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Wednesday,
March 23rd Ethan Zohn Speaking Event, Middlesex Community College
by
Ann Marie [Piekos] Borges, Survivor Junkie
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When Pat Cook sent out an email a few months
ago, saying the winner of Survivor Africa, Ethan Zohn, was going to be
speaking at Middlesex College, I thought he was pulling a prank on us!
But today seeing was believing!
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| John, myself and Pat had a great day today meeting
and lunching with Ethan.
The morning started out driving to Middlesex
with John, discussing questions we would like to ask Ethan.
Since
Survivor is in the tenth season, yesterday
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cbs.com to brush up on my memory of Survivor Africa being the 3rd season and
many survivor castaways ago. I brought my Survivor Amazon buff, and a tiki
torch with hope for an Ethan autograph. Even though I felt a bit
funny carrying a tiki torch around a college campus in March, I know that it
will be a great addition next to Jeanne Hebert's (Survivor
Amazon) autographed tiki torch.
Middlesex college was running its first civility
day on campus. This included Ethan's 1 hour program “Character:
The Ultimate Survival Tool”. His talk was accompanied by some fun
Survivor video, and touching Africa footage. During his talk John was
"Joe photographer" and got a lot of great pictures. Ethan
also spoke about the organization he founded after he won the million
dollars on Survivor Africa, Grassroots
Soccer.
Ethan was a great speaker and was very down
to earth. After his program, he took questions (from his personal
life, to survivor and grassroots) and then he signed
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1/2 hour.
Yes- I got my buff and tiki torch signed!
Next was the luncheon (by invitation only-
knowing Pat Cook has its advantages), we walked the short way with Ethan,
talking about reality tv (he is a reality buff like us). |
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After a short photo
session with everyone present (us included), we got our lunch (some
sort of calzone, pasta salad and green salad). Sitting down at a table
for 12 with Ethan and his Mom, we enjoyed our lunch as we fired
off Survivor questions to both Ethan and his Mom ! |
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enjoy talking about Survivor and other reality shows.
We questioned him on his friendship with Lex,
what he thought of each survivor season, how things really are behind the
survivor scenes, tidbits about Survivor Africa and Boston Rob came up, of
course. John talked to him about his camera, Ethan apparently has the
same camera and wanted to know how to load the pictures to a computer. Ethan
passed out his business cards when he got requests for material
regarding his grassroots organization. After 45 minutes of fun conversation, everyone thanked
him for coming.
All too soon it was over.
As we drove home with our autographs, pictures
and memories, we replayed the days events. We left feeling like we just
had lunch with a fellow reality show junkie. It was a great day!
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