Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Those facts...

#1. True.
I did fly in the cockpit of a Boeing 737 on a night flight from Ljubljana to Ohrid (Macedonia - then Yugoslavia) and back. The captain was a friend of my partner's and agreed to take us along (mind, this was pre- 9-11 and the security measures were much looser). It was a memorable experience.

#2. True.
I blogged about it here.

#3. True.
I played basketball for a men's team at the banking games. Our opponents, clear favourites in the match, mocked our team for having a female in it. However, I contributed to our win and, frustrated with the outcome, a couple of members of the opposing team assaulted the referee after the match which, incidentally, went to an extra time and my free throws decided it.

#4. True.
During a school excursion we visited Mostar and I, along with another girl, wandered into the old part of the town and came across a man who turned out to be a painter relatively known in the former Yugoslavia. He asked us for our names and in just a few minutes sketched our portraits from the letters of our names.

#5. False.
I am pretty much tone deaf and have never participated at a karaoke contest.

#6. True.
I was on holiday in Dalmatia and I did catch the last flight from Split to Ljubljana before the air space was closed. Later that year (1991) the war broke out in Croatia and Bosnia.

#7. True.
As long as we played in the national league (second division - but Yugoslavia was a world power in both men's and women's basketball at the time) I never missed an official match and scored at least two points in every single one of them.

#8. True.
It happened in (I think) the equivalent of 12. grade at the end of the secondary school. I got so frustrated with everything about school, one professor in particular, that I refused to attend classes. I graduated nonetheless but that was the end of my academic career before it actually started.

#9. True.
We are talking 9-pin bowling, a sport hardly known outside the central Europe. The funny thing is, the guy who went on to become world bowling champion addressed me first as he remembered me from our basketball practices in a court outside his school.

#10. True.
During a funeral something the priest said seemed so absurd to me that I burst out laughing. I had to excuse myself from the church although what I was doing in there in the first place is a mystery to me.

Kudos to Thom for guessing correctly!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOOT!!! We have tone deafness in common. I can't carry a tune for the life of me. Loved reading about the items. :)

juliana said...

glad you did :)
cheers

quilly said...

I can't sing, either, but that one sounded so unlike you, I thought it just might be true.

juliana said...

i agree, when something seems obviously wrong, it just might be true. not in this case, though ;)