Efrat - My Q & A

About myself -

1. I love Jerusalem! I tried living in TLV but the weather, the people and atmosphere are much better in Jerusalem.
2. I've lived in Beijing for 2 years and got the chance to be in the ice festival in Harbin, by far the coldest place I've ever been to. we had to enter a restaurant or a coffee place every hour to warm ourselves, but it was amazing!
3. I've studies Japanese and traveled to japan twice.
4. I climbed the Fuji mountain. It took us 2 days, parts of it in the rain, but the sunrise from the top was worth it. 
5. I'm into the Zero waste life - creating and consuming as little waste as possible and making everything you need from scratch and as naturally as possible. 
6. I am a member of a food cooperative in Jerusalem, where we are the owners, shoppers and workers. 
7. I have gluten intolerance (celiac) since the age of 6. 
8. I love 80's music, anything with synthesizer 
9. I enjoy learning languages even if I don't get to master them. so far I learned Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and now German. 
10. I would really like to live somewhere where it snows. 
11. I hate cucumbers. I can't eat anything that touched it. 

Answers to the questions:

1. I enjoy reading, watching series and doing yoga. 

2. I would never want to actually participate in The Amazing Race. but my best friend and I sometimes play with the thought of going. We always say we would have fun but fight like crazy all the time. 

3. My favorite quote is: "I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." I'm not sure it was actually said by Thomas Edison, but I feel this is a good way to live: accepting our mistakes, learn from them and not take life too seriously.  

4. My biggest dream is to work with teenagers from different nationalities and religions to create more tolerance and acceptance.

5. Hunger games. Just it is the only one I know (only saw the movies). I liked the message and the criticism it raises,   

6. My most beautiful shoes are shiny red flats!

7. Alien invasion! I am curious to see how they look. 

8. Iceland. I want to see the glaciers and animals. 

9. I would defiantly prefer a Jet. It is way faster and does not make me noxious.

10. I don't really like these things, it makes me uncomfortable.


My Questions:

1. How many languages do you speak, even a little bit?

2. What would be the next one you'll want to learn?

3. Have you ever done anything illegal?

4. What is your favorite house chore? why?

5.Who would play you in a movie about your life?

6. What is the noise that annoys you the most?

7.  What is the one object you can not live without?

8. Do you believe there is life on other planets? or are we the only ones?

9. What's your favorite childhood game?

10. What is the last picture you took? on your phone or your camera.

11. If you could have witnessed anything throughout history, what would it be?


Farida! you're up next!

Have fun.

11 things about myself

1.      I got married when I was 19, with Raphael which I know from kindergarten and dated from 10^th grade.

2.      I have 2 children- a girl- Rimonne who is now 3.5 years old, and a boy- Yair who is 2 years old.

3.      I was born in Paris, my parents decided to make Alya when I was 7. It took them only 4 month from the moment they decided, to the moment we left our big, beautiful apartment situated in the center of Paris to a small, empty, deserted caravan in Kfar Adoumim. I still remember the unpleasant noise of the gravel under the wheels of the taxi who drove us from the airport.

4.      I love art. My dream (among plenty others) is to work in a museum.

5.      I am volunteering for the police- we do patrols in the Yeshuv.

6.      I am writing a diary since I am 12!! Writing is a really good therapy- you should try it!

7.      My grandfather was the grand chief of the Jewish scouts in Algeria, and in Paris. In the scouts every member gets a pseudo name- an animal or a plant- my grandfather's is squirrel, and my grandmother's a cedar tree. They met there.

8.      My father is a doctor and my mother's a pharmacist- we are well organized for that matter…

9.      I have two brothers, younger than me. Reuven- the youngest of us three is in a mehina now (19), and Jeremie, is who is 15 month younger than me. He is an officer in the army now (22) .

10.  When I wasn’t born yet, my parents decided that if I was going to be a girl they would call me Shoshanna, and if I was going to be a boy, they would call me Ilan. My father as a doctor was sure I was going to be a boy, so he said yes to my mom's choice of the girl's name, even though he didn't quite like it. When I was finally born, my father begged my mother not to call me Shoshsana, and call me Ilana instead. Thank you dad!

11.   I am 24 years old, but I feel 60!! But not in a bad way- if there is such… ;)

Answers to Yardena's questions:

1.      I would have done a makeover to it or not, depending on who did I inherited it from, but either way I would have kept it.

2.      I care about what people think- of course I do- we live in a society! I cannot whatever I want without thinking what others would feel. On the other hand, I am trying not to be influenced by other people when it comes to decisions I have to make concerning me and me only.

3.      If he is my neighbor, it means I could simply ask him to make a little less noise, explaining myself nicely. This is why we call it neighbors for, isn’t it?

4.      I don’t know, I guess it's a question to answer to in a case of survival conditions only (a gun to your head?)

5.      I think in my case, I wouldn’t even realize that! But if I had I would have return it to the store.

6.      Sweet, we don’t have that enough in our daily life…  ;)

7.      A. The puppy song- it's from my favorite movie- you've got mail, it always sheers me up…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBbT40H74sc. B. Sweet Caroline- I first heard that song from the tv show- glee (love it!!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXm4d6aNhWU. C. This I promise you/N'Sync- my melancholic song, always with me when I'm down… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6thmPrTxBtI.

8.      I only had one boyfriend (which is now my husband), and I did broke up with him once. The reason was the uncertainty of my feelings to him, when I clarified them, I could return to him, and marry him!!

9.      Fresh

10.  I am a disaster in the kitchen… so cooking up a storm would rather be in a bad connotation… but sometimes I can cook really good dishes! My favorite one is orange soup.

11.  My soul mate is my best friend, is my husband- Raphael.

11 questions:

1.      What do you like to do in your free time?

2.      Would you go to the reality show המירוץ למיליון? With who?

3.      What is your favorite quote?

4.      What is your biggest dream?

5.      Harry Potter, Lord of the ring or hunger game? Why?

6.      What are your most beautiful shoes?

7.      What would you prefer? The end of the world by war, natural disaster or alien invasion? Why?

8.      What is your next destination in the world?  Why?

9.      Would you prefer to own a private boat or jet?

10.  Would you rather adopt a dog or volunteer for an organization for animals?

11.  What is the most romantic proposal?