Wednesday, December 10, 2003
"oh, say can you see..."
so i have my naturalization interview appointment today. i'm going to be a US citizen! it's funny, cuz it was never really a priority for me until i wanted to apply to the jet programme to teach english in japan. you have to be a citizen of the country you're applying from and i couldn't exactly go to the philippines just to apply to the program from there, y'know? it's funny, cuz i'm applying for citizenship just so i could leave the country for a year.
so here i am, carefully reviewing the lyrics to the star spangled banner cuz my silly mom keeps teasing me that they might make me sing! i sang it to her just to practice and i was doing the speed version and she told me that i better get the tune right or they'll fail me!
there's a 100 question citizenship test. some questions are stupidly easy, like how many states are there in the us? but some actually require research, like who said "Give me liberty or give me death"? goodness... bonus point to whoever gets it first. dude, and who is the chief justice of the supreme court right now? is it rehnquist? did i even spell that right? i don't think the average american even knows how many amendments there are to the constitution or even their own states' senators. gl didn't even know how many stripes are in the flag!
well, i guess i gotta keep studying... wish me luck!
so here i am, carefully reviewing the lyrics to the star spangled banner cuz my silly mom keeps teasing me that they might make me sing! i sang it to her just to practice and i was doing the speed version and she told me that i better get the tune right or they'll fail me!
there's a 100 question citizenship test. some questions are stupidly easy, like how many states are there in the us? but some actually require research, like who said "Give me liberty or give me death"? goodness... bonus point to whoever gets it first. dude, and who is the chief justice of the supreme court right now? is it rehnquist? did i even spell that right? i don't think the average american even knows how many amendments there are to the constitution or even their own states' senators. gl didn't even know how many stripes are in the flag!
well, i guess i gotta keep studying... wish me luck!
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"To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the
greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks
nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid
suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change,
grow, live, and love."
~unknown
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"live a life that others will remember years from now, NOT because it pointed to you but because of how it pointed to the One who made you."
~ Mark Hart, the Bible Geek
"we grow up learning to become self-reliant, but really we need to be God-reliant"
"we could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box"
"never wound hearts that love u, never give them the endless pain, because wounded hearts are like roses that never bloom"
"there comes a time when we have to stop loving someone not because that person has stopped loving us but because we have found out that they'd be happier if we'd let go"
