My very first Portland Person, is my good friend Sierra Breshears. Sierra is a 22 student ath the Portland Art Institute.
1) How long have you been living in Portland? I moved to Portland in October of 2010. The main reason I came is because I had lived in the same small place in Missouri my whole life and I could never get out of my head that there was a whole other life I could be living.
The reason I picked Portland is because I had visited with my family around the age of 14 and I felt at peace out here. For some reason a sense of freedom and calm came over me at the beach on a cold night. Also, I've always known I wanted to be an artist, and my first few years of college I started hearing that Portlanders were mainly crazy artists like myself. I currently live in the deep SE of Portland but I'm moving soon either to the Hawthorne District or to the Pearl District.
2) What fills up your days (or nights) in Portland?
Sadly, my days consist mainly of school or work. However, on the rare occasion that I do have free time you can find me out on hikes or in my backyard working on crafty things for my house.3) Where are some of your favorite place to go and things to do in Portland?
Oh goodness. So many places!! My favorite places to go for evenings (aka drinking time) are the C-bar, Blitz in the Pearl, and Ground Kontrol, all of which usually lead to a stop by VooDoo Doughnuts for a late snack : the delicious maple bacon bar. My aboslute favorite places to eat are usually at the food carts located all around Portland and my favorite restaurants are Cafe Yumm and Tarbouche (a Lebanese Restaurant). Often I'll make the drive out to the Vista House (Crowne Point) just to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city and to enjoy the unreal view. My favorite places to hike are Forest Park and Multnomah Falls.
4) What are some different things about Portland that make it Portland?I'm definitely in the minority by eating meat, which I always find interesting, especially because I'm from the Midwest. I think the first vegetarian I met was after I moved here. Also, I love that people here don't necessarily follow fashion in the conventional sense of the word. People wear whatever they feel like and OWN it. I absolutely love that about Portland. Also, I feel like most people hear (intense hipsters excluded) accept one another for being individuals in every meaning of the term. 5) Do you plan on staying in Portland for a while?
I definitely plan on staying in Portland at least until I graduate school. Not that I'm in a hurry to leave afterwords, but I still feel like there's so much life out there to live, so it will probably be quite sometime before I set down roots. When I do will that be Portland? Who knows. But honestly I think the mystery of it all is my favorite part. I'll go wherever I end up, and it will be great.
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