As you probably know already, I am one of the ambitious and extroverted guys who loves to put family, friends, and nationality as pride. Hi. My name is Chris Eom, and I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to you just a little bit, very little, not too much, SO put 102% of your focus on me, NOW. I am not like every other typical dude out there, as a lot of my friends tell me. I am different in many ways. Maybe because I wasn't born here or maybe because of the lifestyle that differentiates from native Americans'. On January 21st, 2006, I first stepped onto the land of freedom, where golden opportunities are wide open for everyone, the United States of America. The first sight of myriad whites, African Americans, Hispanics, redheads, and even Chinese amused my attention as if I was in a fictional movie. It felt refreshing but some part in my brain was telling me, "It's going to be a long way to adapt baby." As a 10 year old, I wasn't too afraid of confronting new challenges, because I've taken dangerous and courageous ventures in my life previously. But they weren't like the ones I thought I was going to encounter. It came to my realization that jumping off a two story building, joining cliques to fight other schools', and meeting gorgeous ladies weren't the types of rides I was going on. My parents didn't immigrate to envision their new futures. Not their friends'. But their son, Chris's future. They worked diligently, made a life-changing decision, and even left their homeland for my future to begin in a worldly popular and economically strong country, America. To be honest, I was a rascal. I still can be a rascal, but when it comes to my priority, ambitious goals, and treacherous pathways that all lead to my future, I don't joke around. Ever since I was little, my personality led me to introduce myself to strangers, say a simple hello, and hold a conversation for as long as thirty minutes with random people in the street. From then on, I began to really enjoy going out, taking adventures ,and talking to people. Aside from having fun through conversations and interactions, making deals, planning weekly schedules for a club, and cutting down a price of a protein jar at a regular, local supplemental shop hit my head. Maybe I can enter into the business world as either a marketer, manager, or even a salesperson. Who knows? I have to do more researches on that. However, making deals to the most effective benefit for my team, managing people and time for the most efficiency, and finally confronting hundreds of people for a simple presentation structured a cornerstone of my future. Neighborhood, communities, schools, churches, public places, you name it. They are just normal places people enter into without even thinking what kind of effects those places have on them. I'm different. I don't take these things for granted. I realized in every moment of my life, those places and the people I walk by, say hi to, and those who mentored me in my interest are where and how I truly built my character to who I am now. Thank you family, friends, teachers, and for the most part, God for creating not just my character and personality, but me as a whole.