1. what's your favorite fruit?
2. how do you feel about adrenaline-inducing activities?
3. describe a favorite sentimental possession.
4. describe what you'd consider a "near perfect day" spent with someone else, such as a friend or significant other.
5. in school, who was your favorite teacher and what did they teach? why were they your favorite?
1. Apples, but I can't eat them unless they're cooked. Because they try to kill me. So I guess I'll go with cherries.
2. I'm not a fan of heights or high speeds. Things like white water rafting or...you know, running for my life from serial killers or whatever...that's good fun.
3. I have a lot of sentimental possessions...one of my favorites is a blanket my great-grandma crocheted for me. It's kind of hideous and awesome all at once.
4. A near perfect day would involve...wait, this has to be WITH someone? Dang. Hmm... Maybe going out for coffee early in the morning, wandering through a museum or art gallery, more coffee, lots of sunshine, going to a concert, more coffee...huh, I think I'd still rather do all that alone. I fail at this question. Next!
5. Mrs. Duncan, Humanities. The class itself was fun for me because it was a jumble of art, literature, writing, philosophy, psychology, and history. But she was my favorite teacher because she cared about her students as individuals and didn't believe in "wrong" answers- if someone answered a question in a way other than what the text book said, she would encourage the whole class to take part in a discussion about how the "wrong" answer could be right, or decide if there was no truth in it at all. She let us vote on projects we wanted to do or skip, and choose our own consequences for being late or not turning things in on time. And she never put anyone in the spotlight in a negative way- if anyone was causing problems (which rarely happened in her classes), she spoke to them privately. It happened to me once over missing a lot of school days, and she wasn't condescending or angry or cold, just genuinely worried and wanted to know if she could do anything to help me want to be at school, even if it meant helping me with other classes or letting me use her class to catch up on other homework. She was just, you know, awesome.