So, college. It's a big deal. For you, I mean. It wasn't a very big deal for me. But since you're my little sister, it's a big deal. If you want I can take you around the campus and show you where things are, like the writing center and the math lab and the best places to go if you want to sit and enjoy the academic vista or just go to sleep for a while (there are an abundance of comfortable nooks and crannies in which to chill between classes). But if Nicole's still going there she can probably show you around too. Anyway, whatever works. It's a pretty cool school. I have to make sure you don't take it for granted because if you go to a four-year university there's a 100% chance that it won't be as slick as JCCC is.
It is pretty cool that you have a resolution to save money. In the distant past, I also saved money. Those were good times. I really didn't appreciate those times. But they were good. Though I have always remembered that for school, forever ago, I read this little kid's history book about Benjamin Franklin, you know the kind that takes a lot of creative liberties with the lives of the forefathers, and how when he was growing up his father nurtured his young mind by inviting intellectuals to dinner every week or whatever, and once there was a man they had over for dinner who had once been very poor, and was now very rich, and he said to little Benjamin Franklin, "If you are poor, save every penny you have, and you will become rich." I don't know, I just always remembered that.
If there's one thing I have a lot of, it's pennies. And nickels. I use all my quarters for laundry, and all my dines for printing, which leaves an almost completely useless collection of pennies and nickels in my change jar. I take the John Green stance on currency so small it's become obsolete: get rid of it altogether, and enjoy convenient cash-paying experiences once again.
I didn't finish that show. I recently started watching two shows that just started airing, King 2 Hearts (the one with Seunggi) which is a political romance and pretty interesting all around, and Rooftop Prince (the one with the guy from JYJ), which involves time travel and is as riotously fun as it is silly. They are both quite good and have a lot of things I like about kdramas in general. Rooftop Prince has that awesome thing that I know you love: the entourage of non-love interest guys who are basically the most awesome brofriends ever. Think Kim Joon and Kim Bum only funnier and (possibly) better looking. Except one of them is younger than me, which I find strange.
Have you heard of Sungkyunkwan Scandal? I keep hearing about it because it has that same guy from JYJ in it and also Park Min Young. Apparently she's disguised as a guy for a while in it? I just don't understand how some casting director looked at Park Min Young and said, "yeah, we could definitely make her look like a guy." She's like the cutest and most petite person ever, plus I'd be surprised if she's any more than five feet tall. If she was going to try being a guy, it would have to be a fourteen-year-old boy. Anyway, I've heard it's good so maybe I'll think about it when I have the time and my list of Dramas I'm Watching has thinned.
So you know that BB song called Big Boy, and how there's this part where TOP yells something in English that I couldn't figure out for months? Well I only just realized that he's yelling "We need a club banger", whatever that means. It doesn't sound like club banger, anyway. It sounds more like "purpringle", which is altogether more entertaining.
-Amy
P.S. The president's gardener is hitting golf balls around the back garden again. It's all very surreal, especially since he possesses such a whimsical bramble of grey hair.
P.P.S. My word of the day is 약속, because it is pretty versatile. It means "promise", and both a verb and a noun, but it can also mean engagement or appointment, which probably makes appointments a little more sacred I should think. Anyway, it's a good word, you should notice it because they use it a lot in songs and dramas. It's just one of those words.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
I Will Proceed to Talk About How Awesome 2PM Is.
안녕하세요!
At first I was going to say, “I will
proceed to talk about how awesome Taec is” and then I remembered
that part (“that part” I think I mean, “The Part”) where
Wooyoung was too boss for words. Also, he spoke English, and his
first line was “Is it my turn already?” which, I saw a talk show
where there were a bunch of Koreans saying this. I was like, “What
does that sentence have to do with anything?” Now I know.
But anyway, pretty much everything
about this show is awesome except the main girl. Seem familiar? Yeah.
Taec is awesome. Wooyoung is awesome. And I'm pretty sure IU is
awesome too. She was wearing a crazy costume, but I'm pretty sure it
was her. Here's all I know about her. “Is it my turn already?” -
Wooyoung, “No. Number....goo ship eel...will go next.” - IU.
-major clique paragraph coming up-
So I know what you're talking about
with the person-who-doesn't-get-the-girl, but its not like that in
every show for me(I was never a JiHoo shipper). But some shows it was
pretty intense, mainly because the guy she DID get with is STUPID,
and LAME (you're beautiful. He wasn't THAT bad, but he was pretty
horrible, and seemed even more horrible because Jeremy and ShinWoo
were so awesome.). As I said I wasn't a JiHoo shipper, but I
definitely had my “OH my gosh Joon Pyo SOO DUMB” (so all in all I
was really an Asian James and WooBin shipper), so it was a nice
change when, in Hana Kimi, even though Nakatsu was cooler and funnier
than Sano, Sano was still pretty awesome. That's kind of how it was
in Cinderella's Sister. The guy who got her in the end was really
cool, but, I mean...Taec.
Did you finish that
show with Seunggi? I forgot what it was called. (I wish there was a
show with Seungri. I would watch it. Forever.)
How's Rooftop
Prince? I don't really like JYJ. I never really liked DBSK, and then
when they split up their better half (which wasn't that much better)
stayed, and the other ones left. I kind of think of JYJ as wimps
because they just weren't man enough to live through the Slave
Contracts like everyone else. I mean GOSH, thirteen years is a lot,
but its not like they're going to lose their voice or something in
that time. I just read an interview with Joon where he talked about
the uncertainty of Idol's future, and he was really anxious about
what he was going to do when he wasn't a thing anymore. He said he
wanted to be a “Real dignified actor”. I've never seen him act
before, but I'm sure he could pull it off, cause he pulls off
everything else. (see what I did there? ehehehehe)
I don't really have A's, but I don't
have C's either. Speaking of grades, mom has to grade my school so I
can go take a placement text next week. The next week and then the
next few months are going to be very pioneering. What I mean is in
this next week I will take the placement test for COLLEGE, and start
the market. That'll be pretty cool.
And then the next few months, I'm
having my first musical play, my third dance performance, get a new
foreign exchange student, decide if I'm going to Korea or not, get my
first job that is not my family's, and start going to Juco.
Anyway, I know everyone hates it when I
talk about my future, because its so far and unsure that its annoying
to think about.
Making money is really cool, as you
implied, but whats even cooler is saving money.
I'm hoping to save $5,000 this year. I know that it probably won't
happen, but I'm still going to try.
I like your Korean
word, but as it turns out, learned what that word meant about three
days ago when I got all my 2PM music, because there's one song where
they say, “너머 사랑해” and I was watching a lyric video
(something I never do unless I'm making an MP3) and it said, “I
love you so much” and then I already knew about that part in the
SHINee song, and they also say “shes too beautiful” in 10 points
out of 10.
This post's Korean
word is “울지 마” which means “Don't cry.”
“울지 마,
가지마. 날 따라와.”
Haha
-Michelle
안녕
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
I Write Long Blog Posts to compensate for my Lack of Social Interaction
That is a pretty cute little boy. I would enjoy having such a little boy in my life, but alas there are none. I am alone in a wasteland of dull young adults.
They are not really dull. But there sure are a lot of them.
I got stood up today by the Korean person I was supposed to meet. I suspect there was a failure in communication or something of that sort. Ah well, I suppose these things do happen.
Due to my recent Educational Resolutions, I finally achieved the coveted A on a test in Geology. Up until now I have always gotten Cs and Bs, but finally I wised up and breezed right through that test like it was a jar of peanut butter, and I was someone who really likes peanut butter. In fact, I did so well on it that I actually got 101%, thanks to a couple of suspiciously easy extra credit questions. I feel like extra credit questions should always be harder than the rest, so it takes extra effort to get a few more points.
Not that I'm complaining, though. I have the sneaking suspicion that I aced the lab test as well (the extra credit question on it did turn out to be too hard for me to do, though, because it required the use of a calculator that I didn't have. Apparently the teacher assumed that everyone had a calculator on their phone and didn't think to tell anyone to actually bring one. Hah! watch me disprove your convictions that every lazy, snotty college student is joined at the hip with a cellphone that has such capabilities).
So I have a sort-of job interview this Friday. I am one of the first people being interviewed, so I hope I can make a good impression. If I get this job, I will sign up for any hours I'm not in class, even ones late at night, because I want to fulfill the 20-hour-per-week maximum and wring as much income as possible out of minimum wage. Here are my goals for what to do with that income:
1. Buy my own meal plan and food
2. Get back to paying my own insurance
3. Have enough money left over to get a phone plan
You may not realize this, but having a phone in college is much more important than having a phone in high school, because not only is it essential to a lot of social interactions, it's also important for academic and business reasons. Since I don't have texting, I've had to pass up a lot of opportunities to stay in touch with people because their preferred method of communication is texting, especially international students because they have a hard time talking on the phone. So when I have some money that I can call my own, that's one of the first things I'll get, so I can actually keep friends.
Last night, I willingly left a large portion of my homework for today because I had the express intention of enjoying my Tuesday evening with no distractions of the academic sort. Sometimes you just have to schedule that sort of thing, and I needed to reward myself for kicking my own butt to get an A on that Geology test. Anyway, I sat down with a bowl of ramen and a bottle of sriracha (not kidding, best college purchase I've ever made besides peanut butter. DELICIOUS PAIN) and watched a couple of episodes of that show Rooftop Prince that's airing right now. Okay so turns out one of the villains is played by the actor who played my absolute favorite character in Playful Kiss (kdrama law dictates that my favorite character is almost always the one who doesn't get the girl in the end despite confessing his love and also being awesome, wouldn't you agree?). As a villain, he is delightful. He doesn't look much like one, but he murders someone in like the first scene. So I guess actions speak louder than appearances, or however that saying goes.
So then, just when I was really starting to like the show, I realized that the main character is Micky from JYJ. Weird, right? It's actually pretty cool to start watching a drama and then realize that one of the characters is a world-famous musician (odd fact of the day... JYJ is for some reason wildly popular in South America).
Since you mentioned a Korean word of the week, I'll raise you one and give you a Korean word of the day. Mine is 너무. For a long time I had assumed that it was one of the words for "you" because it had 너 in it, but today I saw it in a sentence that didn't make sense until I looked it up, and turns out it means "too", as in "too much" or "too many". So SHINee was really saying "Noona, you're just too pretty" after all.
I have to go do a lot of reading. In Literature for Adolescents we are reading Slaughterhouse-Five. It is a little strange but it became more enjoyable after I realized that it seems to have quite a few stylistic similarities to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. After that I only have three literary analyses to write for tomorrow, and I'm good to go.
There is an Egyptian guy watching a Taylor Swift music video in the next row of computers (I'm in the computer lab). It is interesting.
-Amy
P.S. There is a flier on my desk advertising a country Western night on campus, with line dancing instruction and contests involving such things as "cow head roping" and "best country outfit" (I am not sure what that entails). I guess there is a market for that sort of thing out here, but it still made me laugh a little inside.
They are not really dull. But there sure are a lot of them.
I got stood up today by the Korean person I was supposed to meet. I suspect there was a failure in communication or something of that sort. Ah well, I suppose these things do happen.
Due to my recent Educational Resolutions, I finally achieved the coveted A on a test in Geology. Up until now I have always gotten Cs and Bs, but finally I wised up and breezed right through that test like it was a jar of peanut butter, and I was someone who really likes peanut butter. In fact, I did so well on it that I actually got 101%, thanks to a couple of suspiciously easy extra credit questions. I feel like extra credit questions should always be harder than the rest, so it takes extra effort to get a few more points.
Not that I'm complaining, though. I have the sneaking suspicion that I aced the lab test as well (the extra credit question on it did turn out to be too hard for me to do, though, because it required the use of a calculator that I didn't have. Apparently the teacher assumed that everyone had a calculator on their phone and didn't think to tell anyone to actually bring one. Hah! watch me disprove your convictions that every lazy, snotty college student is joined at the hip with a cellphone that has such capabilities).
So I have a sort-of job interview this Friday. I am one of the first people being interviewed, so I hope I can make a good impression. If I get this job, I will sign up for any hours I'm not in class, even ones late at night, because I want to fulfill the 20-hour-per-week maximum and wring as much income as possible out of minimum wage. Here are my goals for what to do with that income:
1. Buy my own meal plan and food
2. Get back to paying my own insurance
3. Have enough money left over to get a phone plan
You may not realize this, but having a phone in college is much more important than having a phone in high school, because not only is it essential to a lot of social interactions, it's also important for academic and business reasons. Since I don't have texting, I've had to pass up a lot of opportunities to stay in touch with people because their preferred method of communication is texting, especially international students because they have a hard time talking on the phone. So when I have some money that I can call my own, that's one of the first things I'll get, so I can actually keep friends.
Last night, I willingly left a large portion of my homework for today because I had the express intention of enjoying my Tuesday evening with no distractions of the academic sort. Sometimes you just have to schedule that sort of thing, and I needed to reward myself for kicking my own butt to get an A on that Geology test. Anyway, I sat down with a bowl of ramen and a bottle of sriracha (not kidding, best college purchase I've ever made besides peanut butter. DELICIOUS PAIN) and watched a couple of episodes of that show Rooftop Prince that's airing right now. Okay so turns out one of the villains is played by the actor who played my absolute favorite character in Playful Kiss (kdrama law dictates that my favorite character is almost always the one who doesn't get the girl in the end despite confessing his love and also being awesome, wouldn't you agree?). As a villain, he is delightful. He doesn't look much like one, but he murders someone in like the first scene. So I guess actions speak louder than appearances, or however that saying goes.
So then, just when I was really starting to like the show, I realized that the main character is Micky from JYJ. Weird, right? It's actually pretty cool to start watching a drama and then realize that one of the characters is a world-famous musician (odd fact of the day... JYJ is for some reason wildly popular in South America).
Since you mentioned a Korean word of the week, I'll raise you one and give you a Korean word of the day. Mine is 너무. For a long time I had assumed that it was one of the words for "you" because it had 너 in it, but today I saw it in a sentence that didn't make sense until I looked it up, and turns out it means "too", as in "too much" or "too many". So SHINee was really saying "Noona, you're just too pretty" after all.
I have to go do a lot of reading. In Literature for Adolescents we are reading Slaughterhouse-Five. It is a little strange but it became more enjoyable after I realized that it seems to have quite a few stylistic similarities to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. After that I only have three literary analyses to write for tomorrow, and I'm good to go.
There is an Egyptian guy watching a Taylor Swift music video in the next row of computers (I'm in the computer lab). It is interesting.
-Amy
P.S. There is a flier on my desk advertising a country Western night on campus, with line dancing instruction and contests involving such things as "cow head roping" and "best country outfit" (I am not sure what that entails). I guess there is a market for that sort of thing out here, but it still made me laugh a little inside.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
My Favorite Little Boy
When I say little boy I don't mean "small person that is my age or older" I literally mean little boy. He's like eight or something and he's on this show Cinderella's Sister that I'm watching. Usually he's annoying, and I wish they took more advantage of his cuteness. He's pretty much there so they can say stuff like, "I have to take Dong Soo to school" and then conveniently be gone. He's never in the way, and he's only there when he needs to be for other people's plot lines. Anyway, in this last episode I watched, he really had a shining moment.
The scene begins at 0:34 of this video and continues on until 2:10. Mind you this show is not one of those shows to have this stuff every once and a while. it was totally out of the blue and I was very pleasantly surprised. (just so you aren't totally confused, the premise of the scene is that's her little brother and shes taking him to school, and her mom just ran away, and he kind of hates the main girl because shes a horrible person and she ignores him a lot.)
So that's one of the reasons I love K-dramas. Here's another: instead of telling this girl he liked her, he said, "I'm going to allow myself to worry about you". I love how they can get away with that. or "Stop it. It makes me so anxious when you flounder around."
I like both Min Young and Min Seung. And I will take your advice and wait. Its not like I'm in a huge hurry or anything.
This weeks Korean word (its a thing now. I'll try to put new words I've learned on every blog post) is:
그러니까 (Kuronikka) which means "so". not like "So much" but like, "So what are you doing this afternoon"
-Michelle
(short post, yay!)
The scene begins at 0:34 of this video and continues on until 2:10. Mind you this show is not one of those shows to have this stuff every once and a while. it was totally out of the blue and I was very pleasantly surprised. (just so you aren't totally confused, the premise of the scene is that's her little brother and shes taking him to school, and her mom just ran away, and he kind of hates the main girl because shes a horrible person and she ignores him a lot.)
So that's one of the reasons I love K-dramas. Here's another: instead of telling this girl he liked her, he said, "I'm going to allow myself to worry about you". I love how they can get away with that. or "Stop it. It makes me so anxious when you flounder around."
I like both Min Young and Min Seung. And I will take your advice and wait. Its not like I'm in a huge hurry or anything.
This weeks Korean word (its a thing now. I'll try to put new words I've learned on every blog post) is:
그러니까 (Kuronikka) which means "so". not like "So much" but like, "So what are you doing this afternoon"
-Michelle
(short post, yay!)
Why So Studious?
Your names are good but I am not sure about Joon as a girl's name. I feel that Min Seung is good. I was going to say Min Seong, but apparently that's a guy's name. How does a single vowel sound change the entire gender? (a rhetorical question, of course, since such a thing is common enough in French. Sad face) I also like Min Young, if you're not opposed to sharing a name with our favorite tiny heroine. Other names I thought of just now:
NaRa
Seong Ah (or Seung Ah, whichever you prefer)
Seon Ki (you can spell it Sun Ki if you like)
Anyway that's about it. I don't think you should really settle on a name until you've found somewhere that can tell you what they all mean. Because the meanings are important too.
I was not aware that pouring boiling water on weeds was a practiced method for getting rid of them, but I guess it sounds legitimate enough. But why not use the same kettle for both home and garden uses? After all, boiled water is boiled water, no matter where it was boiled. I'm sorry that I didn't hear about this kettle debacle sooner, so I could have returned the one I have to Mor Mor. Even so, it's a bit junky, since it's rusted in a few places and has a small leak where the spout meets the pot, so I rather think she's better off with a new one.
As for the far future, I have probably thought about that around three times in my entire life. I am too busy worrying about the present/near future. And trying to think about the far future now doesn't really get me anywhere. If I stick to my present path, chances are that when I am thirty, I will be teaching at a school somewhere. If I'm smart, I'll have gotten my Master's by then and maybe I'll get to teach at college. If I'm stupid/poor/busy, I will probably be teaching at high school. If I happen to come into a lot of money by way of the New York Times bestseller I will have written, I will be lounging at a cafe in Brussels, planning out my next novel. See? There are just too many factors at play here. I'm better off deciding what to do directly after I graduate college.
I was very stupid for not doing any homework over the weekend. I mean, I guess since I was at home I didn't really have much of a chance to do it, but still. I should have at least thought about it. Anyway, I didn't realize until Monday morning that I had a huge load of homework to do and a lot of writing as well. Basically between then and now I haven't stopped at all. I had a choir concert last night which was good, but it really interrupted the flow of everything else I had to do. After I got back from it, I did reading and literary analyses until midnight and then got up at seven to do some more before heading out, and for three of my classes I wasn't finished with the reading until five minutes before class started. It was pretty crazy for a while.
There was one real injustice, though: last Thursday my World Literature teacher assigned us to read Kafka's The Metamorphosis, which is only 40 pages and funny to boot. Even though I had already read it for Western Civilization last year, I made sure to read it again (I read the last few pages before class while shoveling food into my mouth at lunch) and come up with three intelligent questions to ask about it during class. And then I got there, and the teacher, without any kind of assessment of who had done the reading, said, "Out of all the 35 people in my earlier class, only seven had done the reading. Rather than get mad and yell at you like I yelled at them, I'm just going to cancel class and tell you to go read it now, because when we come back on Thursday we're going to discuss the crap out of it."
I admit, it made me mad. I worked really hard to be prepared for the class, and then I get there and he flakes out on us because he assumes we haven't done the work (well, a lot of people hadn't done the work, but is it really right to reward them for it?). That class makes me mad sometimes.
It's okay that you don't know whether or not you want to go to college. The cool thing about America is that college isn't something you have to prepare your entire life to attend. I mean, you do have to prepare by getting through high school and stuff, but compared to other countries there's a little more wiggle room as far as these kinds of decisions are concerned. And you don't even have to go to college right after graduating, either. It's quite normal to take a year or two off of school if you want to save up some money or see if you can survive in the working world without having a degree. In fact, I would actually encourage something like that, because if you find out that you can make your livelihood without higher education, then more power to you. And knowing that you can pretty much do anything if you set your mind to it is half the battle.
Okay, I am going to go rest my body for a short time before diving back into homework. Tomorrow I am meeting a girl named Yoon Sun and asking her all about Life In Korea. I hope we can both be enlightened.
-Amy
(actually I don't know if Yoon Sun is really a girl. The gender was never established in the email, I just assumed girls are paired with girls. I guess I'll find out tomorrow)
(stupid neutral names)
NaRa
Seong Ah (or Seung Ah, whichever you prefer)
Seon Ki (you can spell it Sun Ki if you like)
Anyway that's about it. I don't think you should really settle on a name until you've found somewhere that can tell you what they all mean. Because the meanings are important too.
I was not aware that pouring boiling water on weeds was a practiced method for getting rid of them, but I guess it sounds legitimate enough. But why not use the same kettle for both home and garden uses? After all, boiled water is boiled water, no matter where it was boiled. I'm sorry that I didn't hear about this kettle debacle sooner, so I could have returned the one I have to Mor Mor. Even so, it's a bit junky, since it's rusted in a few places and has a small leak where the spout meets the pot, so I rather think she's better off with a new one.
As for the far future, I have probably thought about that around three times in my entire life. I am too busy worrying about the present/near future. And trying to think about the far future now doesn't really get me anywhere. If I stick to my present path, chances are that when I am thirty, I will be teaching at a school somewhere. If I'm smart, I'll have gotten my Master's by then and maybe I'll get to teach at college. If I'm stupid/poor/busy, I will probably be teaching at high school. If I happen to come into a lot of money by way of the New York Times bestseller I will have written, I will be lounging at a cafe in Brussels, planning out my next novel. See? There are just too many factors at play here. I'm better off deciding what to do directly after I graduate college.
I was very stupid for not doing any homework over the weekend. I mean, I guess since I was at home I didn't really have much of a chance to do it, but still. I should have at least thought about it. Anyway, I didn't realize until Monday morning that I had a huge load of homework to do and a lot of writing as well. Basically between then and now I haven't stopped at all. I had a choir concert last night which was good, but it really interrupted the flow of everything else I had to do. After I got back from it, I did reading and literary analyses until midnight and then got up at seven to do some more before heading out, and for three of my classes I wasn't finished with the reading until five minutes before class started. It was pretty crazy for a while.
There was one real injustice, though: last Thursday my World Literature teacher assigned us to read Kafka's The Metamorphosis, which is only 40 pages and funny to boot. Even though I had already read it for Western Civilization last year, I made sure to read it again (I read the last few pages before class while shoveling food into my mouth at lunch) and come up with three intelligent questions to ask about it during class. And then I got there, and the teacher, without any kind of assessment of who had done the reading, said, "Out of all the 35 people in my earlier class, only seven had done the reading. Rather than get mad and yell at you like I yelled at them, I'm just going to cancel class and tell you to go read it now, because when we come back on Thursday we're going to discuss the crap out of it."
I admit, it made me mad. I worked really hard to be prepared for the class, and then I get there and he flakes out on us because he assumes we haven't done the work (well, a lot of people hadn't done the work, but is it really right to reward them for it?). That class makes me mad sometimes.
It's okay that you don't know whether or not you want to go to college. The cool thing about America is that college isn't something you have to prepare your entire life to attend. I mean, you do have to prepare by getting through high school and stuff, but compared to other countries there's a little more wiggle room as far as these kinds of decisions are concerned. And you don't even have to go to college right after graduating, either. It's quite normal to take a year or two off of school if you want to save up some money or see if you can survive in the working world without having a degree. In fact, I would actually encourage something like that, because if you find out that you can make your livelihood without higher education, then more power to you. And knowing that you can pretty much do anything if you set your mind to it is half the battle.
Okay, I am going to go rest my body for a short time before diving back into homework. Tomorrow I am meeting a girl named Yoon Sun and asking her all about Life In Korea. I hope we can both be enlightened.
-Amy
(actually I don't know if Yoon Sun is really a girl. The gender was never established in the email, I just assumed girls are paired with girls. I guess I'll find out tomorrow)
(stupid neutral names)
Monday, April 9, 2012
The future and Korean names
I'm at Mor Mors right now. Actually, she just came here and told me the low down on her moving back. I kind of get the feeling that every day she flips a coin to decide whether or not she'll move back. Heads is stay, tails is move. That's why she changes her minds so much.
The other day Mo asked me what college I want to go to. That's the thing. I don't know. I guess I'm waiting to go to real classes and see if I'm willing to work really hard on what I want to do. The only concern I have is that I'll take performing arts classes and realize that I'm not good enough to survive in the business.
Lately I've been getting over that though because I've realized that I can pretty much do anything I set my mind to. So surviving as a dancer wouldn't be that hard.
Also, if I go to Korea, everything is going to be at a standstill. Hopefully, I'll go and then come back and continue to go to Juco for a little while, depending on if I have incredible luck or not, I'll go to college or just get a job. (the luck parts means me not going to college and just getting an awesome job without it.)
Yesterday Angela was talking about the far future, and I mean like after 30 future. Thats far and I never think about it. Ever. But maybe I'll own a dance studio. That would be super fun. That is after I become rich and famous for a little (famous for a little - rich forever....just to specify.)
So anyway, we were talking about Korean names for me (in preparation for being awesome and going to Korea, I'm going to (don't get too freaked out extended family, (and kristin) its not set in stone) pick a name that the majority of Korean people can actually pronounce (so, not Michelle. I admit, being called Meeshul for a few days would be cute, but for anything longer than that would probably drive me crazy)) and after much consideration, I've narrowed it down to less than fifty. Ha.
So here are the top picks (amy thinks its important for me to keep M as the first letter, and I will try to honor that)
MinWoo
MinSo
Minjo
MinJae (I know what you're thinking, "Michelle, why don't you pair Min with every letter of the alphabet and then stick an "oo" on the end." These are legitimate names,)
JoonSoo
Joon Seung (my favorite)
Chan Seung
SeungWoo.
I will spend much time in meditation over this matter, and get back to you.
In the mean time... pick one for me.
Also Amy, Mor Mor came looking for her kettle today even though mom told her you have it, I think she forgot, even though she has one at her apartment. She wants it so she can pour boiling water on the weeds.
-Michelle
The other day Mo asked me what college I want to go to. That's the thing. I don't know. I guess I'm waiting to go to real classes and see if I'm willing to work really hard on what I want to do. The only concern I have is that I'll take performing arts classes and realize that I'm not good enough to survive in the business.
Lately I've been getting over that though because I've realized that I can pretty much do anything I set my mind to. So surviving as a dancer wouldn't be that hard.
Also, if I go to Korea, everything is going to be at a standstill. Hopefully, I'll go and then come back and continue to go to Juco for a little while, depending on if I have incredible luck or not, I'll go to college or just get a job. (the luck parts means me not going to college and just getting an awesome job without it.)
Yesterday Angela was talking about the far future, and I mean like after 30 future. Thats far and I never think about it. Ever. But maybe I'll own a dance studio. That would be super fun. That is after I become rich and famous for a little (famous for a little - rich forever....just to specify.)
So anyway, we were talking about Korean names for me (in preparation for being awesome and going to Korea, I'm going to (don't get too freaked out extended family, (and kristin) its not set in stone) pick a name that the majority of Korean people can actually pronounce (so, not Michelle. I admit, being called Meeshul for a few days would be cute, but for anything longer than that would probably drive me crazy)) and after much consideration, I've narrowed it down to less than fifty. Ha.
So here are the top picks (amy thinks its important for me to keep M as the first letter, and I will try to honor that)
MinWoo
MinSo
Minjo
MinJae (I know what you're thinking, "Michelle, why don't you pair Min with every letter of the alphabet and then stick an "oo" on the end." These are legitimate names,)
JoonSoo
Joon Seung (my favorite)
Chan Seung
SeungWoo.
I will spend much time in meditation over this matter, and get back to you.
In the mean time... pick one for me.
Also Amy, Mor Mor came looking for her kettle today even though mom told her you have it, I think she forgot, even though she has one at her apartment. She wants it so she can pour boiling water on the weeds.
-Michelle
Friday, April 6, 2012
Dorky College Student
I am currently watching Breaking Dawn. I didn't really understand what Angela meant when she said that it was boring, but now that I'm here in this unhappy situation, I realize just how right she was. We're only about fifteen minutes in and my mind is already numbed. After the first few minutes I made the decision to make absolutely no comments on the movie except to remark on how much I love Seth and the three seconds of Justin Chon's screentime (two of those seconds were him lying on a huge pile of bloody dead people). My movie-watching comrade easily takes offense.
So earlier, I was cleaning my room like a good little college student, and I had my music on and I was dancing around like I usually do, you know, normal. Then someone knocked on my door.
You know when someone knocks on the door and you suddenly look at your situation and appearance objectively, and then realize that you look absolutely ridiculous? Well, this happens to me on a regular basis. I think I'm cool, then I realize what I must look like to everyone else.
Here is the general idea:
So earlier, I was cleaning my room like a good little college student, and I had my music on and I was dancing around like I usually do, you know, normal. Then someone knocked on my door.
You know when someone knocks on the door and you suddenly look at your situation and appearance objectively, and then realize that you look absolutely ridiculous? Well, this happens to me on a regular basis. I think I'm cool, then I realize what I must look like to everyone else.
Here is the general idea:
I mean, there isn't anything I like better than dancing in my room. But I think I should probably only dance alone.
Later - baby stuff happening, I am still bored. What I really want is like some action or something. I dunno. If they're just going to have this movie be hours of Edward and Bella gazing at each other in 1) love 2) YEAH LUST BABY, or 3) horror.
The music's pretty good though. At this point this is the only good thing I have to say about this movie.
-Amy
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