NEW Getting to know each other survey!

[johnnyb00m]

1) Name: John Calandriello

2) Height: 185 cm (6' 1") 180lbs

3) Occupation: I am currently a student @ Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario, Canada studying Business Administration, concentrating in Finance

4) What do you do on Sundays? Eat a big breakfast, visit family, play hockey with my buddies, and relax

5) What languages can you speak? English and Italian, learning French

6) Who has had the most influence on you? My parents of course!

7) What's on your "To Do" list? Visit/Live in Europe as much/long as possible. See the world. Get married, get rich, and have lots of kids.

8) Discribe your living situation: Currently living with my Parents (I am 20 yrs old) in Niagara Falls, Ontario but moving to Rouen, France in January for a term to study!

9) Previous Halloween costumes: a Nerd, a killer hockey goalie, a mad scientist...

10) Your dream job: I hope to start and run an International Investing Firm which allows me to make a lot of money and travel around the world.

[jennifer]

Welcome Johnny!

Yeah, another canadian! Wow, Rouen, that's cool! You better keep us posted!

[herrbert]

On request of freshsprout (and because it's fun to resurrect some old topics): here I go

1) Name:
René Giesbertz

2) Height:
174 cm

3) Occupation:
Music Manager (own business), and trying to make some money out of the internet to be able to live anywhere I want in a few years time

4) What do you do on Sundays?
Usualy not a lot, sometimes I like to go and visit a friend in Arnhem, sometimes a short daytrip, sometimes just working.

5) What languages can you speak?
Dutch, English, German and a little bit of Spanish. (but studying Spanish, so i should improve on this one). I also speak the local dialect from this part of the Netherlands.

6) Who has had the most influence on you?
Ana Aparicio, mi amiga, that is living in Madrid at the moment, she opened my eyes for a lot of things in my life, in the time that she spend here in the Netherlands. (for the curious ones, no we did and don't have a relationship, other than being really good friends). We had a very good time, and I miss her a lot.

7) What's on your "To Do" list?
Too many things, maybe I should make a actual list. I would love to see a working volcano.

8) Discribe your living situation:
living own my own (had the qoute the Freddie Mercury song), no girlfriend/boyfriend at the moment.

9) Previous Halloween costumes:
none. (don't think I am wrily bad ad englisch, and meen nun)

10) Your dream job:
Anything with the word retired, and millionaire would do. Not that I need to be a millionaire, but it would make live so much easier, wouldn't it? I am quite happy setting up my own businesses, so for the moment, it would be my dream to be succesful in what I am doing now. But bassplayer in a succesful band would also be an option.

[jennifer]

Well, i've answered before, but things have changed in years

1) Name: Jennifer France Doré Dallas

2) Height: 5 feet 7

3) Occupation: Administrative assistant for a computer tech brokerage firm / Freelance translator

4) What do you do on Sundays? Most of the time sleep in, lazy around with my hubby and go for a beer or something relaxing before another week of work!

5) What languages can you speak? English, French, German, Spanish

6) Who has had the most influence on you? My parents, but also my grandparents, they are just inspirational people!

7) What's on your "To Do" list? Buy a camera, pay off my bills, plan my trip to France in October (if all goes as planned with hubby), my trip to BC next spring with my friend, plan my dad's supper on sunday lol

8) Discribe your living situation: I live in a 2 bedroom apt alone for the moment, but my roommate is moving in at the end of the month!

9) Previous Halloween costumes: This year I was a rocking 80's woman for a party, and a pirate wench for another. I've been a bubble gum machine, a Unicef box, and the typical witch, clown, pumpkin, etc.

10) Your dream job: German teacher or being paid to travel!


**** USE OF HUBBY CANCELLED**** I AM NOT MARRIED lol

[chakkenberg]

1) Name: Chris

2) Height: 6'1

3) Occupation: Teacher

4) What do you do on Sundays? Sleep......

5) What languages can you speak? English, can understand some Spanish

6) Who has had the most influence on you? Fr. Steve coordinator of Youth ministry at my old High school

7) What's on your "To Do" list? 1. Send in taxes 2. Fix TiVo 3. Plan euro-trip

8) Describe your living situation: Living in moms basement ARRRGH! (and my trip partner can't understand how I can stand to stay in a hostel)

9) Previous Halloween costumes: Hades

10) Your dream job: Teaching indigenous people around the world. (maybe the universe)

[chelle84]

1) Name: Michelle

2) Height: 165cms

3) Occupation: Legal Secretary/Personal Assistant

4) What do you do on Sundays? Sleep in :-)

5) What languages can you speak? Just English although I studied German and Japanese in school

6) Who has had the most influence on you? No one.

7) What's on your "To Do" list? Go to Europe! (2 weeks to go..)

8) Discribe your living situation: I live with my boyfriend

9) Previous Halloween costumes: Never had one - I live in Aus, we don't have Halloween :-(

10) Your dream job: Natropath or Nutritionist or Personal Trainer still can't make up my mind

[joan]

1) Name: Joan

2) Height:
5'7"

3) Occupation: Person.

4) What do you do on Sundays? I wander around Manhattan.

5) What languages can you speak? English, French, Spanish, hebrew

6) Who has had the most influence on you? My family

7) What's on your "To Do" list? too many things! I want to see the world, I want to learn a lot of different things, I want to see a lot of artwork close up..

8) Discribe your living situation: I live with my family.

9) Previous Halloween costumes: Nothing particularly interesting.

10) Your dream job: doctor at an international clinic

[ghady]

1) Name: Ghady Haidar

2) Height: 183 cm

3) Occupation: Hmm.. well, I go to the American University of Beirut (AUB), I graduate with a BS in biology at the end of June.. then I start medical school in August..

4) What do you do on Sundays? Mostly sleep in, unless my friends wanna go explore the country in the car..

5) What languages can you speak? English, Arabic, French..

6) Who has had the most influence on you? That's a complicated question with complicated answers..

7) What's on your "To Do" list?
Go to Cyprus between finals and graduation (in a couple of months).
Go to Europe on the 8th of July.

As for the bigger picture:
Go to Europe as much as I possibly can.
One day live in London again.
Leave Lebanon after med school and never live there again. It'll only be a nice home to go back to a couple of times every couple of years.
Go on a world trip one day.
Work with Doctors Without Borders by the time I'm 35 or 40.

8) Discribe your living situation: To my dismay, still living with my mom and younger brother...what can I do, Lebanon's the size of a small hole, it's really pointless to dorm-it.

9) Previous Halloween costumes:
Ha.... um.. I think I was Dracula every single year..

10) Your dream job: working with doctors without norders.. creating my own TV series..

[me]

there seem to be almost as many future doctors on this board as teachers!

[jennifer]

2 very important jobs at least

[me]

indeed, they both are!

jennifer said:

2 very important jobs at least

[thinkingbouteurope]

1) Name: Dr. Winston O'Boogie

2) Height: 5'10"

3) Occupation: IT consultant

4) What do you do on Sundays? go to church, bringing announcements, last minute items to pastor, take out 2 DVDs from library for week (this week: House MD and Baseball Parks), Chinese food a good possibility

5) What languages can you speak? English, Spanish (but hell might freeze over waiting for me to complete a sentence ... and/or I may insult someone.)

6) Who has had the most influence on you? Yogi Berra and Casey Stengel ... they taught me out to talk myself out of any situation ... at least in English

7) What's on your "To Do" list? arrange to have checks scanned directly to the bank, lease copier, continue to ruthlessly sell, giveaway or throwout most of the stuff I've accumulated throughout my life, buy airline ticket

8) Discribe your living situation: improving; had been increasingly intolerable within the year. I know where (almost) everything is ... sounds frightening?

9) Previous Halloween costumes: nothing memorable or I'm going senile

10) Your dream job writer/photographer (travelling and creating travel guides

[makemagic]

1) Name: gwen

2) Height: 5'3

3) Occupation: registrar's assistant. it's a rubbish job, but it pays for my traveling addiction.

4) What do you do on Sundays? read, write, watch rick steves, walk my dog, clean my apartment...boring, boring. i mostly just mope about having to be at work the next day

5) What languages can you speak? english and italian. actually my italian is quite out of use, so i'm not even sure if i speak it anymore.

6) Who has had the most influence on you? oh my...lf celine, rick steves, p. wolf...

7) What's on your "To Do" list? travel is the number one priority. i think about it every single day. i'm always planning and dreaming. other things i hope to do:

*play with a monkey. i'm serious.
*finish my book that i've been writing for 6+ years
*learn two more languages (or perhaps just re-learn italian)
*become a tour guide for rick steves

this is more of a "life goals" list...but whatever.

8) Describe your living situation: i live in a very, very small studio apartment above a diamond store in downtown seattle. i share this very small space with my lovely pup bear and my sometimes boyfriend.

9) Previous Halloween costumes: um...i think i was a mime once when i was in grade school. i don't really celebrate holidays. my friends think i'm boring. halloween is their favorite time to point this out.

10) Your dream job: travel writer/photographer. professional vagabond. wife of greek shipping heir.

[rissama]

1) Name: Marissa

2) Height: 5'11" almost 6'

3) Occupation:Highschool Sophomore (yes this planning is majorly in advance)

4) What do you do on Sundays? Church, homewrk, and youth group

5) What languages can you speak? English, Latin, and Spanish

6) Who has had the most influence on you? My cousins

7) What's on your "To Do" list? hmmm.... go to Europe

8) Discribe your living situation: with my parents and my 2 yr old sister

9) Previous Halloween costumes: Elmo, Lifesavers, princess, vampire/cheerleader(i'm not to fond of cheerleaders), rockstar, dead person, oh what do u know... a barbie CHEERLEADER, The queen of hearts, a witch (i think), and the statue of liberty (that one was the coolest cause it was right after 9/11). i once hade the idea to go as a video tape, but that never happened.

10) Your dream job: Novelist

[jkfaust]

Looks like a great place to put my first post....

1) Name: Jack

2) Height: 5'9"

3) Occupation: I am currently the general manager for a small internet company the sells NASA and space related items. I'm also a graduate student working on a MA in Human Resource Management and a MS in Finance. I've also started my own travel website.

4) What do you do on Sundays? Hang out with my girlfriend.

5) What languages can you speak? English and a tiny bit of Spanish and French.

6) Who has had the most influence on you? Lots of people, it really just depends on which of my many interests.

7) What's on your "To Do" list? Much, much more traveling. Collect a few more degrees. Write a book or two. Fly more.

8) Discribe your living situation: Living with my girlfriend in a beautiful but small and slightly overpriced apartment. Also, a good friend has been staying on our coach for a few days.

9) Previous Halloween costumes: The only one that cpmes to mind was a bit naughty.

10) Your dream job: One of two things: Fighter Pilot or something that allows me to get paid traveling my style.