Journal #1 My Introduction

It is a hard job to introduce a 42 year old housewife. My name is Ahn Young Ok, but I am strange to my name. In Korea, married women have few opportunities to be called by their name. Most Koreans don’t call a woman with husband and children by her name and even her parents call her by the name of her children. Since ALP, I became to know people who were trying to call my name, so I picked out my nick name Leslie for their convenience. My new name makes me feel confident. I like to be called by my name I chose. When I graduated the university, I wished I would be a journalist. During my student days, I worked as a student reporter and was acted in the play, but I have no careers since I was married. Now I have my own dream again. My major was Political Science, but I will first challenge M.A in Communications at CSUF and then want to attend doctorial course in Political Science at UC Irvine and concentrate on studying ecopolitics. My future school career will give me another opportunity. One of Korean popular poems sings that the flower has been only a little motion until I call it flower. I want my name is called by many people.