My final words to my classmates

THANK YOU, CLASS OF 2K13. GOOD BYE. ADIOS.

1.      Celine: Hey Pretty. I think you are the prettiest girl here in Saipan International School. We did not really share any common memories being together but I was surprised at your beauty when I first came to SIS. And you and your boyfriend look really good and matching. Hope you would still have a wonderful life after graduation.

2.      Christopher: Kris! My one and only trustworthy foreign friend! It is such a pleasure that I came to SIS and became a friend of you. You did well on listening to me, chatting, talking and silent eye fighting during class, helping each other in Mz.P’s and Mr. Lee’s classes. And I would never forget the “C” scar on my face. I think I shared a lot of high school memories with you. It is somewhat sad that we did not really have parties outside but you know, Graduation after party is coming :P. As I said before, I would flee to California and visit you! Be welcome your Asslee.

3.      Ashley DongEun Heo: Me! Good job on your 4 years of high school in Saipan. You made it! I am so proud of you and hope you would rock your twentieth fabulously.

4.      Abby: Abbyyyyyy. This is the way how I call your name. When I first saw you, I thought you would be the one I would probably feel hard to talk to. But you were not! You have a sense of humor especially it was hilarious when you and Amy were talking and you were mimicking your grandmother. And I consider you as a class representative of 2K13 seniors.

5.      Emily: Em..The hottest girl. The two words that come to my mind when I think of you are HOT and YOLO. I don’t know why but I like the way you talk and describe something. Personally, I admire your personality. You are really cool and do not care about things that much if it is not specially related to you. You just let it go. I like that. I think you would have a happy marriage with a rich guy. Complement. YOLO.

6.       Raffy: Raf! Raff! Rafff! You are a gentleman. You have really nice manners and treat girls well. I want to say thank you one more time for providing snacks every day. I especially enjoyed your oats and nuts thingy.

7.      Christine: Hey Dan. Hahaha. I think we got along well. I don’t know but you know, we shared some secrets, memories, and sometimes there was a tension(?) between us. I won’t forget you and your voice. As I am looking back now, I think it might have been better for us to be closer and more friendly. We did not actually get into any fights but you know what I mean. But the only fact is that I like you. HAHA.

8.      Jeonghwan: Yo! JeongFani! My Chemistry Partner! See you in Korea.

9.      MinChang: Min. See you in Korea.

10.   Joon: Joon. Nice guy. See you in Korea.

11.   Jack: Jackie! My Chinese friend. I always like the way you called me. “DongDong” It was so cute.

12.   Euna: Beotch. See you in Korea.

13.   Seri: Cell! See you in Korea.

14.   Abel: Abel! My music friend! I still remember our day of extreme assa! You are talented and gifted. I think you should seriously engage in music world. You and Chris were really nice to me and I want to say Thank you. I will miss you and songs from you.

15.   SooHo: Soba. See you in Korea.

16.   Ni: Hi! We barely talked. But it was so nice to be in the same class with you. Hope everything would be alright!

17.   Amy: Amyyyyy. Nice and pretty girl. I like you. You were always kind to me and came to me and talked to me. Even though some blame you for downloading at school and making internet slow, I still like you!  If I have a chance to go to California, I will call you.

18.   Olivia: Hi! We barely talked. But it was so nice to be in the same class with you. Hope everything would be alright!

19.   Jinhan: Hey class rep. I might not see you sleeping in Mr.Lee’s class anymore!

20.   Saeyul: Oppa! Stop skipping classes! Haha. Thank you for food you shared with me. Hope you would attend classes regularly in Malaysia. I think you are a nice oppa who understands us who are way younger than you.

21.   Cindy: Unnie! It was nice to know you and had lunch after A.P. history! Hope you would love San Francisco and life there.

Senior skip day

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           Yay! Senior skip day!! Senior skip day is the only legitimate day that seniors could skip the school! Sounds great! This is really cool. Seniors have a right to skip the classes officially. This sounds so special for being seniors. I remember that last year when I heard of senior skip day, my reaction was somewhat  “When is my graduation coming?” And it’s so soon! My graduation day, escape date of Saipan, is on its way!

As last seniors went to Managaha Island for a senior trip, this year, our seniors would follow the tradition(?) and decided to go to Managaha! Managaha is a beautiful, especially magical island where crushes and some relationships are made from. That tiny Island is so beautiful that it attracts so many tourists and becomes a number one tour attraction of Saipan. I remember the first time I went to managaha. I had to ride a ship for about thirty minutes across sea. As I seeing the beautifully changing color of sea, I admired the virtue of nature which I regard the most beautiful and wonderful thing in the world. The color of sea water just looked like Power ade. I landed on the dock of managaha island and there were many other tourists other than me and my family. The last time I went to the island was about a year ago. It was Raffy and Andy’s birthday party. I was not really friendly with those guys since it was only few weeks past from my transferring to SIS. But I really had fun there with my Korean friends especially Seri and Minchang.

           After we decided to go to the Managaha Island, with leading of Abby, we talked about what we should bring. As we planned to spend a night at Managaha, we needed to prepare for a tent, and sleeping stuff. The boat time we can leave is 4 and I have to get on that because I have TOEFL exam on following Saturday. I wish I could spend more time with seniors and have fun but on the other side, it would be better to leave early because we do not have any water or light after 4. That means, I cannot wash if I staying at the island and spend a night. I imagined how romantic the night at island would be with a big fire and marshmallow around it. But from my past experience, it is always better to get out of that Island after 3 or 4 hours. You simply get bored.

After 4, I might come home and enjoy the rest of the day. I want to have delicious, special dinner with.. Dan? Phyllis? Or. Whomever.  Just take some rest, relax and take a exam on Saturday. And you are ready to leave in one week! How excitinggggg >_<

Design your own app

Design your own app.

         Technology has hugely played a significant role in this society. The most it-item these days is of course smart phone. A smart phone is an invention that no one had ever thought of before. The combination of the original usage of phone calls, messages and camera and the thousands of various applications leads to a huge success that you could hardly find people with no smart phones. I am a user of I touch and a big fan of Apple store. The applications are almost similar to both Apple store and Android market. As technology such as smart phones is getting hot issues, the new jobs related to that category are offered to many people. Personally, I think the inventor of Kakao Talk application is genius. Since almost everyone in Korea and some in other countries use that application, the inventor literally earns lots of money and succeeded to aim for the necessity of population.

         If I design my own app, I would like to invent something practical. Something relates to our real life, especially teaching some skills. There are many categories in app store: Games, exercise, food, daily life, social life, and sports. I would invent a remote control that is available for personal belongings such as house or car. When it applies to house, I would make it work for stove, interphones, air conditioners, or any electronic devices at my house. Whenever I am out of my house or not, I could see what is happening in my house through camera. All sides are provided: the kitchen, the living room, the bed room, and even the bathroom. If I need to boil water at 4 o’clock and have an appointment at 3:30, I can make my appointment on time and just use my app to press a button for stove to boil water. That sounds fabulous. Also I could check the atmosphere of my house and check the temperature or humidity. However, all these things are available for only landlords. The app should be locked with multiple passwords since it is dealing with top security. This app could prevent many bad things to happen. No thief, no emergency accidents, and just with safety and strong security. When it comes to a car, you could press a button using a app to operate a car, to close the windows, to check engine oils and to look inside the car.

          If this app would come out in reality, it would be fabulous and amazing. Using just one app controls everything happens in your house or car. I think the users would be all around the world and people will fanatically love my app.  

25 conditions that my future spouse needs to satisfy [1,2]

1.       He is willing to cook. I want someone who can cook with me and enjoy being with me in the kitchen. But his ability of cooking should be lower than that of mine. He does not skip breakfast in the morning but knows how to accept what he has in the morning. Because my father always wants rice, not bread even for one single day. Also my daddy eats only rice which is done each time. He never eats rice that is done one day or even several hours ago. But he likes to cook so he always cooks something special usually on Sunday.

2.      He should respect my family, parents, and culture. Being polite is the most important.

3.      He likes to listen to music. Also he should be okay to turn up the music up to at least 30 in the aux in car. I am planning to have the best quality home theater.

4.     He should be a driver who has never experienced car accidents. That means he should be a best driver without any damage to his car but only with safety. But, he should not drive slowly. He should not be one who swears while he is driving and getting mad. He knows how to be patient and tolerant in a case such as waiting for the old to cross the way.

5.      He knows how to get along with children, especially our kids. I do not like a father who is busy all the time and does not have enough time to share with his kids. He knows how to be both a friend and a father when circumstance requires. Since my childhood, my father has been the best daddy ever because he has been really friendly, kind, humorous, and benevolent. He also scolds at us sometimes if we are doing something bad or wrong. My daddy took my brother and me to play sports especially soccer every Sunday.

6.     He likes to go shopping! Oh, not for fancy clothes but for groceries. I think it is such a nice picture when a husband and a wife push a shopping cart together and discuss what they are buying. I want to do that! On Sunday morning, we drive to a mart, shop, have lunch there, and come back home!

7.      He is artistic. I don’t mean he should be professionally artistic. But he knows how to draw a picture, paint, design, or build something. I do not want him to have any professional skills but at least try.

8.     He should be collaborative with me when it comes to housework. I will be still working after I get married. So I cannot do housework by myself. When I wash the dishes, he organizes some stuff. When I sweep the floor, he does the vacuum clear. I want someone who can help me. Because I heard some do not even move his fingers at all.

9.     He is clean. Not messy. He should put his clothes back to where they were. He should know how to tie his neck tie and have a fashion sense. I like dandy style though.

1.       Smoking and drinking regularly is not allowed. He should not be the one who knows how to enjoy the alcohol party with friends. He should not enjoy and miss that atmosphere.

2.      No sleeping habits such as snoring or teeth-thingy. Since I am a person who can barely listen to other things while I am sleeping, I need someone to be aware of sounds or movements while he is asleep. But he shouldn’t be so sensitive that he easily wakes up because of tiny little distracting factors.

3.      My future husband should bear baby crying. I hope he could take care of my baby when I am exhausted. My dad was not the type who would willingly bear with baby crying. When I was a baby and cried really hard, my dad could not hear I crying anymore and he put me in the closet. He let me cry in the small dark room until I stop crying. I do not have memory of being captured in a closet, of course. However, I did not feel good about that my dad just put me in the closet not trying to make my stop crying or at least just let me keep crying until I stop. I hope my future husband would not just throw all the baby sitting to me and watching tv. I with my husband who would help his wife doing babysitting even though he have never done it before and not really good at it.

13. Good manners in restaurants, or public.. Not easily express emotions in public.
14. Always trust each other
15.    No complain as a whining  big baby

My favorite school lunch

       I do not eat school lunch these days but my favorite school lunch is Club Hoagie. It is a sandwich with a whole wheat grain bread, pepperoni, salami ham, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers. I do not put tomatoes and cucumbers but always two mayonnaises. I am not a big fan of sandwich but since I usually get Subway sandwiches at least once a two week, I consider Club Hoagie as favorite school lunch. It is easy to eat and tastes good!

      However, when I first came to SIS, I was somewhat surprised at school lunch. You know how delicious school lunch is in Korea. Well, actually, I never thought our middle school lunch is good until I came to Saipan. My first school was NMA and we had to go to Snack bar to grab a meal. The lunch was 5 boxes and every day using 5 boxes for lunch was somewhat wasting of money to me because I couldn’t finish them all. So I always wish Saipan school would have the same lunch program as our school in Korea has. When I came to SIS at the first time, I somewhat had a negative opinion on it. School lunch was different from what I expected by watching American movies. I thought that there would be a big school cafeteria where students can grab whatever the food served at the container; just like buffet if I will. Students have some problems with choosing a seat and eat their lunch with. I thought I would have that kind of problem. It turned out to be that there is no such thing as a school cafeteria but I had some problem with having some people to eat my lunch with. Any food served at my school did not arouse my appetite but the weird name sandwich did. After I realize that there is actually some food that I can truly enjoy even at American school, I was waiting for the school lunch when the menu was weird sandwich with chocolate milk. One thing I feel sad about my favorite sandwich is the size. It used to be bigger than now but it seemed like our school has changed the provider of Lunch Company two times. As we had gone through that, the size of my lovely Club Hoagie got smaller! OMG! That makes me really sad. Even they don’t give you chocolate milk unless you ask for.

           I am not going to miss School lunch in Saipan. I miss school lunch in Korea. One thing that Saipan International School needs to change is definitely SCHOOL LUNCH. 

My most prized item

My most prized item is Bbomy!!!!! My lovely cute little sister! She is my only family member who stays with me both in Korea and in Saipan. She wakes up with me, spends time with me, gets sleep with me, and is always next to me. I have been with Bbomy since I was 2 years old. My grandfather, who passed away when I was in 2^nd grade, gave me Bbomy as a birthday present. It is a cute and gorgeous little (?) doll who has light brown hair with some curls. My grandmother or mother always braided her hair with her pink hat.

Bbomy is different from any other dolls. She is not like a Barbie who has skinny body with long straight hair. As I take off her shirt from her, Bbomy is from Mimi World in 1994. She has a strong good-looking body shape, nice light blue and pink one-piece, pink shoes with white socks. However, as time goes by, I had been careless so l lost almost her belongings. She is just left with light blue and pink one-piece. No hat, shoes, socks or even underwear. L I feel sorry for her. Over a decade of time just lets this happen.

One true fact that never changes is that I sincerely care for her, and love her. When I was little, I did not play with any Barbie but only with Bbomy. One of my cousin sister bought me Barbie doll from the United States. She said it is a hot new released doll. I said Thank you but I spend more time with Bbomy than with Barbie doll. Also I remember one time when my mother or brother was scolding at me. I think I was doing something wrong or pestering my mom for something I wanted to get. My mother yelled at me “I will throw away Bbomy if you keep bothering me!” And of course, little Ashley, who was afraid, stopped crying and hugged Bbomy with a happy or released face. J

She is that precious. I decided to go to Saipan to study and without any hesitation I put Bbomy in my backpack to take her with me to Saipan. So basically, Bbomy is my one and only family member who has been in Saipan and gone through everything with me. When I had a hard time, it was Bbomy who was next to me without any words to support me. I rely on her very much. Without her, I would have felt lonelier than I had been with her. I used to make Bbomy take a shower regularly but these days I am getting lazy and somewhat neglected to her since I am too busy. This could sound like an excuse but yeah. I should have put more care for her. After one month, I am done with my Saipan life. I will say good-bye to Saipan while I will be holding Bbomy in my hands. And we will go back to our lovely home together. I always appreciate to my grandfather for such a little angel baby <3 

Spring Musical

Spring Musical / Flam tree festival

Spring Musical is coming soon! It’s next Friday and I feel like we are not ready at all. Basically, this year is really different from last year. Everybody was passionate, almost ready to perform perfectly before few days, and worked hard. Even I was so into spring musical that I spent all my free time to work on dance. Also I took an audition, practiced singing, and sang “Marry You” with my friends. The most memorable one is special stage by me, Seri, Sooho, Christine, Minchang, and Jeonghwan. We had good time practicing it and also got great reputation and fame. I remember that I practiced it every day for few hours.

Next Friday, my last musical in my high school is coming. Our class is not ready as much as you did last year. My Korean fellows are also not ready for special stage. We are lack of practice since we are getting lazy and being seniorities. I feel like my class does not care about musical at all. Even Dr. Jenkins does not care about this musical too much since it is his last year. I don’t know well but this is what Ms. Jang told me. She said that Dr. Jenkins is getting lazy as well and keeps saying “Don’t worry. Oh. We can do that. Whatever. ” This somewhat surprises me and disappoints.  Also for our special stage we are just planning to do the only one song while we did 2 songs mixed last year. But the only one song is not even ready yet. It is hard core dance as Shinee dances it. Last year we were doing cute, funny, somewhat powerful dance but this year we were doing really powerful and masculine dance. But! Whatever! I do not worry! We are going to make our last stage to the best as we can!

Flame tree festival is annually held around this time when the trees are about to bloom. The red flame trees are all opened along the beach road. Sablan or Camacho brought flame tree seeds which were located in Madagascar. I think he did good job on that. Under those red trees, the festival is open and all the performances and foods are there. Here on Saipan where there is nothing to do really for fun, people could gather together and enjoy the party atmosphere. My friend Abel is planning to sing on the stage so I will probably go there and cheer for him.

These two events would be all my last ones. Last musical and last flame tree festival on this Island. This makes me sad and at the same time pleasant since I was always waiting for my last moment of Saipan. And seriously, just one month left till my graduation. And every life in Saipan would end. I might not see my non-Korean friends again or might see my Korean fellows at least once or twice a year.  I want to spend my last one month wisely and memorably.