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1 -- I was a dancer from age 4 until I graduated from college. I took ballet six days a week when I was in high school and spent more time at the dance studio than anywhere else. I was really too...well..."booby" to be a ballerina, though. In college I switched to modern and loved it. My biggest regret is that I didn't continue dancing after I graduated. Sometimes I do dance around the house, though! :)
2 -- I can put my legs behind my head. I, apparently, inherited this skill from my father. (Not really something you want to know about your father, you know?!)
3 -- I walked down the aisle to Led Zeppelin at our wedding -- a string quartet version, but still. :) At the end, we walked back together to The Captain and Tennille. We're big dorks.
4 -- In grad school I was a champion race walker (the wiggling hips and straight legs kind)! I won my age group multiple times in races -- of course, I was generally the only person in my age group!!
5 -- I studied Chinese in high school and college. I really wish I could speak it better than I do, though.
6 -- My family is from Turkey and Greece. We're Sephardic Jews. My DH isn't Jewish, but I knew he was getting *serious* when we were dating and he started buying books called things like "Judaism for Dummies" and "Everything Jewish" so he'd understand me more!
7 -- I love teaching chemistry at all levels from elementary school through seniors in college. :) I find it fascinating to watch colors change during a reaction. My absolute favorite reaction is copper ions reacting with ammonia to form a copper-ammonia complex. It goes from a light blue color to a gorgeous deep royal blue. Seeing that as a freshman in college sold me on chemistry. (Told you I was a dork.)
People I nominate:
(Oh, dear, I need to expand my blogger buddies because I think nearly everyone I know has been nominated before... :) I'll nominate them again if they haven't responded, yet!)
T-party @ T-party (come back to blogging!)
AplusB @ a + b waiting for c
bumpsalongtheway @ Bumps Along the Way
Jen @ In the Making
OK, that's all I can come up with at the moment...
Awwww, you were a dancer? I love ballet. :) I think it's totally awesome that you walked down the aisle to Led Zeppelin!
ReplyDeleteWhich Captain and Tenille song? Do It To Me One More Time? Love Will Keep Us Together? Sounds like a fun wedding!
ReplyDeleteLOL I could put my legs behind my head, too. Sometimes, I try it again, and I can make it work but harder and harder. I think I use that as a 'quality' control. I am sure I will freak out when it eventually won't work. LOL
ReplyDeleteYou seem to have a very interesting cultural background! do you still know relatives back in the old country? do you go there to visit?
Your hubby sounds like a very sweet man:) how cute of him to get educated on your culture.
And yay! for your walking career. Are you still doing it sometimes?
This was such a great idea, I loved your list!!!
Rita -- It was "Love Will Keep Us Together." It started and made everyone laugh. It was great! Although, "Do that to me one more time" might have been funnier! :)
ReplyDeleteLOL Erika -- I know the exact feeling (about the legs thing) Shocking, really, isn't it? :)
I only have distant relatives still in Turkey (I met them once when my family went to visit about 9 years ago) but all of the more distant relatives in Greece who didn't leave were killed in the holocaust, sadly.
I was a racewalker in high school! I didn't think anyone else even knew what that was! LOL!
ReplyDeleteyour wedding sounds awesome! I too, am Jewish ( Eastern European) & don't have a Jewish DH, but it's all good! :)