Not that I’m proud of it, but I can…

1. Speed Read any­thing: I learned to read when I was about 4 and never stop since then. This led to minor mis­un­der­stand­ings in school, such as being called in front of the whole class to answer ques­tions about what­ever book to make sure I actu­ally read it !
2. Sail a boat: I grew up by the sea and I prob­a­bly learned to swim before I leaned to walk. I used to go wind­surf every­day in the sum­mer and sailed small boats (never owned one though !)
3. Put mas­cara on with­out a mir­ror: not sure when I devel­oped this trick but it seems to amaze my girl friends…
4. Look at a big jar of peanut but­ter or a bucket of ice cream and not eat­ing it: easy one since I don’t like either. PB is… yucky, and ice cream is too cold for my taste ! Why bother when a great food called choco­late exists ?
5. Count back­wards in Chi­nese really fast: can be a good bar­gain­ing skill…
6. Speak both French and Eng­lish at the same time: thanks to inten­sive Cana­dian train­ing, I’m now able to mix both lan­guage to cre­ate a sen­tence that makes sense to no one except locals in Ottawa !
7. Know the ety­mol­ogy of words: I guess tak­ing two years of Latin in high school wasn’t such a waste of time then… But still, I mean why learn a dead language ??
8. Name all of the Chi­nese dynas­ties: on the other side, I suck in French his­tory. Oh well, we beheaded all of our kings, right ?
9. Eat blue cheese (you know, the rot­ten one): yummy… What ? What’s wrong with that ? It’s my her­itage we’re talk­ing about !
10. Take cold show­ers a few months in a row : thanks to back­pack­ing ! How­ever, con­trary to com­mon fem­i­nine beliefs, I must warn you : your skin doesn’t get any firmer afterwards !

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