Girl
Name: Allee (also known as the Token Asian Girl)
Location: The OC - Ottawa Central, that is (and that would be in Canada, yes).
Occupation: Broke uni student Accounts clerk and part-time student.
Major: International Law and Human Rights (or, the one where I learn about how completely, utterly made of the fail the human race can be).
Just a Little Deeper
My real name is seven names long, but don’t worry - I won’t hold it against you if you just call me Allee. In fact, most people I know in real life just call me A. Why? I’m not really sure myself. I mean, is it really that hard to say a two-syllable name like “Allee”? Still, as long as I’m not being relegated to “Hey you” or “Psst”, then I suppose being called a letter isn’t quite that horrendous.
I live in a (not-so)tiny apartment hovel in the capital of Canada, where I try and pretend to be an adult. Independence and adulthood? Not really what it’s cracked up to be. I’m not going to lie - sometimes, I just really want to go back home and have my Mom feed me and do my laundry for me. Yes, I am indeed an only child. I’d like to vehemently deny that I’m not spoiled, but really, who am I kidding?
In my free time (wait, free time? What free time?), you can probably find me curled up in my Papasan chair reading anything from the autobiography of Aung San Suu Kyi, Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic series, and Stargate: Atlantis gay porn.
I also like to write, but procrastination and general laziness often leave me with pages upon pages of blankness. I’ve been trying to overcome this by writing 400 to 500 words everyday, so who knows? In a few years, I might actually (finally) have my great Canadian novel written (read: porn). I like to abuse any form of general spelling, grammar, and syntax found within the English language. And I really, really, really like commas (I also really like writing in parentheses, but you probably already noticed that).
I love traveling, and learning about different cultures. Some of my fondest and most memorable experiences happened while I was traveling - shucking corn with the Chief’s wife in a small village in Botswana, climbing the top of the Huayna Picchu mountain in Machu Picchu, and talking about religion and the meaning of life with an Australian PhD student in a coffee shop in Budapest, just to name a few. I suppose you can call me a globetrotter - and don’t worry, I’ve actually been outside of Canada (cookies if you get the reference :P). I’ve been to the Philippines, the United States, Mexico, Panama, South Korea, Japan, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Peru, the United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, and Ireland.
I’d like to eventually move to Nepal, Cambodia, or India, and work with an NGO like the UN or Oxfam to help develop the poverty-stricken areas of those countries, as well as act as a legal counsel for people who have been wrongly imprisoned and violated by their government (hence the reason why I’m majoring in International Law and Human Rights).
But that’s a lot of years and a couple of more degrees away, so for now, I’m going to embrace my life as a student, and learn as much as I can.
And, erm, that’s it.
If you aren’t bored of me yet, you can also read more about my random quirks, my top five things, and my geeky obsessions.