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[heliona]

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I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions, no more no less. Ask me anything you want. Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything.

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[loriel-eris.livejournal.com]

1. If you could be anyone (any time) for the day, who would it be?

2. Most interesting place you been?

3. Favourite book that isn't LotR or HP related?

[heliona.livejournal.com]

1: Yikes, this is hard! Assuming you're meaning a non-fiction character, I suppose someone like Captain Cook when he was discovering British Columbia or New Zealand (that's the adventuring in me). I'd love to be able to have seen those places before anyone else (apart from the local inhabitants) had got there. I'm not even going to go fictional, because there are too many choices.

Ooh, I've just thought of another answer. JJ Abrahms. Then I could make Alias so much cooler (although you would hate it!) *g*

2: Aha, a question I've had in many forms before. Interesting is an ununsual choice of words, though. Normally it's nice, beautiful, place I liked the most etc. Okay, interesting. Hmm, even though I wasn't overjoyed at the time, I would probably say Washington DC. There are so many museums there that are awesome. (I was 5 at the time, and after a while, being dragged around the Smithsonian got a little boring!) I'd love to go back now - I'd appreciate it more. Otherwise, somewhere else that's got a museum or something - like the Cook museum in Cooktown, Australia, or, nearer home, the Peggy museum in Castletown, Isle of Man (it's about a chap who smuggled rum & sorts out of and into the Isle of Man in a small boat called the "Peggy". His house has all sorts of secret passageways and things.)

This answer is discounting all the gorgeous places I've been too. They were all interesting in their own way, obviously, but I was going for "interesting" in terms of educational, sort of. *g*

3: You're determined to ask questions that don't have simple answers, aren't you? *g*

Okay, in terms of books that I could read over and over again, then The Changeover or the Swallows & Amazons series, or in fact the Immortal series by Tamora Pierce (notice how they're all kids books!) and I can't forget Shadow the Sheepdog and Watership Down.

Books that I truly love, although I haven't read in quite a while: Black Beauty, The Call of the Wild [a truly awesome book - in fact anything by Jack London really makes you think and cry], Jennie [also a fantastic book by Paul Gallico, he's a lot like Jack London in that he makes you think and cry]. The fact that these books are all about animals is completely irrelevant!

That's what I can come up with off the top of my head. The trouble with that question is that I have read so many books that I absolutely love, but I suppose those listed above definitely are top of the list.


I bet you didn't think my answers would be so long! *g*

[loriel-eris.livejournal.com]

JJ Abrahms

Lol!

I'd love to go back now

I'm game. ;)

You know, the only one of those books I've read is Shadow the Sheepdog (I bawled my eyes out at that). Haven't got round to The Changeover yet. The Call of the Wild is one that I've always meant to read, but never quite got round to, tho after a rec like that, it's definitely up there near the top my list of books to read. (And I'll need to borrow Swallows and Amazons, after I've read The Changeover.)

I bet you didn't think my answers would be so long!

No, but it's very cool that they are. :)

Very randomly - there's a sequel planned to HWATF! *g*

[heliona.livejournal.com]

Very randomly - there's a sequel planned to HWATF!

What?! Argh! I don't know whether my nerves can cope! *g*

[loriel-eris.livejournal.com]

And Lori said she doesn't when/if/how it'll end. *g*

[kyizi.livejournal.com]

1] Most embarrasing situation? (don't you just love me!)

2] First kiss?

3] Place you'd most like to be right now?

[heliona.livejournal.com]

1: Aside from all those ones in your dreams? Umm, I don't know, I tend not to be that embarrassed most of the time. I don't have instances of me walking out naked to a huge bunch of people, or anything.

Oh, I know! I was involved in a concert in my second year at school (in Holland, so it was 2nd year ie: I was 12-13). I was playing a solo on the piano. I'd only been actually having lessons for about a year, although I'd been playing for about 4. I hadn't played in front of people that often before (in fact, I think that last time I'd done that, it was in Australia, and on my keyboard, and I managed to forget to change the bottom half of the keys from some artificial noise to piano, so my piece sounded quite interesting!). I had decided to play a piece that I'd studied for my Grade One exam the year before, because I knew it well. I practised for ages before the concert. You can see what's coming. Well, I sat down at the piano, and was naturally nervous - I was playing in front of lots of parents and students. I started off fine, but then I made a mistake. That was the end of me. My hands were shaking so much I could have easily whisked cream. One of my major problems when I'm playing the piano is that if I make a mistake, I try and go back and correct it, instead of just carrying on playing. And because I knew the piece really well, I was basically playing from memory, although I had the music in front of me. It was a disaster. I could feel everyone willing me to get better and pull it together, but sadly I didn't. I soldiered on though, and managed to finish it. It was mortifying! So there you are! In fact, most of my embarrassing moments come from playing the piano! That's why I take a lot of coaxing to do it now in front of people (although I'm not nearly as bad as I used to be!).

2: Depending on what you mean, this has two answers. First kiss on the lips, I was seven, he was almost nine (don't die in shock, yes, he was older!), and called Sven, and it was in Antigua. I was totally in love, and bawled my eyes out when we left after two weeks.

First French kiss, I was 14, he was 13 (but only 5 months younger than me!) called Sam (yes, this is the infamous Sam that I had a crush on for about 4 years!) and it was my first year at school in England. We were playing Spin the Bottle at a Halloween party.

As for any other kisses, I'm not telling you! :p

3: Sunning myself on the boat in the Caribbean somewhere. (See, a serious answer! I could have said in bed with DA, but no!)

[kyizi.livejournal.com]

3: Sunning myself on the boat in the Caribbean somewhere. (See, a serious answer! I could have said in bed with DA, but no!)

In bed with DA isn't a serious answer? *sigh* well, there goes my answer to that question. ;) LoL!

[heliona.livejournal.com]

By serious, I meant the possibility of it coming true in the future. Being in bed with DA is never going to unless by some miracle I end up being an actress!

[kyizi.livejournal.com]

Lol! The question was just, if you could be anyehere, didn't have to be plausible! ;)

[heliona.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, in that case! Being in bed with DA (or possibly OB) would come very high on my list.

Actually, let me change it.

Sunning myself on the deck of the boat with DA! How's that? *g*

[kyizi.livejournal.com]

*g* Sounds like a good un to me!

[kyizi.livejournal.com]

An appropriate icon, I see! ;)