{"id":35599,"date":"2015-12-10T15:42:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T06:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=35599"},"modified":"2015-12-10T16:10:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T07:10:13","slug":"enjoying-wasedas-international-community-and-the-local-cuisine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/35599","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying Waseda&#8217;s international community and the local cuisine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"right\">Yoon Song Lee<br \/>\nFirst year student at the School of International Liberal Studies<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasedaweekly.jp\/upload\/1516\/1380_%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A2%E3%83%96_%E3%82%B5%E3%83%96%E3%82%AB%E3%83%83%E3%83%88.jpg\" width=\"209\" height=\"216\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I came from Korea this spring to study at the School of International Liberal Studies (SILS). My mother graduated from a Japanese university and recommended I study at Waseda. Because I had not decided on a major, SILS was very attractive because it allowed me to join an international community not far from home and \u00a0participate in a wide range of courses. I believe I will be able to discover my areas of interest and pursue my dreams here.<\/p>\n<p>I am currently attending politics, economics, and psychology classes. Studying with people from diverse cultural backgrounds has inspired me to explore intercultural-related fields. I am not yet certain which field I want to pursue, but in the future, I would like to be involved in activities that help protect the rights of women living overseas.<\/p>\n<p>One of the greatest difficulties for me studying and living in Japan is the use of polite Japanese. I find it very difficult to use different forms of speech when talking to my friends and to those who are older. On the other hand, a wonderful experience for me living in Japan is eating Japanese food. Japanese food is delicious and I have been enjoying a variety of flavors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasedaweekly.jp\/upload\/1516\/1380_%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A2%E3%83%96_%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you may notice, I am enjoying every day of my life here. If I have the opportunity, I would like to pursue my dreams in Japan after graduation. I look forward to seeing what the future holds for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Song Lee First year student at the School of International Liberal Studies I came from Korea this spring  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-35599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-students-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35605,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599\/revisions\/35605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}