1.
I’m the first chair clarinet
in minjok orchestra; I’ve played the instrument for two years when I was in
elementary school. But I don't like practicing my instrument as much as many
people think. I sometimes skip practices for other priorities that seem more
important.
2.
Although I am still a newbie, my
favorite sports is swimming. I participated in the Gangwon swimming competition
as a member of the swimming club, while, in fact, I only learned to swim during
the winter vacation before I came to KMLA. I believe my love for swimming
must be in my genes; indeed my parents both know how to swim and so does my
sister. Perhaps Busan, my hometown, is running through my veins.
3.
I have an older sister who
will graduate college this semester. She lives in the states and I believe she
will at least for the next three years. Pity on her that she can’t have legal
alcohol in the states before she graduates.
4.
My favorite color is blue. Many
people relate my favorite color to where I had been in the states, but I’ve
always had a craving for the color blue like the ocean that would stretch beyond my eyes long
before I lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
5.
Dorian Gray is one of the best
books I’ve read in my second year of high school. I think I like it because
Dorian Gray seems a lot similar to me. This indirectly means I am willing to
sell my soul to a portrait for eternal youth and maybe break some hearts of
young and innocent girls.
6.
I really hate bugs. The only
time I enjoy interactions with them are when I step(stomp) on them or pound them with a stick until their corpse are ripped into a billion pieces.
7.
Talking of bugs, I think I
encountered lots of them during my first year in KMLA. I’ve seen bugs from
Dynastinae to roaches and a few inch cricket living depths of the basement. The
sight of them jumping at least half my height still decorates one of my most
terrible nightmares.
8.
I speak a little of both Chinese
and Spanish. However, most of the Chinese letters I once knew have now even lost their scent of familiarity. I’m hoping I can learn
more about Spanish in college so that my current knowledge won’t just evaporate right
into the sky. In fact it is one of the few languages I can speak that I like.
9.
One of my favorite novel
characters is Percy Jackson in the Percy Jackson series. I first read the
Lightning Thief when I was in fifth grade. I liked it and still like it because
it is cool to accomplish every feat that Hercules or other heros achieved during their entire
life times in only a matter of 4 years. How realistic.
10. I
once wanted to be a microbiologist when I was in middle school. I thought I was
fit for biology. I realized that my dreams were just too far from reality when
I took SAT biology in KMLA. I am pretty certain that I will stay far away from
the subject for the next ten years. (Maybe my kids will be interested in bio.)
11. I
was 140centimeters in my first year in middle school. Even now I seem to be a
little smaller than my peers. The milk mythology is jiggery-pokery; there are plenty
of counterexamples (including me). Thanks to the marketing strategy of America,
whose dairy products hold a huge chunk of the country’s GDP, I've wasted thousands of liters of milk all for nothing.
12. Speaking
of milk, when I was in America I used to think that Martin Luther King Day was
a day for drinking milk. It looks the same anyway; MLK and milk.
13. I
have a broad taste of music. Though I’m not familiar with the recent KPOP, I
enjoy some of them. Maroon 5, One Republic, Bon Jovi, Eminem and Elvis Presley
do fit my appetite, but I have not yet listened to all of their songs. Perhaps
my lack of knowledge is natural, since I didn’t have an MP3 player before I
entered KMLA.
14. I
am an addict. It’s really hard for me to quit games. For instance, I got addicted
to Maplestory, one of the games that have few static users. Unfortunately, I
have never been addicted to the field of academics.
15. I
have a secret wish to try out a Mohawk ever since I was in middle school, but
so far my dearth of courage quenches my desires whenever I visit the
barbershop.
16. I
used to play basketball in middle school, but quit as I entered KMLA. It didn’t
take long to realize my lack of genius. In addition, my short height seems to me a big
burden whenever I do get a chance to play.(or maybe I'm just too bad.)
17. I
thought I had very deft hands when I was young, because I just loved origami.
It turns out that a preference for origami doesn’t necessarily correlate with
adroit hands. I have relatively small thick fingers.
18. I
once blacked out when I was in kindergarten. I pulled my grandmother so that
she’d buy me a toy, but her hands accidentally (or perhaps deliberately)
slipped and I banged my head on the very sharp vertex of the glass that secures
jewelry. I found myself in the hospital a few hours later after I had stitched
my head a few times. That was the only time I ever gained consciousness in a hospital bed.
19. I
watched Godfather a month ago and I think I enjoyed it. It was a shock to
observe Mike’s metamorphosis from an ordinary man to a mafia boss. However I
don’t quite agree with his decisions, as succeeding his father did not seem to
me as a righteous ‘filial duty.’ Overall I thought Al Pacino and Marlon Brando
were great actors.
20. I
used to bite my nails when I was in elementary school. However, when a lady
rhetorically asked me whether the nails are a good source of protein, I quit
the very next day.
21. I
am not so intimate with little kids. I have a difficult time trying to handle
them whenever I do volunteer work. Many times, the kids hate me and punch and
kick me even before I open my mouth. I learned from middle school that teaching
young children was far from my vocation.
22. I
love to travel and hope to travel to the South Americas one day. Sadly, I have
only visited the United States, some parts of Europe, and Guam only if sleeping
in a hotel for a night for the SAT is synonymous with ‘visiting Guam.’
23. Out
of fear, I have set my distance from League of Legends.
24. I
am officially catholic, but I am not a martinet of the religion. Actually I haven’t
visited the Catholic Church for three months. I plan on returning once I
graduate.
25. The
only times I went to libraries in elementary school of Michigan was to read (or
watch) the Captain Underpants and Garfield. I usually read 'real books' in my room,
sometimes the same book at least three times. One of my favorite books were The
Giver, Walk Two Moons, Poppy, and Holes. Nostalgia overwhelms me whenever I open
the dust covered books, as those books remind me of when I was young and
innocent.
26. I
avoid speaking in the Busan dialect. The teachers poked at me with questions
like, “Did you learn your dialect when you were in America?” I eventually
learned to hide it after a few months in Seoul; however, whenever I talk to my
parents or cousins in Busan, the tiny bit of Busan soul leaks out of my mouth.
27. I
was a big fan of Yu-gi-oh cards when I was young. I would buy a bunch of them
and hide them in a huge cardboard box. After months, perhaps years of
collecting, the cards surpassed the capacity of the box; in the process of
moving into a new house, the cardboard box exploded.
28. Cereals
have become a part of my daily life. It decorates the beginning and end of the
day.
29. I
am a proponent of Capital punishment. I think some people deserve it.
30. I
have emotional highs and lows. Right now, I am extremely glad I finished my
assignment which seemed impossible at the time.
