“So we went and played mini basketball for about like seven hours straight.”

Oh you see so I had my cousin over for like four days and we went to an open gym at like 8am, I think, and then we played, played, played. I cooked like usual. And then we get home. We were like, "What should we do?" My parents left, so we were home alone. We were like "What the crap should we do?" So we went and played mini basketball for about like seven hours straight and then it was like, I don't know what time it was, but when we got done, we made cookies and then played more basketball. And then like my mom dad got home and like what was like -- wher- -- they were like "what did you do all the time?" And we were like, "Played basketball." And they were like, "Are you serious?" And I was like "Yes." Uh, yeah, so that's what I did over my Christmas break.

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“It was kind of like a ecosystem within itself.”

One of the biggest gardens I've ever been to I'm pretty sure it was in Singapore. Um. And or n- -- ye- -- ehrm, or it was Malaysia and it was like a glass dome and there was like multiple levels. It was kind of like a ecosystem within itself. Like it had birds flying and flowers everywhere and butterflies and fruit and stuff, um, they're growing. That was really cool to see. Uh, they had like these stairs you had to walk up and down. Um, and yeah, it was really nice. It was kind of like being in an actual rainforest so it was like really muggy and there was trees and vegetation everywhere.

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“Look, I’m wearing my socks!”

Oh, "Have I ever done something that I made or did that didn't work?" I knit a pair of wonderful socks. I knit socks, wool socks. They're nice. I like them. It's cold outside, I wear them, they're great. However, I worked really, really hard on a wonderful pair of pink and white and turquoise striped socks. They had a wonderful pattern. They looked great and I was really excited because the pattern matched completely both -- over both socks. They just matched perfect, was so excited with them. They looked just wonderful. I finished them. I had tried them on as I went and I finished them and I tried them on, and they were too big. And I thought, "Well, I'll, I'll wash them and I'll -- maybe they'll shrink up a little bit. They're wool, maybe they'll shrink up a little bit." But they were the super wash wool and they didn't shrink up. And they were just, just a little bit too big. And I had a frie- -- I have a friend who I worked with for years, she's one of the people who went to Michigan State, and I said to her, "You take a nine shoe, don't you?" and she said, "Yeah." I said "Well, my eight and a half socks turned into a nine and they're just too big. And I would like to give them to you if you would like to have a pair of socks." And she said to me, "I've always wanted a pair of hand knit socks." And I said, "Well you're getting a pair now." So I took them to her house. She put them on, they fit perfectly. Every so often, she sends me a picture of them on a cold day and says, "Look, I'm wearing my socks!" I'm so glad I gave them to her. It makes me so happy that she's wearing them and that she is happy with her socks because they're, they're really, pretty cool.

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“And then my car just like, whoop! Into the median.”

What's the most valuable thing you've ever broken? One of our team members broke their laptop on the first day of their study abroad. Ooh, that'd be scary. Um, well, like one winter I, um -- what do they call it? Hold on. Totaled a car? So I had a little small two-door car and I was driving to work at a big box retail store. And I didn't realize that, like, hey, the -- what are they called? The on-ramps are icier than, like, regular road. So the regular road was fine, and then I get onto the on ramp, and it's just like, an ice slide. And luckily nobody was like right there at that particular time in the highway. And then my car just like, whoop! Into the median, um, and it just -- I mean, it would have cost more to fix it than what it did to buy the car. So it was totaled and plus the air bag went off and stuff. Um, and so then I had to carpool and take the bus for a very long time after that. And so I think that's one of the reasons why I'm just so cautious with driving and cars and things like that now is because I know how easy, how quick it is to like, "Hey, I'm in control of the car -- no I'm not, and there is nothing that I can do about it."

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“It smelled so strongly of Froot Loops.”

We were in a greenhouse, and they had some kind of geranium, a scented geranium, and they said, um, you know, "Touch the leaves and then smell your fingers, and you'll get a sense of it." And it smelled so strongly of Froot Loops. I couldn't get over it! And I think of Froot Loops as being a very artificial smell, so it was really wild to have a natural -- you know, like an, an actual plant smell like this thing that I thought was like, you know, like the chemical version of lemon and fruit. It also smelled kind of like a, like a wet wipe? You know, some kind of, like -- the wet naps for your hands also have that Froot Loop smell. Anyway, I, I really enjoyed that that little geranium. And I was thinking if I ever saw one for sale, I'd have to get one because I'm just like so charmed by it.

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