What would you like to know? I consider myself a very funny person. I never have a problem getting my friends to laugh and I enjoy doing it. I love telling stories about my childhood, my teen years, my college experience...practically about everything. My favorite author is David Sedaris, whom I admire so much.

I was born in South Korea and lived there until I was 6ish when my family moved to a tiny South American country called Suriname. I grew up in Paramaribo, the capital city which from what I can remember was no bigger than one of the theme park at Disney World. Although I couldn't appreciate fully back when I was younger, I loved growing up in a barely developed country where I was practically surrounded by the jungle.

During my visit to Chicago to see my cousins, I fell in awe with the cable TV and junk food that my siblings and I begged our parents to move here. It was 4th grade when I started my education in the United States and I've been here ever since.

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Early childhood memories

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My Abnormally Normal Childhood

I walked down the road from our family car to the market place on Kleine Waterstraat, and was immediately taken aback by the horrible stench from the local fishermen, farmers, and people who were just too poor to shower daily. I used to hate going to the open market with my mom when I was younger, but I long to visit that same market once more. There was an over abundance of fresh exotic fruits such as carambolas, mangoes, papayas, water lemons, and others I can't remember the names of. Paramaribo, Suriname. A country hardly anyone has heard of was where mo...

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