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Post by freshsprout on Aug 19, 2007 0:06:44 GMT -5
Wow! Cool to finally put the names.. to the nicknames.  Well, since I'm not doing much on a Sat. evening.. I might as well bite. ;D PS. David, I'm waiting for you to rip on me after this gets posted. hehe. ============ 1) Name: Irene Yuan 2) Height: 4' (ok, technically it's 3'11... but I'm already short as it is, so no one is gonna notice if I round up) 3) Occupation: Graphic Designer..... and I'm currently unemployed! Hurrah! But I've been working non-stop for the last 5 years, so just taking a break now. Been considering going back to school to get a masters, not sure yet. 4) What do you do on Sundays? Go to UU Church, grocery shopping.. rather exciting. Maybe go bicycling or hiking if I can down at the beach. 5) What languages can you speak? English, conversational Mandarin and basic French 6) Who has had the most influence on you? My parents, close friends.. also some of my design mentors who I really look up to. 7) What's on your "To Do" list? Well, right now it's looking for a job.. lol. But I would like to eventually travel to Australia, New Zealand and Scandinavia in the next year. 8) Describe your living situation: Living in Hollywood, Ca. with 1 big, cute gray cat named Sam 9) Previous Halloween costumes: Ugh, I've always been princesses and the sort when I was a kid. I guess in recent years.. a cowgirl and a ladybug 10) Your dream job: To own my own graphic design studio  |
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Post by me on Aug 19, 2007 10:25:01 GMT -5
PS. David, I'm waiting for you to rip on me after this gets posted. hehe.  i don't get it edit: ah, yes! the way i try to find humor in what people post. well, nothing pops out at me for you. |
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Post by freshsprout on Aug 19, 2007 10:34:07 GMT -5
Refer to page 2 and 3... |
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Post by me on Nov 26, 2007 17:08:44 GMT -5
any of you new people care to "join-in?"
it's been 3+ months. besides, i'm a little bored.
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Post by Eagle on Nov 26, 2007 18:41:35 GMT -5
Didn't I already fill out one of these questionaires? Not much has changed since the last one.
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Post by me on Nov 26, 2007 22:18:32 GMT -5
yeah, Ken. you filled one in a few years ago. not much has changed for me, either. well, don't go to Church much on Sundays anymore. we got a new senior minister a few years ago. he's made some changes that don't really suit me. it's sad, my parents met at that Church, i grew up attending that Church, 3 family weddings have been there: my folks' & my sisters. <i missed the 1st one ;D> - d Didn't I already fill out one of these questionaires? Not much has changed since the last one. |
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Post by rowlandjessica on Dec 8, 2007 20:36:02 GMT -5
1) Name: Jessica
2) Height: 5'6" ish
3) Occupation: Own cleaning company, graphic designer, painter
4) What do you do on Sundays? laundry, walk the dogs, sleep in
5) What languages can you speak? English and about 20 words of german
6) Who has had the most influence on you? my mom, grandmother, aunt serene
7) What's on your "To Do" list? Go back to schooll, Backpack Europe, Get a better job, vaccuum my car
8) Discribe your living situation: I rent from my mom. Most days its great i get to hang with my little brothers and dogs, some days it drives me crazy. I'm planning on moving once i return to the states
9) Previous Halloween costumes: A purple M&M that the next year was recycled as a Skittle, the usual hippie, princess, teenager with pillow case, cow
10) Your dream job: project Manager at a big city design firm. Hopefully Chicago, Boston, or Seattle
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Post by me on Dec 11, 2007 0:08:38 GMT -5
Welcome to the group, Jessica! i hope that some of your questions will be answered here. my Europe travel planning has gone easier since i found this place on the web! don't go to Church much on Sundays anymore. this might be a little misleading. i still go to early Thursday morning Bible Studies at the Church campus. it's lead by our former interim senior minister. it's the Sunday worship that i've been missing. sometimes, we go to another local Presbyterian Church for Sunday worship. - d |
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Canadian student living in Denmark
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Post by bigred on Dec 12, 2007 22:28:27 GMT -5
I haven't really been involved in anything like this before but in the past two days people have been so helpful.
1) Name: Scott
2) Height: 185 cm or for the Americans and Brits 6 ft 1
3) Occupation: University Student
4) What do you do on Sundays? Homework, relax and a hearty breakfast.
5) What languages can you speak? English and French
6) Who has had the most influence on you? My family, Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin and Stephen Jay Gould.
7) What's on your "To Do" list? Travel to Greenland and Iceland, visit all continents (including Antarctica but that will be last I'm sure) and enjoy the wines of Tuscany this summer!
8) Discribe your living situation: Two-room flat in Denmark while on exchange.
9) Previous Halloween costumes: Just about every year I go as a leprachaun. The costumes doubles as my St.Paddy's day outfit.
10) Your dream job: Does lottery winner count?? If not then a firefighter or as I study in school, palaeoclimatologist.
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Post by jessus on Dec 28, 2007 0:32:26 GMT -5
Ah well... I may as well join in ( a few years later) too! 1) Name: Jessica (Jess does fine ) 2) Height: 5'8 3) Occupation: Part-time student (5th year undergrad) & Part-time Community Mental Health Worker 4) What do you do on Sundays? I work shifts, so often I'm at work. Otherwise... writing my thesis... maybe wasting some time on the computer or watching movies. 5) What languages can you speak? English fluently. Pretty decent French, and not bad German. 6) Who has had the most influence on you? I'm not sure really... 7) What's on your "To Do" list? - Already in planning mode: Finish thesis (April 2008), Start up business properly [making things out of recycled/reclaimed materials], Graduate undergrad (June 2008), Backpack Europe (trip 1) - Sept-Oct 2008, Apply for grad schools (Sept-Dec 2008), Volunteer in Africa (Jan-March 2009) - Other stuff: Write my (first) novel - supernatural fiction... 8) Describe your living situation: At the moment, back with the family - parents, sister, & 2 cats. 9) Previous Halloween costumes: Halloween is my favourite holiday, so I go all out. And never just buy a costume  Last few: Little Dead Riding Hood, Che Guevara, Pin-up Sailor, Bonnie (as in Bonnie and Clyde... gangster girl), 80's rocker ("leather" pants and all) 10) Your dream job: Well, since I'm in school with plans to be a clinical psychologist, I guess that But I'd really like to work for The Imaginative Traveller at some point. And maybe when I get my doctorate do counselling work/volunteer work with international organizations (Doctors Without Borders or the UN are my tops)... but whatever it is, I can't pick just one thing to do at a time. I'll be a psychologist/writer/small crafty business owner.... someday... |
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Post by jennifer on Dec 29, 2007 11:05:09 GMT -5
Wow, great plans there! That business you want to open seems really cool! Let us know when it takes off so we can have a look at your stuff!
Jen
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jessus
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Post by jessus on Jan 4, 2008 5:44:00 GMT -5
Thanks! I over do things sometimes... but ah well. I will indeed be telling everyone I can possibly tell once my shop gets up and running! |
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Post by me on Jan 20, 2008 23:08:11 GMT -5
any new folks, Rena, Irish Monkey, Mega, etc. who've yet to introduce themselves?
- d
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Post by me on Jan 20, 2008 23:57:22 GMT -5
Hi, Jess!
does Médecins Sans Frontières do Psychological treatments? i had no idea!
well, i knew they sprung from the volunteers who went to Eastern Nigeria to help Biafran refugees in the civil war there, late 60's.
i've read that malnutrition was the biggest problem there: the Nigerian blockade kept food, as well as medicine, out of Biafra.
Dr. Bernard Kouchner, one of those who was in Biafra with the Red Cross - a founder of MSF, is now the French Foreign Minister.
btw, it's noteworthy that Kouchner now has that job: he's a leftist, formerly a French Communist - yet France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is center-right. [also, Kouchner openly supported Ségolène Royal for president]
Sarko must be fairly self confident to accept as foreign minister a man who opposed his run for president!
- d
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Post by WillTravel on Jan 21, 2008 0:13:35 GMT -5
This is sort of related, but it reminds me of a recent book and movie I've enjoyed.
Half a Yellow Sun is a novel about the civil war in Nigeria (when Biafra tried to split off). It's excellent! (If you are worried that it will have an un-nuanced treatment of Westerners, that's not the case at all.)
Last week, I saw the movie "Guelwaar", by the African director Sembene, who lived in France for some time. It's set in the director's home country of Senegal, with the underlying subtext of Christian/Muslim tensions. About half the movie is in French, and half in the Senegalese language.
I've known lots of people who've gone to Africa - maybe sometime I'll feel comfortable doing so myself.
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i don't get it 
Last few: Little Dead Riding Hood, Che Guevara, Pin-up Sailor, Bonnie (as in Bonnie and Clyde... gangster girl), 80's rocker ("leather" pants and all)
