1. Can you describe yourself in three words?
Sensitive, Sensible, Funny.

2. If you could be a music genre, what would it be? Why?
Jazz. I really love the melody and the rhythm in this music genre.

3. Cat or Dog?
Cat.

4. What are you most talented at?
Cooking.

5. If you were to perform in a movie, which character would you perform?
Christopher McCandless in “Into the Wild”.

6. If you were to get a tattoo, what would it say or what would the graphic be?
I already have one with son’s name and a heart beat graphic on it.

7. If you were a superhero, what superpower(s) would you have?
Invisibility and Merging.

8. If given a chance to go back in time, what would be that time and why?
It would be the 60s because of the revolutions in social matters, art and human rights.

9. What is your zodiac sign?
Scorpio (24 October – 22 November)

10. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Lisa Simpson.

11. What’s your favorite book, movie, song and city?
Book: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Movie: The Life of Pi
Song: Fly Me to The Moon by Frank Sinatra
City: Rome

12. Coffee or Tea?
Tea.

13. If you could be anyone from the past, who would that be?
Amelia Earhart the first woman pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone.

14. The place on campus where I feel happiest is…
My Office.

15. Listener or talker?
Talker.

16. What would be your last message on earth?
No discrimination, no prejudice and no hatred!

Gizem Özgirgin
English Instructor
School of Foreign Languages

photo by / interviewed by Sefa Kırlı