First it was like after my high school, I was looking for studying abroad.
My sister, she was in U.S. She was doing her undergrad.
I was starting to look for colleges in the U.S. and I found WIU's website.
I looked over it and I thought it was a really good school.
I think about WIU's section there was something about WIU being the best college in the midwest.
So I was really impressed by that, and that's how I chose WIU.
Well, for Western when I first applied I got a really good response.
Like a really quick response from email, and it was a very informative email.
Where as from the other universities, I had to wait a few days to get a response,
and that's what impressed me about WIU.
Therefore, I think one of the main things is just that people are more friendly
and they are always willing to help whereas the other universities that I applied to
they were kind of-they did email be back, but they were not so fast and not really imformative.
I think about the academics, we have diverse courses.
Like for me, my major is marketing which is in business,
and my minor is photography which is in arts.
In WIU we have like both the courses. I can take both courses at the same time, which is really good.
And all the like people are so friendly here, and my advisor is so helpful.
She helps me out with like if I have any concern I just email her.
So I think that's really good about WIU, and the professors are very friendly.
Whenever I have any kind of concerns I go and ask them, and when I tell them I'm international,
they are very friendly and nice. I like that about WIU.
My favorite class would be photography
because photography was like my hobby before, but after I came here I found out that we have a major in photography,
which I can do my minor in photography. I can do my major in marketing as well as do minor.
So I thought that was really good thing. For my second semester after I came here I took that up.
It's my favorite class because there's so much to do in that class, and it's so interesting.
How like everyones like involved, and all the students are talking to each other and doing group works together.
And that's how you build like, I think, teamwork. So, yea, I like that class the best.
I'm involved in IFC, International Friendship Club. I'm a country representative there.
Like last year for the international bazaar, Napal was second among all the countries.
I'm like involved in IFC as well and then there's this student's association Asian American student's association.
It's a small group and I'm involved with them too, and also a Nepalese student association.
I also take pictures for Western Courier. They have special evenings and stuff.
They assign one evening every week for a student, and I take pictures for them.
Macomb is like my home right now because I don't have a home in the U.S.
My home is like far away, and I have been staying here for one and a half years now,
and it's been like my own home, and I know people around here, so it's really good.
I feel safe. I'm like used to going around Macomb now, and it's a friendly place.
Whenever I want to do something with my friends, I can just go to movies or somewhere.
It's really good, and it's a really small town, so it's good. You can go around easily.
It's not like big cities where you get lost.
I would definitely recommend them to come to WIU because the experience I have gain here
I think I'm never going to forget about those,
and I would tell them about how the resources that I've used like we've talked about before.
I think WIU is a really good environment for international people because of the people being friendly.
And, there are a lot of international people here and we can come together.
And when there is some international friend you have you get really like, "oh, you're from a different country?"
It's like it's really good to know each other. And also, the Americans are very interested when we say we are from a different country.
I think it's a diverse group of people around here which would help us build a team, I guess,
and gain knowledge.