Eliyes

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I confront, unless that person is very very old. But all my very very old relatives have died, so... I confront, period. And yes, if there is someone there who looks afraid to speak up, I will -- and I'll do it in a way I hope draws attention away from their discomfort while letting them know someone's on their side.

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I prefer to sit at the front so that I can see anything that might be written on a black or white board, or projected. My eyes aren't the best.

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Yep! Primarily Homo sapiens sapiens. People are animals too!

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"Canadian", since it's what I grew up with and nothing in the world can make me give up turkey dinner.

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Having young knees!

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...I would probably be off getting a sandwich during that minute. I tend to miss opportunities like that.

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Both of my parents claim it was love at first sight. The amusing part is that "first sight" was different for each of them. (There's a lot more to the story than that, but I plan to add a couple of explosions and sell the screenplay for a million dollars someday, so I'm not getting into it now. ;3)

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My particular nemesis was DODGE BALL. B|

We played a version called "Chinese Dodge Ball" (I have no idea why and strongly suspect the reason is fairly un-PC) wherein there are multiple balls in play and everyone throws at everyone else. If you get hit, you're out. If you're out, you sit down. If, while sitting down, you get your hands on a ball and manage to hit someone who's still up, you're no longer out. If you're out and you toss a ball to someone else who is out -- without it touching the ground! -- and they hit someone who is up, you are both back in. The only official room for teamwork was in making chains of people sitting down and hoping the person who threw the ball had good aim. However, sometimes people who were in would gang up on other people in loose coalitions -- usually the jock guys -- and sometimes they'd even throw the ball to a friend who was out so they could get back in. There was also some strategy possible involving getting hit in the first place such that you could sit in an inconvenient or out-of-the-way place (you sat where you were when you were hit, but if you took a dramatic enough fall, it wasn't necessarily where your feet were).

Now, overall, I didn't hate the game. Honestly, it was a lot more fun than the traditional kind, and it's probably better training for games where you might have to scrimmage on the field. My problem was that occasionally I would get targeted by bullies. :(

As for my favourite, I'm not really sure. There were a lot of things I wasn't so much adverse to as just fairly bad at. I think people who only met me in high school would be surprised to know that when I was little, I wanted to be a professional baseball player. (It didn't occur to me at the time that none of the Blue Jays were women. ^^;) I wasn't terrible at it, and my hopes were further buoyed by the fact that my mom played in a softball league -- but then puberty happened. As soon as I had boobs, my swing suffered terribly. Actually, my entire sense of balance was shot (I used to do gymnastics and skate, but that all ended).

I still have pretty good aim with a ball, as I've proven in various snowball fights. ;3

Games/sports I usually played with my friends and/or family and/or large family pets for fun include badminton, volleyball (and zany variations thereof), and tug-of-war. I also love to swim. I've wound up needing CPR more than once, but I still get in the water. (Lesson for those following at home: don't stay in so long that you get too tired to keep swimming and drown. Drowning really blows!)