I would have to say that the "border" that most affects me is probably the fact that I live in Sandpoint which is a bit removed from the U-District. Like many other fellow classmates have mentioned, U-District is one of the many districts that fill Seattle and is a little enclave in itself. Since I am a University student, my life revolves around the U District and the UW campus. Although the 30 as well as the 75 connects me to campus the separation is still felt, especially in the wee hours of the night when I am odeing (fictitious verb that means "to study at Odegaard").
The 30 stops running at 1:27 am and the 75 stops running at 12:52 a.m. on the weekends. This means that if I need to study at the library and I either miss or need to stay longer than the last running bus which is the 30 than I will have to wait till 5:18 a.m. until the busses start running again. For the night, I am separated from home and must spend the night at the library. This is a constant occurrence and for many a nights, the library becomes an island away from home where I have no choice but to wait until human activity begins to start up again in the morning.
The visual that comes up in my head is a simple little pictures of my home as one island and the campus as one and this thin little line that connects the two by the metro. When that little lifeline stops running, (I don't have any other means of transportation, no bike, no car, no scooter... hahaha no nothing), then i'm stuck!
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
My Wall.
Just as an aside before I start bloggerating about my wall, I think I joined or "followed" my own site on accident. This whole blogging thing is a bit confusing... I'm sure its very easy, I just probably made it more complicated in my head.
OK so first assignment for the Berlin program was to blog about "my wall."
So I was thinking...Wall...and then I thought isolation, which led me to the little tiny Alaskan town I used to live in when my age was still in the lower single digits (hehe).
The Town: Delta Junction, Alaska
Population at the time: about 3,000
Tourist Attractions: Highway 99 ended there. (keychains boasting "highway 99 ends here" were souvenirs kekeke)
Fastfood: uhh... a random pizza place which I never remembered going to and the BIG RED, which was a cylinder with a cone roof type building that sold icecream. Yes. the BIG RED, was an icecream parlor and it was popular. O yes indeedy. School field trips to the BIG RED was common and cool. hahaha.
Recreational activities: Playing in the woods with sticks and stones and howling with the wolves.
Korean Population: extremely tiny.
So in this tiny little town, my family was one of the very very few Korean families living in the area and so our family kind of got "special treatment." My mom always boasts of how people used to comment on how well she dressed her four children and how clean we were (she still does). hahaha! Like Asian people are dirty or something LOL. I guess we were kind of a novelty there which really tickles me when I start to really think about it.
Wildlife really was everywhere. There would be moose in our backyard, chomping on our greens in the garden. Every summer, my siblings and I would go strawberry picking in the wild fields right in front of our house. Blueberry picking in the mountains was also something we did every year during the season and there would also be black and brown bears wandering around the side of the roads every so often. O and Buffalos! I have a story about buffalo poo but that will be for another day for whoever wants to hear about it.
We had no fastfood restaurants such as McDonalds or Burger King and so my siblings and I thought that they were such a luxury! Whenever we went to Fairbanks, which is the second biggest city in Alaska next to Anchorage (I think...I have not researched this) my dad would ask us what we wanted and it was always a fight between Burger King, McDonalds, or Royal Fork which is the equivalent to "Old Country Buffet," in Washington and in California its called "Hometown Buffet."
Speaking of Buffets...my family can destroy buffets...we are the type of family that make buffets actually lose their money because we can eat like monsters and laugh the whole time while stuffing our faces.
Okay sorry about the aside. Back to my WALL. So Delta Jct., had no fastfood restaurants and so we thought eating at McDonalds or Burger King was the coolest thing ever. If the whole family couldn't go to fairbanks and it was just my dad, we would make sure he would bring us some yummy McDonalds--top of the line cuisine. When we saw the Big Mac come out on t/v, me and my siblings were entranced by this burger and we just had to have it. So the next trip my dad made to Fairbanks, he asked us the usual question of what we wanted. Of course it was McDonalds and we specifically said we all wanted Big Macs. Now my Dad saw these commercials too and so when he returned from the trip he comes back with ONE Big Mac. Since the commercials made the Big Mac look so ridiculously huge, my dad thought we wouldn't be able to handle more than one. LOL. My Dad must not have looked at the burger they put in the bag because as we all know, Big Macs are ridiculously small, well in comparison to their name anyways. So all four of us gather around the bag, open up the burger box and is startled to see a not-so-big Big Mac that we were all waiting to eat. DISAPPOINTMENT. So we ended up splitting that tiny burger in four pieces! lol hahahahaha. that story always cracks me up and kind of conveys at how much we were so out of touch with the world outside of our little town. We even lived in a log cabin! a very cool log cabin I might add.
I have plenty more stories about my stay in little Delta Jct, Alaska but I think that would require me to sit and write for days so I will stop here.
-anna-
OK so first assignment for the Berlin program was to blog about "my wall."
So I was thinking...Wall...and then I thought isolation, which led me to the little tiny Alaskan town I used to live in when my age was still in the lower single digits (hehe).
The Town: Delta Junction, Alaska
Population at the time: about 3,000
Tourist Attractions: Highway 99 ended there. (keychains boasting "highway 99 ends here" were souvenirs kekeke)
Fastfood: uhh... a random pizza place which I never remembered going to and the BIG RED, which was a cylinder with a cone roof type building that sold icecream. Yes. the BIG RED, was an icecream parlor and it was popular. O yes indeedy. School field trips to the BIG RED was common and cool. hahaha.
Recreational activities: Playing in the woods with sticks and stones and howling with the wolves.
Korean Population: extremely tiny.
So in this tiny little town, my family was one of the very very few Korean families living in the area and so our family kind of got "special treatment." My mom always boasts of how people used to comment on how well she dressed her four children and how clean we were (she still does). hahaha! Like Asian people are dirty or something LOL. I guess we were kind of a novelty there which really tickles me when I start to really think about it.
Wildlife really was everywhere. There would be moose in our backyard, chomping on our greens in the garden. Every summer, my siblings and I would go strawberry picking in the wild fields right in front of our house. Blueberry picking in the mountains was also something we did every year during the season and there would also be black and brown bears wandering around the side of the roads every so often. O and Buffalos! I have a story about buffalo poo but that will be for another day for whoever wants to hear about it.
We had no fastfood restaurants such as McDonalds or Burger King and so my siblings and I thought that they were such a luxury! Whenever we went to Fairbanks, which is the second biggest city in Alaska next to Anchorage (I think...I have not researched this) my dad would ask us what we wanted and it was always a fight between Burger King, McDonalds, or Royal Fork which is the equivalent to "Old Country Buffet," in Washington and in California its called "Hometown Buffet."
Speaking of Buffets...my family can destroy buffets...we are the type of family that make buffets actually lose their money because we can eat like monsters and laugh the whole time while stuffing our faces.
Okay sorry about the aside. Back to my WALL. So Delta Jct., had no fastfood restaurants and so we thought eating at McDonalds or Burger King was the coolest thing ever. If the whole family couldn't go to fairbanks and it was just my dad, we would make sure he would bring us some yummy McDonalds--top of the line cuisine. When we saw the Big Mac come out on t/v, me and my siblings were entranced by this burger and we just had to have it. So the next trip my dad made to Fairbanks, he asked us the usual question of what we wanted. Of course it was McDonalds and we specifically said we all wanted Big Macs. Now my Dad saw these commercials too and so when he returned from the trip he comes back with ONE Big Mac. Since the commercials made the Big Mac look so ridiculously huge, my dad thought we wouldn't be able to handle more than one. LOL. My Dad must not have looked at the burger they put in the bag because as we all know, Big Macs are ridiculously small, well in comparison to their name anyways. So all four of us gather around the bag, open up the burger box and is startled to see a not-so-big Big Mac that we were all waiting to eat. DISAPPOINTMENT. So we ended up splitting that tiny burger in four pieces! lol hahahahaha. that story always cracks me up and kind of conveys at how much we were so out of touch with the world outside of our little town. We even lived in a log cabin! a very cool log cabin I might add.
I have plenty more stories about my stay in little Delta Jct, Alaska but I think that would require me to sit and write for days so I will stop here.
-anna-
First blog post in uh... a long time.
So the last time I have ever had a blog was way way back in the day and it was called xanga. So I'm kind of excited to start up a new blog so I can dibble dabble away at whatever I feel like dibble dabbling about. I probably will only use this blog for the assignments for now but once I'm in Berlin, hopefully I'll really have tons to write about and take this blog away!
Alright, first post is complete.
Alright, first post is complete.
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