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Starting out to introduce yourself is always awward in the beginning. As a writer you have to think of the things that will make anyone be impressed by what you write or say. But in all honesty, it’s really very hard to come up with proper words.  To be imaginative and to have that exact description of yourself seems too corny to write, I really don’t want to lie about my image. Then again, this is the task of writing. I used to write in notebooks and still do as sort of like my diary, I started writing to diaries when I was in elementary.

Writing comes late with me. But I love reading books that’s for sure. My father used to buy lots of book and we have cabinets and bookcases of those from the big Britannica Encyclopedia, to How-to-do-it-Yourself books to the smallest one like the Reader’s Digest. He loves to tell stories and I love to listen to him, even my Grandfather. He’s the best storyteller I’ve ever known.  And all of us, my cousins and I when he comes home from work or wakes up after sleeping we would gather near him at the terrace of my granpa’s house and listen to all kinds of stories, from the funniest ones to the scarriest stories but the stories that we all like to hear and his personal favorite (with a little touch of  lie to add excitement to our little ears) was the story about their experiences during World War II.  My grandfather is a licensed Captain during the WWII and when he was still alive he would tell how those who were captured in the war suffered together with the Americans at the fall of Bataan. My grandmother too has her own story, but a lighter one about how during the  Japanese occupations, the Japanese soldiers would line up at the plaza every morning together with the men, women and children to do an early round of exercise. And she would recounts with the counting of one, two, three in Japanese: “itchi, san, si”… I don’t know if this is correct. I’ll check on my sister who is married to a Japanses national.

Music is the next big thing for me. Right now, I am so in love with the Folk, Country, Acoustic and Blues. My father, when my sibling and I were little bought a piano. I was taught to play. I only learned a few because it interrupted my time of playing.  I did learn one though, I learned how to play the guitar when I was in college. It was on my brother’s first guitar and he was also the one who taught me how to play. My sisters most of them knows the piano. It’s only my two brothers and my second sister who knows how to play the guitar. We all love to sing. But I think I have the nicest voice among the rest (hahahaha). I joined in the faculty choir when I was still teaching. My father knows how to play the piano even though he has no formal training just like my brother.

It was also in loving music that I discovered these great young folk musicians from London.  We have a group and we call ourselves LOD’ or Land of Dreamers. These three guys are new folk musicians, although they are not yet known like Bob Dylan, they have all the potentials in the making. They compose their own songs, one of which was used in the film “Twilight”.  I met one of them, his name is Sam Bradley and he is just one of the sweetest and talented guy I’ve ever met so far. I have yet to meet Marcus Foster and Bobby Long, who by the way, was the first one that I came to know among them. And since then I’ve been in touch to thier other followers and we have a website just like the Sam, Bobby and Marcus promoting them and making them known to the world.

Right now, I am currently teaching in a Korean Language Center as an ESL/EFL teacher for three years now. Although I did taught high school and elementary in my previous school for almost eleven years. I think the name of the game right now is about language so I pursued this job and would still be probably be here for some more months before I get the nod from the college that I am applying in Canada. I’d like to go back to study again, not in the masters degree course but another related course. I do hope to learn more especially in writing which I am beginning to love, I hope to write more and be able to publish one in the near future.

This is all for now I have lots of things to say but I think this is enough. Thanks! ——Sicily24

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