<p>I still have all the Junie B books, plus the companion diary with stickers.</p>
<p>my favorite was George’s Marvelous Medicine! and Fantastic Mr Fox… and i loved Socks</p>
<p>My list:</p>
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<li>Travel to over 50 different countries. </li>
<li>Become fluent in at least seven languages. (I’m already fluent in five, so I’m well on my way there so far.)</li>
<li>Design something cool and practical.</li>
<li>Draw cartoons for fun. (:D)</li>
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<p>I want to spend time immersing myself in Africa (atleast two years in total immersion). I also am thinking I want to write a novel or poetry.</p>
<p>i’ve got a whole bucket list. driving on route 66, building my own library, writing a screenplay, visiting north korea, etc</p>
<p>@StanfordCS I’m from the LA area. So I’m sure you can guess which team from LA I am a fan of. Hahahaha.</p>
<p>Wow this thread has really picked up.</p>
<p>woah. which languages?
i’m supposed to be a TCK and i only speak 3…</p>
<p>@calgirl15; Wow, you’re already fluent in 5 languages? That’s amazing. I’m bilingual and studying a third language, but for the child of first generation immigrants living in the USA that’s really not that special.</p>
<p>@JacobStudent, Oh you must be a Clippers fan, LOL.</p>
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<p>Good luck with that, especially if you’re a US citizen/South Korean citizen. I actually got the incredibly rare opportunity to visit back in September - and let me just say that they’re not at all subtle in terms of expressing hostile sentiments towards America, or the Western world in general. They literally sing songs about “defeating the US imperialists”, and have the songs broadcast on the only news channel in the country while setting them to various video clips of military scenes.</p>
<p>if one of the languages you’re fluent in is Mandarin or Cantonese you are a monster…</p>
<p>That reminds me of how this summer, when I was visiting my relatives in China my dad commented that sometimes people in China think their TV remotes are broken - at any given time ~half the stations are set to the same channel, a live stream of the Chinese equivalent of the senate floor.</p>
<p>Full disclosure: I’m 100% Chinese. My parents (or any of my family members, for that matter - with the exception of my younger sister) don’t speak anything besides English and Mandarin. I lived in Montreal for a year when I was 8, where I attended a local public elementary school. All the classes were taught in French (including things like math and PE) - I attribute my fluency in French to that immersion experience, even though I continued studying the language in-depth for years after I left. I took Spanish up to the AP level and beyond in high school, and have practiced with native speakers at every opportunity I get. Then I self-studied German since my freshman year of high school, with the occasional help of tutors. </p>
<p>I got 5’s on AP English Lang/Lit, AP Chinese, AP French, AP Spanish Lang, and a 4 on AP German. Languages are kind of my thing. :P</p>
<p>calgirl15, i know how hard it is, that’s why it’s on my bucket list;) it actually was easier for south koreans to visit before the current nuthead of a president got into office and ruined the policy that aimed towards gradual reunification. yea we have to de-brainwash them before anything else</p>
<p>@ avtrox: It didn’t exactly help North-South Korean relations that the North bombed a small island belonging to the South back in November of 2010. 
So I don’t think the full blame should rest on the current South Korean president.</p>
<p>@avtrox Taekwondo black belt and instructor here.
Life goals… hmmm… well I recently decided that I want to have eight or more kids, and name my first son Calvin. If all goes according to plan, Calvin will live out his dream of becoming an astronaut just like his father, and his sister Deborah will go on to be the next Martha Stewart.</p>
<p>Minus the insider trading thing, of course</p>
<p>that is still impressive. i’m not impressed at all by people at my school speaking 6 different european languages. dutch is basically a shuffled version of german, the scandinavian languages are not really very separate… i had to learn chinese characters to study korean, it was like studying latin for english… do you have any intentions of learning a language of another region? Afrikaans?</p>
<p>I agree that the differences between several European languages are very small - kind of like the differences between, say, Spanish and Portuguese, or Dutch and German (like the example you provided), or Swedish and Norwegian. I know many Europeans are multilingual due to the facility of acquiring other languages that are similar to their native tongue, so I’ve resolved to never, ever forget my knowledge of Chinese because it’s the only thing that separates me from them. :)</p>
<p>yes but there has never been substantial evidence of that, that the bombing was from north korea. i’m not one of those people who seem to want to turn a blind eye to everything the north does, but there was no evidence. the accusations had no logical ground, yet the way the government blew it up out of proportion before anything was actually proven… i lost more tolerance with the president (i’d supported the opposing party to begin with)
he’s not terrible but he tries to run everything too much like a CEO, which was what he was before he got elected. but i guess the real blame is the parliament. then again if criticisms are to be made about the south korean parliament it all leads back to the forced democracy and neocolonialism</p>
<p>ANyway, back to lighter issues… </p>
<p>@JuiceboxEnjoyer cool name</p>