{"id":210,"date":"2017-03-31T22:17:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T13:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/gip\/?p=210"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:50:43","slug":"yi-chen-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/gip\/students-voice\/210","title":{"rendered":"Yi Chen Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, I am Yi Chen from Michigan State University. I joined the Waseda Summer Session 2017 and I am glad to share some of my experiences.<\/p>\n

Since it was first time to come to Japan, I was somehow nervous at first. But after a month of life in Tokyo, I found that it\u2019s unnecessary to worry too much in here; I never worry about safety or communication with local residences, since Tokyo is very safe and most of Japanese are kind and helpful.<\/p>\n

In Waseda campus, I saw many awesome events and funny things, which are different from that in the US. Most of Waseda students were kind and polite; even some of them was not good at English, they were still patient to answer my questions. It was very cool to make some friends of Waseda regular students, since they are not the \u201cnerd\u201d students in Japan.<\/p>\n

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The events held by ICC and Student Interns were very funny to explore Japanese life and culture; my favorite event was Asakusa Scavenger Hunts, since it provided me a chance to know more about Japanese traditional culture. The only thing I had got a trouble with was the life costs in Tokyo. Many necessary costs, like transportation fees and foods, were more expensive than in the US or in my home country China.<\/p>\n\n\t\t