Hello all!

My name is Wankun, but you can also call me Kun. I am a senior at BSU studying Mechanical Engineering. I was born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand, quite a bit away from here. I came to the United States in 2010 with a goal of pursuing higher education. A little bit about myself: I like to spend my leisure time cooking, playing tennis, and doing anything car-related.

Being raised in a city from another country definitely has influenced me to have different perspective in a lot of things. For example, unlike most Idahoans, I was never really exposed to outdoor activities like rafting, hiking, or skiing, I didn’t know what it’s like to go watch the rodeo, and I never imagined that people could love football so much they built a bus dedicated for tailgating. Rather, I grew up where playing soccer on a sidewalk was considered outdoor activities, where teenagers spend their weekends at the tutoring center, and where viewing something differently from someone older (teachers, relatives, parents) was considered disrespectful.

I don’t spend a lot of time with books or other texts as I don’t enjoy reading much, even when I was still in Thailand. With English being my second language, it is rather rare that I would pick up a book, written in English, to read in my leisure time, although it seems like I will have to do just that in this course. To learn about what’s going on in the U.S. and around the world, I mostly watch the news from a few websites.

Back home, I was exposed to very limited amount of history education. Thai schools, if at all, barely provide their students with knowledge about history around the world. I look forward to learn more about it from both my instructor and my peers!