There’s been a lack of teacher interviews lately, so we decided to interview Ms Ainslie! We asked her some quirky and weird questions, so stick around till the end of this post- I’m sure you’ll enjoy them. Some responses have been modified for clarity/context.
Mark: What motivated you to be a teacher and what would you be doing if you weren’t teaching?
Ms. Ainslie: I always say I’m a teacher because no other professional would pay me to behave the way I do and I think if I wasn’t a teacher, I’d be working with kids in some capacity. I love learning and I think that’s why I’m in the education field.
M: What is your favorite drink and food?
A: Water and apples. Specifically, honey crisp apples.
M: Give an estimate of how many apples have you eaten in your whole life?
A: I’d say at least a couple thousand.
M: What is your favorite hobby?
A: Watch baseball and listen to music, or go to concerts.
M: What is your favorite type of music? Any specific artists or bands?
A: I love all music, the only one I don’t dabble with much is rap, but I love classic, rock, and alternative. The artists change based on the day, but lately I’ve been listening to Carole King, James Taylor, Mumford and Sons, and The Killers- they’ve been on my playlist.
M: What would you do if any one of those artists/bands invited you personally to one of their concerts, or to meet them in person?
A: I’m not a starstruck person so I don’t care about meeting them, however I care about going backstage to see how things function and work and the logistics of the concert. But I go to concerts quite frequently.
M: Where do you want to travel if you had the time? What is your most favorite place you’ve been to?
A: Inside the US, the most favorite place I’ve been to is Yellowstone, it’s like the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. And outside of the US, I’ve been to Spain and I really enjoyed that. Where I would like to go? I’d love to travel anywhere and everywhere. In the US, I’d like to travel to Hawaii. Outside of the US, I would like to go Latin America.
M: Are you a coffee drinker; if so, could you live without it?
A: Yes and yes. I only drink it once or twice a week.
M: Favorite TV Show or Favorite Movie?
A: Favorite TV Show, Beverly Hills 90210. And I really don’t watch TV shows anymore, so that was my favorite show when I was a kid.
M: What’s the last thing you watched on TV and why did you choose to watch it?
A: I watched the Spring Training Highlights (baseball) at the gym this morning, cause it was something to do. Nothing very entertaining.
M: If you could become an actress with a major part in an existing show, which one would it be?
A: I really don’t know, I don’t watch TV. Perhaps something with a strong female role that isn’t a side interest or a love interest.
M: What is your biggest pet peeve in class?
A: Making me repeat the question that was asked two seconds before.
M: What is your favorite Disneyland ride/exhibit?
A: I’m going to have to pick 5, I’m a disney kid, it’s impossible to pick one. The Jungle Book is on the top of my list because it’s the crudest place that Disneyland offers where you can be rude and get away with it because it’s like this perfect little place, Indiana Jones, Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, and Mr Toad’s Wild Adventure.
M: What’s one of the most embarrassing moments you’ve had in your life?
A: Embarrassing moments happens on the daily, I don’t know if I can just pick one. I really can’t think of one in particular, I do dumb things all the time to the point that I don’t really get embarrassed anymore.
M: What was one of the most triumphant moments in your life?
A: Buying my house.
M: How would one of your closest friends describe you?
A: Loud and obnoxious.
M: You’re in a crowded room, would you rather fart loudly and everyone laughs at you, or be the only one laughing obnoxiously when someone else farts?
A: I would be the ONLY one laughing obnoxiously- this happens quite frequently, I laugh at the most inappropriate times.
M: Would you rather never laugh again, or never use your smartphone ever again?
A: I would never use my smartphone again, I don’t know what I would do if I wasn’t laughing.
M: What is your opinion on pineapple on pizza?
A: Not a fan of pineapple on pizza. I don’t like mixing savory and sweet. I say ditch the pizza and keep the pineapple.
M: Pepsi or Coke?
A: Diet Coke.
M: Cats, Dogs, or neither?
A: Dogs, 100%, I think cats are evil animals.
M: Pretend you’re the head of BASIS. What would you change about our school?
A: Oh my god, you’re going to get me fired! I’m trying to think of which teacher I could throw under the bus. I would make sure Mr Winzeler can’t assign anymore homework and Mr Leonardi can’t speak louder than the average decibel range (50 to 65 dB), cause I know that he always screams.
M: If you were to be stranded on an island, what 3 things would you bring?
A: Chapstick (without hesitation) and some form of music. I think I only need two.
M: A goose is running toward you at full speed, angrily honking at you at a park. What do you do?
A: I RUN. AWAY. As fast as I can, and most definitely scream, I scream about everything.
M: You’ve just been given a penguin, and you can’t give it away or sell it. What would you do with it?
A: I would take it, I would train it, like in Mr Popper’s Penguins and I would take it everywhere I go.
M: What would you do if you suddenly inherited a billion dollars from a distant relative you never knew?
A: I would probably first take a sabbatical from work and go to as many concerts as I can, and then I would be bored, and probably continue working at my job. I would probably go downtown and hand out money, because that seems fun.
M: If you were trying to get someone to buy a frying pan as a hat, how would you get them to buy it?
A: I would probably try to convince them that the sky is falling, and that they need a hard hat.
M: If someone wrote a biography of you, what would you want the title to be?
A: It would probably be: “What a mess!”
M: If you had a birthday cake and you have 6 friends you were splitting it upon, and you could only cut 5 pieces, how would you determine which friend to not give a piece to? [They all gave you a present, and you may not split a cut piece into two, nor may you buy another cake]
A: There has to be 5 people? Ms. Ainslie doesn’t like people, Ms. Ainslie would probably just eat the whole cake. I don’t know who I would leave out- I don’t function that way, I would just share some out, there would be no way I’d leave somebody out. I can’t leave someone out!
M: If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be and why?
A: I would probably be a coastal redwood tree, because it is so resilient.
M: Rate yourself on how weird you are on a scale of 1 to 10.
A: 10.
Those were all of the questions- hope you enjoyed them!
