Ms Kratofil's Top 11 List
11) I've been scuba diving in the Caribbean Sea, missed a jellyfish warning while swimming in the Adriatic Sea (thank goodness I didn't get stung), and went snorkeling in the Indian Ocean...
10) I attended the same high school ~ Santa Rosa High School ~ as Robert Ripley of "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" Though not at the same time: he dropped out in 1915; I graduated in 1989...
9) I love to sing! I almost became a vocal music major in college.
8) My two favorite historical figures are...
WINSTON CHURCHILL ~ "Never, never, never give up."
and
MAHATMA GANDHI ~ "Be the change you want to see in the world."
7) I attended four colleges: Santa Rosa Junior College, Brigham Young University, UCLA (Go Bruins!), and Pepperdine University...
6) I spent a month in Japan when I was 19...saw a volcano explode, took a sand bath, had a "spinning noodle" lunch, and was interviewed on Japanese television twice...
5) I love spicy Indian food and anything made with chocolate...
4) I went to Orlando's Wizarding World of Harry Potter where a wand picked me in Olivander's Wand Shop...15", birch, with a unicorn-hair core...
3) My favorite place in the whole world is inside Disneyland's Haunted Mansion...do you know the part just between the creepy attic and the cemetery, when your cart leans back and you stare up at the stars? Yeah, that's the place...
2) Hobbies: I oil paint, crochet (kind of...it's harder than I thought it would be), and do genealogy...I know the names of over 800 of my relatives, which include a wagon-wheel maker for George Washington , and Emperor Charlemagne (if you don't know who that is, you will in a few months).
1) I've traveled to 15 countries on 4 continents! A few summers ago I went to Tanzania, Africa, where my jeep (with me in it) was charged by an elephant on the very first day! Elephants are S-C-A-R-Y! (Note: all of the photos on this website were taken by me. Including the "evil eye" picture above--that's the charging elephant just as we started to drive away...the picture below is him continuing to run by the side of our jeep. Yikes!)
10) I attended the same high school ~ Santa Rosa High School ~ as Robert Ripley of "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" Though not at the same time: he dropped out in 1915; I graduated in 1989...
9) I love to sing! I almost became a vocal music major in college.
8) My two favorite historical figures are...
WINSTON CHURCHILL ~ "Never, never, never give up."
and
MAHATMA GANDHI ~ "Be the change you want to see in the world."
7) I attended four colleges: Santa Rosa Junior College, Brigham Young University, UCLA (Go Bruins!), and Pepperdine University...
6) I spent a month in Japan when I was 19...saw a volcano explode, took a sand bath, had a "spinning noodle" lunch, and was interviewed on Japanese television twice...
5) I love spicy Indian food and anything made with chocolate...
4) I went to Orlando's Wizarding World of Harry Potter where a wand picked me in Olivander's Wand Shop...15", birch, with a unicorn-hair core...
3) My favorite place in the whole world is inside Disneyland's Haunted Mansion...do you know the part just between the creepy attic and the cemetery, when your cart leans back and you stare up at the stars? Yeah, that's the place...
2) Hobbies: I oil paint, crochet (kind of...it's harder than I thought it would be), and do genealogy...I know the names of over 800 of my relatives, which include a wagon-wheel maker for George Washington , and Emperor Charlemagne (if you don't know who that is, you will in a few months).
1) I've traveled to 15 countries on 4 continents! A few summers ago I went to Tanzania, Africa, where my jeep (with me in it) was charged by an elephant on the very first day! Elephants are S-C-A-R-Y! (Note: all of the photos on this website were taken by me. Including the "evil eye" picture above--that's the charging elephant just as we started to drive away...the picture below is him continuing to run by the side of our jeep. Yikes!)