AT A GLANCE
Hey! My name is Andrea and I attend Duke University. I've been to a lot of places in the world, since my family has always moved around. Right now we are located in China, but I don't get to go home very often. When I was 9 I lived in Germany--yes I can speak German, although I can't speak my own mother language very well--and we visited a lot of Europe. Needless to say, that experience really changed my life and put the world into perspective for me. I've always wanted to be a writer, since I first picked up a pen and wrote poetry for elementary school. But I guess I never really committed myself, and I struggle even now to express myself clearly. In the first years of high school I wrote alot of sonnets and other poetry. I also started A LOT of rather large projects and stopped in the middle because I found a new one. So my resolution is to start less ambitious ones and actually finish them!
INSPIRATION
Between everything that I have going on--getting those good grades, building that resume etc.--I occasionally get the inspiration to write stories. I am really inspired by movies and anime... or rather I am really inspired by pictures and images. I think that more than anything, visuals can express, exude and elicit a whole spectrum of emotions. Usually I write when some sort of image makes me recall some sort of feeling or memory.
I usually write in the summer break when I can stop for long enough to actually get the inspiration to write, and when I have time to watch a lot of TV. I watch a lot of trashy American TV: Desperate Housewives, Top Model etc, but I also watch A LOT of anime. My favorites this summer are Paradise Kiss (which I was skeptical about when I first heard of it) and Ouran Host Club.
For me, writing has always been an escape from reality, or perhaps its an expression of my own illusions. Especially in the summer when I seem to lose grasp of reality, I float into my idealism and start to write so that I can hold on to the feeling. As much as I like writing, sometimes I wish my life could be less of a battle between idealism and reality since, sometimes, I sometimes can't seem to ignore the struggle and really focus.
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