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  • My name is Jessica and my Korean name is Mi Kyeong So. Yes, I'm from Korea. I'm in

  • the ELS (English Language Studies) program. I just came here 9 months ago. I just stay

  • one year. I welcome my friends to come here because

  • here in Conestoga College we have not too much Korean people here. In Korea we have

  • no chance to speak in English so we just learn about grammar, how to read, how to write so

  • we don't have any chance to speak in English. So here in Conestoga College not too much

  • Korean people here so we have to speak in English. We have to, yeah, here is more chance

  • to speak in English. More chance than living in Toronto, I think. One of my friends who

  • is living in Toronto she says, I don't have to speak in English here. Here it is just

  • like Korea because there is a lot of Koreans there. So I think here is very good to learn

  • English. So I want to recommend they come here.

  • My instructor. My teacher. Oh here teachers are so nice, very friendly, more- friendly

  • than in my country. Like a friend not teacher. We have no gap here. We are just like friends.

  • We go hang out somewhere. Lunch, sometimes we go to play squash at the Recreation Centre.

  • It's just like friends so I have very good memories about my teachers.

  • I want to be a teacher that teaches physical education. Actually, in my country my major

  • is physical education. Actually I want to teach phys ed to early child. I changed my

  • mind when I came here. I learned English so I want to teach physical education to early

  • child in English. Like speak in English when I teach them.

  • The best experience is Diversity week. Every semester we have Diversity/Culture Festival.

  • At the time I wore my Korean traditional dress and we have a fashion show. It was so awesome.

  • Another student introduced their country. So I can learn about another country. Yes,

  • so they explained this week -- Diversity/Culture Festival week -- it is so nice an experience

  • for me. I have a lot of different experiences here.

  • So I've changed my mind, and changed my thinking, changed my study style. Yes everything

  • has changed. And I want to live here. When I was in Korea, I loved Korea and didn't

  • want to go somewhere but now I want to live here. I want to more learn here and my thinking

  • is more-free, more enjoyable. Because in Korea, you always work hard, study hard, a lot of

  • competition. So stress. But here enjoy and study. Yeah I changed my thinking a lot here.

  • What you do here...counts out there.

My name is Jessica and my Korean name is Mi Kyeong So. Yes, I'm from Korea. I'm in

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