The following is a conversation I had with a woman I had only just met last night in the nightclub. Let’s just call her a friend of a friend of a friend or something to that effect that won’t betray anyone’s identity. May I add that for a majority of the conversation, she had me [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Adoptionally Challenged’
Adoptionally Challenged: But there’s a lot of love.
Posted in Adoptionally Challenged, tagged adoption, Adoptionally Challenged, babies, family, katherine heigl, love, something warm and fuzzy on September 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Often it’s easy to remember the challenges that you face as an adoptee – and in my case being a visibly different adoptee (ie racially).
But sometimes something just makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. The love I have in my family is amazing.
I saw this picture today on Perez Hilton’s site:
I’m definitely not Katherine [...]
Adoptionally Challenged: What’s in a name?
Posted in Adoptionally Challenged, Things that make me roll my eyes, idiots, tagged Adoptionally Challenged, appearance, Australia, ethnicity, one where I rant about society, racial misconceptions, racism on June 20, 2009 | 8 Comments »
On Thursday I read an article about ethnic sounding names impeding people’s chances of securing a job interview in Australia.
I was appalled but not surprised at all. It made me think about how grateful I am that my last name has always been Anglo-Saxon despite my Asian appearance. I’ve always been lucky enough to get [...]
Adoptionally Challenged:The elephant in the room
Posted in Adoptionally Challenged, Things that make me roll my eyes, life lessons, tagged Adoptionally Challenged, Asian, Australia, banana, political correctness sucks, race, serious post, White Australia on May 25, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I was adopted from South Korea to a white Australian couple in the mid 1980s. I have been Aussie all my life. I don’t speak another language other than English, I have been brought up in a typically “White Australian” environment and I am basically what most people would call (to my face or otherwise) [...]
Adoptionally Challenged: The Mission.
Posted in Adoptionally Challenged, How I turned out the way I am, updates, tagged Adoptionally Challenged, family, Japan, parents, South Korea, that brother of mine that has a blog, travel, update on May 15, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I don’t know if anyone (at all – anyone?) will remember, but I had a side project. It was a little blog called ADOPTIONALLY CHALLENGED and it was basically about what it’s like to be me – an adoptee from South Korea who has lived in Australia her whole life. It was also about the [...]
