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rchristo10
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the ability to learn languages way too fast...-_-....
believe it or not...it causes problems |
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The evil penguin
Joined: 24 May 2003
Location: Doing something naughty near you.....
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| Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| rchristo10 wrote: |
the ability to learn languages way too fast...-_-....
believe it or not...it causes problems |
I'll give you 5 minutes to learn Swahili |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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| The evil penguin wrote: |
| rchristo10 wrote: |
the ability to learn languages way too fast...-_-....
believe it or not...it causes problems |
I'll give you 5 minutes to learn Swahili |
Maybe they meant glossolalia |
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Bramble
Joined: 26 Jan 2007
Location: National treasures need homes
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| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:25 am Post subject: |
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Life. The chance to experience it. I am so very thankful. I was at abortions doorstep, being an adoptee and all.
Then He gave my biological mother the moral courage to endure the stares and questions and humiliations to offer me the chance at life.
Then I was blessed even more by my loving family, the great people who decided to adopt me. They were wonderful parents and educated, intelligent, sensible, and arts-minded people. I got to grow up with amazing experiences in America in a land of prosperity and opportunity in one of the most amazing cities in America, Ann Arbor. Yet I was just outside the city limits so I got to be raised on a farm and thus have exposure to two ways of life. My parents were wealthy yet everything we owned was very modest and I was always concious of the 'cheapness' of our things, again two-experiences. My parents were both private pilots and I got to go flying every weekend. As a result of living on the farm and my parents hobbies I got to spend much of my free time in the company of older people and it made me comfortable to be in the company of those who are significantly older than me. Also they were far more coarse than my more refined parents and so I got to see a different approach towards things. The experiences my parents provided me are due so many thanks. As I have touched on before, many things in my experience had a dualistic nature, be it culture, economic status, rural/urban, intellectualism/emotionalism, etc. Thanks for this ability to experience both sides.
Although considered 'gifted' intellectually I ended up going from school to school and thus got to learn adaptation and how to make new friends at a young age. I was popular in elementary and middle school. I have to say thanks for that, it encouraged a belief in myself. In High School I was blessed with being unpopular and having no friends, so I could learn some humility, maturity, and spend some time alone with myself in reading and educating myself.
After two lonely years in H.S. I was fortunate enough to be accepted into a group of friends who quickly became wonderfully close-nit, influential set. We were a diverse group of people and also in this group were many Koreans and so I learned hangul and got my first exposure to Korean culture. I have so many thanks for my friends in High School. Thanks for all of the times in college and working at the pizza shack and all of the people I met then. It broadened my horizons, man. It allowed me to meet people from all walks of life and to experience their lives, and it constantly pushed my thinking and challenged my values. Following H.S. my Korean friends invited me to attend at a Korean Church. Despite my parents being avowed atheists I was a believer from around middle school, but I have to thank them for their atheism because it did temper my intellect and ecourage rationalism towards things. The seven years in Korean church allowed me to go through a cycle concerning Korean culture that ran the gamut from honeymoon to bitterness and anger to understanding. Thanks to this, my time here in Korea has far exceeded my expectations for the worst and has paid off on a daily basis.
Lastly, thanks for this time so far in Korea. From the blessing of having an entire row to myself in coach when the rest of the flight was booked, to having the school provide me with a modern apartment, to the thrilling heroics of our schools dramatic Soccer Championship victory, to the view outside my patio, to getting to see a walk-off homer at the baseball game I went to at Jamsil, to having old friends in America, now over here, go out of their way to visit and welcome me here. Many thanks for that.
So yes those are the gifts God gave me.
Insert yoga fire and flame comments on this post below. I'm sure there will be some funny ones. |
I'm not religious, but that's a nice post. Your gifts are a lot better than sock radar. |
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