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Student Housing

by Masa Maruyama


International students have problem with housing that they are hard to find their room. Usually, they have to get housing information from the internet and friend’s information someone who lives in Hawaii. However, if they lived in Hawaii, they could get information from newspapers or bulletin boards. Moreover, Hawaii’s Lands prices are expensive.

Cost of living in Hawaii is very expensive. International students pay between 500 dollars to 1350 dollars. Many students are living in Honolulu, such as Waikiki, Ala moana, Makiki, Manoa, etc. Some international students are living alone or sharing. Some are living with host family or their relatives.

Maybe many international students were hard to find their place. However, KCC has a very good institution which called Honda International Center. This institution is for only international students. It gives them very good information for living in Hawaii. This is good news for international students. Not only about living information, but also center gives them about college information, such as major things, transfer things, etc.

Hawaii is good place to live. However, there is a problem is that housing. Many international students have been this problem, and they are puzzling about it. Hawaii’s cost of living has been rising, and also students are hard to find own place to live. By the way, Why KCC does not have a dormitory for international students, even it is for not international students?


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