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- Yunjin shares her earliest memory from Wisconsin where she got a chocolate milk in the hospital hallway while her mother gave birth to her younger sister Rachel.
- Yunjin reflects on various childhood firsts such as learning Korean as her first language, selling lemonade at a stand, and moving to Korea as a member of society.
- Yunjin recalls her childhood experience of moving away from Wisconsin and a humorous early attempt at rebelling by packing a Barbie suitcase and walking to the parking lot.
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My first act of rebellion. The time I packed my bags and hit the road and ran away from home because my mother kicked me out.
Hmm. Hi everyone. For every ha, there's a hmm. And you're with Yunjin on hmm with Stana. And today I thought we should talk about firsts.
I started thinking about the very first day that we started recording this podcast and that really excited, giddy, nervous feeling I had before we started recording and I was like so like over prepared and so so excited. And we all have those
super exhilarating firsts. Also those super scary firsts. And whatever it is, we all have a first. There's the first time you really like something, the first time we really dislike something, the first time you fail, the first time you really succeed at something. That's when I realized our lives are really just a collection of all of these firsts. Just like everybody has their own beginning, I have my own
firsts, too. And I thought it would be funny to go through them all. Like people have their first loves, people have their first whatever. I don't know, first paycheck.
>> >> So, does anybody remember their first memory? I don't know why, but one I have this really weird memory of me like under the covers kicking some like white linen sheets. But like that's like super vague, right? Yeah, I have that one and then I have one super vivid memory. I'm 100% sure this is actually like this is this is factual.
This actually happened. This was in Wisconsin where my sister was born, my younger sister Rachel. This is her picture of Rachel here. I was three at the time and while my mother was in labor I think it was my it was like a family relative of ours like led me out of the of the hospital
room into the hallway and towards the vending machine and I was getting a chocolate milk. I was getting a little chocky milk while my mother was giving birth to my sister.
Yeah, welcoming my sister into the world with a little chocolate milk. Wisconsin. That's Wisconsin for you. That was my first memory ever. Oh, also, okay, that that segues perfectly into my next segment. My very first friend also happened sigh to be my little sister. Huh.
Okay, good for you Rachel. Also, nobody matched my freak as much as she did when I was a kid. Like why was she as weird as me? Here are like a bunch of pictures me and her as children growing up. We actually we actually did everything together and I would always be making her make stuff with me. Like I would write plays and
make her be the character in it and make her like act things out and I would like hold the camera and like film and and like direct her around and I would like edit the videos and then like make stuff I don't know.
I was super into that stuff. We were like super creative like energetic kids. I was at least. And I think because I had her, I think I was able to let all of my creative energy flow and let myself be as imaginative as I could be because I had someone let that flow out of me.
And she she was like the reactor. Big thank you to her for putting up with me for so many years. I would have to do a literally a whole episode on sisterhood alone just to talk about her and what sisterhood means to me. I'm still learning so much about sisterhood and I still I still don't think I fully comprehend what it means
to be a sister because I think it's just such an inherent thing. She means so much to me and we are also tied to the hip and I don't think I would have grown to be half the woman I am if it wasn't for her by my side as a kid growing up.
She was my best friend. She still is. Yeah. And then but >> >> other than my sister though, my first real friend, gosh. I'm sure that I had a bunch of friends.
>> >> I was always a kid who made like several friends >> [sighs and gasps] >> around the bush. Is that even I don't even I don't even know about if that's the right phrase. Like like I'm like You know what I mean? But like I moved around so much as a kid. It wasn't until like third grade when
I felt like I actually settled down enough. I'm sure that like some like people who are watching can relate. Like sometimes you transfer so much you don't even settle down enough to say that you've made a friend.
But like my first real friend, I remember specifically, it was summer camp on the bus. I met these two girls. I don't know, they were just like they were so sweet and kind to me and um I don't know, we just hit it off. First conversation, right off the bat, and then from then on, we've just been besties. Love them.
Moving on from the friend. My very first accomplishment was I think probably learning the alphabet. Wait, here's a question for you. Did I learn Kannada first or abacus first?
According to this picture, I had both on my walls. I actually don't know what my first language Actually, it was Korean. Korean was my first language, which is crazy thinking about it now. The other day, I was actually talking to a fan on a fan call, and they were telling me about how they landed their first job. Congrats, congrats, celebration. Someone play celebration
right now. Celebration. Yay. Big congrats to you, Fiona. Back on me thinking about my first job, which was selling lemonade. Actually, no. Wait, actually yes. But also, my first kind of job was I was a camp counselor, guys. I was a camp counselor for a little bit. Fun fact about me. And the first time I ever made money was from selling lemonade at a
lemonade stand. A total of like three bucks. Four bucks. Um how we did it. I think it was just like it was at It was at Wisconsin. It was me, my sister, a couple of neighborhood kids. We went outside on a hot summer day. Whipped out one of those folding plastic
tables, and then a bunch of red solo cups, sugar, lemon juice, ice, water, mix it all up, and then just like we tried to like get all the people walking by at the apartment complex. Did not make a lot of money, but it looked fun and I think that's what mattered.
Um But living on my own as a member of society was when I moved to Korea. That was a whole different experience. It was not anything like selling lemonade at a lemonade stand. It was understanding like self-control. I think that was the most definitive factor.
I remember in like my my early days of like getting used to all of this, moving to Korea. I think it was just like smiling. Can tell now. I'm good.
>> >> I just learned to smile, smile a lot. Also, reply brightly. Well, with an exclamation point at the end. Tends to hide the angst.
So, like in Korea, responding and like acknowledging that you understood what the other person said is very important and it shows respect.
But when I first moved here, I was not as aware of that. I remember our dance teacher at the time had said something. I responded, "Okay."
And she goes, "What did you say to me?" And I was like, "What?" >> >> "What do you mean?" She's like, "You do not say okay to your teacher. Am I American?" And I was like, "Oh my god. I'm so sorry." And then now from then on it was just like dip dip dip it's not dip it's not it wasn't okay was not okay. Okay was super super casual
and not formal at all whatsoever. Learned that the hard way. Never use okay to your elders. I've actually been thinking about this a lot lately. I don't know why, but I've been looking back on when I used to be a fan girl.