youtube survey, not on youtube

because i like answering questions and i'm not cool enough to be on youtube...yet.
(may or may not be a hint)

1) Why are you called that?
2) Tell us about your favourite school teacher
3) What's the strangest food you've ever eaten?
4) Tell us about your first gig
5) What is your favourite place in the world?

Behold, the answers:

1. I chose the name silent screamer, i think because when i began this blog oh so many moons ago, i was in my final year of high school and a little on the angsty side, and i was trying to be artistic and obscure, and thus silent screamer was born. however, as silly as the story of origin sounds, i quite like it. as for my real name, i believe it had something to do with welsh people, and my great-grandmother.

2. i believe there were many, because i was a nerd and i liked school, for the most part. my favorite was probably my japanese teacher, because she gave so much of herself and her time for us, and she was genuinely a friend, as well as a teacher. she wasn't a pushover, she made us do our work and i was better for it, but i had her for a number of years and really did enjoy her classes, and learned a lot. i think the fact that i went to visit her in hospital after she had her baby is also a mark of how good a teacher she was.

3. cow tongue. i was in japan, and it looked like normal meat, and my host family asked me to try it. for the record, it was cooked and it tasted exactly like the rest of the meat we had at the restaurant, except that i knew it was tongue which made it not very appetising. this was of course, before i turned vegetarian. also pretty weird i think was the combination of vegemite and tinned potato salad that i ate on a wrap in year 9. 

4. history-wise, probably something my parents would have taken me to when i was very young and thus i do not remember. but i think the first one that counts would have to be taylor swift. yeah, i'm a cool kid.

5. this is really hard to narrow down, but i'd have to say the waterfall/pools we swam in when i went to tanzania, my host family's house in japan, and the Kallista Tea Rooms, all make top 3.