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Aming

Not so with you...

About Me



I'm currently living in China, teaching English and trying to learn Chinese...eek!

I love talking with friends, latenight God chats, wasting a day reading, sleeping in, cooking for people, remembering my dreams, being introspective, taking pictures, being artsy, and RED LETTERS on myspace.

I have a ridiculously vivid imagination which is probably why I am a big chicken. Daydreaming is one of my favorite pastimes, and I overuse the word ridiculous.

I have a very tender heart and am easily convicted. I crave hugs.

I'm a little bit of an artist. I love to sing...to harmonize.

I love DANCING of all kinds, especially swing - lindy hop, balboa, blues. I enjoy anything from hip hop to salsa to belly dancing:)

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My Interests

DANCING! Swing (Lindy hop, balboa, blues), Belly dance for fun, salsa, hip hop, anything! Reading, singing, laughing, thinking, chillin', cooking, traveling

Music:

I love almost any music...not a big fan of country. My favorite station is Lightning 100 (Nashville). To name a few: the fabulous music of the talented Tammy Rochelle, Jars of Clay, Counting Crows, Dave Matthews, Jack Johnson, Norah Jones, Sarah Groves, The Gabe Dixon Band, Amos Lee, Michelle Branch, Sarah Mclachlan, Fourthwatch, praise and worship music, Five Iron Frenzy, Lauryn Hill, hip hop, good blues...anything I can dance to really.

Movies:

Any cheesy, feel-good, romantic comedies...Under the Tuscan Sun, Must Love Dogs. Also love Cinderella Man and Shawshank Redemption. Classic Disney movies, Emperor's New Groove, Musicals - Fiddler on the Roof, Phantom of the Opera. And of course, there is a special place in my heart for the Firefly series and Serenity. Take my love, take my land...ahhh.

Television:

Right now my TV is all in Chinese except for CCTV9, meh. So I'm addicted to Friends and any other American movies I can get my hands on.

Books:

I love historical romances and books about other cultures, especially Asia.

Heroes:

God blesses me with random people coming in and out of my life to be my heroes for a time. No one in particular all the time.

My Blog

New blog in China

I have a new blog:amythepratt.blogspot.comCheck it out!
Posted by Aming on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:33:00 PST

Realizations

Sometimes you don't realize you believe or think a certain way until you hear it come out of your mouth. Last night, I was talking with Justin and some things came out of my mouth that surprised me a ...
Posted by Aming on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:44:00 PST

Pursued

I've realized a lot of things today. Many small things came together this afternoon into an epiphany of sorts.  After driving back from a talk with Tammy, I was overwhelmed with several realizati...
Posted by Aming on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:53:00 PST

Tired of the obsession

So I'm tired of it...the constant thoughts, daydreams, night dreams...hoping, wishing for love and attention from Mr. Wonderful. Who is he? I don't even know?! But I'm tired of my mind being constantl...
Posted by Aming on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:23:00 PST

The Cruelty of Time...

So less than two weeks til I get to fly home and time has slowed down to a ridiculous crawl. Dawson, Brad, Kim, and Katie left yesterday for Singapore, so Beth and I are stuck here finishing up our se...
Posted by Aming on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:11:00 PST

Godly competition?

Funny how we can take a Godly thing like serving, helping, or encouraging and pervert it into some kind of competition toward greatness. I find myself struggling sometimes with feeling one-upped, part...
Posted by Aming on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:37:00 PST

Blogging withdrawal

So it's been 15 days since I've blogged...mostly because there was an earthquake in Taiwan that apparently messed up cables that affect English websites in China. So the Internet is just now healing i...
Posted by Aming on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:36:00 PST

Boredom kills

Alrght folks. I have one more week of "entertaining" myself, but I'm running out of creativity. I'm in my 4th week in China and have only taught one lecture. You do the math: girl in foreign country +...
Posted by Aming on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:56:00 PST

Xanga

Ok everyone...I'm on xanga now...I don't know why, just cause. I can do better blogging and pics on there for China. So check me out! AmyinChina
Posted by Aming on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 06:15:00 PST

Do this for me...

Ok, so I'm moving to China...and here's what I want from those so inclined...MUSIC!I would love for all of my friends to make a mix cd of their favorites for me to listen to in China...then I always h...
Posted by Aming on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:45:00 PST