The Advance

Issue date: 10/20/06 Section: News

Media Credit: Raphael Nzunga Jackson Chen and Jack Chen spend time studying together.

The KWU student body is made up of roughly 900 students and not every student making up that body is from the United States. Among the many students are two international students from China, meet Jack and Jackson Chen.

Although well off economically, these Chinese students are seeking someplace else to sustain their will to learn. The assumption is that the educational system in China is based on students learning theories and memorizing facts that they do not necessarily get a chance to practice, yet developed countries such as the United States are providing a place for those theories learned to be practiced.

While in China, Jack and Jackson learned through an agent that Jim Allen, a KWU International Student Advisor was speaking at Yu Shang hotel about the college's study abroad program. Now they are students at KWU, Jack is majoring in business and plans to return back to China upon graduation for three reasons. To reward his parents and family, to start his own company and hopefully get higher pay with his experienced abroad.

Jackson, a Math major on the other hand plans to be an architect back in China. Although they both miss their home country, minor differences in the students' lifestyle help them not think about home so often.
"It is strange to see that every student owns a vehicle" Jack said, for he is used to seeing students riding bicycles on campus back in China. They both enjoy the natural setting of the campus and take time watching squirrels running up and down on campus trees.

They feel socially accepted on campus and enjoy leisure time while playing ping-pong at Wilson Hall lobby, watching soccer games at Martin Stadium, reading books and partying on weekends.

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