The "About Me" Part

I'm really not good at talking about myself; neither am I really good at talking at all, so I guess I'll just get to the point. My name is Chantal Gadoury, and I know, my name is the hardest name you'll ever come across in your life. After attending high school for those long six years, the teachers still couldn't say my name right, so I'm used to being called everything under the sun. Alot of my friends called me "C" back then, so if you want, you can call me that. Or be clever and make something up. I'm all for laughs.

I'm a Creative Writing major, which actually happened against my family's wishes. I came to SU with as an English major, and changed it when "my family wasn't looking," I guess you can say. I took French in high school for four years, but when my French teacher decided to quit and move on, I decided the same was best for me too. I can't really speak any french, which is kind of bad in the fact that my father's side of the family is all french, and its all my grandmother speaks. So when she's talking to me, I give her the "oh yeah, I know exactly what you're saying" look. I'm hoping to learn a lot out of this class. In high school, we honestly didn't read classic novels, and I feel like this is the chance to make up for all that time lost in reading classic novels.

My writing strengths-this was a hard question to answer. My friends say that I'm good at capturing emotions when I have experience in the situation that I'm writing about. Personally, I'm not so sure. I know my weakness as a writer is not giving enough details in my stories and poems. When I write, I see everything in my head and I forget that as a reader, you can't see it. A book that I have read recently? The Time Traveler's Wife. Brian was right, I started reading the book right after I saw the movie, and my boyfriend's sister was reading it over vacation and told me how great it was. Once I got back from vacation, I went out and bought it and I haven't been without it since. Recent films: Having a twelve year old sister in my house, its hard to see anything really worth while. I have at least avoided the anticipated "Hanna Montana," so I feel happy for that. I watched Cinderella the other night, just as something to watch and amuse myself with. Something you might not know about me is that yes-I know everything about Disney. Like, did you know that without Cinderella, the Disney company would have plundered because of the war, and ...there wouldn't be a Disney World or Disney Land? Praise God for Cinderella. If that's kind of boring, I was born in Weisbaden, Germany, because my father was stationed over there with my mother, before he headed over to the Gulf War.

-chantal-