Chihiro’s Monthly Report (November, 2018)
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NCC Lives 1: Going to Language School (Tomoyuki)
After the first month, I want to introduce how my language school life was. I arrived at Chicago on August 9th in the evening and my NCC life have started on next day. On the first day, we walked around the campus to grasp the location of each faculty. From August 13th, our classes had started. In the morning, we had two classes, one was English class, and another was culture class. In the English class, we were divided into two groups and there were 6 members, Germany, Chinese, Argentina, and Japanese. We studied grammar, listened to TED talks, and learned how to write essays academically. For grammar, we studied
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NCC Lives 2: The beginning of the semester for Tomoyuki!
Two months have passed since I came to North Central College. At first, I felt anxiety so much because I did not have enough confidence in my English skills. But now, I am enjoying learning at NCC. I take English class, writing class, teaching ESL, which is bilingual education class and badminton class. For me, writing class is the most difficult. There are only two international students and the class is for the United State students who want to study their first language more. In this class, I am learning how to write academically and how to analyze. I have just written about how the homeless by using logos, ethos
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NCC Lives 3: Tomoyuki on Exercising and Studying!
Below, Tomyuki gives an in depth portrait of student life at NCC!
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NCC Lives 5: New Year for Tomoyuki
Happy New Year! I wish everyone happiness this year. First, Christmas day is quite different from that of Japan. I visited one host family of my friend, then we passed a Christmas card which is like happy new year card in Japan. The family made great dishes for us. We ate a lot, after that we ate homemade cookies. Finally, we watched a Christmas movie. It was a very quiet and relaxing time. Christmas day in America is very similar to Happy New Year’s day in Japan. Usually, university students in Japan spend time with boyfriends, girlfriends, and friends, not with family. Then, they eat salad, meat, sushi
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NCC Lives 6: Tomoyuki’s English Skills
In this report, I want to talk about how my English skill has improved while spending time in America. First, it is very embarrassing to tell this fact, but I could not pronounce “volleyball” and “wallet.” In winter-term, I am taking a volleyball course. My friends asked me what classes I am taking for this term. As I tried to answer, my friends always asked me again because they could not understand what I was telling them. Besides, I did not know how to pronounce the “L” sound. There is one story: last year, I lost my wallet at Starbucks in downtown Naperville. When I realized it, I
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NCC Lives 7: Finishing NCC
I spent almost eight months at North Central College for and I could understand how NCC life was and how the culture is different from that of Japan. In this paper, I would like to talk about why I want to recommend North Central College for study abroad. First, the classroom is well-organized. There are so many classes that accommodate a very tiny number of students from ten to twenty students. In these classes, students are active on discussing. In my education class, for example, we were not only talking about how we would teach English to students, but also, we demonstrated how to teach in front of the audience.
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