About the Girl

When people first meet me, usually, the first thing they usually say to me is, "Wow, you're so tall!" I'm 5'11" and skinny, which seems to emphasize my height even further. While my mother is Asian, my father is Dutch, and I seem to have inherited nearly all of my looks from my dad's side of the family. I have reddish-brown hair and hazel eyes. I used to wear contacts, but I now wear glasses all the time.

Like my parents, I was born and raised in the Netherlands. I moved to Germany when I was 9 and to Houston, TX when I was 11. I never felt at home in Texas, so I worked hard in high school to make sure I could go to college out-of-state. I am now pursuing my BFA in Design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, which I enjoy and consider "home" more than Texas ever has been.

I'm still much of a workaholic, padding my schedule with lots of organizations and club activities, so I have very little free time. But I love the college life, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. This blog is mostly an attempt to keep old friends and relatives updated about what I'm doing, since I don't always find the time to keep in touch with all of them. I also use this as a place to reflect and generally indulge in my love of writing, even though I don't always have interesting things to write about.

I would say that I love writing even more than I love designing, though I've never truly doubted my choice of major. Though I prefer to express myself using the written word, I am a very visual person. The world around me and colors, especially, affect me very strongly, and I realized that any field that I went into that would seek to deny this side of me would only serve to inhibit and restrict me. I eventually hope to write books, but until substantial inspiration strikes, I fully plan to live and work as a designer.

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