. And if you meet students who are going back home, you can buy a stack of these for a pound or two. As for the rice cooker, a lot of people say that it is not necessary to bring that really, because many places in the UK sell Rice
steamer and the price is not expensive, you can go to Argos, currs, etc., go to buy a basic rice cooker is the cheapest 10 pounds.
Three, daily necessities: Bring some small portable pack, almost enough for you to use a week on the good, such as small toothpaste, shampoo and so on. But if you are used to Japanese and Korean cosmetics and basic skin care students, or to bring their own it, this side of the Japanese and Korean system does not sell. UK large supermarkets these things are not expensive, and boots, super
drug, body care are often discounts, such as Colgate toothpaste often by one get one
free, so there is really no need to bring too much. The best thing is to bring a lot of sanitary napkins for girls, and it's not too much to ask to bring enough for a year's worth of napkins, which are really hard to use and have very few choices. Anyway, it is not heavy, the gap are stuffed. Electrical appliances: vary from person to person, right, the computer can bring, you can buy here, the price may be slightly more expensive than the domestic, see
PCworld.co.uk, this thing is considered to be expensive, but you can refer to the price, and then decided to bring or not, the camera to see if you're happy, the cell phone can be brought to the United Kingdom can be used. Electronic dictionary do not need to bring, the phone on the installation of a on the line, there is a very good use of the Road. If you install Longman English-English version on your computer, it will be enough for you. Many people say, to bring the Oxford Longman, because the exam can check the words, this is not false, but I suggest that forget it. Schools do allow non-native English speakers to use dictionaries during exams, but there's not enough time to look up words, so you might as well just use a replacement word. If you bring electrical appliances over you must bring 2-3 British standard converter plugs and 2 patch panels, patch panels are best to buy through the standard, that is, British standard, Chinese standard can be plugged into the kind of, very practical.
There is no need to bring these bedding, anyway, supermarkets are sold, asda cheapest quilt only 5 pounds. The cheapest quilt at asda is only 5 pounds. If you are a homestay, the landlord will prepare it. The school's bedding is not necessary to buy, expensive and uneconomical, when you get there to go to the supermarket to buy their own on the line, really do not have the time to buy, the room is also heated, make do for one night, the next day to go.
After getting off the plane, if you want to have peace of mind with your family, you can buy a phone card, such as lycamobile, lebara, etc. There are a lot of them, you can buy them at the airport, and ask them to play the card in China, and buy a 5-pound denomination of the card.
Four, glasses: wear glasses students, so it is best to bring 2 pairs of glasses, the UK is very expensive, just a pair of thousands of yuan. If you take contact lens, you must bring a few more, the British contact lens is required to license in order to buy, do a license
very troublesome. There is also the nursing fluid and so on, a bottle in the UK is about 15 pounds, Dr. Len's is even more expensive. It is said that you can get a free pair of glasses by utilizing the NHS, this is just what I have heard, so we will ask again.
Five, school supplies: A pen, a notepad, in fact, is to get off the plane ah, just arrived, casually use. After arriving in a pound store or wilkinson
Also have a lot of stationery to buy, and very cheap. In fact, having been to the school's fresher's week, there are pens available all year round, but basically all they give out are grease pens. Books are hard to say, depends on the major. It's useless if it's business because the textbooks are different. For computer programming or something else, you can consider sending books from China. Learning IELTS book is not necessary to bring, a lot of pdf's on the Internet, have to spare, copy to the computer to spare is good.
Six, medicine: If you cook by yourself, burn ointment this must be prepared! In addition, according to personal health conditions, prepare some cold and fever medicine, band-aid, anti-inflammatory drugs, laxative, morphine, stomach medicine, thermometer and so on. If you usually use anti-inflammatory drugs also bring some, anti-inflammatory drugs antibiotic class, this is a prescription drug, the doctor gave you open, you can buy.
Seven, money: Finally, a lot of students concerned about how the money with the problem. There are some posts say to the Bank of China's pound card. For this point, I personally have reservations, the following according to my personal experience, give advice, just for reference. Because the British bank account needs a bank letter issued by the school, and this letter is about a week to half a month before the school can open out. Therefore, tuition and living expenses into a money order, and then carry about 1500 pounds of pounds of cash pocket money can be. Then, once the bank account is opened, just deposit the money order directly into the bank account.