kiminokokoro

Hello my name is Lizzy. I am 18 years old. I am fluent in German and English. I am studying Japanese in school and have been for almost three years. I am studying Korean and just started taking classes in Fall of 2010. I love Asian cultures because they are so different. The history, the language, and the cuisine is something I find fascinating. Korean and Japanese music has become an obsession at this point. I have several penpals in Japan and love exchanging letters and small items with them. :) I love my own culture. I am half German from my mother's side and half Romanian from my father’s side. I've learned to respect and engage myself in learning about them. Why? My cultures make me who I am today. I am unique.

I love to dance. I have been dancing for just over eight years now. I have been formally trained in all styles but, street styles are my favorite. I've taken diction classes and voice lessons since I was very little. Music has always been a part of me as I am now an excellent pianist and guitarist. Music and dance have been more than just a hobby for me. It has transformed into a lifestyle. It has become a necessity; something I need to do so I can get through the stresses of my own life. Dance and Music and kept me sane through the toughest of times. I may be young but I feel as though I have been though a lot. I know that my passion for Dance and Music will carry me through future struggles as well.

Dancing, singing, reading, crocheting, couponing, and writting letters is how I spend my free time.

Stickers, Stationary, Posters (see favorite music), Postcards, Ribbons, Lace, Paper, Stuffed animals, Beads, Yarn. Anything deemed "CUTE"! Bento boxes!! Deco Tapes, Magazines (My Japanese Pen Pals love getting these with my letters), Pens, Keychains, Books, Tea.

Religious Items, Thread (I can't sew), Pencils, Sticky Notes (I have too many), Dollar store items, Inks (I have so much right now!), Paintbrushes, Buttons (My button collection is too massive), Rubber stamps, Movies, Fabric.

Purple is my favorite :) Blues, Greens, Pinks.

PLEASE do not send chocolate! I am allergic to several brands so I wish to avoid it completely. Heavy scented perfumes and other items give me migranes and an upset stomach depending on the scent so things like candles and bath products are not a good idea to send to me.

I would love receiving CDs, Posters, Concert DVDs, and any other merchandize of these artists.

JAPANESE:: AAA, An Cafe, Arashi, Bz, EXILE, ISSA x Soulja, KAT-TUN, Puffy AmiYumi, SMASH, UVERworld, V6 and Yamashita Tomohisa.

KOREAN:: 2NE1, 2PM, 4minute, B1A4, B2ST, Big Bang ((G-Dragon & T.O.P)) C.N. Blue, Clazziquai Project, Code-V, F.Cuz, F.T Island, f(x), Gil Hak Mi, Girl's Day, Infinite, JYJ, Kangta, L.E.O, M.C the MAX, MBLAQ, Miss A, NomNomNom, Ocean Girls, Outsider, Rainbow, SE7EN, SHINee, Super Junior, Super Junior K.R.Y, Super Junior M, Supernova, Teen Top, T-Max, TRAX, TVXQ, U-Kiss, Wheesung, X-Cross, ZE:A.

TAIWANESE:: Aaron Yan, Fahrenheit.

CHINESE:: HIT-5, Top Combine.

OVERALL FAVORITES:: 2NE1, 4minute ((HyunA)), B1A4, B2ST, Big Bang, C.N. Blue, HIT-5, Infinite, KAT-TUN, MBLAQ, SE7EN, SHINee, Super Junior M, Teen Top, U-KISS, UVERworld.

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, After the Quake by Haruki Murakami, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Be With You by Takuji Ichikawa, Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote, Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard, Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, Fear of Flying by Erica Jong, Fools of Fortune by William Trevor, Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis, Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling, Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud, If This Is a Man by Primo Levi, Ignorance by Milan Kundera, Kamikaze Girls​ by Novala Takemoto, Kokoro by Natsume Soseki, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt, Loups-Garous by Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, Missin' by Novala Takemoto, Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Out: A Novel by Natsuo Kirino, Rashomon by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Real World by Natsuo Kirino, Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, The Body Artist by Don DeLillo, The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho, The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, The Human Stain by Philip Roth, The Master by Colm Tóibín, The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks, The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg, The Public Burning by Robert Coover, The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford, The Razor’s Edge by William Somerset Maugham, The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble, The Red Room by August Strindberg, The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra, The Summer of the Ubume by Natsuhiko Kyogoku, The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, Under the Skin by Michel Faber, Vanishing Point by David Markson, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, Wild Swans by Jung Chang, Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson, Zoo by Otsuichi.