Day 1 - 20 random facts

OK, here it goes for Day 1 of the 30-day writing challenge.

April challenge
Day 1 - List 20 random facts about yourself.

1. I have never broken a bone.
2. I've come dangerously close to fainting once or twice while getting blood tests. Thank goodness for juice boxes and fruit leather!
3. I've only really fainted once when a friend accidentally shot my finger with a BB gun. It was a surreal experience, but not one I care to try again. (The best part of the whole ordeal was coming to with my head in my just-started-dating-a-couple-days-before boyfriend's lap [who now happens to be my husband! :P]. For the whole shooting story, click here.)
4. As long as I can remember, I've always wanted to be able to speak a second (or third or fourth) language fluently. So far that dream hasn't become a reality for me. But, along with my fluency in English, I can say a smattering of words in French, Spanish, Swahili and Korean. (OK, honestly I can say all of maybe three or four words in Korean... At this point, while having forgot probably at least half of my Swahili, I can still speak it much better than I can Korean.) And, while both of my maternal grandparents attended German elementary schools in the Canadian prairies and spoke mostly German at home, I can say maybe less than 10 words in German and sing about three songs in the language of my heritage (and even those I probably can't remember all the words to).
5. I really dislike the feeling of free fall, but I love rides like roller coasters (that's totally a different feeling than free fall).
6. People often guess I'm younger than I am. It amuses me rather than bothers me. I just hope it continues to happen later in life.
7. My head has always been incredibly small in size (as in even now as an adult I usually have to wear kids hats and helmets), but while most people don't really notice, strangely enough here in Korea I get compliments about my small head. And when I'm in a picture with Korean women they often cover their cheeks so their faces won't look so much wider than mine. I always tell them not to and that they have beautiful faces and heads, but they still do it.
8. I want to live somewhere where I can see the aurora borealis more frequently than I have in the past (which is every 10 years or so).
9. I have five awesome siblings. (Some of you might know this, others might not, but it's the truth.)
10. I currently have at least one close friend living in: Canada, the U.S.A., Mexico, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Tanzania, South Korea. (There might be others, too, that I can't think of right now.)
11. I got married 8 months ago today! (And have yet to put any wedding pictures on Facebook...)
12. I got my first cavity when I was 23. And that still didn't beat my older sister's record. I don't know if she even has one yet. She's amazing!
13. I went through a stage, maybe during grades five to six, of wishing I had a Scottish background instead of a German one. I just love those Scottish accents.
14. Someday I want to foster a puppy that will become a future seeing-eye dog.
15. I have one handsome nephew and one beautiful niece and I'm itching for some more!
16. A list of careers I wanted to have, from childhood through university, includes (as in order as I can remember): nurse (back when I thought the only two things a woman could be were nurses or teachers), mother, author, marine biologist (so I could have a job at SeaWorld and my own pet dolphin), dog breeder (so I could always have puppies around), paramedic, pilot, helicopter paramedic, translator, architect (before I knew how much math and science are needed in that job), librarian, respiratory tech, speech pathologist, journalist, magazine writer/editor, air traffic controller, children's author, copy editor. Apparently most of my career choices throughout the years were in the fields of medicine and writing.
17. I made it through all three of my years at Southern Adventist University without owning an umbrella (and for most of that time I didn't have a waterproof jacket, either).
18. I've always wanted to have a room or an office in an attic.
19. Someday I want to have a gummy picnic using gummy candies in the shapes of foods like pizzas, hamburgers, fries, etc.
20. I've heard about the SDA Language Institute for a good chunk of my life (starting when my grade six teacher was a recent SDALI returnee) and never once considered going to South Korea to teach English until around this time last year. And here I am. God's always got a plan.

And there you have it. Twenty things you may or may not have known about me. I didn't even remember all of those things until I started making the list. That was fun! OK, well hope you drop by again tomorrow. :)