About Me

Posted on December 31st, 1969 by Anna Zhan.
Categories: Uncategorized.

2007.05_TW_MN_NY_062c.gif

A lackey of the infamous New York City Department of Education, I teach an English/Chinese Dual Language program in everybody’s favorite borough: Brooklyn.  I carry a BA in Asian Languages and Literatures and an MS in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.  I have every intention of doing a PhD at some point, but I have yet to determine what or where that will be.

It seems that most people identify me as being obsessive in one facet or another, but few people know me well enough to realize that I am actually obsessive about a broad range of things.  I love traveling, especially overseas, and I often feel that I’m not quite alive when I’m sitting in one place.  I’m also a huge geek - yes, the mythical girl geek exists! - but I’m not actually hardcore in the grand scale of things.  I take a huge joy in the learning process, with an acute interest in learning languages.  I even take some sort of perverse pleasure, it seems, in thinking; I analyze things that most people barely give a passing thought to - there’s no purpose other than my brain’s own amusement.

I love entertainment - no shock there, but a friend recently suggested that I spend more on it than the average person does…perhaps I do.  In addition to traveling, I love eating out (I can’t cook) and going to the movies.  Free time permitting, I’ll join in any game I’m invited to, from video games to board games or activities like bowling and ping pong (even though I suck at all of the above.)  I’m also an avid reader and a music lover, but don’t mistake me for a coneaussier of either…like games and food and movies, I merely enjoy them.

This site is all about the things I enjoy and obsess over.  It is a document of my experience as I struggle to find the purpose to my life that I don’t even fully believe exists.  It is my vault meaningless babblings and insane exploits, as well as a place to share things that excite me.  I hope you find it interesting, but if nothing else, I think my brain has already taken some perverse pleasure in this experiment.

Mark

Comment on September 17th, 2006.

I like the new site design! What theme is this?

Anna Zhan

Comment on September 18th, 2006.

Thank you! Vistered Little is the name of the theme…it was an awesome discovery.

Li-ling Hsiao

Comment on September 18th, 2006.

Anna:

What a site!
Email me and give me your email and mailing address in Taiwan.

Sugar Bush Squirrel

Comment on December 8th, 2006.

Hi and wanted you to know we love your site! Glad you liked my web site and hope you have your little students draw and paint photos of me, the one and only, Sugar Bush Squirrel for a school project. I’d love to post some of their drawings on my web site on the design page. Keep up the good work and it’s easy for me to see why you didn’t die, as you are doing lots of great things for lots of people and your cat needs you, too. Get those drawings to me at SugarBushSquirrel@hotmail.com and thanks again for viewing http://www.SugarBushSquirrel.com. Don’t forget there are lots of pages on my site other than just the homepage…like Squirrel Bytes, Sermon Squirrel, You go, Squirrel and a page of poetry called Out on a Limbrick…check it all out and keep in touch!
Our best to you, Sugar Bush Squirrel (& Kelly Foxton)

Newton

Comment on January 21st, 2007.

Hei!
I just wanted to greet you after visiting again your great site! For the questions that you put in your travel plan, my answer is the 1th :-) Oh, it’s almost the travel of my dreams!
Anyway, good luck in everything and keep up the good work here! See you soon and MTFBWY

Newton

Matt

Comment on February 26th, 2007.

Great site!

I gotta say you disappointed me with all the pictures of those tree rats. Squirrels (tree rats) are very evil evil creatures, they are completly sith spawn :-)

I hope all is well with you

MTFBWY!

Matt (Jedi Garth)

tim

Comment on February 26th, 2007.

Wow, facsinating pix, I think you should have your own traveling show lol…keep up the good work.

Thanx for sharing, tty soon.. :D

~T

Your Master :-P

Comment on April 20th, 2007.

YOu know I love the site Anna. I do not like “tree rats” either, they are evil.
Check your email, I am going to send you a picture of the biggest dog EVER!!! now that is cool.
Love ya
Gavin “Rouge Lead”

So, can I pull your hair?

Comment on April 20th, 2007.

BTW, can you help me bring the word RAD back? It has been away for far to long.

HOLLA

Anna Zhan

Comment on April 21st, 2007.

Wasn’t it Garth that sent me the dog picture? I feel like you guys are conspiring against me…

And as for the word “Rad”…I really think that should be the job of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turles…don’t you? I mean, they have a new movie out? Did they bother to use it? Did they care about your feelings on the matter?

Gavin

Comment on May 11th, 2007.

No, stupid turtles!!! I have em. BTW you did not answer me about pulling your hair

Anna Zhan

Comment on May 13th, 2007.

Gavin,
Pulling my hair is really my brother’s job. You need to find your own lil’ niche in my world. :-P
And just for dissing the Turtles, I’m totally gonna do a new squirrel post if I can find anything good…
Anna

Dave

Comment on September 19th, 2007.

Hi Anna;
Your folks told me about your site. My wife and I are friends of thers. I like star wars and am also a trek lover. May your Light Sabre never go dim and the force be with you, Pricess Leaha.;>) We have been to New York a couple of times and we like it alot there is allways something happening.
Lucky & Carol

TK-8541

Comment on June 8th, 2008.

Nice to “meet you” Anna. I have a good friend in New Jersey / Philly area, and another friend who taught in China for a few years and are now moving back (from the UAE) to the states. If you’re ever in the NM area look us up. And if you’re interested in coming to Springfield this Halloween (October 18th to be exact) count yourself invited to our Halloween party… the Galactic Empire is going to have quite the presence there this year!

Uni

Comment on June 11th, 2008.

So, is it correct that you posted this in 1969??!!

Archie

Comment on September 15th, 2008.

Hi,

You might like my blog at:

http://edenchanges.wordpress.com/2008/09/06/how-to-become-a-jedi-master-part-1/

Regards

Stephen

Anna Zhan

Comment on October 1st, 2008.

Random comment…I have NO IDEA why this page says it was posted in ‘69. I wasn’t even alive in ‘69. :-P

And the blog linked in the above comment is interesting - thanks for the link!

June

Comment on February 8th, 2009.

I cant say a word

cave

Comment on June 10th, 2009.

wow <3

David

Comment on January 26th, 2010.

Greetings Anna -

My name is David from Madison, Wisconsin. I am a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (I was a teacher in Hungary from 93-95).

I am contacting you because I ran across the great photos of Thailand that I saw on your site. (They were beautiful!) Every year, the Returned Peace Corps group here in Madison publish a Peace Corps calendar with photos from Peace Corps countries. Most years we get hundreds of photos submitted to be in the calendar - but this year is the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps so we thought to run a special edition featuring the first 13 Peace Corps countries. The problem is that we haven’t had very many photo submissions for Thailand!

I was hoping that you would consider entering a few of your beautiful photos for submission in the calendar (I really enjoyed your “Reclining Buddha” photo on your site) (www.rpcvcalendar.org) We couldn’t pay you anything but if one of your photos is selected, you’d receive 25 free calendars - and your photo would be in an international calendar sold around the world. 100% of the profits of the calendars we sell go to charity - we fund various projects around the world such as refugee camps, clean wells for villages, libraries, community centers, youth education, etc.

Would you please consider submitting a few of your photos? Please, please contact me at dsmarshall10@gmail.com - thank you!

Regards,
David

Danny

Comment on March 1st, 2010.

I stumbled across your blog whilst browsing Star Wars on Google images.. You rock with your LEGOs! Anyway, you’re a woman after my own heart =)

Anna Zhan

Comment on April 14th, 2010.

David - Many thanks for your praise. I’m flattered, and I’d love to contribute to a project. I wanted to do PC myself, but then I learned that I could just go overseas and earn money to pay off my student loans, so I selfishly went that route. ;-)

Danny - Many thanks, as well. We all know that geeks need love, too! I’m lucky to have finally found someone who recognizes that the gift of LEGOs is far more endearing than the gift of flowers. Treat your she-geek right. ;-)

Leave a comment

Comments can contain some xhtml. Names and emails are required (emails aren't displayed), url's are optional.