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Nov 29, 04:27 AM | Author: Rosa Wong-Chie | Category: personal
Short Bio of Someone who is stuck in Between Being a young Adult and an old teenager...
Thought I should give some more details about who I am, at least in concrete terms:
Rosa Wong-Chie
-4.5 senior (as in, this is my 4th year plus one more semester) in college
-a tour guide for Chinatown Alleyway Tours (CATs) for about 5 years, check us out: www.chinatownalleywaytours.org ~~> Jimmy Do, a fellow tour guide, did the entire site in html codes (we hired someone else to do the graphic design for the page)
-knew Jane because she was my coordinator for a youth program as well as my supervisor for the tour program (which is all youth-run, youth-led tour! come, it’s fun and cheap and educational)
-I do have a xanga site, which is why I write long.. or tend to write long for Jane… I was in between the generation of live journals and xangas and I went for xanga (the population that uses it are a lot younger… like a lot!). I am too cheap to get my own web-blog site like jane, and didn’t know how to use blogspot.
-Rosa means “Rose” in Spanish, Wong is my dad’s last name meaning “Yellow” in Chinese, and Chie is a butchered form of Zhu (Mandarin), which is my mom’s last name
-If my parents wanted to be cruel, they could have named me “Yellow Rose” in Chinese
-What I really want to do right now is to travel to China and see how life really was like for my parents
-I am really lazy… likes to procrasinate, both are bad ingredients for a college life
-lived in Chinatown until senior year in High School
-doing a bunch of volunteering and interning positions because
too chicken to face the real working world.. that and i need more experience anyways to compete with others. =D Also, I have no idea what I want from life.. so sampling what life is offering right now.
-Loves the rain, can’t stand spicy food, and is facinated with the idea that people in their 20s can still be considered “teens” according to my friend’s terminology: “Twen-Teen”. heehee.
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As I write this, I am actually procrasinating on my “readings” for
my globalization class. It means I have to finish 10 chapters within these two days so I can start on my final paper that is due next Tuesday. But that’s ok because one thing that College really taught me was on how to work under pressure.
Although College life only took up 4 years of my life, it felt like my entire life. I rarely remembered what happened in High School, let alone middle and elementary. Elementary was full of fun, innocent memories; middle school was where I didn’t know which social “group” I belonged to; and High school was where I tried to ignore all the drama that most people encountered about the relationship between friends and opposite sexes.
It was in High School that I realized I didn’t really want to be a teacher. Not only are teachers treated with disrespect by the students but they are being paid very little by the school district. Some I agree are horrible but most are good teachers who deserve descent salaries. Right now, I do not have a reason to go back to my Elementary (Garfield) or Middle (Francisco) Schools because there are no more teachers that I want to visit. Due to budget cuts and other factors, most of my teachers are gone. In another year or so, I will probably not know any teachers in my High school (Galileo) as well.
I don’t know what I am getting at with this blog… I guess, if teachers are not getting what they deserve, the future generation of students will probably have teachers that will only teach for two years or so and switch to other jobs. It means the teacher-student bond will grow weaker and students will not have any role models they can look up to. Starting from Preschool until 12th grade, school is a student’s life. Without school and teachers who interact with students on a daily basis, a student’s life is just a life with no purpose. Which..somehow goes back to my last blog about how I don’t have any more school to go to after this semester. I don’t know my next goal.. because school is technically over for me (until grad…).
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