From: Andrew.Bae@f29.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Andrew Bae)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.senior
Subject: Anyone home?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 00:08:00 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:105/29 - The Catlin Gabel Sc, Portland OR


Hi there - I left a message to you a couple of weeks ago, but maybe you didn't
 get it or maybe you didn't want to respond.  That's fine.  I'm writing again
 because I figures the former - I'm a hopeful guy.
       Anyway, if there's a time stamp on this thing, just ignore it.  The
 only reason I'm writing so late is because I got back from this concert which
I played in.  I'm in this Portland Youth Philharmonic deal, and it's a decent
orchestra, so sometimes (okay, usually) we get to play in real auditoriums.
 Tonight was pretty cool - it was supposed to be a Christmas concert, so we had
 a harp concerto and stuff.
       Sorry, but I was scanning through some of the new messages on this
 area, and I saw one from you to someone - your schedule sounds pretty
 grinding!  Are you a senior?  All those IB classes would drive me nuts - we
 don't have them in my school, although some in the Portland area do, but we
 have Advanced Placement classes - the thing I don't like about those is that
 it is just another thing that the College "Board" runs.  I mean, we have to
 shell out big bucks to take their SATs, their Achievements, their AP tests,
 and then we have to pay them more money to send the results to colleges we
 want to go to - SOMEONE is making serious MONEY.  Anyway, enough of that -
 it's boring stuff.
       So how was your Christmas?  Mine was really really really boring, as
 usual - my family sans my dad (he was in S. Korea on business and just got
 back today) stayed at home.  So, Christmas Eve my mom, my sister and I popped
a psychedelic dance CD into the stereo and had our own little house party.
 Now, I'm not that strange (once in a while), but after eating so many Ritz
 crackers one gets a little hyper.  And they call me a senior.  Maybe I don't
 deserve the title.
       Anyway, I also read (sorry :-(  ) that you might have to move to Korea
 or somewhere else - if you do, do plan to move to the Seoul area?  Being
 Korean (I don't know if that's a positive trait considering you're
 SURROUNDED by Orientals where you live) I visited my relatives there this past
 summer for a couple of weeks - I found Seoul to be a very cramped, polluted,
 hectic, traffic-jammed place - but it DID have it's beauty, in a way.  In the
place you are living, is it very urban?  Or pretty rural?
       So how are you connected to this echo?  It seems to me like you are
 running your own little BBS - or is there a local one that will echo your
 messages?
       ARGGHH.  There is NOT enough time in winter vacation to finish homework
 - at least when you haven't done any in the last week.  Tommorrow, I will do
 all of my homework - or maybe go see the light display at the zoo - or maybe
 go for a run - or whatever.  I come up with any excuse not to do homework
 during vacation.
       Hmm.  Not much is going to happen this week where I live - the thing is
 that it is supposed to snow where I live - but I was planning on going skiing
at Mt. Hood anyway, if I can scrape up the dough off the cookie tin.

If you do get this, please write - I'm really bored.

                                       Thanx,
                                       Andrew

P.S. If you happen to pick up any Korean, please teach me - I don't know
 nuthin.  Much to the dismay of my parents and relatives.  Sigh.  :-| 

--  
uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!29!Andrew.Bae
Internet: Andrew.Bae@f29.n105.z1.fidonet.org