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Culture Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008 Clackamas Print 3 URKEY: Experiencing thanks bed from TURKEY, Page 1 amsofstaying here to work t least for now, Desouza still e her homesickness. Really, io can blame her. In India, boarding school, where she Kt on really getting a chance to ■ with her family. ■Iked about how her father ■warding school and that he H would be a good idea for Mas well. 1 le said that it would Kwin nspvisibility and inde- ■ Apparently it did, because ■alone to a foreign country to ^■enilvr. Desouza is planning Kb nne to visit her family. folio ¡¡her international student who te lunch was 26-year-old ites from Spain. ■ was originally planning Big English in Australia, but I to come to America to study | reason he changed his plans Ise ol Im girlfriend, whom he ■in. w lio w as studying abroad I yean She is from here and Iter used to go to Clackamas and Be really liked it ling in SE Portland, Cortes He easily gone to a closer fod school, but he decided to fcackamas, not only because id oimouih, but because he likes pall numbers in the classes. For jason, Cortes said that he doesn’t H schools like Portland State jsity. jrtesjhas been in America since 29 of this year and plans on staY' Lisa Sellars Clackamas Print From left to right, Hyunsoo Choi, Junta Chinen and Jung Ik Lee enjoy each other’s company over traditional pumpkin pie dessert. Over a dozen of the thirty-three international students gathered in the Gregory Forum for their very first Thanksgiving dinner on Nov. 27. ing until next September, but is really not sure. When asked what he thought when he first arrived here, he said, “I was surprised because when I got here it was more green. Where I come from, it’s like Mexico.” He said that it’s really sunny in Spain and that he is still adjusting, even three months later, to the rain. Cortes joked about someone telling him that he was lucky because Oregon has received less rain than normal this year, but he said that it’s still too rainy for him. Although he misses his family and - friends back home, Cortes is enjoying seeing new places. He said that, he has seen differences in places and firings here and didn’t realize that they would be any different than the things back home. Desouza and Cortes represent only two of the ten countries that the many international students at Clackamas are from. Along with India and Spain, 24-year-old Junta Chinen is from Okinawa, Japan. Hyunsoo Choi, who is also 24, is from Seoul, South Korea. Also represented at Clackamas, by international students, is the United Kingdom, Vietnam, Taiwan, Germany, Hong Kong and China. Most students come here separately, but there have been sisters and friends that have come together, in the past According to Patty White, the Admissions Specialist in the Registrar’s Office, in order to come to Clackamas to study, students must acquire an F-l Visa and “they must be enrolled in an academic educational, language train ing or vocational program.” “Clackamas Community College is authorized by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services to accept students who enter the US on an F-l Visa,” White continued. International students can attend Clackamas to either study regular col lege classes to achieve a degree or certificate, or study in the Program for Intensive English or PIE. For students in flie PIE program, file length of stay is one year. Degree seeking students are required to study here for two years. The requirements for an interna tional student to enter a degree seeking program are to either complete the PIE program or to pass the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement test “Some PIE students complete their one year program and then go on to the regular college classes for the addition al two years,” said White. “Also, once an international student completes their degree, they may spend one additional year in the US working in their chosen field of sturfy” “There are many government rules and regulations that govern their entrance to the US, monitoring of their studies, working and finality, their return to their home country,” White continued. Qut of the 33 international students currently at Clackamas, 17 are enrolled in college degree programs and the other 16 are PIE students. Different from exchange students, international students have to find their own place to live. Many of file stu dents live with family, friends, rent an apartment or find housing through an independent home stay program. Just like any other out-of-state stu dent from anon-bordering state, interna tional students have to pay out-of-state tuition. Financial aid can still be found for international students. One way for them to get help with paying for tuition is to apply for aposition in file upcom ing International Student Club. Ellen Wolfson and Molly Williams, who are both Clackamas staff have started to put together a club that will be in effect as soon as club positions are filled. The club is currently taking applications from international stu dents and will be doing interviews the first week of winter term. The students that are picked will receive a tuition waver. “When the International Student Chib gets up and running, we will encourage English speakers to join,” said Williams. This new club will be al good way for everyone to come together, regard less of where you are from. Who knows, maybe it will stand for some thing bigger. Maybe this club will rep resent file new symbol of cooperation and interaction between nations, just like file first Thanksgiving did between file English colonists and file Native Americans. ■ Teriyaki ’ brings great, affordable food and great service nSellars I Bn Shaw ifC/icL has Print ____ o you want to go to today Megan? legan: Sure, where? Isa: I don’t know. Let’s just ■round and look for a place, legan: Okay, I’ll drive. asa: Sounds good. Hey, there faces over by Bi-Mart here in Oregon City, right? Let’s see what’s over there. Megan: Okay. Lisa: There’s a place called “Oh, Teriyaki.” Do you want to try that? I’m down for chicken. Megan: Yeah, sure. Lisa: Wow, there’s no one here at lunch time. Weird. Megan: That is kind of weird. Maybe no one knows they are here. The restaurant is kind of buried in the parking lot. Lisa: That’s true. Hey, check out T ÆP TERIYAKI E TER Lisa Sellars Clackamas Print Cording to writers Megan Shaw and Lisa Sellars, this local kaki ¡estaraunt is a good deal. Oh Teriyaki is located next to j Burger King on the corner of Molalla Ave. and Beavercreek Rd. the menu. I really like how easy it is to read. Megan: Yeah, and there are pic tures! Lisa: Do. you know what you want? Megan: Hmm, let’s see- Teriyaki, Combination, Yakisoba or Specialty Plates. I think I’ll get the teriyaki chicken with yakisoba noodles. Lisa: Hey, me, too! Well, teri yaki chicken with rice, that is. Megan: Do you want chop sticks? Lisa: Sure, but I will probably use silverware. Oh, we need to check what time it is, to see how ■’long our food takes. And I’m defi nitely getting Mountain Dew; I’m so glad they have Pepsi products. Where do you want to sit? Megan: It doesn’t matter. How about this booth right here. Lisa: That works. Megan: That was fast! Lisa: Wow! It took them less than two minutes to get us dur food! That’s insane. Mmm, and it looks good. I’m so hungry. Wait, why are you rubbing your chopsticks together? Megan: Don’t ask me what I’m doing. I saw it in a movie once. Do you know how to use chopsticks? Lisa: Yes, ma’am, I do. *Picks Lisa Sellars Clackamas Print up chopsticks and shows Megan how to use them* Megan: Nice! Just like in the picture. Megan: This food is pretty good. I don’t like the mixed veg etables in it, though. At least I finally found another place to get yakisoba noodles. I can’t get them anywhere. There’s good music here too. I really like this place. Lisa: Yeah, I really like the food here. I think this is the perfect amount of food. Megan: Oh, I’m so full. Lisa: Stop putting your salad oh my plate! You’re making a mess. Do you not like your salad or some thing? Megan: It’s cabbage, dude, enough said. Lisa: I’m eating the broccoli out of mine though. It’s good. Man, it’s so cold in here. It probably doesn’t help that it’s empty. This place is a pretty good size, I just can’t believe no one is here. Oh man, look, it says on the drink machine that refills are 50 cents. Better buy the size you want, I guess! Megan: This is a good song! This place has some good jams. Lisa: It’s quiet, though. That’s so you can talk. I really wish they would have given us some extra napkins so I can clean things up. Go scrape your plate, Megan. They make you clean things up yourself here. Got a to go menu? Megan: I do now! Lisa: Good, I want to look at it. Dude I should have just gotten the lunch special! It’s two bucks cheap er and it’s basically the same thing. At least we spent under twenty bucks. How much was it again? Megan: We each spent $7.34. Lisa: Yeah, but mine was more. I left a tip. Megan: We need to come back here again; I really like it. The lady’s nice, the restaurant’s clean and their food is good and not too expensive. Lisa: I’m down. I just still can’t believe we got our food in under two minutes. That’s faster than fast food and you can just as easily get the food here to go. It’s a good deal all around.
