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Life has a way of bringing me full circle.

Exhibit A: loving to dance -watching and participating- in toddler ballet class, adolescent jazz and dance recitals in a day camp setting, as well as dancing all around my house

= participating in zumba class 3 times a week

Exhibit B: watching Stars and Disney on Ice yearly from ~1996-2001

= reunited with the world of skating while watching the Vancouver Olympics 2010 & attending the 2013 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships

#Sochi2014!!

Exhibit C: watching (ie obsessing over) Buffy the Vampire Slayer ~2000 and Veronica Mars (2004-7), and being inspired by the female characters

=currently a feminist really interested in how women (in particular) are represented in the media ( specifically movies, tv shows, news coverage)

=added Anthropology as my minor in my undergraduate studies

=critically analyzed Veronica Mars for a 4th year undergraduate seminar

=was an official kickstarter backer for the Veronica Mars movie (!!!! MARCH 14!) :)

Exhibit D: having a tough time negotiating between a feminine and ethnic identity in my adolescence and teenage years

=researched young women's perspectives of their own negotiation of feminine and ethnic identity (for a 4th year undergraduate seminar)

=took a graduate course on feminism and anthropology

=my proposed research for my MA is going to take a look at those two identities and how/if they intersect, and in what ways within an ethnic network organization for business students

Exhibit E: reorganizing my room annually (since me and my sisters switched around re:sharing a room and having our own)

=my interest in room organization (aka interior design and decoration) really helped me research more in-depth as part of my research assistantship (the professor I work for is researching interior design and home renovation and its history and connection to class, etc)

Exhibit F: starting to write chapters for a book ~2001 and mini poems, short stories for school, as well as researching and writing a few chapters of my own book ~2008-9

=Writer's Craft in high school was one of my favourite classes

= wrote a lifestyle column for a university college magazine during my last year in undergrad