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Paul Lester's Self-introduction II

I will now introduce my history:

Birth

In the 49th year of the reign of the Showa emperor on Memorial Day Weekend, (May XXth), on the Sabbath at 11:25 AM, I first entered this incredible world after exiting the inside of my mother. Due to the help of God, my mom had no labor pains. Because of the absence of labor pains the Doctor was away when I was born. Isn't he a bad doctor?

Things I LIKED and thinks I HATED when I was a lad.
LIKE	HATE
ketchuP	Tomoto's
Pickles	toilet bowls
Potato chiPs	Showers
sPaghetti	Baths
Hamburgers and Hotdogs	Other Meat
Puzzles	water
Scooby-Doo	hot water
running.
climbing rocks/mountains
the letter P
the color Purple
drawings mixed uP Pictures using many different colors.
My mom's Poor singing voice.
My dad's bounty of hair.	other babies (other than me)
Playing with toys,	sports
snow	heat
clouds	the Sun
The Wind.
Instead of SleePing, keeping my eyes open and using my imagination.	sleePing

The Age of Elementary School

Kindergarden
- My teacher was very good, but every day I was treated inhumanely by the other students.
1st Grade
- As a result of having moved, I went to a new elementary school. I was the #1 student in my class. My brother was also the #1 students in his class in 4th grade, and as a result he hated this school. As a result we both took an exam to get into the best elementary school in New York City. (The program is called the Astor program after the infamous Astor family). We both passed the test with flying colours. So starting from 2nd grade we went to a different school.
2nd Grade
- Everyone was at the same level so it was fun. In striking contrast, when I was made to go to summer camp by my parents, it was with average kids, so the inhumanity of kindergarten turned into inhumane beating and chasing and other types of bullying in summer camp.
3rd Grade
- My teacher this year knew absolutely nothing, so my Mom taught me everything. I didn't mind very much, but my Mom disliked this type of situation very much.
4th-6th Grades
- from 4th through 6th grade I had the same teacher. he was an exceptional teacher. I learned a tremendous amount, but from the end of 5th grade through 6th grade he started to go a little off the deep end. Every day we had a minimum of 6 hours of homework. The other students all asked their parents to do some of their HW for them. All the parents complied. But I thought that my own HW was my own responsability so I stuck it out on my own. (Not to add that my parents were very poor students in school and barely finished High School with D averages.) Besides that, he would often date and kiss and such things with another teacher in front of us even though both teachers were married to other people. His anger was very fearful but it was fortunately limited to yelling loudly, and asking us write 100-1000 word compositions on whatever we felt like, and occasionally sending someone to the nurse if they yelled back at him.
  As a result of this difficulty, I did not require studying or doing HW until the junior year of college. I already knew almost everything.

Junior High School

In order to end being bullied once and for all my parents enrolled me in the Korean martial art-form of Tae Kwon Do. From now on bullying ended, but it was due to more than knowing Tae Kwon Do. I majored in playing the clarinet in JHS. It wasn't something you can learn by studying so I found it difficult. It required lots of practice, but instead of practicing the clarinet I often ended up practicing Tae Kwon Do.

High School

It was the best in the United States of America. Actually it was #1 in NYC ( but we always beat everyone else in sports and academic competitions while I was there.) It's called Stuyvesant H.S. It was truly excellent.

University

I went to the average school out of the Ivy league schools, ie Cornell. Why? well in the US, Cornell is #1 in Japanese language. It's also excellent in High Energy Particle Physics and Theoretical Physics. Its one of the two schools that has its very own particle collider of the good sort (Stanford is the other school). My majors were Engineering Physics and Asian Studies. My study of Physics involved Leptonic matter, atomic properties, quantum physics, high energy particle physics and things like that. As for Asian Studies, I studied the Sanguoyeni (The Romance of the Three Kingdoms), Houloumeng (A Dream of Red Mansions/ The Story of the Stone), Natsume Soseki, Japanese, Yausnari Kawabata, Rumiko Takahashi, Tenrikyo and related topics.

Address
: １０６－００４２ Tokyo District of Akihito (D.A.)
Harbor State
The village of Azabu, Badger hole - 57
That locale's Nikko Palace
Room 205

Telephone Number

pbl1@cornell.edu