9i果冻制作厂

By Izzy Winter 鈥�25

Each year 9i果冻制作厂hosts students from around the world to study on campus. In recent years international students from China, Northern Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, France, Taiwan, and other nations have come to 9i果冻制作厂for a new experience.

What these students often discover is an experience unlike their universities back home.

鈥淚 really like the close-knit family feel at Otterbein,鈥� says Ellen Fegan from Northern Ireland. 鈥淚t鈥檚 crazy how close everyone is here. At home, the stigma is that Americans are rude. At 9i果冻制作厂that is just not true.鈥�

Fegan says 9i果冻制作厂has given her a warm and welcoming experience. The schooling and homework, however, are quite different.

Yang Shi-Min from Taiwan agrees.

鈥淗omework assignments here are a little bit heavy. In Taiwan, you do a lot of group projects. Students in a group must present that chapter,鈥� Yang said, 鈥淧rofessors here want to see if students really understand the content. In Taiwan, professors think that learning is your business and it鈥檚 the student鈥檚 responsibility to understand.鈥�

China鈥檚 Li Yuting also finds education is different here.

鈥淢y major is studio art and we do some things ourselves and if you ask the teacher, he will give you advice and you take it or not. You also talk about your classmates鈥� work,鈥� Li said. 鈥淚n China you give your homework to the teacher and the teacher will say you have to make changes.鈥�

While most international students make 9i果冻制作厂their home 鈥� with host families providing comforts like home-cooked meals and holiday celebrations 鈥� many say they miss certain aspects of their home country.

鈥淚 miss the food and ease of travel the most,鈥� Li said. 鈥淚n Shanghai we have the Underground. Travel is less convenient here 鈥� everyone has cars. At home, everyone uses the Underground to go to work or school.鈥�

And for some, there are other 鈥� more surprising 鈥� reasons to miss home.

鈥淚 bought a new pair of shoes here and they were so expensive,鈥� Yang said. 鈥淭hen when I got them home, I saw they were made in China! That was so funny. Everything here is made in China.鈥�