2) I don't know why I came to Penn. It was not my first choice, or any choice for that matter, my parents didn't want to pay for it, its big and unrelational, far too professionally oriented. But yet, I am here. I have yet to decide whether or not I'm happy with this decision, despite that it's second semester junior year...but I know somewhere in my mind that God had a plan...I'm still too stubborn to see it.
3) I'm stubborn, hard-headed, and prideful. You do something I don't like...I have a hard time giving in. I'm still working on this too.
4) I cry a lot. Not always because something is sad or extremely happy, but just because it is. Someone once told me that they felt things more deeply than other people. I think I may also fall into this category. Little things touch me.
5) I think everything through a million times- my conversations, future and past, my actions, occurences, etc. I replay things that happen in my mind often wondering what I have said or didn't say or shoulda said. It's kind of an OCD thing I think.
6) On that note, I think I'm midly OCD. I have to eat soft things with something crunch. I must chew gum on both sides of my mouth so that they're even, there are many others.
7) I worked at a camp called Boggy Creek and it changed my life.
8) I will always love Brazil, even if my picture of Brasil is slightly (or some say extremely) skewed. It is a land of love, friendship, chill-ness, family. I don't think you can really understand unless you feel the results of the relationships you make with Brasilians. I really hope they don't loose that from the infiltration of the American culture.
9) There's a book called "1000 Places to Visit"- I would like to visit those 1000 places.
10) My parents are my heroes. I didn't understand this until I left home. I wish I had spent more time with them, during the 18 years I lived at home.
11) I wish my sister and I were closer. I'm pretty sure I failed in being an older sister. I wish she knew how much I care.
12) I wish I could take all of my classes for the sake of learning. I really would just like to know information, but not be tested on it. The world is interesting- if only we were ranked agaisnt each other to see who's knows the most or is the most competitive or any of that, but rather we could just know stuff. idealistic. i know.
13) When I graduated it was all I could do to run away from Roanoke. Now I miss it and it's people. I used to think that I needed to get out of there, so I could not have this closed in view, so I wouldn't be a person who just came back to their little town and married someone I went to high school with, so I could meet new people who I was sure would get me to the next level- whatever that was. But now I realize that, that life wasn't so bad. I realize that maybe I was meant to be in the small town with its somewhat idealized thoughts- not all of it fits- but I'm not sure if I was ready for the big real world.
14) When I was in high school I flooded the chemical storage room by putting dish soap not dishwasher soap in the dishwasher. (though I don't take full credit for this) My chem teacher still asks me if I have overflowed any dishwashers every time I see her (and now even when I don't see her through facebook)
15) I hated swimming for so long while I did it. I was burnout, injured, frustrated. But I miss it- so much. The time to yourself while it's just you and the water. The thrill of the race. The comradeire with friends.
16) I'm unsually comfortable with little clothing on, but I dress rather conservatively. The first part I blame on being a swimmer- you're just in very little clothing so little of the time, the second part I blame on all the weight I gained after quitting to swim.
17) I don't like being around a ton of Asians (mostly those that I don't know- I'm better if I know them) . I know I'm Asian. I just feel uncomfortable. I feel like they expect me to act or know or do something Asian and I often don't have a clue about it, because I was not raised like this. I have been told this is not true, but I still feel uncomfortable.
18) I've become more of an awkward person since coming to college. I don't think this necessarily has to do with college, but rather that I'm pretty intimidated by most people here at Penn and I don't ever know what to say to them.
19) Most everyone that has met me or knows me thinks I'm an extrovert. They don't realize that they don't really know that much about me in the end. Because I'm actually an introvert. And I put up a lot of walls- but I think one implies the other. To get to know me you have to ask questions- it's not that I won't tell you things, I just won't if you don't ask. This is not intentional- I've just realized this is how my relationships work.
20) I'm a packrat. I keep everything.
21) I love books. I will have a library in my house when I get older of only books that I have read- which by then should be many.
22) I like laughing. I don't do it as much anymore. Penn is kind of a serious place. I like goofing off. I don't do it as much anymore. Penn is kind of a serious place.
23) I love talking to people- but really taking- good conversation. I like knowing why they do things or why they believe thing or what drives them to act a certain way or do a certain thing. On this same note, I don't like talking to people on the phone that much, unless it's the only alternative, you can't see their inflections, emotions, etc.
24) When I was young and people would ask me what superpower I'd like to have I'd say I'd like to be able to squeeze the world together so all the people that I loved were within walking distance. I still want that superpower, but I think even more so now.
25) I believe if everyone loved one another the way we should we could solve the world's problems.
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