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- My name is Jessica Slade
and I am an army spouse

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and this how I Korea.

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(harp music)

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I play the harp, the regular
western harp with 47 strings.

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I saw a festival that had a quintet

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and one of the ladies had a gayageum,

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which is a Korean harp.

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(gayageum music)

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It dawned on me that I'm going
to be kicking myself later

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if I don't learn a Korean
harp, because I am a harpist.

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And so that is my main thing.

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(whistle blows)

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(upbeat music)

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Oh yes and I also play roller derby.

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Yeah it sounds like quite a lot.

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(upbeat music)

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I only started three years ago

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but it's one of those
things that it's like,

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you start and you just
can't stop, you miss it.

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(whistle blows)

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When I was at Fort Hood,
my old captain was like,

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"They have a team in Korea,"
and posted on the page,

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and there was always this little thought

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in the back of my mind,

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"Korea has a team."

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I was like, "Yes, I
want to come to Korea."

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Roller derby, how it works
is you have your blockers

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and your jammer.

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All the blockers are in a pack.

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The jammers go through the blockers,

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they wrestle their way through.

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But you can't do certain moves.

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You can't trip people and
you're not supposed to elbow.

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So you can do a hip, or
get 'em out of the rink,

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and then you get past them,
you go all the way around

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and once you come back in,
depending on what kind,

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either it's you get a point per person,

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or in this one you do one point
if you pass the entire pack.

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It's really nice to have
exercising and friends,

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and to get a community really fast.

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It's so easy and fun to do that it's just,

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I don't know, you just
kind of get stuck on it.

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(rock music fading)