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1. If you could live in any city in the world, where would you live and why?
London would still probably be the top of my list. While I was living there, I loved not having to drive and being able to access so many remarkable things for the price of a £1.50 bus journey. I’m also too consistently tired and too completely absorbed in my job and my family to learn another language, so selecting places where English isn’t the lingua franca and introducing a greater level of difficulty into daily communications, isn’t feasible. On the other hand, London is horribly expensive to live in, the Tube is disgusting, and it is exhausting being smashed up against all those people all the time. I'm not sure city life is for me at this stage of my existence.
2. If you could speak any language fluently, what would it be?
Tagalog, because I'm still upset I was deliberately not taught it as a child.
3. When was the last time you rode a ferry and where did you go?
The last one I can remember, which may not be the most recent, was the ferry to Staten Island when I went to New York in 2008.
4. What was the longest plane ride you've ever taken?
Probably the LHR to LAX flights - 11ish hours. I have done a fair few of those.
5. If you discovered a country, what would you name it?
I’m going to interpret this literally and assume that this is about Earth. Given that the land masses on Earth have been populated by humans already, and my belief that the world has had enough of colonists, I'd call it whatever the people who already live there do.
London would still probably be the top of my list. While I was living there, I loved not having to drive and being able to access so many remarkable things for the price of a £1.50 bus journey. I’m also too consistently tired and too completely absorbed in my job and my family to learn another language, so selecting places where English isn’t the lingua franca and introducing a greater level of difficulty into daily communications, isn’t feasible. On the other hand, London is horribly expensive to live in, the Tube is disgusting, and it is exhausting being smashed up against all those people all the time. I'm not sure city life is for me at this stage of my existence.
2. If you could speak any language fluently, what would it be?
Tagalog, because I'm still upset I was deliberately not taught it as a child.
3. When was the last time you rode a ferry and where did you go?
The last one I can remember, which may not be the most recent, was the ferry to Staten Island when I went to New York in 2008.
4. What was the longest plane ride you've ever taken?
Probably the LHR to LAX flights - 11ish hours. I have done a fair few of those.
5. If you discovered a country, what would you name it?
I’m going to interpret this literally and assume that this is about Earth. Given that the land masses on Earth have been populated by humans already, and my belief that the world has had enough of colonists, I'd call it whatever the people who already live there do.
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But from my mom's perspective - her parents spoke German when they didn't want the kids to understand what they were saying :D
It did make my mom VERY interested in signing us up for French Immersion when it was offered - she wanted us to be able to speak more than one language, even if she couldn't!
As it turned out, Spanish would have been more useful in my day to day life, now - but I do find knowing French helps me puzzle out some Spanish, and probably gave me a leg up in learning the smidgin of Spanish that I do have.
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Well, other than every single cereal box and food product, or tags in clothing - I grew up seeing "S/P" (small/petite), "M/M" (medium/moyenne) and "L/G" (large/grande) in every t-shirt, LOL. Everything for sale in Canada, generally needs to be labelled in both English and French.