Angie Kim on The KYOPO Project
The flight from Seoul to New York is fourteen hours.
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Fourteen hours is not enough time to memorize all fifty Essential Phrases in your “All the English You’ll Ever Need!” book. Seven or eight phrases, maybe. Nine, at most.
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Holding your pee for fourteen hours because you heard that jumbo jet toilets can suck you out will cause you to spend your first week in America with a “urinary tract infection” (not an Essential Phrase), repeatedly uttering “Where . . .
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Superb piece, Angie. Captures all the complexity and strangeness of a new tongue and our immigrant lives.
Just beautiful.