Xpat Interview: Kim Hopkins

  • 31 Oct 2006 11:00 AM
1. When did you arrive in Hungary and what brought you here?


July 2009. Impetuosity

2. Have you ever been an expatriate elsewhere?
Cuba

3. What surprised you most about Hungary?
That it wasn’t called Hungary

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?
They must absolutely see sense and avoid that 4th Palinka

5. What is your favourite Hungarian food?
Saláta

6. What is never missing from your refrigerator?
Mould

7.What is your favourite Hungarian word?
Krumpli

8. What do you miss most from home?
My 1973 Harley Davidson Electraglide oh & my family.

9. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
Benign dictatorship of a small paradise Island

10. What's a job you would definitely never want?
Owning a gourmet salad bar in Hungary

11. Where did you spend your last vacation?
In a gourmet salad bar in Hungary

12. Where do you hope to spend your next holiday?
Riding my 1973 Harley Davidson

13. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?
Siouxie & the Banshees/Electraglide in blue/trying to look like Siouxie Sioux

14. What can't you resist?
Winning arguments

15. Red wine or white?
Red if there’s a choice, if there’s not, then alcohol.

16. Book or movie?
Radio

17. Morning person or night person?
Early bird

18. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?
The English class system

19. Buda or Pest side?
Ah come on Buda is a retirement home, Pest.

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

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