If you really wanted to know I, Andy Park, was born in the random state of New Mexico some random day in the deathly hot month of August. I moved to Austin, Texas, shortly after and lived most of my pre-childhood (until I was seven) as the ''Chinese'' kid in a predominantly Caucasian school. Chinese and Korean--they are both the same to the kid that stood out more than a white dot on black paper (there is no derogatory meaning to this). I'm Korean-American if you haven't understood yet.
At the age of seven I got on a plane and moved to Seoul, Korea. By this time I did not know the difference between summer and winter, and I was caught unexpected to the extreme Korean weather. During this horrific experience, I lost a toe from supreme frostbite.
Just kidding.
I stayed in Korea for the next ten years of my life and attended two different schools and moved three times. I spent my youth as the socially awkward, hand-eye coordination-handicapped, puberty-affected, depressed and slightly chunky blob. I remember when I had a spinal tab done on me and the nurse said it was difficult for her to find my spine because of all the lard in the way. How depressing. So I quickly and hastily I acquired an interest in Hip-hop dancing and succeeded in continuing to lose weight since ball-sports were never my cup of tea.
I went to Seoul International School --an international spoiled private school-- from grade three until the end of my middle school. I then left a life of socially-depravedness due to my illegitimate legacy of being the odd one at school, and transferred to Seoul American High School --one of the better schools in the Department of Defense Education Activity-- on the Yongsan Military Base in the heart of Seoul.
I allowed Jesus into my heart after living a culturally-Christian life at the end of my eighth grade during my Middle school church retreat hosted by my Korean church, Namdaemoon Presbyterian Church (I just typed ''church'' three times in one sentence--this is what school does to you). For the remaining of my adolescent/teenage years, my life and character made a 180 change and I was no longer the awkward pointless thingamagigger. I will have to credit Jesus for all this--I really was (fine, and still am) an awkward person, but I haven't experienced rejection, extreme bitterness, or depression my entire high school career--even till this day.
I rededicated my life at the end of my sophomore year in high school at the 36th Vida Nueva retreat --an affiliation of Tres Dias. For the first time I went to Youth group at Club Beyond Youth Ministry at the South Post Chapel and ever since getting connected to Jesus permanently, my life has never been the same. I received a piece of paper June of 2005 and so there ended my third chapter of life.
I gratefully left my Korean life to join the exciting--yet dreadful--life at the University of California, San Diego as an affiliate of Sixth College. I am currently majoring in Human Biology, unsure of God's direction, passionately hating academic life, lacking major social life (like everyone here), but animatedly and prayerfully apart of a body of three hundred followers of Christ at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, UCSD chapter--the largest organization on this campus. Since last year I've been an active worshipper at Coast Vineyard, and this year I am joyfully apart of the InterVarsity Prayer Team, and continue my ministry here on campus and online on xanga and this site.
Besides all that, what matters is I have a healthy loving mother, father, and a questionable fobbish younger brother, Daniel, whom contrary to popular belief, deep-down-inside i do actually love. My brother will be--hopefully--graduating from high school this year. I also have two female Cavalier King Charles Spaniel dogs, Lilly (6 yo) and Holly (4 yo).
Most of all, I have Jesus, and in the end He's all that really is sufficient for me.
I think I'm blessed.
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