(That was such a fun CV. I loved touring around with you. Thank you!)
I was tagged a while back by
Marinik and
Finn, two writers whose words flow like poetry. I have to list 10 things about myself. I don´t like talking about myself and am actually writing this while covering my eyes...
1. I do one brave thing about every five years. Move to a new country, start a new business, list 10 things about myself...
2. I met Jorge in Philly while he was studying for his MBA. One of the first things he told me was that, "his father was a famous bullfighter"... I laughed... and haven´t stopped...
3. My children are bilingual (with a little Basque and French thrown in). From the moment they were born I spoke to them in English and Jorge in Spanish. And from the moment they could speak their first word they would say it to me in English and to Jorge in Spanish. I always considered it my gift to them. I´ve also made them promise to continue the tradition. Hopefully my great great grandchildren will also be bilingual...
4. I´m losing my English. (Does that even make sense?) I´m losing my ability to communicate in English. My brain just isn´t big enough to accommodate two languages...
5. And on that note... I´m starting to teach English again this year. (I had an English academy years ago.) It started out as a favor.... help....
6. People tell me all the time that I look like someone they know... I just have one of those faces...
7. Not a day goes by without someone asking me for directions...
8. I have no sense of direction. Jorge and I go to France and we can´t find Spain again... Really...
9. I don´t understand the fixation with Oprah...OK, I´m still here. For a minute there, I thought I was going to be struck by lightening... The last show I saw was of her "learning" that she should sit in her garden and smell the flowers... She got this from a book... Huh? But she does lots of charity work you say. Yeah, and I think it´s great. But come on people, she has like 50 billion dollars.... I know lots of wonderful people who do charity work, with a lot less... and they don´t shout it from the roof tops....
10. I can sometimes be very cynical.... But I´m working on it...