so my brilliant dutch language teacher played a little game with me last week in order to help me practice my speaking skills. i think she was also trying to get me to open up and not be so private and guarded and secretive... ahem. yes.
the game was kind of like "truth or dare", but without the "dare" part... so, just for fun and due to an utter lack of creativity today, i thought i'd post her 10 questions and give you my answers. in english, of course... actually, the "true" part is suspect as well because my answers here might be a bit different than those i gave her... often when i speak dutch i give the answer that is the easiest to say - my truth is bounded by my vocabulary... uh, that was kind of profound, actually...
q. what do you still want to accomplish in your work?
i want to become a senior business executive and then take over the operations of an ngo or charitable organization. i laid out this secret plan more than 10 years, and i have two steps left to go... i think...
q. what/who is your favourite artist/writer/photographer/etc, and why?
artist: yves klein
writer: alfred lord tennyson. why? read the lady of shalott. if you can read that without weeping, i don't want to meet you
photog: alive, trent parke; dead, yousuf karsh
poet: b bennett thompson and dutchmegently
musician: raffi
q. are you for or against the death penalty?
depends on who it applies to: if me, then no. actually, dead-set against it in order to ensure that not even a single innocent person is executed... plus i'm not sure that we can really be entrusted to make decisions about whether or not someone should live or die... we make enough of those decisions on a daily basis and we're often not very competent...
q. what is the nicest thing to photograph?
pretty girls, of course. but mostly kids, because kids are kids, nothing more and nothing less. real. genuine...
q. what is your dream?
see first question. add a family (with a smoking-hot wife) and you're pretty much there. and maybe a nice haircut for once...
q. what was your favourite vacation/trip, and why?
still having it... ask me again in a couple of years...
q. what is the tastiest thing you have eaten, and who cooked it?
cinghiale, in florence, on a terrace overlooking the open-air display of michelangelo's statues. it was grilled with a huge slab of goat cheese which melted into a soup while i was eating. best meal ever...
q. if you were an animal, which would you be and why?
ignoring the obvious, because hippopotami are boring, i would say an elephant because they are big, smart, romantic, gentle, capable of violence, and that huge trunk...
q. what is the hardest to photograph?
children... 1/4000th of a second is sometimes just not fast enough...
q. who do you love the most in the whole world?
lol. no way dude. not touching that one...
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