7 interests
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lozenger8, Comment on this post, and I will choose seven interests from your profile and ask you to explain what they mean, and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your journal so that others can play.
Endeavour - As in HM Bark of Captain Cook fame. She's now moored permanently at the Maritime Museum in Sydney, but I worked on her from November 2002 to May 2003, during her final tour of Britain. Most of that was spent in Cardiff doing a full refit, as well as doing mini-tours/explaining what we were doing for people, but we also went to the Channel Islands and did a dry dock in Hull. It was the hardest job I've ever had, but also the only one I would go back to in a heartbeat. I very seriously considered becoming a rigger while working on her.
Giraffes - By far and away the most beautiful and graceful beast to roam the Earth. I could spend hours watching them just walk about eating leaves, and I long to see one in its natural habitat.
Jumping off stuff - Not quite as refined as parcours, not quite as alarming as 'jumping off bridges'. The sensation of free falling is hard to top. Goes quite well with my love of heights.
Not living in poverty - after a period of seriously hard living when I first arrived in Edinburgh (5 years today - w00t!) and living in quite possibly the shiftiest part of the city, I decided that I would do anything not to find myself in that situation again...
Social policy - my (hopeful) degree concentration. If all goes to plan, I start in September, and I'm both so excited I can't sit still and completely and utterly terrified...
Tall Ships - being the last harbour city on the East coast of North America, Halifax gets a lot of boats, including the Tall Ships when they are in the area. They're as much a part of life in the city as they were in the days when everything was sail-powered. Apart from family, the main reason I love going home so much is to go down to the harbour and watch the boats.
Viola - In what little spare time I have now, I play viola in a local community orchestra. I started on the violin when I was 7, so I don't really remember a time when an 'under the chin' stringed instrument wasn't sitting in the house. I'm not that good a violinist, but I'm not too shabby at the viola (also, it doesn't hurt that its much less shrieky than its smaller cousin...)
lozenger8, Comment on this post, and I will choose seven interests from your profile and ask you to explain what they mean, and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your journal so that others can play.
Endeavour - As in HM Bark of Captain Cook fame. She's now moored permanently at the Maritime Museum in Sydney, but I worked on her from November 2002 to May 2003, during her final tour of Britain. Most of that was spent in Cardiff doing a full refit, as well as doing mini-tours/explaining what we were doing for people, but we also went to the Channel Islands and did a dry dock in Hull. It was the hardest job I've ever had, but also the only one I would go back to in a heartbeat. I very seriously considered becoming a rigger while working on her.
Giraffes - By far and away the most beautiful and graceful beast to roam the Earth. I could spend hours watching them just walk about eating leaves, and I long to see one in its natural habitat.
Jumping off stuff - Not quite as refined as parcours, not quite as alarming as 'jumping off bridges'. The sensation of free falling is hard to top. Goes quite well with my love of heights.
Not living in poverty - after a period of seriously hard living when I first arrived in Edinburgh (5 years today - w00t!) and living in quite possibly the shiftiest part of the city, I decided that I would do anything not to find myself in that situation again...
Social policy - my (hopeful) degree concentration. If all goes to plan, I start in September, and I'm both so excited I can't sit still and completely and utterly terrified...
Tall Ships - being the last harbour city on the East coast of North America, Halifax gets a lot of boats, including the Tall Ships when they are in the area. They're as much a part of life in the city as they were in the days when everything was sail-powered. Apart from family, the main reason I love going home so much is to go down to the harbour and watch the boats.
Viola - In what little spare time I have now, I play viola in a local community orchestra. I started on the violin when I was 7, so I don't really remember a time when an 'under the chin' stringed instrument wasn't sitting in the house. I'm not that good a violinist, but I'm not too shabby at the viola (also, it doesn't hurt that its much less shrieky than its smaller cousin...)