Koga\nSuzuki<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s\nbeen a month and a half since I came here at North Central College. In this\nreport, let me share a couple of reasons why I decided to come here and some\nexperiences so far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m\nquite sure some of you guys have a hunch that my English is hands down up to\nsnuff already. However, I\u2019ll come clean and admit that actually I was just\nscratching the surface before I came here. In other words, I was studying for\nthe sake of studying with no clear goals. I used to utilize online conversation\nlesson when I was in Japan because I could ensure to have 25 minutes lesson\nevery day for such low costs like $50 per month. Having said that, I was fed up\nwith my English in that the number of vocabularies which I could come up with\ninstantaneously in conversation was quite limited, and pronunciation sucked as\nwell despite it\u2019s 101 of communication. As you can tell by above information, I\njust needed to get more exposure to English. At the same time, I didn\u2019t want to\nbe a vanilla person, I mean I found it incredibly mind-numbing to do the same\nthings as other students. This is why I made a call about taking advantage of\nthis kind of opportunity. By the way, do I need to wordsmith this report a bit?\nAnyway, let\u2019 move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m\ntaking three classes in this semester, ESL which stands for English as a Second\nLanguage, Writing, and The Science of Climate Change. Let me do a deep dive\ninto the science class. I expected it was a kind of low-hanging fruit, but the reality\nwas it\u2019s totally tough one. Sometimes it\u2019s one ear, out the other as the\nprofessor speaks with so much expertise, slangs, and gibberish which a lot of\nthem are unheard of to me. The other day, I really dropped the ball on the\nquiz, it was a bit of a downer. Hindsight is 20\/20, but I should have knuckled\ndown to prep for it. That indicates I have to dig deep to get decent score on\nthe next one. I\u2019ve got to get the necessary credits by hook or by crook.\nOtherwise, I\u2019m going to get kicked out of America. Yes, I can do it. Knock on\nwood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In\nmy downtime, I pretty much have a chat with friends or study at the library\nwhich is one of my go-to places. In general, lots of students go to the party\nand drink if they\u2019re not under 21. In my case, drinking is not my cup of tea\nand I\u2019m not a party animal, so I basically stay in the campus even on Friday\nnight. I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m saying this, but I get a real kick out of studying\nEnglish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m\nbasically slammed with a lot of stuff every day, but I have to bite the bullet\nand stick it out as a representative of Iwate Uni. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As\nan FYI, I don\u2019t have good pictures so far since I don\u2019t often take them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Koga Suzuki It\u2019s been a month and a half since I came here at North Central College. In this report, let me share a couple of reasons why I decided to come here and some experiences so far. I\u2019m quite sure some of you guys have a hunch that my English is hands down up to snuff already. However, I\u2019ll come clean and admit that actually I was just scratching the surface before I came here. In other words, I was studying for the sake of studying with no clear goals. I used to utilize online conversation lesson when I was in Japan because I could ensure to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncc","category-ncc-monthly-report","category-study-abroad-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/logos.edu.iwate-u.ac.jp\/EnglishEducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/logos.edu.iwate-u.ac.jp\/EnglishEducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/logos.edu.iwate-u.ac.jp\/EnglishEducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logos.edu.iwate-u.ac.jp\/EnglishEducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logos.edu.iwate-u.ac.jp\/EnglishEducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/logos.edu.iwate-u.ac.jp\/EnglishEducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/logos.edu.iwate-u.ac.jp\/EnglishEducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/logos.edu.iwate-u.ac.jp\/EnglishEducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logos.edu.iwate-u.ac.jp\/EnglishEducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logos.edu.iwate-u.ac.jp\/EnglishEducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}