Encounter 3

Ho Chang is a first year student at Northwest from South Korea and has been in America since mid-July. I met him walking down the sidewalk and stopped him for an interview. Ho Chang tried to explain English was difficult because words have so many different meanings. The accents we use also make it difficult to form the word correctly. He enjoys literature in his country but its cultural essence is lost sometimes when translated to English or sometimes the moral of the story is interpreted differently. He would like everyone to understand he is just like other people too. He, and everyone back in Korea, just wants to have fun and be kids. He doesn’t like being looked at differently on campus because he is not American. He is close with an American he hangs out with in the dorms who he is good friends with and appreciates the effort his friend puts into explaining cultural differences.