Interview with Joseph Finnie

Q: How old are you, Joe?
A: 12

Q: What grade are you in, and what school do you go to?
A: I'm in 7th grade at Rockford Middle--the best school ever!

Q: What makes it the best school ever?
A: The teachers, the people...and the sports teams

Q: Do you speak a foreign language?
A: No

Q: If you could learn one, which would you choose?
A: British or Australian

Q: Do they teach those at Rockford Middle School?
A: No, they dont

Q: If you had to live the rest of your life in one room, what color would you paint it?
Q: Could it be more than one color?
A: Yes
A: Then it would be a smorgasbord of Middle Earth Scenes

Q: If you got thrown into a canyon, what would you yell on the way down?
A: [Let the record show that Joe was unable to decide on a syllable, so we now need to throw him down a canyon in order to find out]

Q: What's your favorite game show?
A: Jeopardy

Q: Who knows the Real You?
A: I don't know...God?

Interview with MaKenna Landstra

Q: How old are you?
A: 11

Q: What grade are you in, and what school do you go to?
A: 6th grade at Highlands Middle School

Q: If you could have film crews follow you around for a week and make a movie of your life, would you do it?
Q: Would it be in theaters?
A: Yes
Q: Would I get paid?
A: No
A: Sure

Q: On school picture day, you have to choose to wear bunny ears OR a fake nose with glasses OR a cowboy hat OR a rainbow bozo wig. Which do you choose?
A: Bunny ears - inside joke

Q: Have you ever tried to really see how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop?
A: Yes - Once made it to 250, about halfway

Q: Have you ever had a birthday wish come true?
A: Yes

Q: What would be your superpower?
A: Invisibility

Interview with Sergei Guider

Q: How old are you?
A: 12

Q: What grade are you in and what school do you go to?
A: 7th grade at Forest Hills Eastern Middle School

Q: If we were going to throw you a surprise birthday party, where would you want it to be?
A: In a world made entirely of cheese

Q: What was your favorite roller coaster at Cedar Point?
A: Gemini

Q: If you had to be chased for a day by mummies OR zombies OR vampires, which would you pick and why?
A: Mummies, because they're slow

Q: What's your biggest accomplishment in life so far?
A: Nosedive in the snow, at night, in front of my friends at a sleepover, wearing only underwear

Interview with Rylee Storms

Q: How old are you?
A: 11

Q: What grade are you in, and what school do you go to?
A: 6th grade at Northview Highlands Middle School

Q: If you could compete in the Olympics, which event would you choose to compete in?
A: Beach volleyball

Q: Next weekend, you get invited to roller derby, pro wrestling, and a monster truck rally. Which one do you go to?
A: Monster truck rally

Q: Can you see Russia from your house?
A: No.

Q: So you have no international experience?
A: No, I don't

Q: What are you going to be for Halloween?
A: A recycling bin

Interviews!

Okay gang, here it is, the list of interview questions I'm sure you've all been dying to read. But because it's from last year, we have some mysteries to solve. First, even though I wrote down some of y'all's answers, I didn't always remember to do that, and second, even when I did remember to, I didn't write down whose answers are whose. So, I'm going to post the questions from last year together with the answers I happened to write down, and I'm going to leave it up to you guys to stake your claims.

In conclusion, if you remember preferring hang-gliding to wind-surfing, post a comment and let us know! After all, the reason we do this is for all of us to get to know each other better.

LIST OF INTERVIEW QUESTIONS FROM 2007-2008:

With Answers

1. What's your favorite candy bar? (Three Musketeers)
2. Have you ever seriously considered whether God could create a rock bigger than himself? (No)
3. Daily Show or Colbert Report? (Daily Show)
4. Do you like to wake up early or sleep in late? (Sleep in)
5. What's the last movie you saw? (Gone With the Wind)
6. Would you ever eat a chocolate chip sandwich? (Yes)
7. If a tree falls in a forest and no one's near to hear it, does it still make a sound? (Sure)
8. If you had to spend the day with either the Quaker Oats guy, Aunt Jemima, Mrs. Butterworth, or the Trix rabbit, who would you choose? (Trix rabbit)
9. If you could give Christian a nickname, what would it be? (Christy)
10. If you had to invent a sandwich, what would be on it? (Peanut butter and jelly...and other stuff Julianne doesn't remember...)
11. What do you do for fun? (Ride my bike)
12. If someone you didn't know very well (like a friend's parents) took you out to dinner, would you be more likely to get the cheapest thing on the menu or the most expensive? (Would depend on the parents and how well I knew them)
13. Are you usually early for things or late? (Late by 5 mins)
14. Are you a cat or dog person? (Both)
15. Wind-surfing or hang-gliding? (Hang-gliding)
16. Who's your favorite sports team? (I don't have one)
17. Have you ever really considered the destiny of the human race? (Not really)
18. What's the best restaurant in Grand Rapids? (Triny's)
19. What is the most bizarre haircut you could ever have? (A red mullet)
    

Without Answers

1. If you could go anywhere for Spring Break, where would you go?
2. What's the best book you've ever read?
3. Do you have a secret talent?
4. If you had to go to school in your choice of a tuxe, a tutu, a bunny costume, or a hockey goalee's uniform, which would you choose?
5. Who's your favorite band?
6. In artistic terms, would you describe yourself as more realistic or abstract?
7. What's the longest you've gone without sleeping?
8. If you were being pursued by bandits through the streets of Grand Rapids, how would you try to lose them?
9. Who do you most admire?
10. Where's your favorite hangout?
11. What's the strangest bumper sticker you've ever seen?
12. If you had to spend the rest of your life sounding like one of the characters from The Simpsons, which one would it be?
13. What's the worst injury you've ever had?
14. Popsicle question: Red, green, blue, or purple?
15. What do you think of vegetarianism?
16. Forrest Gump thinks life is like a box of chocolates; what do you think it's like?
17. What's an important thing that you've lost?
18. What's a cool thing that you've found?
19. Do you usually like surprises?
20. If you got to redesign the kids' play area in Woodland Mall, what would you have it made out of instead of food?

Cedar Point, Bigger or Better, and The New School Year

Youth Group will be held on Wednesdays this year at St. Andrew’s from 6:30-7:30PM (come early for dinner). We will have two groups: one for middle school students and one for high school students. We will be using a small group model so that youth can get to really know others their same age. Each small group will have a qualified and caring adult to learn, laugh, grow and talk with. If you haven’t ever checked it out, September 17 is the kickoff and will be the perfect time to see what all the hub-bub is about. You can meet the leaders and the other youth.

Sept 24, the youth group will hold its second annual “Bigger or Better” competition where the high school girls will defend their title. You don’t need to know how to play and won’t need to bring anything. Come to have a great time.

Saturday, Oct. 4, we will go back to Cedar Point for their Halloween themed set-up. We will leave at 7:15AM from St. Mark’s and will return to St. Mark’s at around 3:30 AM Sunday morning (ouch!). Cost is $50 (we have scholarships) which will include transportation and your ticket. Parents are more than welcome (we could use the extra drivers).

Sunday afternoon Bowling- We will bowl again at Northfield Lanes this year. We bowl every other week (dates are coming soon). You can sign up your teams of four with Christian baron (458-4593 or cbaron@wedgwood,org) or sign up and be placed on a team. Anybody and everyone is welcome. This is an inter-generational league.

An Inconvenient Truth- Dedicated to Dennis

Last week (Jan. 6) we watched the film "An Inconvenient Truth". It was the 2nd part of our "Ecology Ain't Nothin' but a G Thang". Julianne has been doing agreat job getting us focused on some of the facts that are out there. She has a minor in Environmental Studies and is just more smarter than me on these issues. So listen up as she speaks.

Hopefully we'll have some time this Sunday to talk about the movie. We will also be discussing issues regarding food. Julianne has asked to bring our favorite food or drink in that has a list of ingredients on it. I think it's ironic that today in the news the Food and Drug Administration declared today that meat and milk from cloned animals is OK to eat. It will be fun to "gril" (get it?... grill her) Julianne on that one. Here's a link.

I also want to remind everybody that just because Christian says so doesn't make it so. One thing that I've really appreciated about the Episcopal Church has been the diversity in opinions and views on a variety of things. Though I haven't researched this movie and the "facts" in it, I trust the overall theme and facts in it. We must always be doing our homework though and keep searching for the truth in all things. If you have concerns about this movie or anything else that we are looking at, let me know and maybe we can do some more research to try to get to the bottom of things.