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Hi I'm Desiree Popelka,
I'm from Switzerland and I'm 20 years old. |
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Hi I'm Ted, I'm 24 years old
and I'm from Belgium. |
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Irvine is in Orange County and
Orange County is like really in the movies, |
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like a lot of palm trees everywhere,
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really long beaches with white sands
and blue water. |
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It's always nice weather over here.
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Hollywood is also over here
so it's a lot of fun! |
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Kaplan Irvine is on the campus
from the Irvine Valley College |
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we can really feel here the
American way of life, so its cool, |
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its amazing here!
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When it comes to our teachers here
they all are definitely qualified |
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and they are very well experienced
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and they have worked with international
students in the USA or overseas. |
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Students can definitely find
what they are looking for |
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in terms of their classes here at Irvine.
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There's always a lot of interaction
and the teachers are always here |
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to help you if you have some trouble
with exercises or pronunciation skills, |
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there's no problem because they
are always there for you. |
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Because our centre is located on a campus,
the students have access |
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to all the campus facilities.
They can use the library. |
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The library has many different computers.
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They can also use student cafeteria,
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they can use student services centre,
they can play tennis, |
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and they can even join the
cheer leading team on campus. |
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Hey welcome to my homestay!
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My homestay is actually quite close
to Kaplan College. |
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This is the living room,
I really like chilling out over here |
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and watching some DVDs
and stuff like that. |
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This is my room check it out.
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It's really great because you really have
the atmosphere of a family, |
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you get to speak English everyday
and they're always very friendly |
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and you're like interacting all the time,
it's really nice. |
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At Kaplan you also have a lot of activities
for the students, |
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you have for example Potluck.
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Potluck is actually an activity
where a lot of international students |
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come together and they bring their own
kind of food from their home country. |
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So you can eat like Italian food
or you can eat Asian food |
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or Korean food all kinds of food.
It's really good! |
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With Kaplan you can go on a boat trip.
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You get to see the dolphins
and its like really amazing |
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because there's like a 100 of them
all swimming along with the boat, |
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swimming really fast.
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Yeah it's really nice
because they jump in the water |
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and it's like you always just see that
in the TV or something like that, |
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and now you see it and it's real,
and so it's amazing! |
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There are a lot of beaches around here.
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One of them I think is the most beautiful
is Laguna Beach. |
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It's so nice there, I really love swimming
in the sea and the waves are so big. |
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Its so amazing when you come out
from the water |
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and you're sitting down
and the sun goes down |
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and you look at the beautiful like a picture,
the view is great! |
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Going to Kaplan College was actually
a very good choice |
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because the atmosphere is great over here,
we get to meet a lot of people |
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and my English is improving everyday
actually with the exercises they give |
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and with the interaction,
so its really great. |
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I'm really happy that I decided to come here
because it's so nice |
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and the weather is so cool,
sunshine everyday |
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and we make really strong friendships here.
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My English has improved
a lot since I'm here. |
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It's amazing here!
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