First Person Survey for: Natalya The Gypsy Fiddler

Name Given at Birth: Natalya Lior

Nicknames: Just Nat for short at times.

Hometown or where you were born: Romania

Current Residence: Canterbury

Age: 17

Class: Gypsy... Well you know

What do you do, your main function in life/society: I play my violin for Goldie our troupe leader.

Have you ever gone skinny-dipping / do you know how to swim: I have gone skinny dipping on many occasion, for I like to be free of constriction.

Do you make fun of people: I do. I make fun of the cooped up royalty when they are not looking. Also I make fun of my closest friends only in jest.

Favorite Color: I do love the color yellow for it is a color of my home country and the color of the sun that keeps us going everyday.

Have you ever committed or been convicted of a crime: I have been committed to many times to count. For I did nothing! Actually just lying again. hum.

Closest friends/How did you meet: My closet friends are the girls in my gypsy troupe. We travel everywhere together so I have become like a sister to them, and they like sisters to me. I do not know if you consider my violin to be a friend, but I must say I have to consider it for it does come with me everywhere I proceed to go.

One Pillow or two: Bah! I have no pillow only a bag I keep my things in to lay my head upon.

Pets: I do not have any pets. I have trouble enough keeping my violin safe and with me. I do not think I could handle a live animal!

Favorite Type of Music: Well, the music I play of course. (irish, gypsy, english)

Hobbies/Pastimes: I do enjoy playing my violin for extended amounts of time. I also like sitting on roofs, though it may get me in trouble at times, and look at the night sky.

Personal Hygiene: I get as clean as I can on an everyday basis, and when at a pond I get really clean with the water!

Favorite Food: I do really enjoy peaches, no matter how I get them.

Are your parents alive, do you get along with them: I do not know where my parents are, they abandoned me at birth. So I grew up with a man named Gabriel Lior who helped me survive, so I respectfully took his last name.

If your parents are dead, when and how did they die: I do not know anything about my parents. The sad life as an orphan.

Favorite place to relax: On top of a roof top looking at the sky, or around where my troupe is dancing.

Favorite Holy Day / Why: Christmastime, the best time to get really good food from the Royals throwing it out.

Favorite Drink: Gypsy tonic, what else?

What's your bedtime: When it gets dark or My eyes start to drop in my head.

What, if anything, do you usually wear on your feet: I wear sandals.

Are you married or single: I am single, but I think I will be alright without a man to "support" me. But if I find the right one, it may be so.

Do you have a family / who are they: My gypsy troupe! And an old man, Gabriel Lior I left in Romania who gave me bites to eat, he was like a father to me. until Goldie found me and helped me in my life.

Favorite Entertainment: For fun I either just run around with the girls or I play my violin. What else?

Favorite Subject in School or Chore growing up: Spending time at Gabriel's church and helping clean things and learn how to play my violin from Gabriel.

Least Favorite Subject in School or Chore growing up: My least favorite thing to do growing up was steal food.

Favorite Sport: I do love to run.

Most Humiliating Moment: I do believe it was a time I was on top of some roof and I fell... Landing in this very large mud puddle. I splashed everyone in the square. I then had to proceed by running very quickly form the palace guard I got mud on. Oh dear.

Proudest Moment: The first time I played my gypsy violin for my troupe to dance to. They danced perfectly, as usual. It was the most magical moment ever to come to my life. This is why I am no longer a sad gypsy. My troupe.

Craziest Person or silliest you know: My dear friend who thinks she is a horse whisperer, she is a beautiful dancer. But a bit in the lanes of a fop... If you know what I mean.

What do you look for in the opposite sex: I look for a man with beautiful eyes. And he must be kind, without that, I will walk the opposite way

In our Hierarchical Society everybody has somebody "over" them, Who is your immediate "overlord" Goldie is my "overlord"

Favorite Sport to watch:  Jousting

Do you remember your first kiss: If kissing a goat counts...

Do you keep in touch with your childhood friends: No I do not, and I miss Gabriel with all my heart, I fear he has met the other world now, but if I had the chance I would see him again.

Where is your favorite "Vacation" spot: To relax, I would have to say on a roof, I do enjoy the feeling of being higher up than everyone else.

Have you ever been overseas: I have crossed the sea to play in my troupe, it was a wondrous occasion many times.

Do you have Dirt/Mud floors or Stone: The grass of the earth, outdoors.

What is your bed made of: a simple blanket I carry with me

How many people sleep in your bed:  Everyone I know, it is the ground for the animals as well.

1. I am often on a roof looking down on someone, spying!

2. I was abandoned at birth, never wanted by anyone but Gabriel and Goldie.

3. The best gypsy violinist you will ever meet. (or so I hope)

4. I would do anything for my troupe sisters.

5. I treat my violin as if it were a living person, I have even named it Irini.

6. A close bond with any kind of sister is very important to me.

7. I always wonder why the turkeys are so small but their legs! ARE very LARGE.

8. I love to jingle when I walk, like most gypsy do.

9. I tried to have a pet once, I neglected it in the care of my violin.

10. I do not wish to be committed by you, or anyone.