i like just the way you are

I'm currently taking Human Geography (online aaah punches) for which our required text is 6 Billion Others, a project of interviews by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and GoodPlanet. Our first assignment was to answer the same questions that were asked to people all over the world, and reflect upon in in our weekly ~discussion board~. The questions are ones that are easy to understand but hard to answer immediately if you let yourself think about them. My teacher suggested it should take at lest an hour to finish the survey, which for me has definitely taken longer!
I put the survey here, with my answers, because I am supposed to keep it for use throughout the semester, but also because I think it'd be interesting to run across this in a years time or more, and see what answers have changed, what I have a clearer vision of and what has become murkier over time. As well, I think it'd be nice if somebody came across this and decided to answer these questions for themselves. Some of your own answers can really surprise you.

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