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Emma @ theweekendabroad.com on Liebster Award Nomination & 10 Random Facts About Me
Wait, what’s the Liebster Award? Or Lobster Award, as my autocorrect keeps telling me… The Liebster Award recognizes relatively new bloggers like myself. It’s basically a great way for bloggers to support each other, inform readers about other blogs, and allows us to brag about ourselves (stop now if you’d rather not know anything weird about me). As customary with the nomination, I have nominated other bloggers whom I admire and have revealed 10 very random facts about myself. I tried to share some interesting tidbits that not even some of my friends know…
Thank you to Ann from Gardening Limited for nominating me! Her blog is the only gardening blog I follow and she provides wonderful tips for home gardeners on a limited budget and space. Plus, she posts the prettiest flower photos.
10 Random Facts About Me
- I have taken a total of 10 days of Spanish school. 5 days when I was in Spain and then another 5 days when I volunteered in Costa Rica. I will likely not understand you if you try speaking Spanish to me.
- I won an $100 IKEA gift card at a karaoke competition as a child. I sung Superstitious by Stevie Wonder.
- I used to be in competitive gymnastics as a kid. My best apparatus was the beam and my worst was the uneven bars.
- I’ve been playing piano since I was 4 years old and stopped taking lessons during my first year of high school. I made it to grade 10, which is the final level of piano in the Royal Conservatory of Music.
- I suffered a really bad concussion and soft tissue damage in my neck and upper back from a snowboarding accident months before graduating high school. I don’t think my ability to focus has been the same since.
- I used to upload song covers with my friends onto YouTube under the channel name, The Yellow and Brown (I know, questionable name…). We called ourselves that because 2 of us were Asian and one was Indian.
- I performed Bollywood dance on live local television a few years ago to promote a fundraiser put on by a non-profit I used to work for.
- I lived in 5 different homes with my family within the same city while growing up in Vancouver, BC. My parents really loved moving (and upgrading).
- According to the Jung Personality Test I took last year, I am 52% extroverted and 48% introverted.
- I have a dog named Lewis who lives back home in Vancouver with my parents. He is a maltipoo who is 10 years old now, but looks like he’s 5. I miss him dearly.
This is Lewis, our family’s maltipoo. He may be small, but he’s got a big personality.
Liebster Award Blog Nominations
- Danielle from Danielle in Wanderland
- Megan from Megco.Adventures
- Chidera from The Midtime
- Anna from 101 Food Travel
- Amanda Elize from Raising at Home
As part of the Liebster Award tradition, I’d love to specifically highlight a blog that I’ve been following and look up to. While not a new website, Nomadic Matt started as a small-time blogger like the rest of us. His website, which offers guides and a plethora of affordable travel trips and stories, has honed a large and impressive following. Matt is now a New York Times best-selling author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day. His path has totally inspired me and I highly suggest checking his work out.
Did any of my random facts surprise or intrigue you? Let me know in the comments!
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