| What is your most memorable childhood experience? | My most memorable experience happened when I was nine years old. I was playing with a friend of mine in an empty townhome next door. The light on the ceiling had a string that needed to be pulled to turn it off and on. While we were playing the string broke, and there was only an inch or two of the string left on the light. I had to jump to turn the light off but it was too high for me to reach, but just barely. All of my friends in the neighborhood made their way to the townhome to cheer me on. After a few attempts and all of my friends cheering me on I was able to reach the light string and turn off the light. |
| What immediate family member do you closely identify with and why? | The family member that I identify with the most would be my father. This is because, with both of us, our strongest characteristics are a good sense of humor, our creativity and our problem solving skills. All three of these attributes were heavily influenced by the time I spent with my dad, and that is why he is the family member that I can closely identify with. |
| What character traits do you admire in an individual? | The three character traits that I admire the most in an individual are a sense of humor, intelligence and creativity. I find that I admire these character traits the most because I enjoy intelligent conversation, I find creative people to be inspiring, and a sense of humor is important for everyone. |
| What is the funniest thing ever to happen to you? | It was around the time I was learning a kata that used nunchakus in karate. I had some down time at work, so I grabbed a stapler and unhooked it so that it could swing free. I started to use it as nunchakus to practice. When a co-worker tried to grab my attention I was startled and lost track of the stapler. It turns out that I had thrown it upwards. By the time I realized this and looked up the stapler landed on my head causing a gash above my right eyebrow. I hadn't noticed the gash and no one told me that I was bleeding until after I had helped out three customers at work. |
| If time and money were not an issue, where would you travel and why? | I would travel to Japan because I have always enjoyed the culture. I would also like to visit Britain to go sightseeing and drive through the countryside. |
| When and if you ever have children, what would you like to pass on to them? | There would be many things that I want to pass on to my children. I suppose the first thing that comes to mind is to accept themselves and to be willing to laugh at themselves. My hope being that this will help them to be confident in themselves, even in hard times, and enjoy life. |
