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jueves, 18 enero 2007

5 Things about me

Thanks to Sandrine, you will learn today 5 things about me that you didn't know before. Not that anyone cares, but hey, this is MY blog. Shut up.

1. When I was a kid, before dreaming of becoming an opera singer, I wanted to become a nurse. Then I realized that there is a smell in hospitals that makes me faint (it happened numerous times). That dream was obviously forgotten the first time I lost consciousness after getting a vaccine shot in the arm. For a long time I also wanted to be a circus artist; flying trapeze and tightrope walking were the skills that made me dream the most at the shows. But how do you get trained for that? I had no idea. As a teenager though, I became quite skilled in gymnastics (first at school, then in the local club), I loved the asymmetric bars and the trampoline, but the courses were too expensive and my parents didn't want to invest time and money in this activity. Plus, I've never been very thin; I've always had generous upper legs...

A job that includes travelling was my idea of a good lifestyle... That was before I became concious of all the sacrifices that it requires.

2. I used to be a very bad student in German. My dad forced me to take that language as LV1 (Langue Vivante 1 - in France you have to study two foreign languages in highschool) under the pretext that I knew already Spanish (mum) and English (Hong-Kong). I hated learning grammar rules, they never made sense to me... I learned all the languages I know mainly by ear. Of course reading a lot made me "learn without learning" the rules, and I might a little facility in recognizing sounds and idioms. Now, it makes me laugh to think that I might speak a more fluent German than my former teacher...

3. I appreciate most seafood, but I won't and can't eat oisters. Beurk! (or any mollusks)

4. Like Sandrine, I don't smoke anything. When I was about 14-years-old, I took the last cigarette from a pack that my mum had forgotten somewhere to try one day... After class we use to hang out with friends behing the public library (which was beside the college), all surrounded by a nice park with big trees it was a wonderful place to experiment stuff, I had a (one!) puff from that cigarette and was sick the whole night after that.

5. I haven't always been a christian believer, of Lutheran confession... I grew up in the Roman Catholic church, not really going to church (though sometimes alone, without my parents or brother... a bit weird, uh?). Then I became interested in the mystic in my teens specially while reading The Mists of Avalon, about magic and things that "exist but are not seen". I finally started reading and studying the Bible by myself, then with friends and the one who was to become, many years later, my darling hubby...

And the rest, as we might say, is history.

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I used to be a christian, until the day when I opened the bible and started reading it. And it was not at all the kind of belief I had in mind... I think we have to find what's good for ourselves, what fits our personalities.

Anotado por: Sandrine | viernes, 19 enero 2007

And I can't eat oysters either. But I like most sea food :^)

Anotado por: Sandrine | viernes, 19 enero 2007

Can't stand oysters!
I can eat them... with a whole baguette afterwards!! :P

I was baptised Catholic and my mother is a Born Again.
I still don't know what to make about myself. :o

Anotado por: Jo Ann v. | sábado, 20 enero 2007

>Sandrine: I don't think that the truth is something flexible that fits one's personality. If there is one truth, it also means that the rest is a lie.

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened."

>Jo Ann: Faith is not about "doing" or "making", rather about believing :)

Anotado por: Lady Iphigenia | miércoles, 24 enero 2007