This week's Friday's Child is Shauna McNeilly.
Shauna recently began the post of Education & Outreach Officer at the Millennium Forum. Originally from Rasharkin, County Antrim, Shauna isn't new to these parts having previously worked for four years as Arts Project Officer at The Nerve Centre, bef
ore a year in the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh as Arts Marketing & Education Officer. At the moment she is preparing for 'Five Fantastic Days in July' for drama students aged 16+ and for 'West Side Story' in August for 14-19 year olds which promises to be the biggest and best amateur production in town this summer.
How would you describe yourself?
An experience junkie
Happiest childhood memory?
Christmas
What was your first job?
As a weekend waitress at the Londonderry Arms Hotel in Portrush aged 15, which was just a decoy to get to Kelly's on a Saturday night. I don't think stacking and bagging turf counts, as my dad didn't pay me!
Favourite book?
'The Prophet' by Kahlil Gibran and 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by James Joyce
Favourite film?
'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy'
Favourite television programme?
'Mad Men'
Favourite expression?
Fair play to ye!
Favourite method of relaxation?
Good stout in good company
Favourite holiday destination?
Italy
Who would you most like to meet?
I'd like to have a word with George Bush and try to find out what, if anything, goes on in that man's head
What makes you angry?
Lack of respect
What makes you happy?
Consideration
What human quality do you most admire?
Courage
What human quality do you least admire?
Greed
What has been the most embarrassing thing to happen to you?
It involves a bottle of Bushmills and a transatlantic flight, and it's not what you're probably thinking… that's all I'm saying
What was the worst thing to happen to you in your life?
Let's just say it's a long story…and I'm not bearing my soul to the Derry Journal readership, thanks all the same!
What is your greatest fear?
Dogs in general
What has been the high point of your life to date?
Anytime I've gone travelling
How would you like to be remembered?
Fondly
What is your most treasured possession?
My family
If you won the lotto what would you do with it?
Pack the whole lot in and emigrate to Italy with the fella, where I'd buy a house big enough to have friends and family stay as long as they'd like, so long as they'd help to make the wine with grapes from the vineyard out the back; I'd give the rest to children's charities and cancer research
If you could be granted one wish in life, what would you ask for?
Peace
If you could write your own epitaph what would it be?
'Gone on, I'll be grand'
