If I were to Create a Quiz about Myself...

I’m going to make mself write until 1:45 or 2:00 then I’m going to start studying for my first major exam of the year. I just got out of HE 405, my leadership class and realized there are so man projects that I really want to do. Projects that I can see myself getting a lot more involvd in, but they won’t work for the class because they lack on their assisting the Ithaca community.

I really want to work with Street Children. I would love to learn Kiswahili and Zulu and go to Kenya and South Africa (even though they’re sort of far apart) and just talk to kids, help them, see what kind of programs they would like to see for themselves. Perhaps I could even meet Nelson Mandela and The Archbishop Desmond Tutu- that would be immensely cool.

Then of course there is my ever developing plan to create a peace center in Santa Fe that would be a place for youth to come for tutoring help and programs that would constantly teach and help youth reach out to the local, national, and international communities. I figure I could have my dad design the building. It would have a theatre space, gallery, and classrooms. Workshops on stereotypes, world hunger, civil disobedience, AIDS/HIV etc. etc. would be held. I suppose it would be a Minga! of the west if you will. I wonder if I could start working on that now, creating resources.

I also need to get a hold of Kathy Thorne to see about that opportunity to go to Africa this summer. I also want to see if I can get an internship with PeaceJam in Denver for the summer that way I can be close to home and be with my favorite organization. Speaking of PeaceJam I think they should have won the Peace Prize instead of Al Gore. Oh well, maybe next time.

This weekend I head to a conference at Brandeis in Massachusetts. I feel really sorry for the poor kid who is traveling with me alone now that Martha can’t come. He’s going to know my whole life story and is going to want to never speak to me or hear a word escape my lips again. I need to see if I can find someone else to go to the conference on short notice. That’s probably not going to happen. I have little faith. I’m not as motivated as I was to find people for PeaceJam- which by the way was an amazing trip. Kristin thinks that I should invite Joe the neighbor- for those of you who don’t know by now I have a crush on the guy which is kind of akward since I’m the TA for his lab group. It was really embarrassing because on Friday we were supposed to have a 1-on-1 meeting and we tried arranging that via e-mail, so I got an e-mail from saying that he had tried to send an e-mail earlier but it bounced back. Watching Maria, Full of Grace at the time, I decided to wait until it was done before calling him back to further arrange a time. Bad idea. He decided to come over and knock on the door while I was curling my hair with hot rollers! Never a good thing! So I start pulling them out of my hair an acceptable amount of time and half to go to the door still pulling curlers out of my hair. He found this quite amusing and sort of chuckled and asked if he should come back later- to which I responded- yes.

Oh, also, Anna and Antonio went to their homecoming dance this weekend. Apparently Antonio looked really cool and had checkered pants (why I know not) and a really cool tie. This is all according to the Nunni. Him and his date Camille look really good together and he even talked to my dear little sister at the dance. Upon inquiring what he said to her she replied “Hey Anna” – wow, what a statement. It’s so weird thinking that my siblings are growing up and I’m not there. Even looking at myspace and seeing Brother Gabe and Kyle, and Anna’s friend Tess talking about teenager things shocks me. I remember back when they were in early elementary school. I can’t even imagine how parents must feel. (PS I will include pictures of my sister and Gabi later)

Upon taking Antonia’s Amazing Antonia quiz online (in which I only got an 83% which wouldn’t be a problem except its lower than Stevo’s score) I decided I should make a quiz of my own- not really to display but to see what sorts of random facts I could come up with about myself. Perhaps I shall later post it online. Thus, I shall begin.

The place Camila most wants to go to right now is…
India because Gandhi is from there and after reading that India spread she is dying to go.
South Africa because she read The Power of One.
Brazil because she’s always wanted to swim in the Amazon.
Mongolia because after going to Elko and meeting five incredible Mongolian horsemen she wants to live in a Ger and learn how to throat sing.

1. Camila’s top 2 favorite US cities are:
a. San Francisco and Chicago
b. New York City and Boston
c. Philadelphia and Denver
d. Atlanta and Los Angeles

2. Her superhero name is:
a. Creative Cami
b. Magnificent Momo
c. Incredible Camola
d. Super Mola

3. The first song Camila remembers making herself memorize was
a. Eddy Arnold’s Cattle Call
b. Joan Baez’s Diamonds and Rust
c. Natalie Merchant’s Wonder
d. Jewel’s Foolish Games

4. Her most important stuffed animal Brandon Bear is named after
a. A character from her favorite book
b. Her great grandfather
c. Her favorite person as a baby
d. No one

5. When Camila goes to the Plaza Café, she always orders:
a. The Guatemalan Tamal
b. Enchiladas
c. Mexican Hot Chocolate
d. Horchata

6. When she was little, she wanted to name her little brother:
a. Goofy
b. Billy
c. Freddy
d. Bobby

7. On government/educational surveys, what box does Camila mark for her race/ethnicity?
a. White
b. Hispanic
c. Other: Multiracial
d. Other: Mestiza

8. If she could pick any last name in her family to take it would be:
a. Wagner
b. Villanueva
c. Lefebre
d. Swann

9. Her favorite actors are:
a. Jim Carrey and Val Kilmer
b. Sean Connery and Harrison Ford
c. Leonardo DiCaprio and Denzel Washington
d. Jack Nicholson and Jack Black

10. Camila finds the most attractive male celebrity to be (you should all know this one)
a. Heath Ledger
b. Josh Hartnett
c. Orlando Bloom
d. Johnny Depp

11. What is Camila’s most prized highschool award?
a. Best 12th Grade Religion Award
b. The Golden U-Rock Award
c. Best 11th Grade Speech Award
d. Humanitarian Award

12. The one thing Camila finds worthy of her life’s dedication is:
a. World Peace
b. Environmental Issues
c. Animal Rights
d. Ethics in Politics

Other little known facts about me
1. I went to 9th grade at Capital Highschool because of their CAPA (Capital Academy of the Performing Arts) program. If I stayed there I probably would have gone into theater.
2. I went to middle school at the Santa Fe Girls’ School.
3. I taught myself to speak backwards
4. I thought myself more apart of the “cowboy” culture before I even considered myself part of the Hispanic culture

Perhaps I shall elaborate on some of these things later, especially my 9th grade experience.