Interview Me!

This is something I saw on Pam's blog, American Spoken Here
I asked her to interview me!
Her questions are below along with my answers.

Thanks again, Pam. You obviously put a lot of thought into these questions and I enjoyed doing this!

The Rules:
-Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me.''
-I respond by asking you five personal questions (I will leave these questions for you in my comments) so I can get to know you better. If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate!
-You will update your journal/bloggy thing/whatever, with the answers to the questions (please don't leave your answers in my comments unless you don't have a blog).
-You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
-When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

1. Who makes you laugh?
My niece. We can get pretty silly together and she is so witty and goofy, I am always laughing.

2. How did you discover your passion for France?
Honestly, I can't go back and pinpoint the time in my life that I started to really fall in love with France. My father has French ancestry (so it is in my blood!) and I've just always naturally been drawn to France. I wish I could be more specific but truly, it has always been there. I really came into that passion in my early 20s in college when I took a Travel Literature course (and read M.F.K. Fisher's Gastronomical Me), along with other Paris/France based literature, including Hemingway. That, with additional French language lessons and a growing passion for arts and architecture, just deepened my passion for France.

3. What would you like to remember from your childhood?
Lately, as I drive through the countryside to pick my niece up from school, I experience this wonderful nostalgia for childhood car rides with my parents. Sometimes they would just drive us through the country after mass on Sundays and we'd drive by farms, houses, horse pastures, and just beautiful country. I'd like to recall specifically what thoughts ran through my naive mind. Surely, those experiences fed my creativity and appreciation of life.

4. When is your next trip to France?
Oh...I wish I knew! I'll go ahead and make a bold statement on this one and say that I will be back in France within a year's time! :) Now I have to make that happen, don't I?

5. If you could change the ending of any book, which book would you pick and how would you change it?
I honestly think this is a more difficult question than the previous one. I cannot say that I would change any one book's ending. I know, I know...that is definitely not a satisfactory answer but I must stand my ground. I love literature and although the ending of a book may not always be what is desired, there is almost a greater beauty in that fact. The author's perspective is made so strongly evident in how a book ends, and I couldn't even attempt to mess with that.