{"id":56,"date":"2009-01-10T03:33:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T11:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alyssasatterwhite.wordpress.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2009-01-16T02:11:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T10:11:28","slug":"hello%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/2009\/01\/10\/hello%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My name is Alyssa Satterwhite.\u00a0 I was born and lived most of my life in Portland, Oregon (yes, one of three Portlanders in the class\u2026) I am a twin, which too many people seem to think is extremely interesting\u2026 asking \u201cWhat is it like to be a twin?\u201d.\u00a0 Word to the wise: don\u2019t bother asking me that question – I will simply ask you, \u201cWhat is it like not<\/em> to be a twin?\u201d\u00a0 I grew up with 3 siblings and many pets, particularly cats and dogs.\u00a0 I enjoyed Oregon\u2019s most beautiful coast, mountains and lakes while camping, backpacking and sailing every summer.<\/p>\n

I work at UBC\u2019s Centre for Intercultural Communication and I am seeking a double major\u00a0 in Linguistics and Spanish. I plan to be a language teacher.\u00a0 I am somewhat of a \u201clanguage nut\u201d – I love learning about languages and forms of communication, having studied not only Spanish, but Hindi, Brazilian Portuguese and American Sign Language, and learned (unabbreviated) Braille.<\/p>\n

I learned Spanish both in school (middle\/high school), where I learned grammar, and as an exchange student in Costa Rica, where I gained vocabulary and fluency.\u00a0 I am still very close with my host families in Costa Rica; I have been back twice and will spend this summer there as well.\u00a0 I am grateful that they are all safe and well following the earthquake on Thursday.<\/p>\n

This is the first class on film I have taken; I am looking forward to it.\u00a0 Already the discussion on Thursday, I thought, was very interesting.\u00a0 It is easy for many of us to jump to conclusions (e.g. about stereotypes) and it was refreshing to have that challenged and be be exposed to a different (less judgemental, perhaps?) point of view.<\/p>\n

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My name is Alyssa Satterwhite.\u00a0 I was born and lived most of my life in Portland, Oregon (yes, one of three Portlanders in the class…) I am a twin, which too many people seem to think is extremely interesting… asking “What is it like to be a twin?”.\u00a0 Word to the wise: don’t bother asking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}