User:Thesusan

Introduction
Because all stories need introductions.

Susan is currently 14 years old. She's Korean (South Korean, mind you), and if it's not obvious enough, she is indeed a lady. Girl. Female. Her. I think you get the point. (: If you're lucky, you may spot her in the boonies of Buford, Georgia. That's where she lives, anyway. Since this is just the intro, I'll go into more detail down there..

The Beginning
In the beginning, when the world was in total and utter chaos, when the Cold War was coming to an end, when there were cool cartoons like Captain Planet and Speed Racer'', it seemed that life itself was meaningless and dull (Well, excluding the cartoons). Then... Susan was born.''

On April 19, 1992, a miracle was born. Her name was Miss Susan S. Kang. (:

She's wonderful to be around now, but back then lies a disappointing past. Susan was probably one of the most spoiled crybabies that ever existed. And if she didn't get her daily dose of Barney, she'd wail and scream, which did draw some complaints from neighbors. Her parents were most troubled. Why couldn't she be more quiet and cooperative like her big brother, David? Really, the only thing Susan was good for was for admiring how adorable and pudgy she was.

That period of Susan's life lasted from her baby years to her toddler years. Maybe her Kindergarten years, too. But during those years also came new knowledge and achievements. She learned to snap. She drew a lot, so naturally she got better each year. She learned that pressing your thumb against glass in't the smartest thing to do. Same goes for skipping church and breaking your arm the same day. She came very close to spelling "encyclopedia" correctly (She'd always spell it "incyclopedia."). There's probably a lot more that could be listed, but I think I've made my point.

The Parents
Parents play big roles in people's lives, so their story should be told too.

There is something that needs to be mentioned about Susan's parents. It's part of the reason why Susan sucks at Korean, part of the cause that gives her stress, and all of the reason why Susan is trilingual. Quite simply, her parents are deaf. If you're deaf, that means you're hearing-impaired. In other words, you can't hear. You couldn't listen to music. You couldn't understand what people are saying on TV. You wouldn't even know what your own voice sounds like. It's really terrible.

So Susan has to speak to them in sign language. But that doesn't necessarily mean she speaks sign language fluently.. Believe it or not, American sign language (ASL) isn't the only kind of sign language that exists. There's Korean sign language (KSL), too. If there's a word in ASL Susan doesn't know, she'll sign it in Korean. That is, if she knows it in Korean. And vice versa. So, Susan knows English, Korean, and sign language in both English and Korean.

She'd probably feel as much sympathy as you do, but she's rather used to have deaf parents. She's lived with them her whole life, anyway.

So that pretty much covers everything about Susan's earlier years. And her parents.

Oh, I forgot about my brother. Yeah, I have one. I mentioned him earlier, David. He's 4 years older than me, so he's currently 18. He's alright, I guess.