Ok I just saw that im only like 500,000 away from 5th place so I'm going to keep pushing
oh hahaha yesss 500k is like a couple hours of chatting if you type fast
I mean the chatting is lovely yes but I'm also crazy competitive for stuff like this so lets go ham
yeahhhh lets do it
Ok got any fascinating topics to discuss Oh ive got one do you have a bucket list?
hmmm well one of my things to do in my bucket list is live the van life for a lbit
yoooo I want to do that for a summer I've been planning it with some friends
I want to convert a dodge sprinter van and that has a bed, a kitchen with a fridge and a lot of cargo space for my fun gear and toys with a solar panel on top
YESSS
so that I can have power and can charge my stuff
I was thinking of going full school bus and making it more permanent
yesss hahaha full school bus would be cool except for me its way too big
my idea of a good time is watching like bus home videos and videos of people making tiny homes you could go half school bus a lil guy
yeah thats true yeah i love watching those too I love to see them on instagram or on reddit
Haha I was obsessed with living in a really small barn thing for like 4 years when I was younger I still draw floorplans for it haha
hahaha thats so sick my friend who got married was thinking about buying one of those well I guess it was his wife that wanted to do that that never happened though
yeah they suck for kids its kinda best for just one or two people
yeah I think it would be cool to live in one of those for a bit
Yeah for sure Like do a really slow cross country trip In a van/bus/tiny home i mean
yeah that would be so dope my girl friend would be so down too how many points did you get last chat btw?
mm I think 6,000 wait haha no 600,000
what no way! nice
What did you get?
how long were we chatting for I think i got like 400k maybe
Since 11 I think
dont remember oh shoot
11 where I am
whats that in utah tie time
12 I think Oh yikes why are you up at 3? dedicated
hahaha yeppp gotta win that macbook you know what I'm saying
Haha I think I can only hope for an ipad at this point
you stayed up till 5 helping someone hahah
yeah true haha that was hard
a random person you don't really know you are nice hhahaa
I felt death approaching that time eh he was super close I had to help him
hahaha now he's like over 3 mil behind
I know all that work for nothing Do you know who's in first place? Like in real life?
i dont real life? I don't know very many people on here in real life haha I met adam in real life at the chit chat get together though
Haha that's cool. I kinda wish I could've gone so I can see what these people look like
yeah hahaha it was cool to meet some of them I hope that they will have one when this thing ends because I've made some cool  friends on here
did they introduce themselves by their username?
uhh kind of yeah i guess they did
haha nice I wish I had started the competition sooner, I'd probably be doing a lot better
yeah I bet you would be I bet you would be close to adam
I'm here to win
or the guy in first
Haha yeah
you know the best way to earn points is?
What?
telling stories back and forth
Hmm ok good to know
tell me a story with details word count is what matters
Ok let me think
like how I did with my injury storeis stories
Erg when I have to do this kind of stuff suddenly my life is super boring
lol
Oh Ill tell you about moving here theres lots of detail there
to mesa?
Yeah
ok shoot
Ok so I was actually born in mesa and my birthdays in october so I took the test when I was four to see if I could start school early and I passed because I was apparently a really smart 4 year old and I went to kinder garten here for like 3 months before moving to oregon for my dads job
what does your dad do
He's an engineer at intel. My mom's a dance teacher
woah intel i need to be best friends with him
Haha yeah he's worked there since before computers were common and stuff actually probably no hes not that old
thats so cool! still though
hes just worked there for 25 years
Im an IT guy so I envy him and respect him
Oh cool haha he works on probe cards and develops ways to test them and fix them
oooh thats so cool! ok resume with your story whenever
I have no idea what probe cards are and I have esesentally no other details about his work haha Anyways, we lived there for 12 years and I loved it But our neighbors were absolutely bat crap crazy Like, my mom taught dance out of a studio in our basement and our house was on a hill so it looked like it was 1 story from the front and it was 3 stories on the back so kids would walk down the side of the house to go to dance and our neighbors HATED my mom for using street space to for parents to drop their kids off at dance so they would take pictures and complained to the county permit people and my mom was totally licensed to do what she was doing and everything and these people were just the worst to her and she was just working so hard to bring dance into peoples lives and make it less aggressive than other studios with like modest costumes and stuff like that So we moved because of that And we also moved because after 12 years of super awful winters and really depressing springs we were all tired of being depressed for half the year And about a year before we moved our ward split So the people I had grown up with and knew like family were in the same ward
mean people are the wost worst
and only my family and another family whos dad became the bishop got moved over to another ward with no youth and just a bunch of old people So we were like we gotta bounce
that sucksss
haha I'm being like super detailed here
yeah it ok go on get that 500k
So my parents had seen the house we're living in now when we were in arizona for my cousins double wedding
and they were like that is the place
my one cousin got engaged at 18 (yikes) and my other cousin got off her mission and married the guy she was dating before her mission like 3 weeks after she got off her missio n
yikes are they doing good with their marriage right now? just curious
Yeah so my parents were like hey we should just buy this place and maybe rent it out to someone and move down here when anderson's in middle school and genna and jules are gra duated Oh yeah the 18 year old I'm not too sure about I didn't really think she was emotionally mature enough to be married but the mission one is doing great she's actually having a baby in june
yay for babys good for her
Yeah she's always been super mature so I wasn't worried about her But as the weather and our neighbors and ward kept sucking we were like nah lets just move there before jules' senior year SO we decided to do it and my mom emailed all her dance students that we had decided to move
were they super bummed?
aaaand no joke THIRTY MINUTES LATER someone offered to buy our house and her business and all of her costumes yeah a lot of them were bummed
were no way! did your mom make bank?
Yeah they bought it for like way too much
wow what a blessing
SO we packed up all our stuff and drove down here I know there were so many miracles that happened
y'all were meant to move
And it was kinda stressful because if we didn't sell the house that summer we would have to keep it and our new house for the entire year because its like impossible to sell houses in any time other than the summer because people aren't visiting and looking for houses in the winter or spring But it was like totally meant to be I did a lot of stuff this year that I'm certain helped me get into byu I mean,  I was the NHS president in oregon
niceeee
But I was actually really happy to leave that because my presidency stank everyone had a really bad attitude and were always really angry with me about like any decision I made And my friends had grown apart from me considerably
lameee hey
And my best friend, who's super short and a week older than me had moved to lehi in like may
real quick pause
Ok sounds good
ok keep going
haha and my ballroom partner, who was the only one on the team tall enough and strong enough for me had moved to idaho so my two anchors were gone
I'm like dozing
haha so soon?
not that your story is boring i've been staying up doing this chat thing for 3 days now and I think its getting to me
Yeah I'm not even talking about cavities and root canals like adam was
lol
Haha yeah this kind of strain is unsustainable
so did he just blabber on about himself and you didn't talk?
Well I think I told him about my oral surgery and he was like oh I almost had a root canal once and he was just going off on this story and I fell asleep I was laying like face down on the ground and not even looking at the keys I was dead inside
hahahaha
Yeah so its amazing because now I can go to provo and see my friend who's a grade younger because she didn't start school early like me And my ballroom partner isn't that far away either
oh whattttt thats really cool you guys going to connect?
and even though people havent been super open to making new friends this year I've had some practice putting myself out there for college so thats good
yeah that is good
Yeah her mom's like my second mom so I can go over there for dinner and stuff
niceee thats always good I always have my friend over for dinner when I ca can
Haha yeah I'm jazzed for it Ok that was incredibly long winded and probably as detailed as I could have made it. Your turn. Got any fascinating stories or secret backstory?
yes i do it might make you cry i can tell you this story and I think we should call it for tonight and we can do it another night
haha past 11 o clock my eyes are constantly watering so Ive been crying for the last like 3 hours Ok sounds good
hahaha ok one sec let me go to the bathroom first ok you ready?
absolutely
so I will tell you about my back story. its kind of sad but really inspiring. At least it is for me Ill tell you a little about my parents and then me and then how my family and I moved to the states and Ill stop there because its going to take a while to tell you more about it after the states part so my mom converted to the LDS church when she was in high school. my mom had a friend who would go to church and would have like church get together during the week and one day after my her friend kept ivingting her decided to go and check it out and basically she got baptised some time along that process she met my dad and they dated and they really liked each other except that everyone around her and even my dads friends told her that she should ' break up with him because he did not have a good background so a bit about my dad and his upbrining my dad had like 8 siblings all different mothers my grandpa on my dad's side was a bad guy and my grandma raised him  herself so he didn't have a very good family to grow up in and most of his brothers are in like the korean mafia its pretty insane
woah I didn't know korea had a mafia
anyway so everyone around my mom was like do not keep going with this guy yeah like the Yakuza from Japan, Korea has the same thing
wild
big organized gang anyway my mom ended it with my dad and went on a mission because she wanted to serve the Lord and loved the gospel
aw good for her
she also told my dad that she wanted to get married in the temple and all that well when she got back from her mission she was walking to her church to go to an activity when she coincidentally ran into my dad well basically they started to date again and still everyone around her was like you need to stop with this guy but my mom saw so many great qualities and trait in my dad he just made some bad choices well he got baptized and my they got married in the temple and then soon after they had me well when that happened my dad's old friends started to creep back in to his life and he started to make some bad choices again
ayy oldest kids for the win
yeeeeee
oh no
and soon after my dad started to abuse my mom and tried to stop my mom from going to church my brother came then my sister came and he just kept getting worse and worse and worse the abuse did not stop he borrowed money from gangs and were in a lot of debt
physical?
abusive in every way
oh my
towards the end my mom almost checked in to see a psychologist because she was going mad
I'm so so sorry
thanks but its all in the past well my dad did not stop for a long time and my mom prayed and prayed to know what to do she wanted to leave him and take us but God kept telling her to wait My mom suffered for 7 years with my dad because God wanted her to wait. Why? because God loved my dad so much He wanted to give him a second chance. a LOT of second chances were given to him and a lot of patients were suffered by my mom
Woah
my mom really almost went insane where she couldn't turn back but she had faith and her faith kept her strong after those 7 years my mom just couldn't take it anymore and was out on the veranda of the 17th floor of the apartment. she look out to the sunset and was praying to God to just pour out her heart and God finally told her that she needed to leave and take us with her then she said where and what do I do? God said you need to take  your kids and move to America and she was like come again? *that was a bit of a humor but she just could not believe it
haha thats amazing
we have no family here my mom does not speak english she is divorced ( they got divorced but my dad still lived with us)
yikes
and she had 3 kids no college degree
oh no
you know there was no way we could move to the states we have no moeny so my mom was inspired to start a tutoring business at our apartment she was so good at it her business got really big for about 2 years my mom tutored at the apartment and saved and hid her money in the cupboard and my dad never found out about it for a year and a half God blinded my dad so my mom could save money for the move here thats miracle one. well when she was finally saved enough money my mom had to go up to the american embassy to get approved to move here as an international student everyone around her and even people she knew that worked at the embassy told her that she will never get approved to move to the states and it made sense because like I said, she was not rich, she was divorced, she had 3 kids, she had no college diploma, she had no family in the US but she kept on and obeyed that revelation out on the veranda well you still there? ok good haha chat bubble stil alive
haha yeah this is so cool
so she got to the US embassy and she got into an interview room. two men. one was korean who was basically a translator and the other guy was american the translator guy was like ok we are just going to go through some standard questions my mom and the translator kept talking and she answered questions about herself and things like that my mom told me that the american just stared at the passport photos of me, my brother and my sister for the entire hour and did not say one word did not look up or anything then at the end of the interview he looks up and asks my mom why do you want to go to America she replied that she did not know why but she knew she had to go the American then stamped all our passports for approval thats miracle two ok so later that month my mom picked all of us up in the middle of school and we started to drive to the airport.I asked my mom where we were going and she was so nervous, scared, and uncertain to about what was going to happen to the family that she now will have to lead in a foreign country that she did not answer me I don't think she heard maybe she did but could not answer me but her friend who was driving us to the airport said to me that we were going to a better place I remember that clearly when we got to the airport we unloaded all our belongings said goodbye to the friends my mom could not really lift all of the luggage but crazy thing is that somehow I was able to lift them with easy even though some of the luggages were bigger in size than I was
This is crazy
yeah God gave me super strength hahaha I wasn't even tired or anything my mom said and she told me that she could not believe what was happening but yeah until we moved in to our apartment in Provo I had that strength thats miracle three those are the biggest three miracles that I can remember but obviously God's hand was in every little detail of the entire journey here My mom was able to save enough money, get approved and take us and run away from our dad not to another city in Korea but to another country and I guess the rest is history. I mean we still have financial stress and we aren't in paradise but we survived here and I am in college, my bro is in college and my sister is about to go to college we all served missions I am about to graduate next year its all been a hard journey but also a blessing yeah thats like the most condensed "my journey to america" version hahah you still alive? hello? well Ball00 I think you passed out haha. I hope you sleep well and Ill leave this chat open so that you can read the rest when you wake up or something have a good one today!