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Preparing your trip
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Things to get:
Kitchen: Initial use
Small Hawkins pressure cooker (very expensive here and in the beginning can be use as a sauce pan also without the lid)
Small Fry pan
Ladle for cooking, table spoon and a tea spoon
Knife
A coffee mug
A small micro wave plastic bowl with a cover
A small plastic plate
(All this just for the beginning till the time you get to know your surroundings)
Get some ready to cook food, soup packets, maggi for the first two, three days
Health/Hygeine
Basic medicines:
get two or three strips of
each (enough to last at
least a year):
Cold- Crocin+ ANTIBIOTICS IN
CASE YOU FALL SICK – (ask
your doctor)
Headache- disprin etc.
Lenses (watever you wear
hard or soft: for soft get
as many as you can, its
expensive here plus you will
need a doctor's prescription
for everything)
Lens solution (get some
bottles)
Get an extra pair of glasses
made.
Dulcolax (for all the fish
and chips that you'll be
eating)
Iodex + cold cough balm
Anti-allergies
Dependal+ Perinom (very very important- first few days it will be a change of season you'll get nauseous)
Pudin Hara if you like
Hot water bottle
Clothes
Jeans (levis is way out of
the budget here and you don’t
get the right fitting, plus
alteration costs a lot)
Its better and cheaper in
INDIA, get it now!
Shoes
Sports shoes + chappals (buy
formal shoes here, they will
cost a bit but they last long).
Get a pair of high fancy shoes if you like for the beginning thin high heels. Get covered shoes, it will be cold by the time you get here. If you don't like heels you can get formal flat shoes ( importance and priority: comfort).
Socks (skin color and thick ones you'll die in the cold otherwise).
Casual wear like tee- shirts, informal or semi formal shirts
.
Buy office wear when you come here depending on the style and what is in vogue: shop at Zara.
Accessories:
Office Bag
Belt
Linen:
Bed sheets (one set)
Bed cover (o ne is enough) (
get cotton one- easy to carry
and takes much less space)
Pillow covers
Quilt cover
Towels
This is all the basic stuff
to help you settle in, rest is
upto you how much luggage
space and weight you are
allowed.
For food: its better if you
cook, it doesnt have to be
elaborate sweets, eggs, bread,
frozen foods to begin with and
eventually you can shop for
everything.
Take it easy on your luggage
in case you have to commute on
your own from the airport.
Travel light: One suitcase and
one stroller: easy to manage.
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