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Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008
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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.
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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
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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
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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.