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Emily: Pre-Trip

  • Most Recent Profession: Recruitment Operations Specialist
  • What do you what to do when you get back?: Something along the lines of BI and/or HRIS work
  • Starbucks Order: Iced Grande 1p Hazelnut Iced Coffee
  • Favorite City: Munich during Oktoberfest or London any other time
  • City you think you’re going to like most: Budapest
  • Most Memorable Flight Experience: Flying to Berlin in 2016 and finding out our beers were actually just free and our flight attendant wasn’t just being nice to us.
  • Favorite Running Memory: Berlin Marathon
  • Worst Running Memory: Running 13 miles, hung over, in 90 degrees and then drinking the best gatorade I’d ever had OR when my IT Band was at it’s worst and we were running in sleet.
  • Favorite Overnight Experience (Hotel, Hostel, etc.): This darling hotel we stayed at in Berlin. It was nothing fancy; I honestly just loved the wallpaper.
  • Last Song You Listened to: The Schuyler Sisters from Hamilton
  • Experience you’re most excited about: Hiking the Inca Trail
  • Are you vegetarian?: Sure am!
  • But really though, when when the last time you accidentally had meat?: Last week when I discovered they put anchovies in the olives and didn’t label it on the menu. (Seriously, since when are olives NOT vegetarian?!)
  • Worst Travel Experience: Traveling to Seattle when I was 16, which was my second flight ever, and finding out my brother & sister-in-law who were supposed to be flying with me had their flights cancelled and I thought I was going to have to sleep alone at the airport until they arrived the next day. Turned out they made it on the plane last minute. Shoutout to the military guy sitting next to me heading to boot camp who was kind enough to make me feel better about my problems.
  • It’s 7 PM on a Friday. Where are you? Stout getting a last drink before happy hour ends
  • In how many languages can you say hello, thank you and order a beer: 3 (English, German, Spanish)
  • Longest you’ve gone without a shower: 4 days 
  • Favorite Movie: Forgetting Sarah Marshall – and this is NEVER going to change
  • First thing you do when you wake up: Check CNN’s 5 Things for your New Day
  • Current Binge TV Show: Lost
  • Thing you think you’ll miss the most about the US: Amazon
  • How long does it take you get ready in the morning? 30 minutes
  • How often do you grocery shop & how do you get there? Walk to Jewel and almost everyday.
  • How long can you go without coffee? Less than a day – need it by noon everyday.
  • You can grab three things when you walk out the door, what are they?: Cell phone, wallet, headphones
  • What have you done in the past year that you’ve never done before?: Quit my job
  • What is the worst injury and/or illness you’ve had?: Getting scalding hot coffee spilled on me on a cruise
  • What was the last thing you bought?: Last minute travel supplies on Amazon! Makeup, laundry detergent bar, and Steripen.
  • Last book you read: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
  • What is your favorite meal?: Thai anything. Tom Kha soup, red curry, noodles…everything.
  • What calms you down when things stress you out?: fresh air and a coffee
  •  If you had an extra $1,000, what would you spend it on? Spend a week volunteering at a bird refugee (in South America, you often have to pay to volunteer places because they house and feed you.)