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What is your favorite book of all time? I can’t name just one. My preferences and interests have changed overtime but right now I would say that my recent favorites are The Music of Man by Yehudi Menuhin & Curtis Davis and any of Fatema Mernissi’s works.
What are your hobbies? Gardening, reading, music, digital scrapbooking and home renovation.
What are your secret talents? Playing viola, drawing and painting
Which television character do you feel resembles you most? Monica Geller, from Friends! She is obsessed with being organized and structured, and a control freak with a loud squeaky voice.
What is your taste in music? I like a wide variety of music genres, but I dearly love Classical music and Brazilian music.
What is your favorite genre of movies? Suspense, Drama and Romance
What is your favorite color? Orange, Yellow, Purple and White – supposed to be just one, huh?
What was the best vacation you’ve ever had? When I was a kid and went to Europe for the first time.
If you could have a luncheon with any three people (real or fictitious, from any time period, dead or alive), which three people would you choose and why? J. Vermeer – because he is my favorite painter; L. Da Vinci – to witness and understand his Renaissance vision of one unified study of all subjects; Y. Menuhin – for his passionate ability to see and connect to the world and people through his music.
What is your most cherished childhood memory? My most cherished childhood memory was being able to freely draw on walls in the house. Also spending New Years’ eve at my grandpa’s while watching from his window the traditional São Silvestre Marathon passing by.
If given complete freedom to start a fresh, what profession would you choose and why? That is my current $64,000 question! |
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Summer 2010 |
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Know Our Staff: Jaci Yesquen |
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Office Manager & Bilingual Enrollment Coordinator
Greet guests at The Conflict Center in a friendly and respectful manner. Creates various reports and translates different documents into Spanish. Enroll clients and prepare classrooms & materials for classes. Supervise, schedule and motivate volunteers. Receive people over the phone and in person, provide reception and support the Executive Director and all staff with administrative duties. |
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Occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid? An Architect, a teacher or a detective.
What makes your angry? How do you overcome your anger? Disrespect. I overcome my anger being by myself – meditating or listening to music.
If given a choice, which animal would you want to be? Why? A Cat. They are cute, clean and self-sufficient.
What is your favorite place on Earth? So far Ubatuba, SP-Brasil
What is your favorite quote? "…Y todo, como el diamante,
Tell us something you have learned from a child That creativity and imagination are free of judgment.
If you could visit a time in history what would that be? The Renaissance.
What do you want to be known for? |
