[Taualumna]

BUMP!!


-I started speaking when I was 8 or 9 months old

-I didn't learn how to speak English until I was four (spoke Chinese (Cantonese dialect) only until then)

-While I don't have much of an accent when I speak Chinese, I cannot read a word of it.

-I took formal piano lessons for nearly 14 years (from age 4 until 17 1/2)

-I took voice for 10 years (13-23)

-I encouraged my mom to send me to Brownies (she wasn't too familiar with Guiding. She knows that Girl Guides existed, but she didn't know that the younger branch is called Brownies. Sparks (known as Daisies in the US) didn't exist until I was 8 or 9)

-My high school is in the John Irving novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany". In the book, the lead character teaches there.

-I'm often more formal and old fashioned than my parents. When I was in elementary school, I would beg my parents to allow me to wear dresses and skirts to school. Today, I still want to "dress for dinner" once in a while.

-I'm also more religious than my parents, but feel uncomfortable going to church because I worried about what they'd think

-I'm Asian, yet I own very, very, very few Sanrio products. I don't have cutesy cell phone accessories either.

- I'm more "CBC" (Canadian Born Chinese) than many of my Chinese Canadian peers. They call me a "banana" (yellow on the outside, white inside)


- At 5'2, I'm the shortest out of all my female first cousins. The tallest is about 5'6.

- I played tennis on and off since I was 9.