1. My all time favorite movie is The Godfather. I love all three in the trilogy but if I had to pick just one, it would be the original one with Marlon Brando as Don Corleone. I’ve loved it since I was in tenth grade when it was released and one of my favorite teachers spent two class periods talking about it.
2. My all time favorite novel is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I saw the movie when it came out. I was about 6 years old and identified with Scout. Then later on, in middle school, I picked up the book and read it for the first of many times.
3. I was born on Christmas day.
4. My middle name is Joy (as in Joy To the World, says my mom).
5. I love to laugh but I don’t do it often enough. I’ll have to work on that.
6. I worked at Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park, California during the summer of 1976 which was our bicentennial year in the U.S.A. It was a very busy tourist season that year.
7. I met my (ex) husband as part of my work-study in college. He was president of one of the law student organizations and I was one of their part time secretaries.
8. My first job out of college was working for Prudential Insurance at their big historic building on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. I was on a team that wrote the brochures describing the benefits (and restrictions) in each policy (known as the Benefits Description Unit).
9. I worked as a teacher aid in a first grade classroom in Santa Monica, California. It was a job that I fell into by accident when I called the school district to volunteer to help in a school and they put me to work as a paid employee!
10. One of the last jobs I had that I truly enjoyed was teaching English to adult non-English speakers in night school. They were there because they wanted to learn so it made it fun. I had some of my own daytime classroom students’ parents and grandparents in my night time class. I wish all students were as willing to learn as those adults were!
To read Ten Things About Me #1, go here.
I guess “Joy to the World’ fits being born on Christmas! To Kill a Mockingbird is often my favorite book – I’m weird and change my favorite on a day to day basis.
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A very interesting work history! I’m always fascinated by how people often do fall into their jobs by accident.
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Some really interesting items on this list! I really like the fact that your folks included Joy in your name due to you being borne on Christmas.
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Sometimes the best things in life happen by accident.
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The accidental jobs are always interesting! I sometimes wonder how we end up in them.. .like… why? Being kinda in one myself at this point it constantly amazes me.
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Joy, and born on Christmas Day! Nice to know a little more about you.
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I can well understand the joy of teaching those who really want to learn. I’m so glad for you, that you had that experience. The more I get to know you through your blog, the more I appreciate you. Thanks for sharing these seemingly random things about yourself, Corina. Sorry that the marriage didn’t make you happy ever after. Of course, even when we spend a lifetime with a spouse… and it is happy… it’s also, usually, a lifetime of work. But that’s life.
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