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love them, wished i could wear them all the time ..

I’m working hard to get into law school for all the wrong reasons. I use to want to go to law school because I had a passion to help people, debate team in high school was so much fun, and law was the only thing that interested me. But now whenever anyone askes me why I want to become a lawyer, I can’t help but say, “Because my parents are forcing me.” I hate this, two and half years till I graduate from University, I hope to find my own motivation by then.

I am an American born Chinese and grew up speaking Cantonese with my family. However I can not read or write Chinese. I feel embarassed to call myself Chinese. I’m in Hong Kong right now and it’s so frusturating to not be able to read all the characters surrounding me. Even more I want to learned Mandarin. I’m Chinese, I should know my own language. Working hard on this goal though, I’m spending a year studying abroad in Hong Kong right now taking Mandarin classes, I’m going to Shanghai next summer for a summer Mandarin program at Fudan University, and then I’m going to spend a semester of my senior year studying abroad again in Singapore. I want to go to China one day and be able to survive on my own.