Sicko

Today, I took a sick day. I started to feel a lot better, then suddenly my voice is going. And I just feel worse than I did this morning.

My thoughts on: "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan

School started last Wednesday. So far I like my classes, but I am struggling with Physics and Math Analysis.

Also, today I was (and still am) having a hard time doing my imitation write on Maya Angelou's "What's your name, girl?" So as I was distracting myself from the assignment, I read the table of contents in the third edition of Writer's Presence. I saw a story by Amy Tan, so I read it. It's called "Mother Tongue." It's about how her mother spoke "broken" english or "simple" english. When it was in fact, not broken or simple at all. Just the way she spoke english, being as she was foreign.

In the story, Tan wrote that it seems most Asians go into engineering, or a job that has to do with math or science because those two subjects are the same all around the world. Whereas language is not. Which could be the reason why there aren't very many Asian American writers. She said that when she was in school she was pushed towards math and science but rebelled and did english to prove to everyone she could do it.

But when I think about it. I was never the best in math or science, same as my sister. Yet, we both excelled in English. Though our mother is from Korea. And I thought about it, and am still thinking about it, that my mother has very good english. But this fact is because she has been around English speakers for most of her adult life since she moved to Seattle when she was about 20 after living in Sweden (an english speaking country). As the years progress, I can hear the "broken" english my mom speaks. But I think I only notice because my friends started to notice. And because I was taking higher levels of English as well.

I just think it's weird that a stereotype of Asians in America is that we're good at math in science. But we are only good at math in science because they are the same all over the world. But I guess that isn't weird.

Last year when I took AP US History for a semester (I dropped the class because I was lazy) my teacher told me I spoke like a person whose mother was foreign... Apparently, that meant I had very good english. But he also said it meant my viewpoints...

Ha, so I guess that's all I wanted to say. This has been a great distraction from adv. comp. homework!

procrastination is sweet

So a few blogs ago, I said my sister and I would start a vlog. But so far, we have failed to post. We did a couple, but I wasn't for them lol. They were more practices.

Maybe soon. SO WATCH OUT!

oh by the way, my school is starting soon. this sucks balls.