Hi Hive! Jam here, an excited community newbie introducing myself.

“Jam? Is that the colored hair, poker-faced Chinese-looking short girl?” Asked anyone who at one point saw me but didn’t get the chance to know my name.

Yes, that sums up who I am, physically. But who is Jam other than colored hair, slanted eyes and one who should have taken a good amount of Cherifer?

We are all experience collectors. Delightfully, we get to select the type of experiences we hoard in life.

So, what about Jam? I am a paradox best illustrated in the type of experiences I collect.

I love to travel to beaches, rivers and springs, trek in mountains, canyoner in waterfalls, cliff dive, wake board and rappel. It is my greatest desire to be able to try all kinds of extreme adventures and of every type. I seek that natural high. In fact, to set an example, I’ve tried several types of rappelling: wall rappelling, building rappelling, waterfalls rappelling and I am very wishful that someday I get to try helicopter rappelling. I have a bucket list of extreme sports to try yet I also identify myself as a home buddy with an unathletic physique and a book worm. Staying at home with a good book can be rejuvenating for me too.

I can be free-spirited on my travels but analytical on other aspects. For instance, I will plan or would want to know the itinerary of a travel adventure. If it does not go as scheduled, you’ll still see me enjoy the day or search ways to find it fun. If something does irk me, you won’t see it on my face if I choose to hide it anyhow, thus the poker-face.

Music and Art always amazes me. A good talk on current events or discussions about Harry Potter, Dexter’s Laboratory, Sponge Bob or Scooby Doo can be just as interesting. Far better than who the latest divorcee is or who has a bigger insured bum in the entertainment industry anyway.

I am sometimes a non-conformist conservative with liberated beliefs. A spiritual person with bright blue hair. The silent chameleon in the group who will dye one’s hair from blue to green due to boredom. My list can go on but, simply put, I am reliably an irony.

My putting up with familiarity, routines and the conventional is innate. It is also natural for me though to be curious with the unusual, irregular and any encounters filled with learning. This is where my life is most directed. I believe that what life wants us to do is learn. When we do not learn, situations in our lives tend to repeat until we do.

I wish to share with you anything I learned from books I’ve read, travels which due to the pandemic crisis can be very few these days, if any, to literally just about anything. Learning can be as deep as getting it from life experiences to as shallow as obtaining insights from cartoons. Despite how casual it can get, I hope there is always a takeaway for us all.

This curiosity in learning led me here through @nikkabomb and @kimshinimba who shared about their Hive experiences. I am so excited to learn and, in the process, impart learning. I’m happy to be given this opportunity to join the Hive Community. May our journeys be filled with learning!