"Getting To Know You"

Monday: March 2, 2015

Hey guys! If you're wondering about my title, it's a "The King and I" reference to one of the songs sung in the musical. Anyway here are a few things about me....

  1. Reading comes as naturally to me as breathing. There's just something so exhilarating and magical about following a story, traveling to new places, and meeting new people through a simple turn of a page. 
  2. I can not read music.. I mean I can but I can't, like I know where the notes fall or if you play a notes I can imitate it back but if you just tell me "Play C",  I'll look at you as if you just asked me the question of life. 
  3. I'm crazy organized, like I have what seems like millions of notebooks, calendars and planners. I color-code everything, add sticks when necessary and list it all out.
  4. There is probably more caffeine in my blood system than blood, I drink way too much coffee but I can't help it that I only drink coffee on days that end with y.
  5. I'm interested in all the arts; music (voice, piano, guitar, cello), dance (anything but hip hop because seeming me hip hop is like watching a dolphin trying to swim in a desert), visual art (primarily photography but I enjoy design and some drawing but eh), and theatre. I've enjoyed painting/drawing since I can remember, been dancing since I was 3, started being involved in music at about 5, and began theatre at about 6. 
  6. I got my first journal from my Grandmother on my 6th birthday and that's when writing became an intense passion for me.
  7. My favourite animal is a cat which is pretty obvious since we have four (but if it were up to me, we'd have eight).
  8. I'm very fragile and weak-boned so I get injured or sick a lot, in fact my life use to be filled only with doctors appointments and pill prescriptions but last summer I stopped all my medications last summer which has made my life a bit harder but I enjoy the feeling of no pills. 
  9.  I despise winter because I hate the cold and everything about it but I enjoy the rest of the seasons, particularly fall.
  10. My biggest insecurity is being 5"8 because I just feel too tall, as if my femininity is taken away because I'm taller than most girls and a lot of guys.
  11. I never had to be told to eat my fruit and vegetable because I already liked a majority of them.
  12. The reason my parents named me Katya is because they wanted a name that could be said in every language without needing to be translated since I have family all over the world. 
  13. I had my tonsils and adenoids removed when I was in 6th grade and had knee surgery when I was 2 weeks shy of 15.
  14. My eyes are a lighter brown colour but in the summer they change to a hazely-blue colour so it's rather confusing. 
  15. I was born in Germany but contrary to the United States, if you're born in a country other than here, it does not automatically make you a citizen nor the nationality of where you were born. For instance, I was born in Germany but I am French and American both nationality and citizenship-wise because my mom is French and my dad is American. It is only in the US if you're born there you're from there. I am certainly not from Germany (no offense to any Germans but I do not feel any personal homey-connection to the country).
  16. I adore the Disney movie Beauty and The Beast but I've recently fallen in love with Frozen. 
  17. I hate generic terms like "basic *insert skin-color/race* *insert sex*" they're literally so annoying.
  18. If you tell me I'm "too skinny" or I need to "eat more" will anger me in so many ways because I feel like if you can't tell something they're too fat, you should not be telling me I'm too skinny.
  19. I'm semi-ambidextrious because I write with my right hand but do almost everything else with my left and actually use to write with both until I was forced to choose one or the other in elementary school.
  20. I appreciate every single person who reads my blog, whether you live in another country or you go to my school, I love that you guys are here and hope you enjoy reading!
Comment below something about yourself!

Katya Podkovyroff 


Comments

  1. Anonymous03 March, 2015 14:51

    How can you be a musican and not read music?

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