The Rules:
a. Leave a comment saying, "Interview Me".
b. I will respond by e-mailing you 5 questions. I get to pick the questions.
c. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
d. You will include this explanation and offer to interview someone else in the same post.
e. When others comment asking you to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions!
The Questions:
1. If you had to be stuck for hours in any airport in the world, which airport would you choose and why?
If I had to be stuck at any airport I would choose London's Heathrow. I've been to many airports all over Europe, some seriously nothing more than like a shed (Paris Beauvais, about an hour from Paris and where all the budget airlines go) and I've spent a few nights in airports (London Stansted with Em and Laura on our Berlin adventure, Dublin with my sister on the way back to Greece) but my favourite is Heathrow. It is GIGANTIC! And the thing I love about Heathrow is flights go all over the world, the US/Australia/Asia/Africa... so there are always awesome destinations at the gates and I LOVE to people watch. So I think about what the people are doing and why they are going there. Are they going home? Vacation? Studying? So many things to think about, and places to dream about going. And once you are through security, they have some decent seating by the shops that is actually comfortable, and about a million shops in case you get bored.
If I had to be stuck at any airport I would choose London's Heathrow. I've been to many airports all over Europe, some seriously nothing more than like a shed (Paris Beauvais, about an hour from Paris and where all the budget airlines go) and I've spent a few nights in airports (London Stansted with Em and Laura on our Berlin adventure, Dublin with my sister on the way back to Greece) but my favourite is Heathrow. It is GIGANTIC! And the thing I love about Heathrow is flights go all over the world, the US/Australia/Asia/Africa... so there are always awesome destinations at the gates and I LOVE to people watch. So I think about what the people are doing and why they are going there. Are they going home? Vacation? Studying? So many things to think about, and places to dream about going. And once you are through security, they have some decent seating by the shops that is actually comfortable, and about a million shops in case you get bored.
2. Who was the best teacher/professor you ever had, and what made them the best?
I have two. One from high school and one from college.
High School - Mrs. Tanis. I had her twice, for Biology sophomore year and then again for AP Bio senior year.
She loved biology! She loved teaching! And she got so excited about what she was doing, and it just radiated through her classroom. In my sophomore year I was the smartest kid in the class (I should have been in Honors, but that's another story) and she challenged me more by giving me more in depth work and making my lab partner someone who needed a LOT of help. And I really liked her for bio, and one of the reasons I did AP Bio was her. And AP Bio was a challenge, but she made it fun! She wanted us to do well and for the AP exam, since she knew she couldn't get to everything would do review sessions starting in January. We would meet during lunch once a week and then as it got closer to the exam twice a week and an evening session, now it was all optional, but most of us went. She did this on her own time because that's just how she is and also so we could do some really cool experiments/classes on stuff she thought we should know (but wouldn't be on the AP). She is the kind of teacher I want to be, and I hope when I have my own classroom I can be like her.
WAC- Hands down, Dr. O'Connor - my education professor. He is one of the smartest people I know. Has an amazing personal history and loves teaching. His classes were completely non-traditional. While sometimes he was slightly too theoretical about teaching methods and ways of implementing instruction, he was still amazing. I had him for 2 classes - Educational Pyschology and World Geography and then my ed block (student teaching) semester. The way he organized our student teaching was quite unique and the pure torture of the academy, but I feel prepared to enter the classroom in September. He made me excited to go to my education classes, got to know all of us personally and helped us recognize our own weaknesses and build them up, and how to play to our strengths. He was the best because he set up an amazing program, always kept us on our toes and from the first class was using methods we would use in our classrooms in our college classes. He also knew us and got us to stretch our comfort zones, experiment with new things and the funny little things about edblock, the notecards, video taping ourselves, naughty Sean in our classrooms, he let me be a t-rex in the classroom during edblock and he is just amazing.
I have two. One from high school and one from college.
High School - Mrs. Tanis. I had her twice, for Biology sophomore year and then again for AP Bio senior year.
She loved biology! She loved teaching! And she got so excited about what she was doing, and it just radiated through her classroom. In my sophomore year I was the smartest kid in the class (I should have been in Honors, but that's another story) and she challenged me more by giving me more in depth work and making my lab partner someone who needed a LOT of help. And I really liked her for bio, and one of the reasons I did AP Bio was her. And AP Bio was a challenge, but she made it fun! She wanted us to do well and for the AP exam, since she knew she couldn't get to everything would do review sessions starting in January. We would meet during lunch once a week and then as it got closer to the exam twice a week and an evening session, now it was all optional, but most of us went. She did this on her own time because that's just how she is and also so we could do some really cool experiments/classes on stuff she thought we should know (but wouldn't be on the AP). She is the kind of teacher I want to be, and I hope when I have my own classroom I can be like her.
WAC- Hands down, Dr. O'Connor - my education professor. He is one of the smartest people I know. Has an amazing personal history and loves teaching. His classes were completely non-traditional. While sometimes he was slightly too theoretical about teaching methods and ways of implementing instruction, he was still amazing. I had him for 2 classes - Educational Pyschology and World Geography and then my ed block (student teaching) semester. The way he organized our student teaching was quite unique and the pure torture of the academy, but I feel prepared to enter the classroom in September. He made me excited to go to my education classes, got to know all of us personally and helped us recognize our own weaknesses and build them up, and how to play to our strengths. He was the best because he set up an amazing program, always kept us on our toes and from the first class was using methods we would use in our classrooms in our college classes. He also knew us and got us to stretch our comfort zones, experiment with new things and the funny little things about edblock, the notecards, video taping ourselves, naughty Sean in our classrooms, he let me be a t-rex in the classroom during edblock and he is just amazing.
3. If you could have tea with any person in the world, who would you choose?
Ahhh, this one is really tough, I don't know why. But to have tea with one person in the world I would choose to chat over a cuppa with Bono of U2. I know it is slightly random, but I LOVE his music and I think he is trying to promote change around the world and using his fame for good. He writes songs that have social and political leanings and that really touch people. I think he would be great to just have a little talk with.
Runners up - Michelle Obama, Harry Parker (harvard Crew Coach, who is one of the winningest coaches ever) and Hillary Clinton.
4. What is the most beautiful place on Earth that you've ever seen and what made it so beautiful?
sjfkkgfkkdkk, I can only pick one? I have a few different, but I guess my top choice would be Zion National Park in Utah. I went there in the summer of 2007 with my family on our western road trip. And I absolutely LOVED it. The canyons and cliffs are just breathtaking. You are at at base of them and just looking up, so many pretty colours, and different geographic shapes. And I'd never seen anything like it, I am dying to go back and do more hiking, go into the slot canyons and just bask in th
I wish pictures were able to show how GORGEOUS it is.
My runners up - Santorini, Greece and Dingle, Ireland.
Santorini, Greece
Dingle Peninsula, Ireland
Ahhh, this one is really tough, I don't know why. But to have tea with one person in the world I would choose to chat over a cuppa with Bono of U2. I know it is slightly random, but I LOVE his music and I think he is trying to promote change around the world and using his fame for good. He writes songs that have social and political leanings and that really touch people. I think he would be great to just have a little talk with.
Runners up - Michelle Obama, Harry Parker (harvard Crew Coach, who is one of the winningest coaches ever) and Hillary Clinton.
4. What is the most beautiful place on Earth that you've ever seen and what made it so beautiful?
sjfkkgfkkdkk, I can only pick one? I have a few different, but I guess my top choice would be Zion National Park in Utah. I went there in the summer of 2007 with my family on our western road trip. And I absolutely LOVED it. The canyons and cliffs are just breathtaking. You are at at base of them and just looking up, so many pretty colours, and different geographic shapes. And I'd never seen anything like it, I am dying to go back and do more hiking, go into the slot canyons and just bask in th
I wish pictures were able to show how GORGEOUS it is.My runners up - Santorini, Greece and Dingle, Ireland.
Santorini, Greece
Dingle Peninsula, Ireland
5. If you could have a magic button next to your bed that did something awesome when you pressed it, what would it do?
Hmmmm, I don't want much just for my room and the bathroom to be super warm so it makes getting out of bed easier and I would have it right next to my alarm clock. You should see my still covered in blankets turning on my heater and then climbing back into bed for 10 minutes. I hate being cold, especially at 7.45 in the morning.
So if you would like to be interviewed, leave me a comment with your email and I'll get back to you with some fun questions.. it might be a few days, as I'm frolicking, but get excited!
8 comments:
WAO just serching thru blogs I found your...
You write really well!
keep writing!
It's official. I'm not going to get any work done today. I'm going to sit here and stare at the picture of Santorini all day.
Okay, I'm game. Interview me!
Lovely, lovely places, I am so jealous that you've been to them...the only one I can claim in Zion park too, and I remember thinking I liked it soooo much more than the Grand Canyon.
I'm game too...if you have time, interview me. I need more distractions :)
xx
Instead of focusing on the amazing pictures of natural beauty, I am most compelled by the fact that you would want to have tea with Bono too! It's definitely not random, though I'm pretty sure it would have to be a Guinness instead of tea, haha.
And, oh yeah, interview me, haha.
I'd also pick Heathrow, best airport I've been to for shopping & food :)
Love your photos too!
interview meeeeeeeee.
ps, yeahhh for the night in dub :P and santorini..i wanna go back NOWWWW. x have fun. tell amy i said helllllo. xox
Your pictures are making me crave vacation... Santorini looks particularly wonderful.
Interview me if you don't run out of questions!
Good answers!! I loooove your photos- the one of Santorini is breathtaking! I've never been to Heathrow but it sounds amazing :D Ooh and Bono is such a good answer!! And the runner ups sounded good too.
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