About Myself

Hello, My name is Young Son. I go by Eric. You can call me either Young or Eric. I will answer well for both names. I am an international student at RCC. I am from South Korea. Most people guess that I am from China. I understand that. I am tall and thin. I came to Riverside about 2 years ago. I came here to study my major, computer science, and to improve my English. Moreover, I wanted to get B.A. in UC, but it is too expensive for me to pay the tuition. Therefore, I decided to go back to my country after finishing this semester, Fall 2013. I am an outgoing person. I like to talk, exercise, cook, and hang out with friends. I love baseball and skiing. I used to do ski instructor in South Korea for 2 years. During baseball season, I go to watch baseball, and I go skiing in winter.

I have two scares personally. How about you guys? Do you have any kind of scares?? My scares are my future and loneliness (be left alone). I think that my future is the most important thing, but we don't know everything what will happen in the future; for example, war, job, family, changing, world, and so on.

Everybody never be able to know about the future. If you can know about future, please tell me what I will do. In the future, we have to do anything for us or our family. First, we have to find our job because we have to earn money to live. However, I don't know yet what I want to be in the future, so I am afraid of my future. I decided the plan which I will do in America, but I don’t know what I want to do as a job. That plan is just getting a degree and living in America.

In Korea, there is a prejudice against man. I think that every man has more stress than women about future because men have to take care of their family. What do you think about this? I am sorry to women but I know it’s a prejudice and a stereotype. Please do not nag to me. Korea is much more competitive than other countries because it is really small country. Almost all people don’t like competition, but people always live in competitive society. I'm worried about my future, so I come here, the United States of America. If I don't care of my future, I don't have to study English and also don't have to think about my future.

In addition, another scare is loneliness. If I live alone in the world, it makes me crazy and there is no passion and hope. Moreover, living alone is the saddest in the world. People sometimes told me. "Your life is up to you. Anybody doesn't help you to live except your parents." This comment was very scary to me.

In short, future and loneliness (be left alone) are my scares.

Here is the reason why I took this class to know about environmental problems and connection between human and nature. Since there are so many environmental problems these days, I wanted to know about it more. Also, I did not want to take Biology 1 because I thought Bio-1 could be too difficult for me. I hope I will know about the environment in the earth and enjoy this class. I think I will love this class.

Thank you

Let's all get a good grade and end up with smile.