Post by xєяσ єємαι zσηтαησѕ ♬ on Aug 20, 2016 22:22:23 GMT -5
I challenge you to list 100 facts about you! They can be anything! (As long as it's forum appropriate). Even if something seems really boring, list it anyway, others might find it interesting! If you can't think of 100 just post as many as you can.
Ok here are some fascinating things about me. (Some facts are actually more than one combined, whatever...) You don't have to be quite this detailed, I'm just giving some explanation on some stuff
1. My (first) name is Savannah (not giving out my last name)
2. I'm 20 (yes still on the forums, don't judge) and a part time college student
3. My hometown is/I currently live in the upstate NY area (Tompkins County)
4. I go to college in Burlington, VT - I was at University of VT part time the past 2 years, and I'll be at the community college starting next month
5. I graduated high school in 2014
6. I have not yet declared a major but I hope to do something with music or younger kids (or both), or maybe work in a library
7. I have no siblings and one dog, Shayna, she's a yellow lab, and one gray cat, Tali
8. I've been reading Warriors since 7th grade and I still read them, although not as much as I used to
9. I was on WCF from January 2012 til it closed - I was Riversongcat13 (with fancy lettering and symbols)
10. I like these forums a lot better than the old ones, but I'm still sad WCF shut down
11. I love pretty much all international food - Thai and Indian are my favorites
12. My favorite animal is a platypus, and has been since first grade. I honestly have no idea why.
13. My favorite colors are lavender and aqua
14. I have multiple people who I consider my best friends
15. I enjoy drawing but I'm not very good - I do a lot of quotes/song lyrics in fancy lettering and coloring in those adult coloring books
16. My reading habits are strange in the sense that I won't read for several weeks and then I'll finish a book in like 3 days
17. Choral music is basically my life - I've been in Ithaca Children's Choir, my high school choir and women's choir, Choral Music Experience (CME) at Ithaca College, my summer community choir, UVM choir, community choirs in VT, all-county, area all-state, etc
18. I play piano - I've been doing so for about 8 years, but I haven't taken lessons since I graduated high school, so I don't play as much as I used to
19. My favorite number is 51 which was my number in ICC Chorale
20. My phone is a white and gold iPhone 5s
21. My favorite book is Imperfect Harmony (it's a memoir the author wrote about singing in a community choir aka it describes my life
22. I do not and have never played any sports
23. My favorite kind of ice cream is chocolate raspberry truffle
24. My favorite composer is Jim Papoulis - he writes a lot of stuff but is most well-known as a composer for children's choirs. I got to work with him at CME in 2011 and 2015 (we have a guest composer every year) and in 2015 we got to sing the premiere of his new piece, Music Changes the World which was absolutely incredible. Plus he even remembered who I was after 4 years which I did not expect considering he does workshops with kids all over the world. He's written a lot of my favorite songs, plus he's also just a really nice and inspiring person.
25. My other favorite composers are Stephen Hatfield, Andrea Ramsey, Tony Guzmán, and Francisco Núñez, all of whom I've also worked with at CME
26. I can't name a favorite song, but a few that I love are Imbakwa, Gnothi Safton, Kuna Njia, and many others by Jim Papoulis, Dubula by Stephen Hatfield, La Sopa de Isabel by Francisco Núñez, Walk in Jerusalem by Rollo Dilworth, Sail Away (can't remember who wrote it), Niska Banja by Nick Page, El Pambiche Lento by Tony Guzmán, and many others
27. I studied German from 7th - 12th grade, but I've forgotten a lot
28. I've never been in a romantic relationship
29. My favorite movie/musical that's a movie is The Sound of Music - I fell in love with it in 5th grade and have seen it many times and can literally recite more than half the script from memory
30. My family went to Austria and Scotland last summer - we went to Salzburg and saw various places where The Sound of Music was filmed
31. I enjoy musical theater but I haven't actually done any since middle school cause I've been too busy
32. I'm part of the Hamilton fandom, and I will never be satisfied (reference intended) that I never got to see it live with the original cast
33. My favorite characters in Hamilton are Alexander and Angelica
34. My favorite Hamilton songs are Alexander Hamilton, The Schuyler Sisters, Satisfied, You'll Be Back, Wait For It, That Would Be Enough, Non-Stop, and Burn
35. I hate rap that's not Hamilton
36. My dream vacations (that I haven't already been on) are Italy and Greece
37. My favorite musical instruments are hammer dulcimer and boomwhackers (look them up if you don't know what they are)
38. I'm going to Cape Cod this coming week (leaving tomorrow)
39. I have to have ice in my water no matter what time of year it is - like even if it's -20 and there's a foot of snow on the ground
40. I know songs in over 40 different languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Latin, Hebrew, Italian, Czech, Greek, Arabic, and several African languages
41. My favorite (stage) musicals are Hamilton (obviously), Wicked, and Honk!, which is a British adaptation of The Ugly Duckling, which I was in in 7th grade
42. My favorite academic class I've ever taken was Reader's Workshop senior year of high school
43. My favorite actors/actresses are the entire Hamilton cast...
44. I'm a Unitarian but I don't consider myself religious
45. I'm half Jewish (on my dad's side) but the only Jewish thing my family does is celebrate Hannukkah
46. I don't like any type of juice or soda
47. When I was younger I was obsessed with the Little House on the Prairie (mostly the TV show but I also liked the books) and over the past year or so I've gotten into it again, and for some reason now it makes me way more emotional than when I was younger...
48. I spend way too much time on Pinterest and Buzzfeed
49. My parents have won a spelling bee 4 times (ok technically that's not a fact about me, whatever)
50. I was music librarian for my high school choir and summer choir
51. I have a really good memory for some things but not others
52. My favorite clothing brands are Brandy Melville and Forever 21, unfortunately I don't have much from either cause neither of those stores is where I live
53. One of my favorite lines from a song is xero eemai zontanos from Gnothi Safton by Jim Papoulis - it means "I know I am alive" in Greek (that's what my screenname is if you were wondering).
54. I have never read or seen Harry Potter
55. I stay up a lot later than I should
56. I have pierced ears and do not plan on getting anything else pierced
57. The people I admire most are my choir directors, Jim and Francisco, and my 12th grade English teacher
58. I love Starbucks and other coffee shops but I don't like plain coffee
59. I've sung a lot of songs in Spanish and can translate several words/phrases, and people have told me my pronunciation is good, but I've never taken a Spanish class
60. I went to England when I was 4 and while I was there I figured out how to tie a knot in a blade of grass. I really want to visit there again sometime
61. I do not yet know how to drive
62. I can say the Romani is eating the cheese in Hungarian
63. I never wear jeans on an airplane cause I set off the metal detector in like 5th grade
64. I was really into American Girl when I was younger
65. I love wearing my hair in a French braid
66. I would rather sing in front of people than talk in front of them
67. My dream concert is the gala (or anything but especially that) for the Young People's Chorus of NYC - they're pretty famous and have performed all over the world, and for people like the president, the pope, Lin-Manuel Miranda (yes I'm serious) and others. Members of YPC come for CME most years so I've gotten to sing with them and work with their conductors, and I really want to hear them live
68. I love photography - I've never taken a class and I don't have a fancy camera or anything, I just like taking pictures on my phone
69. I can't make up my mind on an instagram theme
70. I didn't get facebook til June 2014 and I regret not getting it sooner
71. My biggest pet peeve is people who don't consider voice an instrument
72. I spend way too much money on food and clothes
73. I've recently learned of 2 songs I did my first year of CME (2007) that I have no recollection of whatsoever
74. I was obsessed with riding escalators in this mall in Rhode Island before I went to England (I was 4, ok...)
75. My favorite song from a Disney movie is Go The Distance
76. I always use headphones, not earbuds, cause earbuds fall out
77. I don't like most fruits and vegetables, but I love raspberries
78. I enjoy baking, but I don't do it very often
79. My favorite dog breeds are lab, golden retriever, German shepherd, husky, and Shiba Inu
80. My favorite non-musical movies are The Book Thief, Inside Out, and Miracles From Heaven
81. At CME 2007 we sang this song called Roger Bobo Plays the Tuba, and in part of it we sing the word "bobo" over and over again. There was this one kid (I think from YPC) who said "we sing bobo 79 times" that's one of the only things I remember from CME that year
82. I hate how my voice sounds on recordings
83. At CME last year I discovered the word knowledge is split between the L and the E, not the W and the L
84. I also discovered that W is the only letter in the English alphabet that has more than one syllable
85. I edit most of my photos on VSCO
86. I'm obsessed with clothes with elephants
87. I have one pair of converse - purple high tops, and I want to get another pair
88. I don't have or want any tattoos
89. I can say peace in 12 languages - English, Spanish, French, German, Latin, Hebrew, Swahili, Zulu, Japanese, Cherokee, and Arabic, and I think one more I forget
90. A seagull stole my lunch off my plate in England
91. I like having my nails painted but I don't do it very often
92. Messy piles of sheet music (more so at concerts/rehearsals) really bother me, even though other messy papers don't
93. I do not like math
94. I have really low tolerance for AC
95. I'm addicted to mini chewy sweet tarts
96. I don't really listen to popular music
97. We were reading partners with first graders at the nearby elementary school when I was in reader's workshop
98. My favorite drink is probably chai
99. My dream job is to work for the Foundation For Small Voices, an organization founded by Jim Papoulis that raises awareness and funds for music programs for children who might not otherwise have access to them
100. I don't know what to put for fact 100 so yea here you go
So yea just post a bunch of facts so we can get to know some fascinating humans!
Ok here are some fascinating things about me. (Some facts are actually more than one combined, whatever...) You don't have to be quite this detailed, I'm just giving some explanation on some stuff
1. My (first) name is Savannah (not giving out my last name)
2. I'm 20 (yes still on the forums, don't judge) and a part time college student
3. My hometown is/I currently live in the upstate NY area (Tompkins County)
4. I go to college in Burlington, VT - I was at University of VT part time the past 2 years, and I'll be at the community college starting next month
5. I graduated high school in 2014
6. I have not yet declared a major but I hope to do something with music or younger kids (or both), or maybe work in a library
7. I have no siblings and one dog, Shayna, she's a yellow lab, and one gray cat, Tali
8. I've been reading Warriors since 7th grade and I still read them, although not as much as I used to
9. I was on WCF from January 2012 til it closed - I was Riversongcat13 (with fancy lettering and symbols)
10. I like these forums a lot better than the old ones, but I'm still sad WCF shut down
11. I love pretty much all international food - Thai and Indian are my favorites
12. My favorite animal is a platypus, and has been since first grade. I honestly have no idea why.
13. My favorite colors are lavender and aqua
14. I have multiple people who I consider my best friends
15. I enjoy drawing but I'm not very good - I do a lot of quotes/song lyrics in fancy lettering and coloring in those adult coloring books
16. My reading habits are strange in the sense that I won't read for several weeks and then I'll finish a book in like 3 days
17. Choral music is basically my life - I've been in Ithaca Children's Choir, my high school choir and women's choir, Choral Music Experience (CME) at Ithaca College, my summer community choir, UVM choir, community choirs in VT, all-county, area all-state, etc
18. I play piano - I've been doing so for about 8 years, but I haven't taken lessons since I graduated high school, so I don't play as much as I used to
19. My favorite number is 51 which was my number in ICC Chorale
20. My phone is a white and gold iPhone 5s
21. My favorite book is Imperfect Harmony (it's a memoir the author wrote about singing in a community choir aka it describes my life
22. I do not and have never played any sports
23. My favorite kind of ice cream is chocolate raspberry truffle
24. My favorite composer is Jim Papoulis - he writes a lot of stuff but is most well-known as a composer for children's choirs. I got to work with him at CME in 2011 and 2015 (we have a guest composer every year) and in 2015 we got to sing the premiere of his new piece, Music Changes the World which was absolutely incredible. Plus he even remembered who I was after 4 years which I did not expect considering he does workshops with kids all over the world. He's written a lot of my favorite songs, plus he's also just a really nice and inspiring person.
25. My other favorite composers are Stephen Hatfield, Andrea Ramsey, Tony Guzmán, and Francisco Núñez, all of whom I've also worked with at CME
26. I can't name a favorite song, but a few that I love are Imbakwa, Gnothi Safton, Kuna Njia, and many others by Jim Papoulis, Dubula by Stephen Hatfield, La Sopa de Isabel by Francisco Núñez, Walk in Jerusalem by Rollo Dilworth, Sail Away (can't remember who wrote it), Niska Banja by Nick Page, El Pambiche Lento by Tony Guzmán, and many others
27. I studied German from 7th - 12th grade, but I've forgotten a lot
28. I've never been in a romantic relationship
29. My favorite movie/musical that's a movie is The Sound of Music - I fell in love with it in 5th grade and have seen it many times and can literally recite more than half the script from memory
30. My family went to Austria and Scotland last summer - we went to Salzburg and saw various places where The Sound of Music was filmed
31. I enjoy musical theater but I haven't actually done any since middle school cause I've been too busy
32. I'm part of the Hamilton fandom, and I will never be satisfied (reference intended) that I never got to see it live with the original cast
33. My favorite characters in Hamilton are Alexander and Angelica
34. My favorite Hamilton songs are Alexander Hamilton, The Schuyler Sisters, Satisfied, You'll Be Back, Wait For It, That Would Be Enough, Non-Stop, and Burn
35. I hate rap that's not Hamilton
36. My dream vacations (that I haven't already been on) are Italy and Greece
37. My favorite musical instruments are hammer dulcimer and boomwhackers (look them up if you don't know what they are)
38. I'm going to Cape Cod this coming week (leaving tomorrow)
39. I have to have ice in my water no matter what time of year it is - like even if it's -20 and there's a foot of snow on the ground
40. I know songs in over 40 different languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Latin, Hebrew, Italian, Czech, Greek, Arabic, and several African languages
41. My favorite (stage) musicals are Hamilton (obviously), Wicked, and Honk!, which is a British adaptation of The Ugly Duckling, which I was in in 7th grade
42. My favorite academic class I've ever taken was Reader's Workshop senior year of high school
43. My favorite actors/actresses are the entire Hamilton cast...
44. I'm a Unitarian but I don't consider myself religious
45. I'm half Jewish (on my dad's side) but the only Jewish thing my family does is celebrate Hannukkah
46. I don't like any type of juice or soda
47. When I was younger I was obsessed with the Little House on the Prairie (mostly the TV show but I also liked the books) and over the past year or so I've gotten into it again, and for some reason now it makes me way more emotional than when I was younger...
48. I spend way too much time on Pinterest and Buzzfeed
49. My parents have won a spelling bee 4 times (ok technically that's not a fact about me, whatever)
50. I was music librarian for my high school choir and summer choir
51. I have a really good memory for some things but not others
52. My favorite clothing brands are Brandy Melville and Forever 21, unfortunately I don't have much from either cause neither of those stores is where I live
53. One of my favorite lines from a song is xero eemai zontanos from Gnothi Safton by Jim Papoulis - it means "I know I am alive" in Greek (that's what my screenname is if you were wondering).
54. I have never read or seen Harry Potter
55. I stay up a lot later than I should
56. I have pierced ears and do not plan on getting anything else pierced
57. The people I admire most are my choir directors, Jim and Francisco, and my 12th grade English teacher
58. I love Starbucks and other coffee shops but I don't like plain coffee
59. I've sung a lot of songs in Spanish and can translate several words/phrases, and people have told me my pronunciation is good, but I've never taken a Spanish class
60. I went to England when I was 4 and while I was there I figured out how to tie a knot in a blade of grass. I really want to visit there again sometime
61. I do not yet know how to drive
62. I can say the Romani is eating the cheese in Hungarian
63. I never wear jeans on an airplane cause I set off the metal detector in like 5th grade
64. I was really into American Girl when I was younger
65. I love wearing my hair in a French braid
66. I would rather sing in front of people than talk in front of them
67. My dream concert is the gala (or anything but especially that) for the Young People's Chorus of NYC - they're pretty famous and have performed all over the world, and for people like the president, the pope, Lin-Manuel Miranda (yes I'm serious) and others. Members of YPC come for CME most years so I've gotten to sing with them and work with their conductors, and I really want to hear them live
68. I love photography - I've never taken a class and I don't have a fancy camera or anything, I just like taking pictures on my phone
69. I can't make up my mind on an instagram theme
70. I didn't get facebook til June 2014 and I regret not getting it sooner
71. My biggest pet peeve is people who don't consider voice an instrument
72. I spend way too much money on food and clothes
73. I've recently learned of 2 songs I did my first year of CME (2007) that I have no recollection of whatsoever
74. I was obsessed with riding escalators in this mall in Rhode Island before I went to England (I was 4, ok...)
75. My favorite song from a Disney movie is Go The Distance
76. I always use headphones, not earbuds, cause earbuds fall out
77. I don't like most fruits and vegetables, but I love raspberries
78. I enjoy baking, but I don't do it very often
79. My favorite dog breeds are lab, golden retriever, German shepherd, husky, and Shiba Inu
80. My favorite non-musical movies are The Book Thief, Inside Out, and Miracles From Heaven
81. At CME 2007 we sang this song called Roger Bobo Plays the Tuba, and in part of it we sing the word "bobo" over and over again. There was this one kid (I think from YPC) who said "we sing bobo 79 times" that's one of the only things I remember from CME that year
82. I hate how my voice sounds on recordings
83. At CME last year I discovered the word knowledge is split between the L and the E, not the W and the L
84. I also discovered that W is the only letter in the English alphabet that has more than one syllable
85. I edit most of my photos on VSCO
86. I'm obsessed with clothes with elephants
87. I have one pair of converse - purple high tops, and I want to get another pair
88. I don't have or want any tattoos
89. I can say peace in 12 languages - English, Spanish, French, German, Latin, Hebrew, Swahili, Zulu, Japanese, Cherokee, and Arabic, and I think one more I forget
90. A seagull stole my lunch off my plate in England
91. I like having my nails painted but I don't do it very often
92. Messy piles of sheet music (more so at concerts/rehearsals) really bother me, even though other messy papers don't
93. I do not like math
94. I have really low tolerance for AC
95. I'm addicted to mini chewy sweet tarts
96. I don't really listen to popular music
97. We were reading partners with first graders at the nearby elementary school when I was in reader's workshop
98. My favorite drink is probably chai
99. My dream job is to work for the Foundation For Small Voices, an organization founded by Jim Papoulis that raises awareness and funds for music programs for children who might not otherwise have access to them
100. I don't know what to put for fact 100 so yea here you go
So yea just post a bunch of facts so we can get to know some fascinating humans!