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kareina(As played by others; if you want me to ask you some, comment with a smile.)
1} Where did we meet?
I don’t know that we have ever been introduced, as such. The earliest clear memory I have of you as an individual was a long post you did to SCA-West summarizing your adventures at an event (Pennsic?) shortly after I moved to Tasmania. I enjoyed reading it, noted many points we have in common, but thought it odd that you’d bother doing things like (curling your hair? Putting on make up? Something else? I forget which) before heading out to evening parties.
2} What is the best and worst parts about living in Europe?
The best? Getting to go to events in castles! The worst? Way, way more smokers than I had been accustomed to being around. Though, to be fair, I never spent time in cities in the US if I could possibly avoid it, so perhaps there are as many folk in US cities standing or walking on the sidewalks with nasty smelling smoke drifting away from their hands or face as I see daily in Milan.
3} How do Europeans view Americans? What would surprise us about that?
Honestly, that is a surprisingly hard question for me to answer. The only two places I see humans in person are generally geology conferences, where I listen to the talks but rarely actually talk to anyone, and SCA events, where I tend to get into conversations with the English-speakers, many of whom are Americans. I know that Australians tend to see us as “pushy”, but I don’t have a clue how Europeans see us.
4} What is the best thing you've eaten there so far?
Well, the best things I ever eat are my own cooking, especially fresh bread or nann straight out of the oven. Since I’m a fussy eater and a control freak, and only hungry during the day I rarely eat things that other people cook. That said, Italian gelato is pretty darn good, and the Fior di Latte flavour is surprisingly good.
5} When are you coming back to the States?
I have no idea! Some of the jobs for which I’ve sent off applications happen to be for US locations (one is even in the West!), but I don’t know how my CV looks next to the other applications they will doubtless receive. If I could choose any location I wanted for “next”, I’d pick Norway—all the advantages of Alaska *and* all the advantages of Europe in one package. But if I wind up staying in Europe (or moving to some other non-US location), I hope I’ll be able to do another US visit sometime in the next year or three.
1} Where did we meet?
I don’t know that we have ever been introduced, as such. The earliest clear memory I have of you as an individual was a long post you did to SCA-West summarizing your adventures at an event (Pennsic?) shortly after I moved to Tasmania. I enjoyed reading it, noted many points we have in common, but thought it odd that you’d bother doing things like (curling your hair? Putting on make up? Something else? I forget which) before heading out to evening parties.
2} What is the best and worst parts about living in Europe?
The best? Getting to go to events in castles! The worst? Way, way more smokers than I had been accustomed to being around. Though, to be fair, I never spent time in cities in the US if I could possibly avoid it, so perhaps there are as many folk in US cities standing or walking on the sidewalks with nasty smelling smoke drifting away from their hands or face as I see daily in Milan.
3} How do Europeans view Americans? What would surprise us about that?
Honestly, that is a surprisingly hard question for me to answer. The only two places I see humans in person are generally geology conferences, where I listen to the talks but rarely actually talk to anyone, and SCA events, where I tend to get into conversations with the English-speakers, many of whom are Americans. I know that Australians tend to see us as “pushy”, but I don’t have a clue how Europeans see us.
4} What is the best thing you've eaten there so far?
Well, the best things I ever eat are my own cooking, especially fresh bread or nann straight out of the oven. Since I’m a fussy eater and a control freak, and only hungry during the day I rarely eat things that other people cook. That said, Italian gelato is pretty darn good, and the Fior di Latte flavour is surprisingly good.
5} When are you coming back to the States?
I have no idea! Some of the jobs for which I’ve sent off applications happen to be for US locations (one is even in the West!), but I don’t know how my CV looks next to the other applications they will doubtless receive. If I could choose any location I wanted for “next”, I’d pick Norway—all the advantages of Alaska *and* all the advantages of Europe in one package. But if I wind up staying in Europe (or moving to some other non-US location), I hope I’ll be able to do another US visit sometime in the next year or three.
