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We have arranged to pick up Waseda students at the airport as a group. If you are making individual travel plans, please try to arrive at the same time (or near the same time) as the group, so you can ride in the group van. Please give your arrival date, time, airline, and flight number to Mr. Noriyuki Norizone at the Center for International Education; we will do our best to make special arrangements.
If you arrive at a very different time from the rest of the group, it may be necessary for you to take a taxi (about $40) to the school. If you must take a taxi, tell the driver to go to Lewis & Clark College on Palatine Hill Road. The driver should look for Gate #6; we are just a little way inside Gate 6, in Huddleson II, the second small brown house on the right side of the street. The sign in front of our building says American Language Institute, ISALC. Our office is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Our office telephone is 768-7310. We have voice mail, so you can leave a message if the office is closed. If you have an emergency, you may call Mr. Yoshida at his home at 244-9437. If you call from outside Portland, you must first dial 503 before the number.
Summer in Portland can be hot and sunny or cool and rainy; bring clothes for both types of weather. Students wear informal, casual clothes; both men and women wear blue jeans to class. You may want to bring something more formal to wear at the closing dinner.
You may feel homesick from time to time; some posters or pictures from your country will decorate your room and remind you of home. If you think you will miss a special food, you may also want to bring a cookbook and some special spices or tea. The residence hall has a small kitchen where you can prepare some simple dishes, and there is easy access by bus to a supermarket.
HOUSING, MEAL SERVICE, and LAUNDRY
The Lewis & Clark campus is safe and beautiful. Residence halls are secured buildings; outside doors are locked, and only persons living on campus can enter. An identification card is necessary to unlock the outer door. Each resident will also have a key to the door of his or her individual room. You must be careful with your key, as you will need to pay $50 to replace it if you lose it. You will know your individual room and telephone number before you arrive. (Read the MAIL section for directions about sending and receiving letters and packages at the campus post office.)
Housing will be in Spruce Hall (Forest Center); most students will share a room with one or two roommates. Men and women will live on separate floors. Bed and bath linens are provided; each resident will have sheets, blankets, a pillow and pillowcase, a bath towel, hand towel, and washcloth. Meals will be served in the dining room at Templeton Student Center.
To use the washing machines and dryers in the residence hall, you will need to buy a card with a magnetic code. It is like a credit card. You can then put a certain amount of credit on the card and use it until the credit runs out.
While you are at Lewis & Clark, you will have two identification cards. One card will give you entry to Spruce Hall and to athletic facilities on campus; the other will be used at the library when you check out books or videos.
A telephone set will be provided for each Spruce room. You can make long-distance calls with a phone card which you can buy at the college bookstore; the cards are $16 to $27 for a fixed number of minutes. We will send you the telephone number of your room before you arrive so that your family and friends will know how to reach you by phone.
Voice mail service is included with your telephone, so your friends and family can leave you a message if you are out when they call.
Every Waseda student at Lewis & Clark will have an e-mail account and Internet access. Students will go to the computer/language lab daily with their classes; they can also use the computer labs at any open time when class is not in session.
If your friends or family have computers, you can send them e-mail from Lewis & Clark. Please make sure your e-mail provider is operating properly by mailing to us at: isalc@lclark.edu before your arrival. When we respond, you will know that your e-mail works internationally. If we do not respond, please fax us with your e-mail address, and check your e-mail provider to see if you have the correct address to receive international messages.
You may also want to show family members how to send and receive e-mail (if you have a computer at home), so that they can send you messages. Unlike calling long-distance, there is no charge for sending or receiving e-mail!
Be sure to let your family and friends know they should send letters to the campus mailbox for the Waseda Program, not your residence hall room number. The college post office handles all incoming and outgoing mail. Your friends and family should address letters to you this way:
(your name)Waseda Program MSC #125
Lewis & Clark College
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road
Portland, OR 97219-7899
USA
You can send packages home by DHL, UPS, or Federal Express (pre-paid). The mail room does not accept checks, so you will need to pay cash if you are mailing a package. Postage stamps are available from the post office.
Most purchases at grocery and department stores in the United States are made by check. Since you will be in the country only a short time, it is advisable to carry credit cards or travelers' checks. There is an ATM in Templeton Student Center, and you may cash traveler's checks at the college Cashier's Office for up to $100.
Portland has a good bus system. From 7:15 a.m. to 7:15 p.m. on weekdays (shorter hours on weekends), there is a Tri-Met (city system) bus every half-hour from Lewis & Clark to a transit center (bus stop) with frequent service to downtown Portland. If you plan to travel by bus often, you can buy a set of 10 individual tickets at the Campus Safety Office for $10.00.
Portland has what is called the "Fareless Square" system; while you are in the downtown area, you can get on any bus without a ticket, as long as you ride within the free zone; just say "Fareless" to the driver, and ask the driver to announce the last stop in Fareless Square, the free zone. This allows you to save your individual tickets for riding to and from the college. Also, each individual ticket is good for an hour on weekdays and for two hours on the weekend, no matter how many buses you ride. You can transfer between buses or even ride and return, using only one ticket, if all your travel is done within two hours. Be sure to ask the bus driver for a transfer when you offer your ticket; you can show the transfer on your return trip (within two hours) without having to use a second ticket.
Numerous hospitals are located in Portland; all provide 24-hour emergency care. For less-urgent care (illness or minor accidents), there are doctor's offices open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. every day. We will give you addresses of hospitals and doctor's offices after you arrive.
All students must have insurance that will pay for hospital charges, or for accidents and illnesses requiring a doctor's care. If you have traveler's insurance that pays for medical and health charges, you must bring information with you about your insurance coverage; you should have a card that shows your name and policy number, and the name and address of your insurance agent in the United States. Only insurance companies with branch offices in the USA are acceptable for medical insurance. If you must go to the doctor or to a hospital and you cannot show this card, you will have to pay the entire cost of your medical care.
Dental care in the United States is very good, but very expensive. Because dental care is not covered by insurance, you might want to have any problems taken care of before you come.
You should bring an extra pair of glasses or contact lenses. We also suggest that you bring prescriptions (translated) from your doctor and a supply of any medicine that you take regularly.
Do you still have questions about life at Lewis & Clark? E-mail us and ask your questions!
email address: isalc@lclark.edufax number: 503-768-7320
office phone number: 503-768-7310
Our fax line is available 24 hours every day; our office phone is staffed from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. every weekday. If we are on the phone or out of the office, you will reach our voice-mail; in that case, please leave us a message, speaking slowly and clearly, and tell us how we can reach you.
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