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(in alphabetical order, except for favorites on the right side, and stuff that I don't wanna bulldoze you with on the bottom left ; ) )

Color of Eyes: blue-gray

Color of Hair: dark blond or light brown, I'm not so sure myself

First Names: Katharina Verena

Hobbies: friends, books, computer, my pets, riding, listening to music

Home Town: Bonn, Germany (love it!)

Living in: an attic apartment

Interests: everything you find on this page! ; P

Numbers:

    Age: 24 years

    Birthday: Sep 20, 1980

    Blood Group: wish I knew

    Height: 1,67 m or 5 ft 6

    Lucky No.: 4, 8 and 26 (that one's kinda haunting me!)

Languages: German (mother tongue), English(***), French(**), Italian(*), Spanish(*) and Icelandic(**)

Plans for my Future: get an office job as a foreign language secretary or something, pref. at a stationery wholesaler's (I love stationery!); have many pets (mainly guinea pigs = ) ), but no children (yuck); get married ; ); maybe emigrate to Iceland, i. e. if the European economy goes to hell in the course of that stupid expansion to the East

Pets: two guinea pigs named Polli and Dunja, two dwarf rabbits named Blina and Peter, and an Icelandic horse named Bjarmi

Schools (education): graduated from high school in 2001, attended a 2-year vocational school which I finished in 2003 with the degree of "state-approved commercial foreign languages assistant"

Siblings: one brother who's 4 1/2 years younger than me

Sign: Virgo (but since I am quite the opposite of the typical Virgo, I no longer believe in horoscopes)

Smoker: Nope, and never tasted; and never will!

What Else I Like: watching façades of old houses, seeing people run for their bus and catch it, filling out surveys, those handkerchiefs with the cloud pattern around the edge and a sun in each corner, the smell of spring and fresh air and horses

What I Hate: carelessness about other people's property, Bonn-Auerberg, bitchy bitches, bad drivers, war and warmongers, Rap and HipHop and suupa-coolness, beetroot, wasps and mosquitos, the color orange, occupied phone lines, being broke


Character: self-descriptions are difficult but I'll try to be realistic! Ok ... helpful, persistent, emotional, loyal to those I like, but can be quite cynical about people when I know they backbite me, witty, sensitive, honest, sometimes get very upset about things that unnerve me, opinionated, quick changes from optimistic to pessimistic and back, creative, can be very stubborn, lack of discipline when it comes to school stuff, weird -- forgotten anything? People who know me well, please tell me = )

Favorite "Ordinary" Beverages: black tea with milk and sugar, ginger ale, milk

Favorite Alcoholic Beverage: apple juice with amaretto, sherry

Favorite American Beverage (which basically means it's hard to get): cranberry juice

Favorite American Food: beef djerkey, maple syrup, pan cakes

Favorite American Sweets: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups!

Favorite Animals: guinea pigs, Icelandic horses

Favorite Bands: Deep Blue Something, Quickserv Johnny, Sugarbomb, more Dallas/Tx bands (and used to be HIM, Morrissey and The Smiths too)

Favorite Books: Dolphin Summer (Katherine Allfrey), Green City in the Sun (Barbara Wood), Bridget Jones's Diary / The Edge of Reason (Helen Fielding), Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote), The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux), The Bridges of Madison County (Robert J. Waller)

Favorite Book Series: Adventure (Enid Blyton), Harry Potter (Joanne K. Rowling)

Favorite Car: "my" car Denton which was sold in 2003, Renault Twingo

Favorite Cities: Bonn, Paris, London, Rome

Favorite Classical Pieces: Symphony of the New World (Antonín Dvorak), Peer Gynt Suite (Edvard Grieg)

Favorite Colors: deep blue, black, yellow, red

Favorite Countries: Iceland, France, New Zealand

Favorite Fast Food: Burger King (chicken supreme with cheese!!), Subway

Favorite Food: virtually anything with cheese, some things with potatoes in them (potato soup for ex.), YumYum soup, baked beans on toast

Favorite HTML Tags: li, blink, ul

Favorite Ice Cream: yoghurt, chocolate, hazelnut, ...

Favorite Movies: Amélie from Montmartre, Only You, Before Sunrise, Breakfast At Tiffany's, The Legend of 1900, and many many more - just about all good / famous movies

Favorite Movie Soundtrack(s): Amélie from Montmartre, Some Kind of Wonderful

Favorite Painters: Sahm (probably you don't know him but be assured clicking this link is worthwhile), Kandinsky

Favorite Place: Bonn-Endenich and the Bonn area plus the Westerwald, Iceland

Favorite Quotes: "Follow your heart - but before, ask where it's going" (by myself actually), "Smile - it makes people wonder what you're thinking!", "Imagine you have a horse - and it cannot tolt", "This isn't the world we ordered", "Stop the world - I wanna get off"

Favorite Scent: Indian Summer and Eternity

Favorite Sweets: candies (esp. honey flavor and sea buckthorn flavor), cake, McVitie's Wholemeal with milk chocolate, Guylian Belgian chocolate sea shells, toasted marsh mallows, chocolate, Maltesers, ...

Favorite Time of Year: spring

Favorite TV Shows: Tom & Jerry, Road Runner, Disney's Gummi Bears, Without a Trace Joan of Arcadia, Charmed


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