Near death experiences? Unusual animals? Bizarre foods most likely also eaten by Andrew Zimmern? What tantalizing factoids could this list hold??

1. I have a scar on my right cheek that I have had nearly my entire life. I scratched my face not long after being born, and the scar is still there.
2. Over the course of my life, I have had the following pets: a poodle, a mutt, an African Grey parrot, six different cats, a small flock of sheep, a goat, several rabbits, a chameleon, a small antelope, and three goldfish. We almost had a pangolin and a small boa constrictor.
3. 

   La Tour de Crest, formerly used as a prison for Huguenots (via Wikimedia Commons)

   I have almost drowned twice in the Atlantic Ocean–once in Ghana, once in Togo.

4. I have swum with wild dolphins off the coast of Zanzibar.
5. I ate yak jerky and fried crickets in Thailand.
6. I rappelled down the side of the Tour de Crest when I was eleven.
7. In the search of a Chinese restaurant, my family got lost in Amsterdam’s red light district. My grandparents were with us. Yep. I looked at the sidewalk a lot. Later, we found out that most of the “good” Chinese restaurants in Amsterdam are in the red light district. Live and learn!
8. I played my Game Boy in the Louvre because I finished looking at a gallery before the rest of my family. And yes, I received death glares from tourists.
9. Once, I kicked what I thought was a rubber toy snake in Nairobi, Kenya. It wasn’t.
10. Having dusty bare feet is one of the worst sensations to me. It’s honestly like nails on a chalkboard.
11. My sister broke my left pinky finger in junior high. Because we lived in France, I didn’t get an x-ray until a month after the fact. My finger had already started to heal so we just left it. Fun fact: my broken finger is actually straight and my normal right pinky finger is naturally crooked.
12. I sang a solo at Knott’s Berry Farm when my 6th grade choir performed there.
13. I learned how to drive on an airstrip in the middle of nowhere. We had to stop lessons for herds of cows.
14. I am only 28, but I am currently on my 6th passport. In high school, I actually needed to get supplemental pages because I used it so much.
15. I went to boarding school in high school (hence the above fact), so I lived in dorms a total of eight years. Benefit: widely diverse wardrobe possibilities.