It's been like three years since he's been in.

My video.

Makes it seem like a couple years since I've seen em.

You just moved back to Japan.

If you don't know who Greg is, let me do a quick flashback.

So great has moved back here and we decided to do another.

But you're talking about a university experiences because we've both been out of university for a while now, and it gave us some time to reflect on things and think about it a little more.

So I figured we do an updated version.

So I asked you guys for your questions on Twitter, and hopefully we can answer them and give you guys some tips and advice.

If you're thinking about coming to Japan for university, did you guys have a difficult time in union with a language barrier?

How was your experience?

For me, it wasn't too bad.

I mean, like in all countries, you usually use the language that you're trying to learn in the classroom.

So here was just all Japanese, so even like him at basic levels, they try to use kind of basic Japanese, but everything like if you have, like any, like questions, anything that's going to be in Japanese, too.

So it's just trying to get your cousin to the language.

But I mean, they do that in America, too.

So, like if you're like a Spanish speaker is only English in a glass room, so it's kind of the same.

So you get used to it over time.

Yeah, like it's kind of nice.

Even if you have a language ready to start with because they force you into using Japanese, you don't really have a choice.

You really do pick it up quite quickly.

Yeah, I had quite a solid level of Japanese before I entered university, so I didn't really have many problems.

But I did have some troubles with the classes that were like science or psychology.

That kind of stuff was a little difficult for me and Japanese.

But again, I heard the vocabulary every day, the same types of terms, and eventually I just got used to it.

So I really wasn't an issue for either of us.

I think I have jail, Petey sunk you, but is it enough to go to uni there as a normal student and not as an exchange student.

I believe for our university.

You needed Nick, you to be accepted as a degree student.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hey, I'm pretty sure it would be similar for other universities as well.

The gap between sunk you and Nick you is quite big.

So I think you do need those extra Yeah.

Vocabulary, too.

Get through your classes in university.

So I would recommend setting for Nick You.

How is the difficulty level of Japanese courses compared to the Canadian or American courses?

Well, for our university, it was really easy.

Did you feel that way too sometimes?

Like honestly, I felt like I was back in elementary school.

At times.

It was weird, but I've talked to other people that have been to both university in, like North America and Japan.

And they said that Japan is known for being very difficult to enter university and to get accepted into the one that you want to be in.

But then the classes themselves and graduating is rather easy.

So that was definitely my experience.

Yeah, you felt the same classes in Japan are very lenient, actually.

So it's actually very easy to kind of Patrick classes.

Yeah.

I feel like the teachers were too nice to students.

Yes, but such a good thing.

But, I mean, it could probably very from university universe.

I'm sure it does.

Yeah, like I'm sure there are strict universities in Japan, maybe Like, what setter in you.

No more.

Higher level universities probably are not as lenient, so yeah, I would expect a little more from them, but I feel like university in Canada is rather difficult.

The professor's air really strict.

And if you skip a class euro do, There's some professors that are super strict like that.

They wouldn't accept you falling asleep in class or showing up late, whereas in Japan you could just not show up for health the term and it was pretty bad.

But that's pretty true.

What was the food like when you guys went to uni?

Was cafeteria food actually decent?

Or was the company the choice of students?

Well, for me, always abroad have been so this little I usually made my own lunch, and I would always bring it to school.

And Craig was known for that Curry.

I like cooking.

Uh, pretty much always brought food.

It was kind of the same thing.

A lot of times I wouldn't mix and match certain and vegetables every once in a while, but pretty much I don't know.

I enjoy cooking more than, um, buying food.

But I think a few times I got, um, some of the cafeteria food.

We actually have a lot of food at.

Our cafeteria is a lot of choices.

We have like noodles, ramen, noodle, soba.

There was a little bakery that's on some breads, hot dogs, that kind of thing's different bread, like the hot dog and a bread, the being pacing of bread, things and bread, what else way had, like curry like, Hey, Shoko dishes with, like, some kind of meat and then race and then salad.

There was really a big selection, and the food was decent.

I didn't eat in the cafeteria.

Sometimes I really did like going to the comedian.

Getting rice balls like that is also I think it was a balance of both.

They were both good.

Are part time jobs doable for students?

I had a part time job.

I taught English part time.

Did you do any work?

Clear?

Um, well, at the beginning, I didn't do any work at all.

But towards the end, I started teaching to it is legal to work part time on a student visa.

You just have to apply for permission to do it.

You won't have the permission right away.

I believe when you get your visa.

So you need to send in those forms.

And I think all the time they will accept it.

Yeah.

I don't think I've ever heard of anyone getting tonight, and then you'll be allowed to work.

What was that?

28 hours a week.

So that's a good chunk of time that they allow you to work.

You can make a decent amount of money working part time, but it may be a little different from the university because sometimes they'll tell you, like, even though said you could do 28 they only allow you to do 20 right?

Your university might have rules, but limit the amount of hours they want you to work because our university was strict with some students.

Yeah, they wanted them to focus more on their studies than on work.

So it depends on the universities, but legally you are allowed to work as a student if you apply for permission.

Was it weird being a foreigner?

Did you get along with everybody?

I wouldn't say weird.

We did kind of stand out.

Our school had lots of Asian foreigners, lots of Chinese and Korean students on not as many students from America and Europe.

So we did kind of stand out among the foreigner group.

I wouldn't call it weird.

People didn't like talking to us because we were the foreigners and they wanted to practice English or get to know us.

Um, I enjoyed my experience.

Yeah, me too.

Did the professor give you any special treatment, or was it the same with everyone in one of my courses?

They did give me special treatment.

Um, it was a course learning about eight and a the Japanese flight company and learning how to be a stewardess and all the like ins and outs of the flight industry.

And the exam was so hard, it was so hard.

And I got to the last question and it was an essay and it had to be handwritten in Japanese, and I was so slow it writing, so I couldn't finish it before the time limit was up.

So I brought it up to teacher.

Now it's like, I'm so sorry.

I write really slow in Japanese.

He's, like, always.

Okay.

You did really well in class.

I know you understand the material, so I'll give you a decent mark regardless, whereas, like, a Japanese person wouldn't get that.

So in some cases, we take it I got special treatment, you know?

Well, I mean, I didn't, but I know like, based off of, like, learning conjure Conti is kind of hard, especially when you're in different classes that are full Japanese ladies.

I mean, it's hard for us to like.

Well, I mean, some people are depending on how much time do you actually study?

If you say a lot of country, if you practice the writing strikes and all that, then you get faster.

But if you don't, it's kind of hard for us to just No, no, the comedy and I could do it at the same time for, like, essays and so right and under a time limit.

So, yeah, they were a little vignette with us, which was helpful.

It's not like we used it and took advantage of that.

We tried our best, but when it was impossible, they were really nice about it.

So it was nice.

So it's a nice thing.

What were you guys like in university versus how you are now?

Am I any different?

No.

Still very nice person, actually.

Like, we're exactly the same.

Yeah, like my first, Like, real friend here.

Yeah, probably.

I think so.

Yeah.

Greg was always one of my best friends here.

What were the professor's like in you?

They were nice.

I had a few that were very nice that would, like, try to crack jokes in stone.

But he that depends.

If if they studied in like America, then they probably know how to kind of crack some jokes.

So that made it like fun.

Yeah, but if they didn't study that, they never jokes.

Really.

I kind of felt like the professors were divided between, like, kind of.

I want to see, like, foreign style of teaching, rather like having fun.

And they're really relaxed And then, like, hardcore Japanese lecture style, where they literally just stand in front of the class and lecture you.

Nothing else.

You just sit there and listen to them talk.

He was a balance of the two.

Yeah, which was kind of cool.

I got to see both sides.

I definitely learned more Japanese in the lecture classes, but I really liked almost a sensitive way.

Have this one really cool teacher.

He was like the fun.

We came to the university today to visit our teachers.

So you guys could meet our favorite teacher all Moto Sensa.

Was I a good student?

Yes, you get Oh, he's so small.

How can I fight a transfer?

My second year of college.

What are the steps to take to apply for a uni from America?

Well, for majority people, what you would have to do is you would try to come here.

So you would try to, like, study abroad here for at least one year.

And then you get in.

You probably try to figure out if you want to actually be here.

Yeah, And then from that, then you would talk to your university about doing the forms, and then you would take care of the forms.

And, you know, you said that back home and then he tried for that.

I'll see you transferred in lots of forms.

But I guess if you're in university in your home country now and you don't know where to start, go to your international office.

There's usually an international office that deals with exchange students and students that want to go on exchanges.

So find that office and just pop in there and ask them what programs they help for Japan and see if they have anything to offer you.

My school never talked to us about opportunity.

So you exchanges, so I was never aware of them.

I just went in.

There was like, Hey, I want to go to Japan.

You guys help me out.

Is there anything?

And they set me up with everything.

It was left the paperwork and lots of visa stuff and lots of not fun, you know, stuff like that.

But it was doable.

So, yeah, just go into your office and ask for their advice.

My a little different they actually like.

If you were in the language class, they would always come in like our international Sameer would have people come in that studied abroad.

You talked to you like so, like if you I was in Japanese class of the time so they would send into my dad's been to Japan before anyone else about how they lived there from one year or how they lived there for six months and how it was for them and and obviously they love because they wouldn't go inside the club because of you.

But they did, and then they would try to basically get us to go in and sign up to go abroad so far in Spanish class or anything like that.

They did the same thing, but somebody that went to Spain or Mexico.

So yeah, so cool.

They didn't do that.