Scallion pancakes and light sabers: Laura interviews Emma (8) and Cedric (6)

Emma:

1) Most disgusting food I ever ate: Scallion Pancakes with FISH in them.
2) Best place to go on vacation: Oaxaca, Mexico
3) Favorite movie: Harry Potter
4) Favorite band: I have three, Sleater-Kinney, Gladiola, Cartel
5) When I grow up, I’ll probably be… a veterinarian.
6) Best thing to do on a snow day: go sledding
7) I can’t stand it when people… don’t hold the door for me when I
walk into, like, a grocery or something… meanies!
8) Favorite food: Scallion Pancakes
9) Funniest thing that ever happened to me: when Cedric peed in his pants…
10) Favorite book: Harry Potter, duh.
11) Something I wish would change about the world is… that i wish
people weren’t homeless and other people didn’t treat them badly.
12) Thing I love to do when I have free time: electronics, that’s what.
13) Where I want to live when I grow up: California
14) Best thing I ever did: going to the beach with my daddy… and
you too, Mom.
15) I am proud of myself because: I played with a boy after school
that has learning disabilities. he doesn’t think as clearly as we do,
and other kids aren’t really nice to him. I decided that I didn’t
want him to feel ugly or different, because everybody is different.
he and i played even though he kinda smells a little bad. i gave him
compliments, and we played jump rope and connect 4. I went easy on
him… just a couple of times though.

Emma: So does this mean that i’m, like, sponsoring you guys?

… well, you’re contributing to our website.

E: Well, I’m kinda supporting you then?

… right.

E: So, I’m helping to get more people to listen to Gladiola and make
lots and lots of money.

… uh, huh.

E: MOMMY! stop… I’m just talking to you, make it stop! I’m your
daughter! What do you think I am?

Cedric:

1) Most disgusting food I ever ate: you know what I ate before? When I was little and I was at a playground, I was like 2 yrs old, and I ate a worm. (totally lying)
2) Best place to go on vacation: Cape Cod
3) Favorite movie: Star Wars
4) Favorite band: the Go-Go’s
5) When I grow up, I’ll probably be… like an animal or something?… ummm, Darth Vader
6) Best thing to do on a snow day: have a snowball fight, yay!
7) I can’t stand it when people… throw up.
8) Favorite food: cannoli’s, does cannoli’s start with a c? like cedric? my name is supposed to start with an S… uhhhhh!
9) Funniest thing that ever happened to me: when my friend Wilder peed in his pants.
10) Favorite book: star wars
11) Something I wish would change about the world is… um, like, that everyone in the world couldn’t have a light saber, that only i could have a light saber… from star wars, you know
12) Thing I love to do when I have free time: ummm, play with wilder
13) Where I want to live when I grow up: in your stomach… i think it would be pretty nice in there.
14) Best thing I ever did: have a light saber fight with Wilder
15) I am proud of myself because: hmmmm, nothing. no, I didn’t really mean to say that. mmm, that that that that that that that , I made a sculpture. Seriously, I made a little teeny tiny sculpture. It was a light saber.