100 Things about Jenk
- I was born in Richmond Hill, Ontario
- But grew up in Brantford, Ontario home of Wayne Gretzky
- So this means I’m Canadian
- I can’t vote in the US
- I don’t have a middle name
- I have one younger brother named Jay
- He has a middle name
- I wanted April to be my middle name like 10 years ago
- I went skydiving over the Swiss Alps
- I’m half Polish half Dutch
- I’m fluent in French
- The Dutch have the tallest average height, isn’t that weird?
- I’m only 5’4” on a good day
- I lived in Paris, France for 5 months
- I’ve been through 3 digital cameras
- I think I traded one for a drink once
- I like gin and tonics
- I went to the University of Iowa
- I was on the mens rowing team
- I like attention
- I obsess over celebrity gossip
- I hate birds
- I am allergic to Aspirin
- And Sulfa Drugs
- I am a certified Open Water diver
- I have a weird pet peeve about people not breaking down boxes before throwing them out
- And people who don’t wash their hands all the time
- I secretly want to have a ton of tattoos but never will go through with it for fear of looking trashy
- I do have one tattoo
- Me and about 5 other girls got the same tattoo
- We were in a sorority
- And I’m still obsessed with my sorority
- I like big ten schools
- I love bacon
- Some people think that I’m a bit of a hypochondriac
- I think so too
- I worked for Club Med
- I’m obsessed with Thailand
- And Dave Matthews, and I don’t like people who don’t appreciate him
- I also love Larry David
- My favorite book is The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
- I often think that I started certain trends
- I’m convinced that I read the DaVinci code way before everyone else got obsessed
- I was on the set of the filming of the Davinci Code in Paris
- I love fanny packs
- I despise cheap people
- I majored in International Studies
- With an emphasis in Global Artistic Tradition and Change
- And I minored in Art History
- And French
- My favorite piece of art is the Nike of Samothrace
- I am obsessed with quotations
- My favorite color is pink
- I think London is overrated
- I wrote a thesis on the Architectural, Cultural and Financial History of the Place Vendôme in Paris
- I don’t like it when I find out someone has the same perfume as me
- What? Its not weird
- I love interesting people
- I bruise easily
- I wanted to be an actress
- Until I figured out that I can’t act
- But I can be dramatic
- I still think that I’ll be famous
- I played soccer, softball, and swam as a kid
- I ran track and cross country in high school
- My fastest 2.5 mile race was at state sophomore year at 15:36
- I came in 96th in the state
- The weight on my first drivers license was 96 lbs.
- I wish I still weighed 96 lbs.
- I hate math
- I secretly wish that I was Jewish…only for the bat mitzvah
- I love skiing but rarely ever get to ski
- I have a snowboard that I have never used
- I have the worst guilty conscience
- I am a terrible liar
- I have been to 7 different Cirque du Soleil shows
- Cirque du Soleil is another one of those things that I’m convinced that I liked way before anyone else knew about it
- I hung out on O.A.R.’s tour bus
- Our first family pet was a cat my dad named Petruschka
- Which allegedly means parsley in Polish
- We have 2 Vizslas at home, Tori and Amber
- I used to be in choir
- I’m convinced that I’m going to have twins one day
- I don’t enjoy when people can’t figure out when to say “good” versus “well”
- I love school and wish that I could take classes forever
- I HAD (as in the past) a stamp collection, a coin collection and I used to collect beanie babies and pressed pennies
- I got food poisoning in Puerto Vallarta once
- I think it might have been the 5 peso slice of pizza
- The two science classes that I took in college were “Human Origins” and my personal favorite: “Age of Dinosaurs”
- I’m scared of clowns
- And mascots
- I think lilies smell like funeral homes
- I’ve never had White Castle
- My main goal in life is to travel the world
- And write a book
- I’m proud of the fact that I have perfect vision…knock on wood
- I have the greatest dog in the land named Bruiser, but I wish that I would have named him Chompers
- I cannot go anywhere without a bottle of water
- "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
- I LOVE "Africa" by Toto...and so should you!
