Tell+Me+5

5 things about me that I want you to know:

 * ===I'm really looking forward to trying out some new technology and online processes with you this semester. ===
 * ===I am totally nervous about trying out some new technology and online processes with you this semester, and sometimes wish I had never mentioned it. ===
 * ===My husband is a beekeeper and we have two daughters who are in their twenties. ===
 * ===I love hockey; I think all head shots should carry a major penalty/suspension. ===
 * ===I feel lucky to be spending the next five months with you. ===

4 places I would like to visit:

 * ===Haida Gwaii, because it is close to being as it was 200 years ago, and it is going to change very soon. ===
 * ===Paris, because who wouldn't want to walk down the Champs Elysees in the spring and eat something delicious? ===
 * ===India, because it is totally and completely different from anything I am familiar with, which would shake me out of my comfortable little teacher rut. ===
 * ===Macchu Pichu, because it is a testament to the imagination and determination of people. How did the Incas build it? ===

3 people I would like to have to dinner, and what I would ask them:

 * ===My great grandmother Ellen, so that we could talk about what it was like for her, living on a small farm in Quebec in the 19th century. ===
 * ===Barack Obama, so that I could ask him how he lives day to day, running the United States and being a father, without worrying that some idiot will kill him. ===
 * ===Stephen Lewis, who was a Canadian diplomat and UN adviser who founded the Stephen Lewis Foundation. This foundation supports people in Africa with HIV/AIDS. They work with whole families and communities rather than just the person who is sick. An amazingly energetic and empathetic person. ===

2 things that might surprise you about me:

 * ===<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">I failed my first year of university and was required to discontinue (that's a nice way of saying 'kicked out'). ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">I am a cancer survivor. ===

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:Ellen_on_the_Horizon.jpg width="215" height="275" align="left"]]
===<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">This is my family, taken near where we live in Dog Creek. I'm on the left, then our daughter Devon, and then my husband Ted who is catching our younger daughter Ellen, who looks like she's been dropped from an airplane. BTW this photo was taken about 22 years ago - I may have changed just __//slightly//__ since then. ===