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- 3. For five years at my old job, I received a Christmas bonus check signed by Ioannes Paulus II.
- 4. I was inducted into my high school's athletic hall of fame.
- 7. I had yarn parties in college where we would drink tea and knit or crochet together.
- 9. As a middle schooler, I tried to do the worm on ice, went the wrong way, and split my chin open.
- 12. I was on an episode of HGTV.
- 15. Is expecting a baby in 2025!
- 16. I have an Irish twin who got married recently.
- 20. Jen Kilmer used to drive me to school.
- 21. I have 65 numbers of pi memorized.
- 23. Overcame her stagefright by speaking to an audience of over one thousand people.
- 24. Between 2nd and 5th grade, I wore a winter hat every day, including to sleep, under my batting helmet for softball, at school, and during the summer time.
- 26. I performed in front of 80,000 people (several instances) throughout my college career and at several stadiums (Mercedes-Benz Stadium and Raymond James Stadium, to name a few NFL stadiums).
- 28. I went hiking in Patagonia in 2022 and really enjoyed it.
- 29. I held a certified pesticide applicator's license in Maryland for over 10 years.
- 32. When I was in middle school there was a communist revolution in my country that affected the education system. For example: in school, we were required to spend 4h a week in “Production”. Producing something with our hands!
- 33. When asked by a representative of the CIA where Ouagadougou is, I of the 200 people asked knew.
- 35. I once recreated the entire intro to the show Murder She Wrote starring Angela Lansbury frame by frame!
- 36. I wanted to be an archaeologist.
- 37. If family lore is correct, I am descended from King Robert the Bruce of Scotland.
- 38. I became a docent tour guide at a colonial tavern museum when I was 12 years old.
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- 1. I can only snap with my left hand.
- 2. I’m the youngest of 10 with 6 sisters and 3 brothers.
- 5. Growing up, one of my favorite summer activities was to ride mini-motorcycles with my cousins through the woods behind my family’s cottage.
- 6. Once when I was whale hunting my leg was destroyed by the very whale I was chasing, and now I am sailing once again on a quest of vengeance--but don't tell the rest of the crew. They think we are actually hunting for whales.
- 8. When I started working at the school there was a confusion with my name and on the first and second floors they called me by a different name! So they thought they were two different people but it was just me and they realized this almost a year later :-)
- 10. For one month, she was a member of her university's croquet team, which existed solely to support US Hall of Fame player, Jacques Fournier.
- 11. I used to work as a bouncer at a bar.
- 12. I once played a man in a terrible college production of Les Misérables.
- 13. Jimmy Durante told my grandfather "You're the first guy I have met with a bigger nose than me!"
- 14. I moved a lot as a kid and was in 5 different schools by 5th grade.
- 17. I took a group of my students from Kenya to Germany for 6 weeks.
- 18. "Ran" the Honolulu Marathon as a stowaway in Mom's belly.
- 19. I went to a different school every year from freshman year of high school to sophomore year of college (6 schools in 6 years).
- 22. I got locked in a cage with a dozen wolverines.
- 23. I love to read the Bible.
- 25. The first time I ever played 18 holes of golf was in Scotland.
- 27. My first nickname was chinita.
- 30. In one of my behavioral psychology classes, I trained a fish to do tricks like swimming through a hoop and pushing a ball with its nose.
- 31. I had a root canal when I was 5! Oof!
- 34. My sister lives in a town that is not on any map for some reason (Downingtown, PA).