1. Spent a week doing ministry and couples' counseling in Turkey -- twice. (Beautiful country.)
   
2. Had a child via natural delivery after two previous caesarians.
   
3. Ate and loved raw kibbee, a Middle-Eastern dish consisting of ground lamb, spices, wheat and olive oil.
   
4. Skipped a grade in school.
   
5. Spent 20 years in a lay ecumenical prayer community.
   
6. Telecommuted to a job 500 miles away.
   
7. Camped out while 6 months pregnant.
   
8. Took a bowling class for college credit.
   
9. Saw Pope Paul VI in Rome.
   
10. Helped produce an Iron Butterfly concert.

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1. Kitsune on 1:59 PM

   Which grade did you skip? I skipped third . . . total nepotism. Cousin was the principal. :)

    
2. Rosalind on 4:17 PM

   I skipped second. I didn't consider it a favor -- the long term effect was to make me feel like I was peculiar from then until I went to college. Come to think of it, maybe I was peculiar.

    
3. Kitsune on 5:31 PM

   Oh yes, I had the luck of skipping a grade just as everybody *else* hit early puberty. I was a total weirdo from then on out. (my bad, I went from third to fifth, not second to fourth. Don't know what I was thinking.)

    
4. Therese Z on 5:45 PM

   Iron Butterfly? You can tell me the details when we get together.
   
   I'll go post mine on our blog, Exultet.

    
5. alicia on 10:17 AM

   "Ate and loved raw kibbee, a Middle-Eastern dish consisting of ground lamb, spices, wheat and olive oil."
   One of my CB students brought this to me, but I thought it was supposed to be cooked so I cooked it and ate it - delicious even cooked!
   "Skipped a grade in school."
   Technically, I skipped first grade - started school in England in an ungraded classroom, returned to the USA at age 6 but went into a grade 2/3 at a private school rather than the grade 1 the public schools thought I should be in.
   "Camped out while 6 months pregnant." did that one, and hated it, especially considering that we had a few other kids too.
   "Took a bowling class for college credit. otta love the community colleges! Had to have a PE credit..
   Tell us about the Iron Butterfly thing..

    
6. Rosalind on 3:07 PM

   In high school I was in a youth group that did fundraising to go on "educational" trips. The (eventually Unitarian) church building had great acoustics, so we put on some concerts -- Iron Butterfly, Procol Harum, etc. Pretty cool for those days.