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Ten things to know about Mark
Hana. I currently teach conversational English, reading and writing to elementary and middle school students in Daegu, South Korea. Dul. Before I made this move in October 2008, I lived in the Los Angeles area for 14 months. In that span I coached soccer to 3-to-6 year-olds, called strangers asking them to donate money to nonprofits, was a clerk at a law firm dedicated to starting tax-exempt not-for-profit companies, put solar panels on a roof, unloaded boxes from a truck to a warehouse, and collected unemployment checks. Set. I also took improv classes for two months and was a member of the No Shame Theater troupe. I wrote original five-minute skits that were rehearsed an hour before the show, and I performed occasionally. Net. And before that, I was in the journalism business full-time for 13 years and part-time for an additional six. Da-sul. I am a graduate of Writers Boot Camp in Santa Monica, Calif. The course allowed me to experience a life-altering moment: I met Flounder from Animal House. Yuh-seot. I have organized an American Cancer Society event that raised $1,500, and I have had my head shaved twice for the St. Baldrick's Foundation. At an event for the latter organization I made my best impulse purchase ever -- a 25-pound Corgi mix, Baldy. If you have not met Baldy yet, you have not read my Korea blog, have you? Il-gop. It took 36 years to get out of the U.S., but when I did, there was a hell of a reason -- to attend the 2006 World Cup in Germany. I have since added South Korea (duh) and Japan to my passport. Yuh-deol. I just refreshed my "iTunes DJ" and here are the first 10 songs: "One After 909" by The Beatles, "Raining in Baltimore" by Counting Crows, "Love Walks In" by Van Halen, "Till the End of the Day" by The Kinks, "Disco Hades II" by Head Automatica, "Stairway to Heaven" (a live version from How The West Was Won) by Led Zeppelin, "Something" by The Beatles, "Flashlight Fight" by The Go! Team, "Live Alone" by Franz Ferdinand and "In My Dreams" by Dokken. Ah-hop. My first concert was AC/DC with L.A. Guns, the first album I remember owning was Parallel Lines by Blondie, my first baseball game was Red Sox-A's at Fenway Park, and my first hockey game was the Maine Mariners vs. the Nova Scotia Voyageurs. Yeol. I won $50,300 on "Wheel Of Fortune." On the same day the show was taped, the Red Sox pulled off their seven-runs-with-seven-outs-to-go rally against Tampa Bay. And I don't know what felt better. |
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