Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • I am on a bus going into Seoul from Incheon airport. I have already had to adjust to the culture and body block an older woman from cutting in front of me to buy a bus ticket. It smells like kimchi on the bus and I am enveloped in sounds of a language I barely know anything about. Yet as the other two times I have been to Korea, I feel a sense…

  • My Japanese friend, her mother and I walk into a Coach store in New York City. Everyone is always very friendly in these stores because they want you to spend hundreds of dollars on their product – and I very much want to! As a nice lady introduced herself, she asked where we were from and decided to guess. I laughed, thinking “good luck” and continued browsing. Her first guess for my friend…

  • I arrived in the City on Friday after a 15 hour direct flight to Atlanta and then a short flight to JFK. Since arriving I have gotten my hair cut and highlighted, had dinner with a friend from grad school, spent the day with another friend from grad school by having lunch, getting soaked by Hannah, going to MoMa, then went out with more friends in the evening, fallen asleep in a cab,…

  • One more day…. More of the same on Wednesday – had to finish studying. I managed to get caught up and a bit ahead in one course. So, I shouldn’t have to worry about it while I am in NYC. I have readings to take with me for the second course, but the tasks can be done once I get to Oregon, if I focus! My first assignments are due the first week…

  • Only two more days left…. 🙁 Unfortunately, Tuesday was all about getting studying done. I plowed through another module (unit) in my “Discourse in Professional and Organizational Contexts” course. It’s not my favorite I have to admit, but it has interesting bits here and there. I started a module that I should have finished last week for my “Concepts in Managing Language Programs” course, which is much more interesting for me, but I…

  • Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:James 1:19 (KJV)

  • So, why all the Mistaken Identity Dialogues? Well, as you may have gathered, I am not Chinese. I am Asian-American. However, I do not call myself Asian-American – just American. Asian-American holds the nuiance that I have Asian culture in my upbringing or that I identify with being Asian in some way. I am an adopted Korean. I grew up in a very white community with average white-American parents and family. I went…

  • Upon entering a nail salon in NYC A: Come in, come in. You Chinese? B: No, just American. A: You look Chinese. What you want? Manicure, pedicure? B: I’m not Chinese, but anyway, a pedicure, please. A: Okay, you look like nice Chinese girl. Sit here, please. I do nice pedicure for you. B: <sigh> Okay, great.

  • My days will be very quiet for the next few left in Dubai. For Monday (Day 19), I ended up getting up fairly early since we did go to bed around 9:30pm. Allan has caught a cold or something, so hasn’t been so energetic the past couple of days. So, on Sunday night, we relaxed, watched soccer and went to bed early! Thus, I woke up early on Monday and was determined to…

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