Asami Minobe<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hello everyone! My name is Asami. I\u2019m from Japan. My\nmajor is International Relations. The reasons why I came to America are, I want\nto improve my skills on English, to understand more about different cultures, and\nbroaden my horizons. I decided to study abroad when I was a high school\nstudent. Because my future plan is working at the airport. I\u2019m thinking I will\nhave to speak English fluently and I need lots of knowledge about different\ncultures for globalization. This program which I\u2019m attending now is for 7\nmonths at the same campus with native English speaking college students.\nTherefore I thought this is a perfect opportunity for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m going to share about my everyday life on St.\nNorbert College with you. Last semester, I was taking grammar, reading,\nlistening, writing, and speaking classes. And I\u2019m taking 5 classes in this\nsemester too. My classes are intercultural communication, U.S. literature,\nintercultural business, grammar, and U.S. history. As I mentioned before, this\nsemester\u2019s classes are cultural immersion. My classes start at 9:40am at the\nearliest, and finish at 1:30pm at the latest. So basically, I take classes in\nthe morning and I do my homework in the afternoon. Even though we have lots of\nhomework everyday, the teachers help me a lot. And there are students who are\nfrom Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Peru, Slovakia, and Japan in ESL class. Everyone is\nvery friendly so my classes are energetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And also I often hang out with my American friends. I\nthink it\u2019s really helpful for me because I get exposure to English for a long\ntime. To be honest, when I first arrived here, I was very nervous and felt\nanxious. Because I didn\u2019t know anybody, nobody knew me, and I couldn\u2019t speak\nEnglish fluently. So I worried about what I should do when I need some help.\nMoreover, it was kind of uncomfortable for me to talk with people who speak\nEnglish because I didn\u2019t want to make someone bored because of my ambiguous\nEnglish. That\u2019s why I wasn\u2019t a positive person. However, many experiences\nchanged me. I like talking with American people, I want to use English after I\ngo back to Japan, and I became a positive person. Needless to say, my skills of\nEnglish must be much better than before. In addition, I\u2019m sure that I grew up as\na person through this experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My time in the U.S. was very valuable. It\u2019s priceless.\nTherefore I appreciate my teachers, my parents, my friends, and this\nopportunity. I have just a few days until I go back to Japan so I want to study\nharder and hang out a lot with my friends. I don\u2019t regret choosing St. Norbert\nCollege. Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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