Wednesday, September 12, 2012

After 15 years

I can imagine myself teaching students English in Seoul National University. I've graduated the Minjok high-school in Korea as my wish. I have a big picture in a frame of me and my friend Ceri laughing out loud in graduation day. Then, I went to the Seoul National University. I studied English literature really hard and took off to America as soon as I graduated. I got the master degree in Yale University in America in 2 years. I spent a year in America to take a rest.

One day, I met a man in a small library who became my husband. My husband is from Connecticut, America, and he is a doctor of a hospital. He is kind, gentle and sometimes quite romantic.

I am an English teacher in Seoul National University, and I enjoy my job. The students sometimes doesn't listen to me but they go along with the class quite well. English literature can be a quite boring subject. However, I try my best to make the class fun and helpful. Personally, I like poems. They rhyme and also has their own meanings in them. I try to show the students that there are poems that help our lives and give us courage with a secretly contained meaning.

 I am pregnant so my husband and I will soon have a daughter. We will make a book of our daughter's childhood.

I should also mention that I am a comic illustrator. I've enjoyed to draw comics even before I could even write. I remember drawing a comic without words and that needed explanation of what was happening in the drawing. I love to imagine, create a new world with new characters and make a fun story. I didn't stop with just imagining. I started to draw my own characters and developed it more and more. I began to write the main character's thoughts and conversations. I developed it more so the eyes became much cartoon-like, the face from the side became much beautiful, the hands became much realistic, and finally I figured out how to put in speech bubbles using the computer. I use basic skills because I figured things out myself. I like to look at my old comics thinking about the developments I made through years and I try to remember the day when I drew the comics. The comics that I drew in my childhood are not just regular comics, they are memories to me. They are drawn by my own hands, they remind me the day I began to draw, they also remind me of my friends who enjoyed my comics. Now drawing and publishing my comics is my minor job. It is a job that I can show to lots of people and also my children.

I drew three characters that I'd like to have as my children. One is a girl with her father's curly blonde hair and my black eyes. Another one is a boy with my straight black hair and his father's blue eyes. The last one is a girl with hair of the combination of blonde and black, and has one black eye and one blue eye.

I will live happily ever after with my children, my husband and my parents. I wish that my life goes on like this.


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