Awkward Prom Photos Wanted!
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Calling all prom-goers! We want to run your awkward prom photos in the magazine – doesn’t matter if you went to prom last year, or 20 years ago – the more awkward the better!
We know you guys have some amazing photos stored in your harddrive/photo albums…share them with the world! (Or at least the KA community.)
Send photos to liz@iamkoream.com, or comment with a link to the photos on this blog!
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As a Korean American adoptee who didn’t eat a bite of Korean food until after I turned 18, I’ve had more than my share of these special moments. Whether it’s dropping everything I try to pick up with my chopsticks, tripping and falling down on the way out (okay, maybe I’m just clumsy), or suffering from the general confusion of not knowing how to eat anything or what’s going to happen next, I’ve pretty much covered everything required for an awkward dining performance.
Yes, this is very sad. But they say talking helps. So I’m putting this out there for all to read. I don’t know if this is common among adoptees, but I feel like I need support to go into a Korean restaurant with “real” Koreans in it. Perhaps this speaks to the amount of isolation and, well, cultural and racial shame I experienced growing up in an extremely white environment. As much as I now love the foods of the motherland, it can be hard to enjoy them on such an anxious stomach.
A few tales from the crypt:
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The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (of which KoreAm is one of many awesome media sponsors) kicked off this past Thursday, and as Hyphen’s Film Editor, I was lucky enough to get on the press list (read: free admission!) to some screenings and events.
The awkward adolescent that lives inside me decided to document SFIAAFF opening weekend in my diary as I navigate clumsily through a refined cinematic event, filled with movers and shakers in the Asian American film community. I neither move nor shake and I believe my SFIAAFF 2010 recap accurately reflects that.
Day 1
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Dear SFIAAFF Diary,
My friend K and I arrive at the Castro Theater for Opening Night, which is screening Aasif Mandvi’s Today’s Special. K has gotten us into the pre-film wine reception. We walk up to the second floor of the theater and within a few steps I see my favorite The Daily Show anchor in a fly black suit. I maintain my usual blank expression while internally declaring, “Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!” I devise a plan to discreetly take out my cell phone and snap a picture of him without looking like a stalker.
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