danielle
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Host-It Notes
- Hyperbole and a Half
- Katie's pencil box
- Peace, Preschoolers, and Infertility?
- Quirky is a Compliment
- That Genius Jacob and his Genius Ideas
- The Pajeon Princess
- Wonju Wife
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teaching English to Korean kindergartners! |
| Location | Wonju, Gangwondo, South Korea |
| Introduction | I'm an American girl living in Korea with my Korean husband in Wonju. I'm intent on keeping my eyes open and my heart warm. And my belly full, yes. |
| Interests | The HubbO (he never ceases to surprise me), Korea, drinking copious amounts of caffeine on leather sofas, good books and people who read them, running, and writing, writing, and rewriting and so on. |
| Favorite Movies | Slumdog Millionaire, Juno, Love Letter, My Neighbor Totoro, Pan's Labyrinth, Little Miss Sunshine, Grave of the Fireflies, Moonlight Mile, Boondock Saints, GoodFellas, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Grinch (year round, people, year round), The Other Sister, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Run Lola Run, Cinema Paradiso, The Godfather, Snatch, Dead Poets Society, Steel Magnolias (terrible, but I love it anyway), Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Garden State, The Princess Bride, and so on. |
| Favorite Music | Currently obsessed with: Jay-Z's Black Album, Fleet Foxes, new Coldplay, Bon Iver, Lil' Wayne (cringe-worthy, I know!), Bob Dylan's latest Bootleg album. Interminably obsessed with: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Sufjan Stevens, Coldplay, John Lennon, Jeff Buckley, Neutral Milk Hotel, Queen, Gillian Welch, Radiohead, Charles Mingus, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Obessed with in compulsive, severe, unrelenting phases: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bruce Springsteen, Miles Davis, Pinback, The Kinks, U2, Billie Holiday, Woody Guthrie, R.E.M., Dave Matthews Band, CCR, Eric Clapton, Billie Holiday, Eva Cassidy, Derek Webb, Over the Rhine, The Wallflowers, The Strokes, Saul Williams, The Proclaimers. |
| Favorite Books | The Gift of Good Earth by Wendell Berry, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Anything Anne Lamott, White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, Everything is Illuminated by JSF, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia, Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Silko, According to Ruth by Jane Feaver, Everything Kurt Vonnegut, Anything Jack Kerouac, All things Carmen Acevedo Butcher Learning to Love: Philp K. Dick, Completely smitten: Gertrude Stein, Undying Devotion to Every Word: Dave Eggers, Want to Grow Old With: Jonathan Safran Foer. |