A couple of weeks ago, I have been nominated by 
Why did I accept the challenge? I've been on Steemit for more than 5 months and I think that now it's the right time to show you who is behind this account.
It's been very difficult to prepare 5 random things about me, so please forgive me for not sharing 10 of them.
If you follow my posts, you might know this already 😊 I feel connected with nature and this is my ‘safe’ place. It doesn’t matter how many problems I have to resolve but as soon as I’m in the mountains I forget them all. I can just sit on a meadow for hours and enjoy the serenity of mountains. This is where I recharge my batteries and where I feel content. My happy place…
During my childhood I was forced to use my right hand. I still remember how unnatural it was to me, but I had to obey. I didn’t understand what was wrong with doing things with my left hand and no one seemed that interested in explaining that to me. Right hand was the one to use. Period.
When I was older, lefties started to be more accepted in the society, but it was too late for me to switch to my left hand completely. Now I do some things with my right and other things with my left hand. I write with my right hand but play various sports (basketball, volleyball, tennis) with my left hand. I chop the onion with my right hand, but hold a spoon with my left hand 😊 And I could go on and on...
I would bake every day if I could. I have always enjoyed baking and learned how to bake from my mom. Neither myself nor my husband enjoy sweet treats and as we don’t have many friends here I can’t bake as much as I would like to.
I have recently agreed with the owner of the vegan shop here in town to bake a ‘charity’ cake each Saturday. All money from the sale is donated to a different good cause each month. I can now enjoy baking and contribute to the community at the same time. Win win!
When I was younger I loved to go shopping. I guess all girls do. Nowadays, it’s a torture for me to go to a shop and try all those clothes and shoes on. I must confess that I haven’t bought any piece of clothing this year yet. First of all I rather spend my time in the mountains and second of all I have realized that I have enough clothes and shoes for a long time. I have even donated a few pieces to the poor earlier this year and I still have more than enough.
This is an embarrassing story...
I took a couple of driving lessons and decided to buy a car once I started to feel ashamed for asking my husband to drive me here and there all the time. He was driving with me for the first couple of weeks. One day, I had an appointment with the car dealer and my husband was too busy, so I thought I would go alone for the first time. The car was parked in the underground garage that was clearly built for smaller cars. When I was driving out of the garage, I was trying to be very careful, but one car was parked in a way that I had to drive around it. No, I didn’t hit that car..
I hit the pillar on the other side with the back of my car. When I heard that scratching sound, there was no escape anymore.. I was surprised with my reaction as I thought: Well, I’m on my way to the service anyway 😊 When I finally got there, they offered me a glass of water to calm me down and asked me to go home and pay the insurance invoice first 😊 They congratulated me and told me that from now on I won’t have any accidents and they were right. I was lucky that it was covered by the insurance as they had to change the back door. I had the car for 2 weeks at that time.
You can imagine how scared I was to drive the car after that. But eventually I started to understand how it works and now I’m fascinated with cars in general. I love driving and use the car every day now. And yes, I am a good driver 😊
To take part in the challenge I nominate: 
I'm looking forward to learning more about you!
Cheers,
Martina
