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amalie's journal
Created on 2004-08-03 14:54:35 (#4054438), last updated 2009-07-01
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Basic Info| Name: | amalie_ |
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BioI was born in Florida and raised in Africa. I was so young when me moved there that I have no memory of life before Cameroon. After ten years over there my parents divorced and we all moved back to the States. I was 13 years old. My parents remarried and started new families while I suffered from culture shock. After living with my father in Dallas, TX I moved in with my mother in Mississippi. There I graduated from high school at the age of 16 and earned a BA in International Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi. After graduation I decided to take a break from academic life and worked as a Secretary in the ER of a local hospital. I eventually fell in love and married a sweet Jewish boy in the US Coast Guard. We are expecting our first child in September. I recently decided to convert to Judaism and after our son is born I plan on going back to school to pursue a master's degree. From there we'll see where life takes us.
I love music. I've played piano since the age of five so it's like a security blanket for me. I've studied other instruments and voice but the piano is my best friend. I also love to read. I read more than I watch TV and I take notes on everything I read - one of those bad habits I picked up in college. Growing up abroad got me really interested in languages so I really enjoy studying other tongues. I've dabbled a bit in French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, German, Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, and Turkish to name a few. I'm nowhere near fluent although French is the language I'm best at since I grew up in Cameroon (a French-speaking country) but I still love to study and learn as much as I can. I also love to travel. I spent so much of my childhood traveling back and forth between Cameroon and the United States - lots of transatlantic flights. My husband's mother is originally from Israel so he has done quite a bit of traveling himself. We both have list of countries we want to visit before we die and look forward to taking our son with us and showing him the world.
I adopted a cute lil' death fetus
from Fetusmart! Hooray fetus!
I love music. I've played piano since the age of five so it's like a security blanket for me. I've studied other instruments and voice but the piano is my best friend. I also love to read. I read more than I watch TV and I take notes on everything I read - one of those bad habits I picked up in college. Growing up abroad got me really interested in languages so I really enjoy studying other tongues. I've dabbled a bit in French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, German, Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, and Turkish to name a few. I'm nowhere near fluent although French is the language I'm best at since I grew up in Cameroon (a French-speaking country) but I still love to study and learn as much as I can. I also love to travel. I spent so much of my childhood traveling back and forth between Cameroon and the United States - lots of transatlantic flights. My husband's mother is originally from Israel so he has done quite a bit of traveling himself. We both have list of countries we want to visit before we die and look forward to taking our son with us and showing him the world.
I adopted a cute lil' death fetus
from Fetusmart! Hooray fetus!
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africa, art, balance, books, breathing, bruce campbell, cameroon, cats, cello, central african republic, clive barker, cooking, corsets, dance, david lynch, doctor who, dreams, dune, edgar allan poe, edward gorey, einstürzende neubauten, emotions, europe, eyes, fetish, french, fulani, gbaya, german, guatemala, gyorgy ligeti, h p lovecraft, health care, health policy, hebrew, heiner mueller, hieronymous bosch, history, international studies, israel, japanese, john cleese, john milton, judaism, juggling, language, latin, life, matsuo basho, medicine, memories, metaphors, middle east, monty python, music, neil gaiman, ocean, oil paints, pain, painting, pathology, philosophy, photography, piano, piercings, poetry, reading, russian, shibari, silence, tattoos, the third world, travel, trees, tropical medicine, turkish, vegetarianism, vinyl, viola, violin, voice, water, yoga, yosa buson
Schools:
American School of Garoua-Boulai - Garoua, North Province, Cameroon (1988 - 1996)R. L. Turner High School - Carrollton, TX (1996 - 1999)
Copiah-Lincoln Community College - Natchez - Natchez, MS (1999 - 2001)
University of Mississippi - Oxford, MS (2001 - 2002)
University of Southern Mississippi - Hattiesburg Campus - Hattiesburg, MS (2002 - 2004)
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