Hi! My name is Miha Chon. I am from Osaka Japan and I am a third generation Korean resident in Japan. From kindergarten to high school I have been to Korean school which provides a Korean national education. Thus I know how to read and write Korean, and to have a little conversation. Well, I would like to tell you about the details of why I came to Lewis and Clark College. I studied at a Japanese university for one and half years. It could be said that I enjoyed my college life. It will be very interesting for you to hear that in Japan, what we call college life consists of of club activities, parties, or part-time jobs. I spent most of my significant days with my swimming teammates. But at the same time my college life was incompatible with my longing to study international affairs and relations in America. I have grown up in a very complicated environment experiencing three cultures, Japan, South Korea, where my grand parents came from, and North Korea, whose education I have taken for nine years. I have many cousins in Japan, South Korea and also in North Korea. Wondering about those antagonistic three cultures, I have become very interested in international relations, especially their different and delicate diplomacies. After the spring semester of my sophomore year, I dared to quit the university and come to Lewis and Clark College. Until leaving Japan, I worked at three restaurants and a golf course on every weekend. That was what my parents rquired of me as a condition of coming to Lewis & Clark. What mostly fascinated me about this school were particularly its I.A courses, small community life, and solid financial aid programs. Unfortunately, my English is not good enough to take all undergraduate courses, so as a result, now I am taking this writing course and a seminar course from the ISALC.

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