Power Point Portfolio

Power Point Portfolio : Power Point Portfolio Minhie Lee

Personal Health History : Personal Health History

How I Got My Name : How I Got My Name I actually have two names. Usually people who have two names have one English name and one name in their own language, but for me, both of my names are Korean. One is Minhie, which I use as an English name, and another name is Da-young, which I used in Korea for about 12 years of my life. This uncommon consequence resulted when I was born in the U.S. My mom wanted to name me Minhie for so long that she named me Minhie and registered me in with the name Minhie. However, my grandfather who lives in Korea, named me Da-young and registered me as a Korean citizen—in Korea, if both of your parents are Koreans, you automatically get Korean citizenship. So I have got two Korean names. Many people think Minhie is my Korean name, but my actual Korean name is Da-young.

Meaning/Origin of My Name : Meaning/Origin of My Name In Korea, most names are made out of Chinese character since ancient Korea used to borrow words from China. So does my names. My Korean name, is made out of two chinese characters pronounced in Korean, Da (多: many) and Young (領: to lead) which means to lead many people. My another name, Minhie, did not have any meaning at first, but recently, my mom and I made a meaning for it. Since my mom and I are very firm Christian, I got the meaning from one Bible verse: Min (民: nation) and Hie (熙: to shine) which means I am a nation of light.

Date and Place of Birth : Date and Place of Birth I was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on January 25th, 1992. It was very cold winter and winter in Michigan was even worse. However, my mom loved Michigan and so did I. I was born in University of Michigan hospital. My father was studying in University of Michigan so my family lived in the student apartments where U of M provided some students in grad school. When I was about 2 years old, my family—my parents and my older sister, Min-kyoung—came back to Korea.

Family Health History : Family Health History

Family Tree : Family Tree

Interview With My Grandfather 1 : Interview With My Grandfather 1 How old are you? - I am 79 years old How many children did you have? - I have 3 girls and 1 boy How’s your health so far? - I am pretty healthy compare to other people who are about my age Do you have any illness? - I have Perkins disease but it’s not that serious When was the last time you went to the hospital? - I visited hospital 2 weeks ago

Interview With My Grandfather 2 : Interview With My Grandfather 2 Why did you go to hospital? - I had to get checked up on my Perkins disease. Do you have any family disease? - I heard Perkin’s disease is generic disease, but I don’t remember someone in my family had Perkin’s disease Do you exercise a lot? - I walk a lot but I don’t do any other extended exercise Do you have any unhealthy habits? - I smoke What does your family say to you about that? - They force me to quit, but since I am very stubborn, they gave up

Interview With My Grandfather 3 : Interview With My Grandfather 3 Did it affect your health? - Not really. I mean, people are telling me to quit because it’s not good for my health, but so far I don’t find any problem with it Did you use to get health check up or anything like that at school when you were little? - Yes, we certainly did. We had many check ups since we did not have great deal of money to get family doctor or anything at the time Can you tell me one of them? - The worst check up was feces examinations. I don’t know how to call it in English, but it was once a semester and it was awful cause they force me to go to bathroom Why would they check up your feces? - Well I guess you can tell the person’s nutrition state by looking at feces. But the major reason was to see if we have mawworms or not. What is mawworm? - Maw worm is a worm that lives in your intestines and eats all your nutrition that you consume, so basically, you can’t get any nutrition and it can be very bad.

Interview With My Grandfather 4 : Interview With My Grandfather 4 What happens if you do have a mawworm? - If you have one, they will give you a medicine, and you eat it and go to bathroom. And the worm would come out with your feces. Was having a mawworm common at that time? - Yea. At the time, the sanitary system wasn’t as good as it is these days and a lot of kids had mawworms or had nutrition issues. However, I feel like young people these days are even weaker than the ones from your time. Do you agree with me? - Yes I certainly do. I feel like many kids these days are not strong enough or engaged enough to certain activities. Can you give me examples for me? - Like when I was young, many people had farms and things that we always had to work physically and also we were not as obsessed about education as they are now. Which gave us more time to run around and exercise. So what you are basically saying is their lifestyle is not healthy? - No I don’t think it’s healthy at all. And I don’t like it very much. Kids sitting in a room and studying all day long? Look, how depressing is that?

Interview With My Grandfather 5 : Interview With My Grandfather 5 Any other factors you think is affecting them? - I also think the foods that they eat affects them a lot in a bad way. There are too many fast foods and junk foods. What kind of food did you eat when you were my age then? - I mostly ate rice with some side dishes. Traditional Korean foods. Those are healthy and highly nutritional. Is there any physical challenges that you are going through? - Yes. I am getting old. Haha Can you share with me those challenges more specifically? - Well, it’s hard to do things faster and to remember things better. I have problems to see and listen to things too. Does that make you sad? - No, not really. At first it did, but now that I think of it, I had spent such a wonderful times in my life and now I am alive and well and I thank God for it already.

How My Family Came to America : How My Family Came to America Around 1990, my dad first came to America with my mom and my older sister, who was 2 years old, to get his master’s degree in University of Michigan. My mom bore me at the time and I was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and we lived there until early 1995 and came back to Korea and my brother was born. I spent most of my youth in Korea and came back to the U.S. in 2006 alone. My family were looking for a chance to come to the U.S. and my father found job as an exchange professor in SDSU and all my family came to the U.S. last year.

Family Health History : Family Health History I studied my family tree and talked to my grandfather. He said that he has a weak symptoms of Perkin’s disease and thinks Perkin’s Disease is a generic disease. He does not know where it actually came from but he assumes that it comes from my Great Grandfather’s family since Great Grandmother did not have problem with Perkin’s disease. He is not fully sure because my Great Grandfather died when he was young.

Fitness Data and Nutrition : Fitness Data and Nutrition

Fitness Testing : Fitness Testing Mile: 10:30 Curl-up: 30 Trunk Lift: 9 Push-ups: 5 Sit & Reach: 12 I had passed all the others but I failed push ups. Since my arm strength is weak, I will practice push ups starting from the bottom. My goal is 10. I will start with my knees on the ground and as I get better, I will practice with my feet supported on the wall. And progress up.

Times That I Used in 5 Days : Times That I Used in 5 Days Studying per day: 5 hours + 8 hours of school; 65 hours in 5 days - Since I am junior and care more for my GPA, I mostly spend my time studying and I think this is just about right time amount. Sleep per day: 6 hours; 30 hours in 5 days - My hours of sleep is about 2 or 3 hours less than the amount I should have. I should stop wasting my time during day and finish my homeworks early so I can go to sleep earlier. TV watching per day: 1 hour; 5 hours days in 5 days Computer use per day: 2 hour (including home work uses); 10 days in 5 days Phone use per day: about 1 hour; 5 hours in 5 days - Ever since I was young, my mom was very strict on the computer/ TV rules so now, I don’t really use them a lot. I rather read books or talk to my friends. Overall Totals: 115 hours

Social and Emotional Health : Social and Emotional Health

Hobbies/ Talents/ Sports : Hobbies/ Talents/ Sports I like to draw and paint. I used to go to art studio on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday to work on my portfolio. Also my art teachers think I have talents in art. I like to exercise. Especially walking. So I go walk daily. I do yoga for my fitness. It is really fun and good for my physical and mental health. I like to try many sports. So far, my favorite sports are tennis and soccer. I can play flutes, but I really want to learn guitar and keyboards. I am planning on going to dance studio after my junior year. I really enjoy dancing and I want to try ballet.

Pets: Names, Breed : Pets: Names, Breed I don’t have any pet right now, but the most recent pet I had was a dog. His name is Ga-eul, which means autumn in Korean. We named him that because he was born in fall. He is shihtzu dog. I really like shihtzu because they are very cute and friendly. They are not as smart as maltese, but they are very easygoing and friendly kind. I like dogs, but I also like cats. But my mom does not like cats for some reason. Next time when we get a dog, I want to get a big dog like Golden Retriever.

Favorite Travel: When, Where, With Whom : Favorite Travel: When, Where, With Whom My favorite trip that I remember was the one to Orlando. I went to Orlando last year spring break. In Orlando, I went to Disney World, Universal Studio, and Sea World. I went there with all of my family. I think it was very memorable since it has been so long that all of my family members could go to trip together. They are always too busy to get times up, but we finally made it.

Closest Friends : Closest Friends My closest friends are mostly in Korea since I came here when I was in middle school and my first language is Korean. I still talk to them on the phone or mail them. At school, I mostly hang out with Rachel Tang, Dahhee Kim, and Su-Yeon Lee. I think we could become closer than others because we have similar cultures and go to same church. One of my best friends live in Canada, and he is my family friend. He and I have been good friends ever since we were very young. He understands me well and I can tell him whatever that is in my mind.

Schools Attended : Schools Attended I went schools in Korea until Middle school: Dae-chi Elementary School, Dae-chung Middle School. When I came to the U.S., I went to Slauson Middle School in Ann Arbor, Mi. In my freshman year, I moved to Chula Vista, Ca, and attended Bonita Vista High School for a year. In my sophomore year, I moved to Rancho Bernardo, Ca, and transferred to Rancho Bernardo High School and still going there.

Clubs I Am In Or Interesting In Joining : Clubs I Am In Or Interesting In Joining I am in Key Club, which is a volunteering club and I get my community service hours from this club. I am also interested in environments that I joined Eco Club. I am in Korean American Students Association, and I am planning for running as a vice-president next year.

Health Triangle : Health Triangle

Picture Time Line : Picture Time Line

Age 2 : Age 2 It was February of 1994 when this picture was taken. I was 2 years old and this picture was taken in Michigan apartment that was provided for the exchange students. I was playing with my teddy bear and singing and my mom took a picture of it.

Age 4 : Age 4 It was taken in March or April of 1996 and I was 4 years old. It was after I came back to Korea from the U.S. and this picture was for my kindergarten ID card. They made a necklace out of this and I really loved the penguin and I wore it everyday.

Age 8 : Age 8 It was May of 1998. I was about 8 years old. I was at my house in Korea and I was eating ice cream, which is my favorite snack every now and then, and my mom took a picture of me.

Age 13 : Age 13 It was in October of 2004. I was 13 years old and my friends and I got into Middle School. I am in the middle wearing white and these are my best friends now and then. I was about to leave to come to here and they wanted to take a picture of us to remember our friendship.

Age 14 : Age 14 This picture was taken in my last day of Middle School in Michigan. After this, I moved to Chula Vista. I am in the middle of this picture, and it was in my band room with some of my band friends. We celebrated our last day of school with cake and pictures.

Age 15 : Age 15 It was taken two days before my 16th birthday. My friends threw me a surprise birthday party at this one party house. I took a picture with one of my best friends. We were eating ice cream, which is my favorite and on my lap, there’s a stuff lion, my favorite animal, that I got for my birthday present.

Age 16 : Age 16 It was taken in 2007 and I was 16 years old. It was my church in Chula Vista and I am in the middle upper of the picture. These two are my good friends and mentors and they both are college students in UCSD.

Age 17 : Age 17 This was in February 2009. All of my family went to family trip to Orlando. It was from Disney World and we were waiting for the train. Since my older sister is taking the picture, she couldn’t be in the picture. Starting from the left, my brother, father, mother, and me.

Age 17 : Age 17 It was February 14th, 2009. After I moved to Rancho Bernardo, I moved my church too. This was from Valentine’s Banquet that was held by my new church. I am on the left of the picture and the one in the right is one of my best friends from the church.

Age 18 : Age 18 It was February 28th, 2010. I bought a new Polaroid camera and my friend took a picture of me holding my camera with her Polaroid camera. I cut my hair short like a boy and was very happy to finally get a camera that I wanted so bad. It was at my friend’s house.

Personal Crest : Personal Crest

Unique Self : Unique Self

A Song That Represents Me : A Song That Represents Me The song is called La Valse D’Amélie by an artist Yenn Tiersen and it is one of the sound tracks on the movie called Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain. It is a French movie and song. I chose this song because I loved the movie and could relate myself to the main character Amélie a lot. She is a kind of person that I want to be like and this song is just as sweet and lovely as I tried to be and her. It is unique and original but also has exotic feelings. It gives certain foreign feelings that I have as Korean American.

Self-Portrait : Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait Description : Self-Portrait Description I would say this is my self-portrait. It is one of the pages from my diary from last year. I always keep little diaries and this is the first page of it. I felt like this shows me the most. This has my thoughts, quotes that I always want to remember, memories, pictures, my value and belief in it. I have nothing else that can portray me as well as this does.

Future Aspirations : Future Aspirations

A Person That Had Influence On Me : A Person That Had Influence On Me I would say my mom, but it is too obvious and not original. So I chose a person who had influence on me the second most after my mom, Eun-Jin Cho. She is only one year older than me but she has taught me so many things that I will never learn both spiritually and mentally and she catches things that others doesn’t even pay attention to. She is very positive and bright person that you want to be around anytime and she is full with love that nobody can resist her. She was there for me when I was having such a hard time and always encouraged me, but when it’s needed, she never ceased to give me advises that others can’t even tell me about. I learned so much from her and she is the one that I looked up to and wanted to be like.

Letter to Eun-Jin Unnie! : Letter to Eun-Jin Unnie! Hey Eun-Jin Unnie~ You don’t even know how important you are to me in my life. You always filled me up with love and care when I really needed it. Even when I was separated from my family and felt like no one can understand me or love me, you were the only one who always reminded me how much people love me. Even in the time of hardships and struggles, you were just there no matter how many things or words you can provide for me but never let go of my hand. You are so loving and caring that your existence brightens up the whole world. Like I always say, you are the one that I truly look up to, and I love like my real family. You are truly a gift from heaven for me! I love you! Minhie <3

My Future : My Future In three years, I see myself in the university that I want to go. I will study art and art history or something like psychology in college and try to save my money so I can go to Europe as an exchange student for a year. In five years, I see myself in France as an exchange student. I will go there to study art and experience the new world. I have always wanted to live in Europe, especially in London and Paris. In seven years, I will come back to Korea and make a lot of money and actually gets my own studio to work on my art pieces. In ten years, I will get married to someone that I love and I will have a young daughter. I will draw and paint with her, take her to the museums and theaters and have wonderful artsy time with my family. We will travel around a lot and move around both Korea and the U.S. so that my kids would have many chances to experience more things.

One Thing That I Want To Accomplish : One Thing That I Want To Accomplish There’s this one thing that I always have dreamed about. I always wanted to go to Europe, especially to Paris to study fine art. I love impressionism paintings, and Paris was the main place where the impressionism movement had occurred. Not only that, Paris is so called, city of art and still has many artists and philosophers. I really like their lifestyle and the culture that I really want to go there and live and study for couple of years

Media Awareness : Media Awareness

My Opinion Towards The Media : My Opinion Towards The Media I really respect the influences of the media and like to associate with them, but sometimes, I feel like I am being fooled by the media and people behind it. Through media, they put up false ideal images to the teenagers that causes the serious social problems. It can be enjoyed once or twice, but when it becomes constant, people start to get obsessed with it. Even myself, from time to time, feels bad about myself because I am not dressing in a way so-called, “hot” or “in”. I always feel like I should have a bone-skinny body like some models in the magazines do. But as I grow older, I learned how to not tossed back and forth by whatever people talk about, but stay with my own value and belief.

I Love My Body As It Is : I Love My Body As It Is

Explanation To My Slogan : Explanation To My Slogan Once I went to the exhibition of this one photographer. He was Korean, and he took bunch of women with sheer clothing or underwear on, and they did not have bodies what we call “pretty” or “skinny”, but they seemed very satisfied with perfect, bright smile on their face. Even though they were not “fitting in”, they were confident about their body. On the corners of the pictures, every picture had this slogan and the name of the model. The slogan can sound too direct or boring, but as I see this slogan again and again, the stronger the message came to me. So I really liked the slogan as it is. It is direct and obvious.