Interview With My Flatmates The Sequel: Childhood

Okay so since the last interview I conducted on my flatmates didn't completely go down in flames I thought I would do another, this time on the subject of childhood.  In case you missed the first one I'll give you a brief introduction to the interviewees.  This time we have only L and B because J was not present at the time of interviewing sadly.  B and I were present and L was interviewed over the phone #21stCenturyPerks 

L and G

Firstly let me introduce L.  L wanted to provide a fun fact about herself which is as follows:  according to L she won a largest bulb competition when she was younger (although B and I both heard her say largest bowel competition...)*at this stage in the interview B is already causing havoc when she tells L over the phone that Nacho, one of our cats, has peed in L's underwear drawer (this was not true) an L freaks out, there was real anger in her voice* 

B and G

Next we have the mischievous B who did not provide her own fun fact because she was too busy ruining life's to do it so I'll provide my own fun fact about her... Once B tried to show off her mad Katniss Everdeen skills for me which resulted in her getting stuck up a tree.

The 3 best friends that anyone could have

Some fun facts about us as a collective trio - we have all met Kelly Clarkson, our favourite song is Singing In The Shower and we are partial to a Sunday morning 11am domino's pizza.





Let's commence with this interview now...

Q: What was your favourite childhood toy?
A:*Beth, most inconveniently needs to go to the bathroom at this moment in time*
(L)Ohhh my Baby Annabelle... I played with it, pretended it was my child and I had a fabulous life.  I also played with my Barbies a lot, same kind of scenario!  I was a very plan your life type of child sooo... 
(B)A lion... Called Leo...

Q: What was your favourite Halloween costume that you dressed up in as a child?
(B) I'd say Princess Leia... I was probably about 7 years old.  I looked hella cute though.  Hell-la-cute
(L)emm, well.  Emmm. *Beth snarkily inputs "let me guess, a doctor.  In the scrubs. and they were the comfiest Halloween costume you ever did have" (L always talks about this costume and how it was the definition of #comfortgoals)* No i was what's her face from The Flintstones, I want to say Velma?  Who's married to Fred in The Flintstones? *I tell her that Fred's wife will do because we can google the particulars when I'm typing this up but now I've decided that nah that aint me so we are leaving it at Fred's wife* And I was also a witch and my mum made my costume.  And I won! *B says "Yeah but I don't think you looked hella cute though!?" and I ask her if her costume was made out of a bin bag and she of course confirms it was so I decide to burst her bubble and tell her the kids in the homemade bin bag witch costume's always won costume competitions at my school too* 

Q: What was your favourite Christmas present you got as a child?
A: (L)emmm, well.  Oh I got my Baby Annabelle one year! *Me: OMG was your whole life based around this doll!!?"* No this doll, this doll now plays Jesus every year at my mums school's nativity, so it's a celebrity child!  No I got a tend one year so that was fun and I got a trampoline. *B: we used to have a tent and we loved it, we used to marinade in it!"*
(B) I was really jealous when my sister got a dressing table! So jealous!  But, it sounds really lame, but my personal favourite was, I got this chair for my room! *Laughs from Me and L*  It was hella cool! Hella cute too *I don't know where this saying came from...*

Q: What was the name of your best friend as a child?
A: (B) Her name was A____ and I saved her from drowning!
(L)*Has to be told that "I had a few best friends" is a lame answer and simply will not do* Mmmmm probably A_____ she was my first friend *me: was she imaginary?"* NO! she was real!  And in Primary 3 we had to write a story about a magic carpet and where we would travel on it and my class all said things like Disneyworld but I said A_____'s house *Laughs from B and me #lameeee*

Q: What were your nicknames as a child?
A: *Me: L was your's big fat goalie?* (L) I didn't have a nickname as a child. *Me: but was it big fat goalie?* It would have been if I had played football that's for sure! *B: chubba chubba*
*We all take a minute to revel in the discovery that L is Monica Geller in every way a person can be Monica Geller, then B and L get distracted talking about Billy the kid*

Q: What did you want to be when you grew up?
A: (L) emmm I wanted to be an actress at one point when I was really little! And then I wanted to be a lawyer for a really long time. *Me: did you never want to be anything magical!? B: like a princess*
(B)Emmm I wanted to be a shopkeeper for a while... and a writer *B quotes Moulin Rouge saying "a writa?" in hr best Nicola Kidman accent 10/10 for effort!" 
(L) Oh and also I wanted to be in S Club Junior! *B and I thought she was going to say an escort, which in hindsight would have been a more achievable goal*

Q: Give us a story about a time when you got in a lot of trouble!
A: (L) I got into trouble when my dad spent all day laying the bathroom floor but I didn't like it so I tore it up. *B and I get distracted talking about gastroenteritis and making up stories about L*

Q: What were you doing on November 7th 1996?
A: (L) emmmm probably asleep!
*Me: want to know what Lorde was doing?  She was being born!"*
(B) I was an Easter Sunday! The Lorde's day!

Q: Finally did you get any injuries as a child?
A:*B andL talking over eachother, classic them!
(B) Ohhh I broke my arm, my leg and early my finger! I fell in a fireplace, I fell off a windowsill, I was swung around by a skipping rope, I fell in a fire, I also broke my face *Probably a fire again?*
(L) I had a slide in my backgarder, my older brother suggested I got down on a sledge.  Long story short the sledge snapped when I got to the bottom *#BigFatGoalie* and the edge went into the top of my leg it was really really sore.  My brother got into a lot of trouble! *Me: that is so fun, being the older sibling is so much fun!*

L and B summed up their childhood with the words uneventful (from L) and not long enough (from B, which is not one word).  In summary, nobody know what they were doing on Lorde's birthday which I find very disrespectful and it is very difficult to interview these particular people.

Until next time
Xoxo
Queen G.

G and L as B and S

Dancin in the mirror, singin in the shower

Interview With My Flatmates: School and University

So I decided I would start interviewing my flatmates on different subjects for my blog, this is my first one and it's on the subject of school and university because I thought it would be interesting to see how our high school experiences differ and we all met in university - it just makes sense.  

I will be interviewing the always positive and cheery bundle of joy that is Jessica (J), the excitable and celestial super fun friend and Nelly Yuki enthusiast Beth (B) and the sassy, classy and a bit smart assy Serena Van Der Woodsen wannabe Lesley (L).

The only picture of the 4 of us...

Here are some fun facts about each of them:
Jessica: Has cooked my dinner for me on more than one occasion, is an amazing singer and will always leave a night out early to get food!

Me and Jessica on my birthday

Beth: Is an avid duck feeder, lets me brush her hair like a pony and once she saw Hugh Laurie on a bus.  

Beth and I on Galentines day

Lesley: Let me bottle feed her on one occasion, once had like 3 gym memberships because she was too scared to cancel any of them and she has a pet chicken called Chuck. 

Me and Lesley in da club

Let the hunger games interview begin!

Q. What was your favourite subject in high school?
A.
(L) I really liked history!
(J) Art
*Beth and Lesley get sidetracked and need to be asked to pay attention*
(B) I would say Spanish. I really liked creative writing as well, it was good       umm yeahh.

Q. What was your least favourite subject in school?
A.
(L) ummmm in 1st and 2nd year I really hated French *Beth is surprised* and tech *Beth asks us to clarify what tech is ("it's like woodwork" says Lesley) and Beth laughs a great laugh that shook the pride land at the idea of Lesley           making a bird house - fun fact she made a boat actually*
(J)Maths
(B)I'd say maybe algebra 1 because I had no base, I didn't do pre-algebra         and American studies because they didn't explain to me properly what a           thesis was, apparently my ideas were college level but my layout was that of     a preschooler!
*We also come to the conclusion that mostly they did best in their favourite classes and worst in their least favourite*

Q. Did you play any sports in school/were you part of any clubs?
A.
(B) I did track, cross country ummm I also did creative writing *Lesley tries to interrupt to state that she was on year book committee and PR* Excuse me I believe Beth has the floor and I also did epic which was all about accepting diversity in school, it wasn't actually creative writing club it was book club and I was president of it for a year *loud laughs from everyone* I was also in amnesty international (Lesley says "WOW you were cool in high school!") and I was also part of MAC - multicultural something or other and I had the Scotland booth and we served Irn Bru and everyone said it tasted of cough medicine!
(J)I was in like the panto in 6th year and my teacher got me to apply to choir - it was like glee club! (she loved it!)
(L)Oh i was in some clubs I played netball and I was in the *Lesley gets interrupted and told that we've heard enough from her for now*

Q. Who was your favourite school teacher and why?
*Please note that Beth and Lesley get side tracked again and they need a telling off requesting that they remain focused and respectful of the interviewer*
A.
*Beth and Lesley start discussing the teachers that they had a crush on which was not the question*
(J)Mrs McBioteacher because she was really really kind and helpful and she really inspired me in biology and that's why I decided to study dietetics!
(B) You know what I hated all my teachers!
(L) I hated my biology teacher! ("LESLEY THAT WASN'T THE QUESTIONS!" I exclaimed! *Beth laughing*"You've gotten every question wrong" she says in between laughs) 

Q. What was your favourite school trip?
A.
(J) Ski trip!
(L) I went on a trip to Winmarleigh Hall (I interrupt to freak out over the fact that I also went their on a school trip!)
(B) We had one school trip! It was with geology the teacher rented a school bus, found out she didn't have a school bus driving licence we hit a fire hydrant and then we went to Taco Bell! *Beth couldn't get anything to eat because they didn't have anything vegetarian on the menu*

Q. Did you have a favourite book you read in English?
A.
(J) Trainspotting!
(B) I quite liked The Catcher In The Rye once I understood it! I hated reading it over summer but once I actually understood what he was going on about and the underlying themes!
(L) The merchant of Venice - It was really good because it has that quote "all that glitters is not gold"

Q. If you could go back to high school would you change anything?
A.
(J)No
(L)My weight and hair
(B)Ignoring my date to winter ball all evening

Q. If you could tell your high school self anything what would it be?
A. 
(J) Don't worry about stupid things!
(B)White eyeliner will save your life! Wear some makeup please!
(L) Yeah wear some make up!

Q. If you could go back would you change the course you chose to do at university? (Grades/money don't matter)
A. *All say yes*
(B) I would take a gap year and I would use it to find out what I would like to do.  I'd do some volunteering.  But I'd probably study some writing or literature course
(J) Art
(L) yeah probably like history!
*To clarify we found that if they could go back in time they would all choose a course or subject that they actually liked*

Q. If money didn't matter which city would you want to study in and if you could attend any university in the world which one would you choose?
A.*All initially said they wouldn't swap uni because then we would have never met each other*
(J) Ideal city - Glasgow. Ideal university - Glasgow University
(B)Ideal City -Oklahoma to be closer to my family. Ideal university - Rice
(L) Ideal city - New York. ideal university - Oxford

Q. What was your favourite memory from freshers week?
A.
(J) I can't remember most of freshers week!
(B) When I was trying to get Lesley to name her children after me after only knowing her for one night!
(L) When I realised that all my new friends had a mutual dislike for one person (who will remain unnamed)

Q. Other than the actual work what is the hardest part about being at university?
A.
(B) Being considered an adult
(L) Yeah!
(B) Money troubles too!
(L) Having to act like a grown up when I feel like a child

Q. Finally Summarise university in one word.
A.
(B) Celestial 
(L) Weird
(J) Drunk

So there you have it, everything you could possibly want to know about my friends school experiences - it was a lot of fun interviewing them although it also turned out to be rather challenging considering we all love to hear the sound of our own voices so much.  
Until next time
XOXO
Queen G