fail blog times infinity

I truely do apologize for the huge lack in posts. It's been a strange few weeks in Katimavik life, so I guess that's my excuse.

Before I forget, here are some pictures.

Leigh-Amber 'defending herself' against Ryan

Cluster hangouts in Prince

Building Gingey houses @ Mik's Billet

I suppose I should give give you some shinfo too! Here goes;
(Holy shit. I haven't ACTUALLY posted since November 7th!)


So, since then, we've gone to Prince George again. This time it was for a self defense/martial arts class and we met up with Quesnel AND Prince George! So the only group we haven't seen so far is William's Lake. Anyways, the class was siiiiick. It was something like 4 hours of cardio and self defense. I had a blasty blast, and I'm pretty sure everyone else felt the same. Also, I KNOW that everyone felt the same way that I did in the morning... as if I were hit by a logger. It was super solid to finally get to see Quesnel. It seems that everyone is a lot happier when we're all together (mixed groups). Anyways, so the first picture is from during the class! Well, lunch break. Ryan and Leigh-Amber decided to fight, so they packed on the gear and went at it. In the end.. L-A ended up being destroyed, punch in the cheek, and laying on the floor for a few minuets.

The second picture, is of (mostly) the full Prince George, Quesnel and Vanderhoof groups. Man, that day was epic.

This Sunday (December 20), we went over to Mik's billet's house to decorate our HOME MADE gigney homes. Henceforth; Saturday night entailed making ginger bread, and all of Sunday afternoon was spent making house pieces and cooking them. After supper on Sunday, we wen tto their home, had an epic 1.5 hour decorating period, light candles on their Christmas tree and drank apple cider. Leigh-Amber, Fred and I we're on a team and chose the biggest house of all 5. We thought it would be clever and time efficient to decorate it before we put actually assembled the house. Needless to say, we were wrong, and had so much candy and icing on this chateau, that we ended up needing to take a powerdrill to it, and insert toothpicks. Not one word of a lie. See for yourself! (See third picture, duh)



Ahh, apparently the photos that I emailed myself from my laptop saved in a notepad file(by bad.) and as it is 1:00am on a work night, I am not spending the time to convert, upload, and add images to this pointless blog. Yes, you will get billeting pictures.. eventually. And yes, I will post more often.

Blogs to look forward to:

• Billeting pictures/day by day explanation.
• Katima-Christmas (first away from home)
• New Years excursion!

Keep an eye out.

I'm off to bed. Miss and love you all tons.

Good night world.

kickin' it old skool.

Well well well.

I'm just hanging out here at McLeod Elementary, waiting for the lunch bell to ring. I've got about 18 minutes to go. So far this morning, I've printed, photocopied, sticky-tacked, prepped and even done a wee bit of seventh grade math. It's been a rather slow morning. However, this afternoon I'm working in StrongStart.

On Wednesday's, S.S is from 2:30-5:30 as aposed to 9:30-12:30. I love Wednesday's, as I always feel like I have a lot of time to prep things. Not that being a volunteer in a drop in center has been taking much prep, but I'm going to change that! Every week I am to plan and organize one craft, plan and prep for snack time, and I'm as of my meeting with Libby, Michelle and Krista on Monday, I am to set weekly goals for myself. I'm not entirely sure what those will be yet, but hey.. I only have four more weeks here. (Excluding Christmas break, of course!)

Since Sunday evening, everyone in the group has been billeting with families in the community! It's pretty radical. But that's a whole other blog, which I'm most likely going to write tonight, because it sounds as though it's going to be a rather quiet night.

Anyways, that's about it for now.

Peace and love world.

a wee little update

November 7th, 2009

6:17am: suddenly awoke the the jabbing pain in my bladder. Apparently I had to pee.
6:25am: Wendy was in the kitchen, whilst I was here in this exact same spot. Wendy starts making smoothies, as I continue to face-creep.
7:00am: The rest of the group trickles out of their slumbers to a table full of extremely oat-bran filled smoothies and yogurt.
7:30am: We slowly make our way out to the van to leave for Prince George.
7:45am: We are all - minus Tomas & Mikael - waiting in the van while they try to lock the door.
7:46am: I realize I have forgotten my ID(fail) and run back into my room to grab it.
7:50am: We are finally off on our way to Prince George.
9:00am: We exictedly arrive in Prince George and continue to head to the Auqatic center to get our swim on.
9:05am: Tristan is lost.
9:10am A kind law enforcment figure helps us to find the correct pool.
9:20am: We are finally at The Auquatic Center.
9:35am: WE ARE IN THE POOL. Pardon me, the hot tub.
11:00am: Robbie and Emily arrive.
11:20am: We proceed to ralley in the waves with a volleyball.
12:00: The diving boards are opened.
1:00: We leave for PG Katimahouse.
1:30am: We are getting ready to leave for Yoga.
2:00am: Yoga is starting.
3:30: Yoga is finished.


Now, I got to lazy to continue to put so much thought into the times and the activities at said times. So I decided to write "normally" now. Yoga was awesome, super relaxing and it smelt nice in the studio. I don't know if the girl to the left of L-A agreed or not. L-A kept shitting herself. It was humerous. Anyways, after yoga we dropped everyone but Jessica, L-A and I off at Value Village while the other 4 of us went to buy Tristan's new boarding boots. And hell, did that take forever or WHAT. Like, I'm talking 45 minutes. It was insane.

After we picked up our thrifty shoppers, we headed to Wal-Mart, and Tim Hortons and then FINALLY started on our way back to the Hoof. I rode shotgun home, which means I'm supposed to stay wide awake and watch for animals or humans, or.. what have you. But incidentally, I fell asleep. It was only for about 10 minutes, but who knows what could happen in ten minutes! Man that highway was crazy dark!

Anyways. The point to my strangely written blog, was that yesterday was an awesome day. Swimming was ridiculously fun and we all loved the second last visit from Robbie :(. Also, I think it was a well deserved trip out of the hoof. Everyone loved it and I'm hoping that we do it again relitively soon!

Anywhazzle, I'm off to venture with L-A for envelopes.
Much love world.

I've just come to notice..

That the first and last picture's description are swapped.
(just figure it our for yourself)

PROcrastinator

You heard me ladies and gents..pro-crastinator.

Here is a list of things that I am currently putting off. Until when? Who knows.

• Picking my laundry up from around my bed (I'm sure my room mates are loving the mess)Writing more letters home to my dear, dear friends.
• Writing even more letters to my parents and brothers
• Practicing mon francais.
• And, typing up flip charts from the harvest dinner

Basically, living with 10 other people, working two jobs, organizing big events and trying to keep sane makes it almost impossible to do this stuff.

On the other hand, here are some pictures from recent things.

Jessica, Fred & Andreanne being beautiful wiht bloody hands.

Don't have these back home. ( Not the greatest mountains, but they'll do)

Fred bowling. It was a pretty epic time. Shoshana had a first time win.

That is all, thanks and such.

Goodnight World.

Katimawhat..

Today is November first, therefore; yesterday was October 31st. Meaning only one thing..Halloween.

Now, I've been residing in Vanderhoof for just 6 days shy of a month, but one thing that I - amongst my whole group - have noticed is that Vanderhoof is an incredibly religious village. Which strikes up the question "Why is Halloween such a thought through holiday here?" I mean, come on.

Our group spent the majority of yesterday setting up for The Great Pumpkin Walk. Which is basically an event with 500 pumpkins, 14 bonfires, halloween music, and a thousand or so people coming to walk the trail of a camp site, whislt trick-or-treating with their young ones. (Or in our case, 11 young adults ranging from 17-24)

In the mid afternoon, we all walked down to Riverside Park, where we we're forced to unload 481 pumpkins from a freezing cold transport trailer, into an even smaller furniture moving truck. Next, we drove the trail, and placed all 481 pumpkins a foot and a half apart from eachother. It was rather evident that there was maybe two of us who were'nt utterly pissed off. (sorry - aggrivated.. we've stopped the use of offensive language) However, as night fell and we all changed into our costumes, we got plenty of strange looks, hilarious comments, and tons of awesome candy. I'd say it was a successful night to end a crap-tastic day.

Oh also, my lungs crapped out on me and I found myself gasping for tiny breaths.
It was a fail.





Happy November, everyone. Bring on billeting.

Epic fail.

Three cups of liquidized mayo..

Enough said.


good day to you, sirs.

Remember that douch bag that I mentioned earlier on in my blogs? Actually I don't know if I did, but her name is Leigh-Amber.




She's a real character, we're basically the same person. We're both ginge, we're both swear insanely much, and we detest most of the same stuff. It's really strange, because usually when I meet someone new, I'm put off by strange behaviour, even if I do share it. But this time, as soon as I saw her in the Prince George airport, we were tiiiiight. The busride to Mass-O felt like "old times."





Right now, she's currently sitting behind me, rambling about her ridiculously hairy legs. Apparently - I don't beleive her though - she's shaved them once since Cocktober '08. That's almost revolting. (I truely do love you) She just told me that we've been together too long already.It's only been 20 days, betch.





Well, it's her birthday tomorrow. She's damn old.

L-A & I, downtown hoofville




that son of a bitch just threw her fart at me.


that is all.



ps. shitty post, i know.



peace out world.

I've realised that I'm lacking in blogs.

I mean, I've left home for nine months (or so) and I've blogged once. Even though, I told everyone back home to keep reading my blogs because I wouldn't have time to update all of you individually. So consider this an apology. (Ha! I almost spelt appologie) No structional education has left me in a state of shock apparently.

Well I'll just leave you guys with what's up this week for me. I'm House Manager from today to Sunday. Thus meaning that I will be staying home from my work placement to cook/clean/shop and run errands for the house. Essentially titiling myself and Leigh-Amber the "House Bitches." In about an hour we'll be leaving to go grocery shopping, so I'm stizzoked on that. But at 1:15, Leigh-Amber, Tristan and myself have a meeting with Libby from the school about the Gridley's. And, Jordan et Shoshanna will know what this means when they read it, but for those of you who don't, I'll give you the lowdown on it when I get home from said meeting.

My next blog will also (hopefully) have a bunch of pictures, so.. that's cool.

Anyways, should be getting ready.

Peace out World.

kuhteemavick '09

Well ladies and gents, seems to me that I have now been away from home for 18 days. This is a first. I've never been away from my mother for so long. It's rather rattling, but not.. all at the same time. Home sickness hasn't taken it's course yet, and I'm not anticipating it's arrival! Although, I dooooo have a great famjam over here to be super supportive.

So far, we've done a whole lot of hanigng out. We just started working on Monday, so this week has been quite a bit different than our first week and a half. I come home pretty fatigued. Which, is generally regular. But, since Katimavik started, i hadn't felt "tired" until Monday night! Actually as of RIGHT now, RIGHT this instant, I am looking forward to a realy good sleep tonight. Speaking of work placements.. I guess i could explain mine a teensy weensy bit. So here goes; I work at McLeod French/English elementary school. In the mornings on Monday/Tuesday and Friday I work in the Strong Start program. Opposite of S.S, I work amongst the english programs in the school. You're probably asking yourself "What about Thursday's?" Well on Thuesday's I work with Lisa Burgener. For those of you back hom in Bdot.. She's the female verion of Barnes. Like straiiight up, yo. Also, I know that Shoshana is going to read this, and I appologize for any gramatical errors amonst this blog. As you've read, I'm ex-haus-ted.

On another note, my legs, amonst 6 other pairs of female legs are as furry as a bear. So, considering tonight is free time. I'm going to remedy that tonight before my slumber. Actually, I will probably go do that now. Yes. I think I might.


Peace out world.

twenty four days.

new things

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Anthony's in town this week for work.

He chose not to tell Marcus or I until half way through his time here. Instead, he told Horton!. Yeaaaah, Her. (Ps. its not jealusy!) It's anger! Four years of highschool slash being bestfriends is just totally shafted for a drunken hookup down south. Buuuuuuuull shit. Oh, the whole four years/bestfriends thing applies to Marcus as well!

I KNOW YOURE READING THIS, ANTHONIG.... I TOLD YOU IT WAS AN ANGRY BLOG.

I'm furious, but it's wearing off, I think I'm getting used to it.



later.

n0 t1tl3

I have a puppy named Codii, he's a sweet mother fckr. He's got epilepse though, and for the past two days, he's been having crazy bad episodes. It's scary, and actually quite saddening. I hate to see him so depressed and sick. I wish there were something we could do. The vets are useles sons of bitches. Fuck them.

Moxxxie is still badass. Such a bitch though, she's losin' those claws ASAP.

It's actually been a while since i've posted anything. Work has just become even more of a home for me. One of those homes where you strive to run away everytime you walk through the front door. It's not a welcoming home. No way, no how.

anywazzle.
i'm outskies.

peace & love err' body.

today is tuesday, august fourth. Meaning two days ago my life was finally completed.

I went to Winnipeg with my dearest friend Amanda Paraschuk anticipating the long awaited arrival of Blink 182. Now, I knew I was in for an absolutely amazing show but what I got was even more. I witnessed the show of a life time. Now, I know Braydan will say something about S&F here, and sure I can just imagine how freekin' awesome it was, but he didn't attend THIS show, so he actually has no idea how epic it was. Blink 182 was the creation of ... 'alternative' music if you may. They inspired anyone who now listens to anything within radius of the 'hardcore' genre. You can't even deny it.

My tickets were for section 122, row 1, seat 1. Which is yes, slightly behind the floor section. But that didn't dampen the epicness of the experience. Wow, I can't even explain to it's fullest depth, because the only way you would understand is if you were there yourself. I actually cried when they played. I was so mezmerized. (I love that I can't spell that). I even asked Travis Barker to have my children. My cell phone is literally FULL of video footage including, but not limited to, Travi's fucking EPIC drum solo which was equipped with a rising/spinning platform. Holy balls of Jesus himself, it was an experience.

It's so wild how someone that you have absolutely no factual information on, can be your biggest inspiration. Wow. I know you can all agree to that.

Anyways.

mucho luv.
peaaaaaaaaace out.



Ps. I just bought a badass Etnies backpack.
Pps. my cat is such a badass mother fucker.

NOOZ.

It's been almost a week since my last post, and I have lots of news!

First of all, I finally found out my destinations for Katimavik. From October 7th-January 7th I'll be in Vanderhoof, BC. From January 7th - April 20th I'll be in Newmarket, ON. And from April 20th - June 30th I'll be in Alma, QC. I'm so jacked up on all of this. I'm geting nervous though, because as I look around on the Facebook group, it seems that there are tons of people who know a whooole lot more than I do. Whatever though, I'll get informed!

Anyways on to more news, I got a kitty! She's a six week old Callico. I named her Moxy Crimefighter. Pretty badass I must say. She's marvelous, excpet the keeping me up at night thing. Oh and those claws! I must get those removed. I know that sounds cruel, but they are a bitch. I'm so cut up already and I've had her for a week. I guess we'll see if she calms herself while she gets older.

Ally and myself went to the Girlicious show last night, and it was decently fun. They're so hot, I was miiiiiildly turned on. We got pictures with them after. Oh, before the show, we went to Echo and had some drinks. I had three Killer Koolaids. They are so good! Red sour puss, bols blue, and sprite! Wow, beaut.

I go to Winnipeg with Amanda on Sunday! Blink 182 is FINALLY playing a reunion tour and we got some prettttty decent tickets. They're for section 21, row 1. So.. not TOO shabby. They were like 80 bucks, I was deeeefinitley willing to pay it.

Anyways, I will have pictures up from both shows AND of my kitty soon enough!
Oh, and I suggest that everyone sees The Ugly Truth at least once. It's hilarious!


Goooood day, world.

good mornin', good mornin'

good part numero uno.

Julia and I ran the theatre alone last night. We did absolutely everything we needed to, and more without any stress. i can't even explain how amazing it was to have nothing to be pissy about last night. And, we had everything closed down by 1:30, and took our own sweet time cleaning up and perfecting everything. We get to work alone again tonight. Hopefully it's as good.

good part numero deux.

I bought all the things i need for my BRAN SPANKIN NEW KITTY! I get her tomorrow. Well, i'm hoping it's a girl because i'm naming it Moxy Crimefighter either way. If it so happens to be a male, i'll just call it Mo. Yeah! Cleaver, I know.

bad part numero uno.

I have still not heard from Katimavik. I know they said I would find everything out in August, but I'm just tooooooooo damn psyched up about it. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, and we just don't get many of those. So i'm ridiculously lucky to have somewhere to go/something to do RIGHT after highschool. Hopefully this will keep my mind stress free about coming home with nothing to do with my life. I know it will, I can just tell.

I only have one bad thing I think. Which is awesome, because usually I have a shitton of negative nancy rants to go on about.

Oh wait, i'm still down about the whole Anthony leaving shindig. But, like we said, we'll make it work.



Anyways, I'm going out now to buy that bed I mentioned!
Have a good one, world.


Jazmin out.

4am.

Alas, it i four am and once again i'm finding my head filled with thoughts and questions. My mind is racing which, therefrore, is preventing me from sleeping. I wish this would happen in the earlier hours of the day. I love to sleep, infact i'd say it was one of the few things i find myself loving lately. There are so many things that I don't like right now. I'm becoming so bitter towards some things/people/situations. Which is rare because I'm generlly a very happy and positive person. I guess that happens when drastic change is a virtue. It's a jungle out there(Marcus).

On another note, Anthony got a new job today. It causes him to be on the road for eight weeks at a time and then home for one selling magazines(har har har!) across Canada. Apparently it's solid cashflow, so I'm excited for him. Except the problem is, his week home ends four days before I leave for Katimavik. Which saddens me a great amount. He says we'll make it work though, so I'll trust him.

What else, what else? Oh, speaking of trust! I am now, as of today, a firm believer in the whole "the only person you can trust is yourself" thing. I just don't have any faith in anyone anymore.. with the exception of Anthonig & Amanda. Marcus can keep secrets too though. But fully trusting someone else has become immensely risky lately. ESPECIALLY at my place of work. What a ridiculous peice of work that place is.

One month and 10 days. God Speed, please.


Goodnight, world.

no title

"How I wish you could see the potential, the potential of you and me. It's like a book elegantly bound but in a language you can't read just yet. You've got to spend some time, love

you've got to spend some time with me. And I know that you'll find love, I will possess your heart"

These feelings, these re-occuring thoughts, they're growing

quite old, quite fast. But they won't leave my mind. They're

part of what keeps me from sleeping.
I need to make a final decision.

I need courage.

Where does the good go?

Today I wonder two things.

1. How do you know when to let go?

2. Will the world ever know peace?

A very wise man by the name the name of Gandhi once said "You must be the change you want to see in the world"

The problem is, I'm finding it harder and harder to be peaceful.

Maybe someone can lead me down the right path.

07/16/09

So here it is folks, my first ever blog.

I decided to create this saucylittle number with the influence of my bestfriend Braydan Rodwell. If you've read my 'About Me', you'll realize that I'm leaving in a few months. I'm doing a program called Katimavik. Some of you may know of it, but if you don't... I'll fill you in. It's a program that with the duration of nine months. Within those nine months, I'll be travelling Canada with 10 other people in my age group. We'll be doing things like volunteering at non-profit organizations and experiancing some intense group living. So mainly, the reason of this blog is so that I can keep in touch with my friends and whatnot while I'm away.

On a side note, I love Braydan. Our six-hour hangout today was the best. We took some good pictures and had a blasty blast.

It's decently late here, and I haven't slept in a week. So goodnight, yo.