{"id":12656,"date":"2020-01-29T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T01:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=12656"},"modified":"2020-02-03T19:03:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T00:03:36","slug":"how-to-make-friends-with-native-people-as-an-international-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/01\/29\/how-to-make-friends-with-native-people-as-an-international-student\/","title":{"rendered":"how to make friends with native people as an international student?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AW01302020-03.jpg\" alt=\"how to make friends with native people as an international student?\" class=\"wp-image-12648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AW01302020-03.jpg 500w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AW01302020-03-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AW01302020-03-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AW01302020-03-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>how to make friends with native people as an international student?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Find interests you have in common and focus on those. If you like sports, join an IM team. Board games? Join a club for that. Academically oriented? There are plenty of discipline-based clubs on campus to join. You&#8217;re going to have to get out of your comfort zone and meet new people. Note also: your English is probably better than you think it is. Don&#8217;t stress about the language as much and focus on the interaction. Good luck! I believe in you! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200203_0625562.jpg\" alt=\"Why did you assume English is not the above writer's first language? LOL\" class=\"wp-image-12726\" width=\"410\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200203_0625562.jpg 518w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200203_0625562-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><figcaption>Why did you assume English is not the above writer&#8217;s first language? LOL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nAh! You&#8217;re right. I was wrong to assume that. Please accept my apologies.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find interests you have in common and focus on those. If you like sports, join an IM team. Board games? Join a club for that. Academically oriented? There are plenty of discipline-based clubs on campus to join. You&#8217;re going to have to get out of your comfort zone and meet new people. Note also: your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/01\/29\/how-to-make-friends-with-native-people-as-an-international-student\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;how to make friends with native people as an international student?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12769,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656\/revisions\/12769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}