Vera Wang

This is Vera Kimwang-Olaussen from Balestand, Sognefjorden in Norway who teaches Geography, Geology, and Geometry at the "Sygna Vgs" high school where everybody adores her. She is totally fluent in Norwegian, it is the heavy Korean/Portuguese accent is what makes her adorable. All was cool along the fjords, she told me when I met her at the church of Santa Croce in Florence, until that fateful evening of August 2oth four years ago when Vera, while jogging, happened upon four hugely muscular and very drunk boys from Oslo harassing a girl from her school. She told them to stop and go away ... you can imagine what effect that had! What followed is, to this day, spoken off only in whispers and called "Den Tingen": in less than two minutes all four boys lay wriggling and howling on the ground with an aggregate of nine bone fractures, three complex sprains, and two severe concussions: unbeknownst to all, Vera was a Hapkido master who lived and trained with Kim-Yun Sik, in Brasil (they had to call in supplies from the neighboring hospital in Fresvik for the treatment). The "Vera Adoration Factor" in Balestrand went through the roof, she got three marriage proposals and everybody wanted Korean Martial Arts on the high school curriculum. Vera is still single and lives with her two cats (Kim and Chi) in a small cottage on the Sognefjord.