Monday, August 23, 2004

Getting to know...

ERIN JEAN SANTIAGO ILANO aka JEAN (pronounced the french way) LLANO SANTIAGO aka SEXY JEAN
Vitals: Met the summer after our sophomore year at UCI at the boys’ Berkeley Court apartment = 6 years and counting
Role In My Life: My Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing – Jean graduated cum laude in 2000, she’s been a 1st grade teacher since then, PLUS she’s managed to raised a dynamic 4-year old son, Hayden (inaanak to me, Leia and Andrew thanks very much) in the interim. I look up to this lady in so many ways and it's not only her time management and goal-oriented skills that I envy - it’s her outgoing, no-holds barred personality at bars and clubs. Don’t let the intellectual/teacher/mommy bit fool you. Jean can flirt and party with the best of them!
Good Times: They say Americans butcher foreign names! When we spent our summer abroad in Cambridge, England, poor Jean suffered just a tad. Her name is just how it’s written above. But somehow, the professors and teachers’ aids switched her middle and last names AND read “LLANO” instead of “ILANO.” Anyhoo, on the roster her last name read Santiago, putting her a little bit further down the alphabetical list of students than she’s used to. When we were getting our room assignments for our stay in Bath, they passed right through where Jean’s name SHOULD have been called so she thought she didn’t have a room. I offered that she bunk with me for the weekend. Jean said that having the 2 of on a twin bed would be too crowded so she SLEPT ON THE DESK!
In her own words: “Ya nip it, then ya’ suck it.” (Jean on how to get the honeysuckle out of a flower)

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