The Challange & I

Good morning everyone!

I want to thank Leo for thinking I'm an interesting person and tagging me.

Let's get started!

11 fact about me:
1. I refused to eat fish until last year (when I was 20), and except fish I've never eaten sea creatures (and ever will).

2. In the 11^th grade I worked in a shoe store in Dizengoff Center mall in TLV. I could still come up to a lady in the street and tell her the company and the model of her shoes (e.g. Republic 805).

3. I hate my name, but I'll never change it.

4. I used to sing in the conservatory quire for 10 years (I'm a mezzo-soprano), and was even a soloist. I graduated in 2012 and got a 95 score in my Bagrut in singing.

5. In the 10^th grade I hosted a girl my age from L.A for 3 months! I couldn't stand her and I waited for her to leave.

6. I used to work as a guide in a summer dog training camp for kids in kibbutz Afikim, near the Kinneret.

7. My feet are not the same size (R-37, L-38), but I do manage to buy shoes. True story.
(Taken from a diary of a shoe seller in Dizengoff Center)

8. I'm an only child, and so I promised myself to have at least 3 kids.

9. In addition to my skills in teaching, I'm also a professional makeup artist.

10. My first time out of the country was to Paris, when I was 2 years old. My daughter's first time out of the country was to Paris, when I was 5.5 months pregnant.

11. I write, or I used to write, poetry (in Hebrew).

11 answers to Leo's 11 questions:
1) My favorite day of the week is Shabbat, when I can be with my husband and my daughter without any interferences.

2) My Gmail account and Facebook. However, lately I open Ynet too.

3) I say I would probably be a cat, But my husband says I would be an ant.
4) I would like to know French.
5) I would like to visit Istanbul, Turkey, because my grandparents grew up there.
6) I don't watch T.V, and I don't even have one at home, but I used to watch Ugly Betty.

7) No, I havn't. It could be a nice experience, though.

8) It's my third year at the college, and my favorite course so far was actually in the Hebrew department, 'leshonot bemaga' (languages in contact?!). It dealt with the unique consequences of having two or more languages spoken in the same time in the same place.

9) see side, because I grew up next to Metzitzim beach in TLV, and it makes me feel at home (remind me again what am I doing in Jerusalem?!).

10) Definitely beer. Carlsberg, please. :P

11) How I became religious. End of discussion J

My 11 questions:
1. What's your favorite item in your closet, and why?  (Please add a photo if you can)

2. What makes you feel lucky?

3. Which song makes you cry?

4. When is your birthday? When is your Hebraic birthday?

5. Karaoke night / Pajamas party?

6. What book has left an impression on you?

7. Driving a racing car/ riding a horse?

8. Where in the world are you willing to travel without a tour guide book?

9. If you could live in a movie, which movie would it be?

10. The ability of speaking to animals/ the ability to read men's minds? And why (of course)

11. How are you planning to celebrate graduating David Yellin College?

Avigayil Haviv- you've been tagged!

Welcome, the rules and my 11 facts

Hello and welcome to our class blog which we'll be using for the blog tag challenge.

Rules

This is how it works: You should:

• post 11 random facts about yourself
• answer 11 questions posed by the one who tagged you
• write 11 questions for another student and tag her/him

All this has to be posted within 7 days since you were tagged - else, you lose!

To sum up: 7 - 11 - 11 - 11:
7 days - 11 facts - 11 answers - 11 questions

11 facts about myself

To get the ball rolling, here are 11 random facts about myself, your teacher:

Image by David (Davo) Smith via Flickr
used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

1. I once pursued and caught (with the help of the police) thieves on the beach.
2. I am a Senior Contributor on TripAdvisor and 5 reviews away from becoming a Top Contributor.
3. I refused to join Facebook for a few years until my friends had signed a “petition” and collected more than 30 signatures. I joined it on my birthday a few years ago and immediately had 30+ Facebook friends.
4. Until the age of 30 I never had birthday parties. But now I celebrate every year by going on a trip and meeting up with friends in various locations such Paris, Rome, Istanbul
5. I don't like shopping for clothes but I like wearing other people's clothes because they have personality.
6. I don't like Skype.
7. Food-wise, I don’t like okra.
8. I am on the board of ETAI. My role is international liaison, and I also maintain their website.
9. As a child I used to think Alfred Hitchcock was Alfred Hedgehog. 
10. Before my career in TEFL I used to work in tourism in various roles: Rep, tour guide, travel agent and incentive travel consultant



Saturday brunch

11. I like making brunch at the weekend.

11 questions

And now 11 questions I would like to hear answers to:

1. What's your favourite day of the week?
2. What's the first website you check / go on every morning?
3. If you were an animal, what would you be?
4. What language would you like to learn?
5. What country would you like to visit and why?
6. What's your favourite TV programme / show?
7. Have you ever been to an ELT conference?
8. It's your fourth year at the college and you've taken many courses. Which one has been your favourite so far?
9. Seaside or mountains? Why?
10. Wine or beer?
11. What question do you NOT like being asked?

Tag

And the person I'd like to address these questions to is...

...

MAYA V.


You've been tagged!

Further notes

To see where I got idea for the blog challenge, see HERE. You can also get ideas for questions you might want to ask.