Name: John
Birthdate: 5-5
Location: New York, NY
Occupation: Finance
Life in a sentence or many:
I was born in Seoul, South Korea, and as a toddler adopted by a family of 7 in suburban New Jersey. From an early age, several facts were self evident: I had a big head, a big smile, and a big stubborn personality. My mom jokes that even after 5 kids, it was ME who prompted her to buy, read, and earmark Dr. Spock's, "The Stubborn Child".
I went to school in Philadelphia, but only after a year, I left and went to Korea (Asia) for over two years. The years of emotional buildup in grammar and high school exploded and all I knew was that I needed to "get out". I thought college was enough, but soon realized that "get out" meant leaving the same country as my parents, and leaving behind everything that I "knew".
When I returned and returned to school, the sojourners' heart remained with me, as it still does today. I spent time in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and finally returned to my home stomping grounds of New Jersey, settling with a job in New York. And that's where you'll find me now.
September 26, 2006 at 7:50 pm
Hi John, sorry to use your blog to contact you but I don’t have an email addy for you. Please feel free to delete this comment. I haven’t seen Julia online for awhile. Is she OK? Can you email me to let me know? I am hoping she is just distracted by her sister’s visit.
take care.
Sue
December 22, 2007 at 7:12 pm
just wanted to say, you have a nice blog. you’re a very strong person to write so honestly and you write very well. i tried to blog about adoption once but took it down because..i dunno, my writing makes me sound psycho. anyway, i wish you the best. at 31yo i just started to look for my birth parents today by contacting my agency. i respect you and what you’ve been through and everything you’ve lived and accomplished. i wish you the very best. respect coming at you from here in LA.
take care,
chris
April 8, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Hi John. Your blog is very impressive.
I am Korean. And I’m working as volunteer in Morocco. Korean style painting of Mugung flower was good to me. Take care. Bye.
January 5, 2009 at 5:39 pm
hi John,
this is my first foray into the blogosphere, but I have to say, your writing is the first I’ve read that I can identify with as a Korean adoptee. The ‘emotional buildup’ you talk about is probably what prompted me to take a year off from school and think about a trip to Korea. thanks for that, and take care.