Hi! How are you??
I want to advice about stuying English in Winippeg because I know that you want to come to Winnnipeg in the future!!
First, I recommend to live in a homestay because I had lived in a residence until August, and I have lived in a homestay since September. Both are good houses, but homestay is better than residence.
When I lived in a residence, I couldn't talk to foreigner many time because I was nervous and shy, so I coldn't say anything for forighner. And sometimes I didn't speak English all the day.Because there are many Japanese in a residence, so I used Japanese.
In homestay, I must speak English when I talk to my host mother and my roommate. I always talk about family, friends and class with them. So I can speak English and I can improve my English skills everyday. If you want to speak English everyday, you should live in a homestay.
Next, you should review English grammar and remenber many vocabularies before you come to Winnipeg. If you know English grammer and vocabularies, you will speak English soon. I regreted my studying English in Japan.
Third, you should bring a laptop, medicines, Japanese snacks and many clothes.
The laptop is the most important thing because you can talk to your family, friends on skype everyday. If you don't have a laptop. you will be homesick. And we have a presentation in class, power point can help our presentation.
And I want to tell you about weather.I think that you can't imagine winter weather. It is too cold, so you should bring a lot of warm clothes in here. In winter, you must wear scarf, hat and gloves.
Finally, I'm talking about food! You can eat Japanese food in Winnipeg because there are many Japanese restaurants. For example, sushi, tenpura, katsudon and takoyaki!! You can enjoy :-)))
I really miss you :'((( but we can meet in April!!!
Please tell me if you have some questions.
I hope that you will come to Winnipeg!!
Yoshiko, your letter is very helpful and informative. Do you have any friends in Japan that will come to IEP in the future?
ReplyDeleteI prefere homestay more than residence too!!
ReplyDeleteMy life is changed after I changed!!
Our host family will be our treasure forever!!! :D
I am also prefer homestay to residence.
ReplyDeleteBut it was very fun when we were in residence^^
Your hostfamily is very kind:))))!!
ReplyDeleteIt's good that we changed residence to homestay^^