Month: February 2017

(Noah) Gi Don Kang is a first year student attending KCC majoring in Korean. He is full Korean, and after living in Korea for 11 years, he moved to Hawaiʻi nine years ago and graduated from Kalani High School. Kang said that he originally planned to attend UH, however, since he didn’t have his green card at the time, he said it was much easier for him to start off at KCC. Now that he has his green card, he plans on transferring to UH Mānoa for the Fall 2017 semester to get into the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM).

“I think that KCC is just a very family oriented [place],” Kang said. “Everyone kind of knows each other and … the environment is really nice because everyone’s just so nice to each other and so helpful.”

Ali Petrucci is currently in her second semester at KCC and is majoring in biology so that she can eventually go into medical school.  Ali is originally from Bogota, the capitol of Colombia, but she moved to Hawaiʻi because her husband is in the military and was stationed on Oʻahu.

Ali loves the people and culture of Hawaiʻi and often rides her bike to experience everything the island has to offer.

“I’m also trying to learn how to play the ‘ukulele right now, so I’m spending a bit of time on that,” says Ali. “Other than that, I’m just going to school.”