Rather than posting them on Facebook. Here they are:
1. I am a catholic raised French woman living in Lutheran Norway. I have some faith but refuse any religious interference into my life. I absolutely do not think that God has anything to do with the choices I make.
2. I am officially a French national but grew up in a Germanic culture speaking French and Alsacian dialect. My paternal grand-mother could not speak French fluently. Alsace was Germanic way before the Germans came along!
Btw, Sabine is NOT a German name!
3. I am much more a winter person than a hot weather person. I like sun but detest heat. I LOVE snow. And am always irritated to hear people complain about it.
4. I am a romantic and nostalgic dreamer. Everyday I have dozens of flashbacks provoked by sensations, smells, sounds and places.
5. I love the season changes. I discovered I could never live in a tropical climate when I first visited Florida.
6. I have no food allergies but can get sun intolerant and have a strong reaction to poison ivy/oak.
7. I hate mosquitoes, cockroaches and snakes.
8. I love cooking and baking and am very picky about what I eat. I have become more and more drawn towards organic vegetarian and local. I also think of food seasonally. I often think I should have become a chef.
9. I am very sensitive to my environment (places, noises). There are places where I could never live, ex. by a train track, a railroad, under a huge rocky mountain.
10. I love gardening. I like to make things grow from herbs, flowers, bushes to trees.
11. I am double jointed or so I think. I can stretch my fingers and knees backwards.
12. I cannot eat fried food- it smells good but does not agree with my digestive system.
13. I am obsessive and dislike dirt. I see dust, crumbs and hair on the floor. Some call me eagle-eye!
14. I have experienced one and only tornado so far: April 13, 2006 in Iowa City.
15. I have a small collection of 1980s vinyl singles. And 100 tapes with black and white moves taped from TCM in ep speed! Unfortunately!
16. I learned German when I was 7, English when I was 14 and Norwegian when I was 28.
17. The first movies I remember seeing at the movies were Snow White and The Jungle Book.
18. I love New York City and San Francisco.
19. I have been to Greece, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the USA.
20. I met David Lynch in Fairfield, Iowa and he told me that his next film would be “weird.”
21. When I was 14, being a huge Clint Eastwood fan, I wrote to him and he sent me two autographs. I still have them.
22. I learned to play the guitar when I was 18.
23. I think having a baby was the best experience in my life so far (this includes the act of giving birth).
24. I have two masters: one in English (U Strasbourg) and one in media (Penn State U)
25. I dislike most sports except walking, swimming and cross-country skiing on the flat!