worth 1000

well, the saying is, "a picture's worth a thousand words", so this should keep you busy for a while. These are pics from about mid-may that i've been intending to put up here forever!



This film strip is from Greig Ave's house cooling/ Mels' birthday/ Kristie's Bon Voyage/ "we need to have a really big party" party. There were stacks of people there and we hawaained it up in an awesome way. I even made a new south african friend. Yay for meeting random people on the street!

These pics are from "Roomie supper". We all went out toMontana's for supper, and i dared Kristie and Karla to kiss the moose. Long and short of it is, desert won out over public humiliation and the moose has a better day than he's had for a while. haha.

Mel, Andrea and I decided to go shopping one beautiful Thursday. Shopping turned into picnic in the park, which in turn became posing like statues on top of the fountain. I think we amused the people around us, we definately got some applause ;)

Travel bug

I thought this was pretty cool. Most of these places i've only flown through... although i did spend time in England, Scotland, Zim and a little time in South Africa... I added St Vincent, i figure give or take a month. :) :) :)



create your own visited countries map


later...
Carie

catching up with carie

Oh my goodness, how is it June 16th already???? Where has time gone. As Jill adroitly pointed out tonight, a month ago i said "Sorry.. have to run... call you in 4 hours" and 4 weeks and 4 hours later... uggg. Sorry Jill. Its not that life got that much crazier, it just got that much simpler because i stopped doing fundamental things like Blogging and phoning people i love. So giant appology to everybody who once read this blog and has now moved on to greener (and more prolific) pastures.

So where to begin. I have now quit the Dub. Yup 5 weeks was just about it for me. I got awesome news in that i'm stationed in Rosthern for my internship, so only 45 mins away. AND i only have to start school on the 25th, which meant that i could take the full time job with Boys and Girls Clubs. We're doing day camps out at Pike Lake. I'm STOKED. Now the big question is whether or not to move out to Rosthern in the fall. I'm strongly leaning towards doing it, but Julia has invited me to live with her in September, which i'm also pretty tempted to do.. only move once again?? instead of 3 (YUP THREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!) times in 7 months is hard to pass up. My teachers in Rosthern seem very nice... they have as much desire to do school work in the summer as i do, so i think i'll end up doing most of my planning and units in the fall when we get back, which suits me just fine.

BIG NEWS! i'm going on the Journey missions trip to St Vincent and the Grenadines. Because i only have to be back for my missions trip on the 25th instead of the 15th, i get to go!!!!! http://www.svgtourism.com/ check out this site... we're going to Fountain, (near Kingstown) - where Brendon is from. We're going to run a VBS and do some one on one young adult decipleship.
So that is very exciting. Got my passports and everything all lined up yesterday, should have it all back in 2 weeks. YAY!!!!

The wedding bug has bitten again. This is the line up for the summer: Susan and Jason (1st July) Daniel and Alisa (15th July), Jill and Dan (22th July), and Cory and Leisa sometime when i'm in St Vincent. Our Biblestudy group is going marraige CRAZY! haha. So i'm really glad to be home this summer for those weddings. God has worked things out so well. Cos technically, i should be at Keats right now if i had known my internship date. but then i'd be missing so much here. He is so good.

anyway - i'm having a really good catch up with carie type evening, so i'm going to go do some more of the things i've been intending to do for weeks.

blessings.
c

hula dancers

 finally a pic from the hawaiian bash... more to come !

Hey! I'm STOKED to have my computer back. So stoked that i wasted a bunch of time doing stupid online quizes. uggg... getting up for work isn't going to be fun tomorrow.
Anway, at least my inner quirky child will keep me entertained.

Have a good night.
C

Your Quirk Factor: 57%

You're a pretty quirky person, but you're just normal enough to hide it. Congratulations - you've fooled other people into thinking you're just like them!

How Quirky Are You?

Your Inner Child Is Surprised

You see many things through the eyes of a child. Meaning, you're rarely cynical or jaded. You cherish all of the details in life. Easily fascinated, you enjoy experiencing new things.

How Is Your Inner Child?

further lessons in South Africanisms

In an effort to help my international readers really "get" half of what i'm talking about... please take a look at this brief tutorial, regarding some South African terms, phrases and expressions. ** I stole it from Madam and Eve... so this might help you understand some of the brilliance of future cartoons...**

This is a work in progress, so if anyone out there has any to add ... feel free.

SNOEK LADY - Like a "Mielie Lady", only they sell snoek.
SNOEK - Oh. It would probably help to know what snoek is. It's a fish.
ROBOT - No, nothing to do with "Star Wars." Here, it's a traffic light.
BOOT - trunk of a car.
BOOTS - You wear them on your feet.
HONK - Has nothing to do with the horn of a car. Honk means "smells bad". (That perfume you're wearing really honks.)
HONK - The sound the hooter makes on your car when you push it. Called a "horn" in America.
MINIBUS TAXI - The inventors of "road rage" here. Rules of the road do not apply.
AFRICAN TIME - Whenever someone actually feels like showing up for a scheduled appointment.
"I'M COMING NOW" - In South Africa, it means "I am coming... but not sure exactly when."
"I'M COMING JUST NOW" - I'm coming...but don't hold your breath.
"I'M COMING NOW NOW." - Forget it. You could be waiting days.

More in our next installment of "South African phrases and expressions made easy".

I'm ALIVE!

Fear not dearest friends! for i am not dead, just internettly devoid. That is to say that since the last time i blogged, i have moved homes, stopped going to school, constructed and destructed some important relationships, searched and interviewed for many jobs and now sit here, reaquainted with my computer, jobbed and INTERNETTED!! yippee.

It has been an interesting transition from living with 4 girls (plus 2 boys we couldn't get rid of, yet who wouldn't pay rent) in a big house, to living with my sis in a small basement suite. Different, but awesome. I'm really liking this new place, and i don't think AJ and i have ever got on so well. life is good. PLUS! I have a whole separate world in the bottom of my bedroom. You'll have to come over someday and i'll show you NARNIA. Its pretty exciting, i'm not going to lie. Additionally, i don't think much has changed. I've hung out with Karla more in the last 2 weeks than i did the whole time we lived together, and Mel has already come to visit (i like to think she's visiting me, but i know the truth ;) I like pineapples!)

As for jobs, yes, i'm back at the Dub. I know, i know. i said last time was the last time. but i guess its not. I've looked all over the place, and things just haven't opened up for me the way i wanted. but this way, i'm able to still work at McNab and make full time hours at A&W. so not bad - back to last year. haha. i'm REGRESSING. so much for my newly educated status. But i'm pretty stoked to catch up with old friends.

anyway - i'm going to bed now - got to savour every last minute of being in bed before i start the 7-3 shifts again... uggg.

c

hmmm... interesting...

i always wonder who makes up this junk... but its funny anyway... and sometimes pretty accurate... wierd.
Now i need to find me a Newborn Soul, Prophet Soul, or Traveler Soul ;)

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Your vivid emotions and imagination takes you away from this world
So much so that you tend to live in your head most of the time
You have great dreams and ambitions that could be the envy of all...
But for you, following through with your dreams is a bit difficult

You are charming, endearing, and people tend to love you.
Forgiving and tolerant, you see the world through rose colored glasses.
Underneath it all, you have a ton of passion that you hide from others.
Always hopeful, you tend to expect positive outcomes in your life.

Souls you are most compatible with: Newborn Soul, Prophet Soul, and Traveler Soul

You Are a Dreaming Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

have you ever got to that place in your life where you just don't have words?? or if you start using you words you'll just never stop? i'm sorry my dearest Rochelle for not writing. but somebody somewhere wrote it better in a song than i could ever say.

"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened"

BURNT NORTON (No. 1 of 'Four Quartets')
T.S. Eliot

I'm done.

Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes
How do you measure, measure a year?

In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights
In cups of coffee
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.

How about love? Measure in love
How do you measure the life
Of a woman or a man?

In truths that she learned,
Or in times that he cried.
In bridges he burned,
Or the way that she died.

If nothing else, watch this movie. ("RENT") it gives you a powerful reminder about how we use each one of the 525600 minutes we are granted a year.
Life changes so quickly in mere seconds, its astonishing to think in about the last 52559 minutes and what i've done with it.

SEASONS OF LOVE (Rent)

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And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
...
And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
To say: “I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all”—
If one, settling a pillow by her head,
Should say: “That is not what I meant at all.
That is not it, at all.”
...
And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor—
And this, and so much more?—
It is impossible to say just what I mean!
But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
“That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.”

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Elliot

Complicated

Uh-huh,
Life's like this
Uh-huh, uh-huh
That's the way it is
'Cause life's like this
Uh-huh, uh-huh
That's the way it is

Chill out,
What you yellin' for?
Lay back, it's all been done before
And if you could only let it be
You will see

I like you the way you are
When we're, driving in my car
And you're talking to me
One on one
But you become

Somebody else
'Round everyone else
Watchin' your back
Like you can't relax
You're tryin' to be cool
You look like a fool
To me

Tell me

Why do you have to go and make things so complicated?
I see the way you're
Acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated
Life's like this, you
And you fall and you crawl
And you break and you take
What you get and you turn it into
Honesty Promise me I'm never gonna find you fake it

No, no, no

You come over unannounced
Dressed up like you're something else
Where you are and
Where you sat, you see
You're making me
Laugh out
When you strike a pose
Take off all your preppy clothes
You know
You're not fooling anyone
When you become

Somebody else
'Round everyone else
Watchin' your back
Like you can't relax
Tryin' to be cool
You look like a fool
To me

Tell me

Why do you have to go and make things so complicated?
I see the way you're
Acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated
Life's like this, you
And you fall and you crawl
And you break and you take
What you get and you turn it into
Honesty Promise me
I'm never gonna find you fake it

No, no, no...

Chill out,
What you yellin' for?
Lay back, it's all been done before
And if you could let it be
You will see

Somebody else
'Round everyone else
You're watchin' your back
Like you can't relax
You're tryin' to be cool
You look like a fool
To me, to me

Why do you have to go and make things so complicated?
I see the way you're
Acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated
Life's like this, you
And you fall and you crawl
And you break and you take
What you get and you turn it into
Honesty Promise me I'm never gonna find you fake it

No, no

Why do you have to go and make things so complicated?
I see the way you're
Acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated
Life's like this, you
And you fall and you crawl
And you break and you take
What you get and you turn it into
Honesty Promise me I'm never gonna find you fake it