Some things just anger me...

So today was my last day of work ;( Overall it was a lot of fun and I’m so glad that I did it. Despite all the hours standing and the early mornings it was worth it. But today I went to return my ID badge (like I have to) and there was no one there! We were all sent e-mails saying that we had to give them back and we would get our deposits back ($10). It angers me that they want all them back but are not there to take them back... it just makes me angry.

I’m glad that you guys are having good summers.

I do hear your concerns Miah and in some ways I agree but I also think that I agree with Evie in that idea of it all working out in the end. Also Lee I think that you should just jump in and see what happens but remember that you can always change your mind and do something different.

I know that I don’t write much but I do try to say everything that I need too and hopefully one day I will be able to write more for you to read.

Till next time,

Rae <3

The cottage...a day late... :P

Hey peeps!
So...this is embarrassing, no? Well, actually I'm not embarrassed cuz better late than never! :D
Guess wat? I'm at my cottage!! Guess wat else? I have incredibly fast internet!! But you probably already guessed that one :P
Well I suppose I've had a pretty sweet-ass week. Filled sky high with fun, fun, fun!! Now I could write a humongous entry all about how awesome this week was but I think that it would take not only too much time but like...no one would want to read it cuz it would be ridiculously long. So instead, I will simply name off a bunch of things I love to do up here.
Here goes: sunshine, tennis with my mom and then with my brother's friend, swimming, the Loaches (family friends, I'm friends with their daughter), kayaking, biking into town, renting movies or just getting them on satellite (yea I have satellite, get at me!!), visiting family (including my grandma who's here till some time next week), playing cards, farmer's markets, practicing my driving (only got my G1 unfortunately), going for walks along the shore, boating, watching my brother water-ski (briefly, I was driving and the boat just happened to be going alongside the road :P), beat my brother and his friend at three separate board games that they taught me, mostly cuz they were fighting so much they would just feed me points :P pretty hilarious, and at the end of the day coming inside to a huge dinner and a tasty dessert. *Sigh...the cottage is the best :D
This weekend is gonna be kinda crazy though cuz 15, that's right 15, of my brother's friends are coming up to the cottage. They're like gonna pitch tents on the front lawn cuz they don't all fit in the cottage :P It's actually gonna be crazy. I'm pretty excited :D Also the Fellners are coming up tomorrow, and they are like the partyers or something up here so That's also pretty exciting. And then my cousin comes up on Monday!! And I haven't seen her in forever, so THATS exciting :D Omygoodness. It's gonna be a ridiculous week. And my cottage is gonna be Party Centralll! Oh yea...
K, now I will say OMG Rae I'm so excited for you! I can't believe u'll be in NYC soon :D I hope you have so much fun and that it lives up to all the dreams I know you must've had about it since you were little. Also, I hope you last till the end of you're job, it sounds like waking up early has lost it's charm for you :P
Miah, I guess, thanks for your honesty about our blogs and I kind of agree with you about the whole having nothing to do thing. I definitely will get bored eventually and that's the beauty of it. Right now I don't want to do anything so I won't, but I will eventually get bored of doing nothing so then I will finally want to do something! Make sense? Once I decide I actually want to do something then I'll be excited about it and I will really enjoy it, I won't feel resentful that my parents pushed me into it, or that I felt pressure from like society or whatever. Yea...I'm just gonna stick to what I want to do for now because it makes me happy :D Also I hope you're still enjoying your camping thing. Still working on that farmer's tan? :P
And Lee, it sounds like you're a bit worried about your 20 hours of Life Sciences! That sucks :( But, if it's any consolation, you can always change your mind later! Both my cousin and my uncle went all the way through engineering school before deciding to become a doctor. It's never too late! And you have my FULL support to do whatever you please :D I hope the whole Life Sciences thing works out for you! (ps. I love musicians! and museums! and whatever that third one was...)
And Rae, it's true I have not seen you in forever, and on top of that you leave the day I'm back! How tragic! But unlike Miah I believe in that 'it'll all work out' feeling. Cuz...well it just will :P
Talk to you next Thursday! (So much happens between now and then... :0)
- Evie :D

Coordination and Communication

So... I have nothing to really write about... so...
Just sharing my thoughts on things you've said in the past... please don't take it the wrong way, just I dunno ... its what I've thought of.
Evie, I agree with the idea of waking up and thinking I have nothing to do today is the best. But honestly I would get bored of that so quickly and I would start doing the same stupid sluggish things everyday ( I am very much an indoor person, and have on occasion gone weekends, even days with out going outside.) like staring at Facebook, Sims, playing solitaire or Tetris... So that's why I leave my relaxing time for the weekends because its, for me, so much more rewarding then going a month doing nothing.
Rae, I just wanted to point out that I wake up at 6:45 everyday to get to camp. 7:30 would be a dream. There was something else, but I forgot it...
Umm .... Lee you didn't have much, but one thought that I think applies to all three.
This summer is unlike any we have ever had, because it's our transition summer into "the real world" I think, or rather feel that this summer is more like a test to see how we'll do come September. This feeling is because well at the moment we all have our own schedules our own plans, so it's all about coordination and communication. Unlike the last four years not seeing each other over the summer wasn't too awful because we knew within a few weeks we would spend five days a week together. But now, if we don't see each other there is no certain time, because well lets use an example...
I say lets hang out Friday, but Rae your busy only 3/4. Then Rae says how about next Tuesday but myself and Lee are busy then 2/4. Now I realize this can sound negative, but it's just what I've been thinking. That we can't rely on the feeling of "it will happen", because I've done that so many times before and have lost so many friends.
That's partially why I love this blog, it's helped us get one part down, the communication bit but I think we need to work on the coordination because like Lee said, Rae I haven't seen you in over a month, June 23rd to be exact. Now I'm not blaming it on you. Because I understand that when going to the Grease sing a long you would have liked conformation sooner, so it's all our faults. So I think we should all be a little more speedy as well as flexible, speedy in reply and flexible in last minute plans.
So yeah my thoughts on your stuff...
Please don't hate me!
Miah

Thoughts

It's kind of late, and I'd much rather list off random thoughts than attempt to piece together a cohesive series of paragraphs.

1. Lemon meringue pie is amazing. Filling is sweet with a hint of sour, and that fluffy topping is pretty cool. The crust grounds the whole thing; very satisfying.
2. Went to Ontario Place today, and it was a lot of fun! In my mind it's always been a kid brother to the Ex: okay, but way less fun. What I realized today is that it has nothing to do with the Ex, it just happens to be close to the Exhibition grounds. So the comparison is unfair. With that in mind… yeah Ontario Place is pretty okay. Good Beavertails and all. Looking forward to going back!
3. I had a series of pretty dull and bad summers late into elementary school and in middle school. Just… black holes. I used to be at my most "down", and almost looked forward to school starting. Once I really started hanging out with friends during the summer – pretty much when high school began – they started getting better and better.
4. I enrolled in my courses for university today. In a nutshell: biology, chemistry, calculus, and two weird sciency courses that I don't even fully know about. That includes not only the lecture portions of the courses, but the practicals and tutorials, for a grand total of 20 hours of class per week. 20 hours! (I'm looking at some arts students' schedules, and seeing around 14 hours.) Kind of heavy for someone who's not fully convinced about the whole Life Sciences thing. What if I want to be a musician or a store owner or a museum curator? What am I doing taking 20 hours of sciences?
5. I haven't seen Rae in over a month.

À tout à l'heure mes ami(e)s.

Lee

How time flies...

So summer is almost half over. That means that my job is almost over, I need to seriously start thinking about going shopping for school/residence supplies and that my trip to NYC is soon. Let’s break this down...

I am very excited that my job is almost over. The people I work with are nice but I’m kinda over getting up at 7:30 every week day. Don’t get me wrong I love what I do but it’s just getting annoying to do the same thing five days a week.

I have started to write a list/ added to the list I have been given and at this point (I’m typing it out) its three and a half pages long and I have very few things on that list. It is totally freaking me out but at the same time it is very exciting!

I go to NYC August 8 – 12. You may or may not know this but my Mom has been promising me this trip since I was about 10 – she always said "when you turn 18 we will go to NYC". We have a lot that we want to do and hopefully we can get it all done.

This week the most exciting thing about work (other than it being over) is that we get to train the new people! That means that we get to teach people how to do our jobs... I am very excited.

Well have an amazing week everyone and we will talk Friday.

Till next time,

Rae <3

LATE!

So, guys...first late post. Ha, sry bout that :P

It's only about an hour tho right? Yea, not too bad. I'm sure Miah wants to kill me tho. She's prob at this moment picture her fist crushing my face...graphic no? She can be a violent woman :P

So, wat to talk about, wat to talk about...u guys just heard from me yesterday. Hmmm, I foresee a problem with this two blogs in a row business.

Right, well I am currently at a sleepover (hence the lateness of this blog) with some friends, hanging out chilling. Reuniting with peeps I haven't seen in a while. You know, that's kind of a bad thing about summer.

OH!! Brilliant, I can answer Lee's question now cuz I totally forgot about it yesterday. Right so the thing I dislike about summer is the distance it puts between friends. I spend way more time with friends at school than I do at home. It requires so much effort and time to get in touch with all my friends to organize get togethers, even with such a small group as ours. I mean we haven't even gotten together for weeks...us four I mean. It's so...isolating sometimes. Also I end up spending entirely too much time bitching about my family (like not getting along with them) to...well my family. By the end of the summer I'm wishing I had my own place. With a kitten. I love kittens :D.

What I like about the summer is obviously the sunshine. ****- okay uhhhh Lee just reminded me that she actually said to answer this question in a comment on her blog but since I've already started I'm going to risk her wrath and the others and finish my answer -**** Notice I said sunshine and not the heat, or like, smog or any of those other gross things that are...you know, gross in the summer. But what I really love, like the MOST is the freedom. The utter freedom. I'm lucky enough that my parents don't really care what I do during the summer. No "You need to get a job!" lectures for me :D I just chill and TRY to get together with my friends as often as possible. It's that feeling of waking up and thinking "I don't have to do ANYTHING today..." then letting my head fall back to the pillow for another hour or so. It's lovely, just lovely.

There that's my answer about summer. It can be both fun but sometimes lonely. Or maybe the loneliness is just boredom...quite possible.

Good thing I'm going to my cottage for two weeks! Yea. Unh. It's gonna be gooood :D Boating, swimming, biking, walking, running (if I feel like it :P), baking, water skiing, big dinner parties, drinking, reading in the sun, just laying out in the sun...*sigh...the works man, the works.

Till next week!! (assuming I get internet way up there)

Evie :D

Who wouldn't want to bring a hottie to life??

Righty-o!
Omg Rae how did I not know you were on a diet?? And that was a sneaky one Miah cuz I totally overlooked the Anne Hathaway one, thinking it could NEVER be that one I know it's true! Very sneaky...
So, my turn eh? The thing is, just because I have a favourite book doesn't mean I'd want to pick a character from that book to bring to life right? I mean, honestly I'd probably wanna bring to life the hottest guy in one of my books (my love of chick flicks also includes chick lit :P). So, that said, uhhh...maybe...hmmm...no, not him...this is a bit harder than I realized. Well I can say that one of my favourite books from when I was younger was Ella Enchanted (the book is infinitely superior to the movie, sry Miah), but I'm not sure that Char (as is Prince Charming but he is referred to as Char to stick with the shortened names from the original fairy tale - Ella...Cinderella) would be very interesting, PLUS he's kind of a player. How many princesses has he married now, seriously? So he's out.
Now I know what you're thinking, "But Evie, what about twilight? You love Tay Tay Hotner!" And you'd be right in saying that, but in the book? Jacob's kind of a dick. Actually he's a major dick, like hairy and shit. Ha, that works in more ways than one :P As much as I'd love to bring someone as hot as that to life, I don't want some mopey werewolf guy mooning about this lame girl Bella all the time hanging around my house.
So! Next option. This is good. Process of elimination right? Shit...too many options. Who asked this question anyways? God...Okay, okay...OMG. I changed my mind, wait, can I bring to life two people?? And erase their memories? And make the guy like me instead of the other chick? Who I also want to bring back to life? Whatever, I make my own rules.
OKAY. So the characterS I would bring to life are from this random chick lit book that I read like a month ago about this girl who has to take over the job of super-intendant (plz feel free to correct my pathetic spelling) in her building where her parents live cuz the previous one got arrested but it turns out that there some other mysterious shit going down that she didn't know about. Anyway, it's such a hilarious book mostly cuz the main character, Zephyr (I know, crazy name but it matches the crazy character), is imaginative to the extreme and manages to get caught in the most ridiculous cirumstances. Also there's some romance. And that's where the next character I'd bring to life come in, I would totally bring to life the guy she falls for, Gregory. He's all dark haired and kinda broody in a weird anti-social but also giggle-worthy way :D *sigh...totally dreamy. So if they don't end up falling for each other then I'd have an awesome and hilarious friend to be cool with and a totally shmexy guy to mack with! Ta-daa!! It's PERFECT. Sometimes I even amaze myself, not just a pretty face my friends, not just a pretty face ;P
Well, that is my answer for the question of the week or whatever...
And just to keep the peeps up to date I am leaving Saturday for my cottage!! Woo hoo right? Yea, so I may or may not be able to do the blog for a couple weeks cuz internet up there sound like a dying telephone (we only have dial-up), grates on the nerves, man. But hopefully the nice internet people will hook us up with some serious internet so I can tell y'all how much fun I'm having!
Till next...oh wait, I mean, tomorrow!
Evie out!

Anne

Hello!!!
I’m really enjoying your answers! Learning so much! Anyway so, like Rae I love two children’s book series, Anne of Green Gables and the infamous Harry Potter. While the idea of bringing Harry to life would be awesome I would have to choose Anne Shirley over him. I just like the character better; she's more about being an individual, and self-expression. I mean she is told so many times to stop daydreaming and that imagination is stupid! Who wouldn't love this character! Also she was so ahead of her time, as a girl she was always the smartest in her class, and went to University (which at that time women were supposed to stay home.) She is just so cool!
So... what else... um... Camp is crazy I have 20 children, two other co-councilors so that means we have a ration of 6.666666 campers to 1 councilor. So like I've said before I am exhausted. Oh but today I showed a little girl that she could stand in the pool all by herself! She was so excited we were telling everyone we saw! She then later yelled at me for carrying her in the pool since the beginning of the summer. Honestly you can't win with 5 year olds.
What else... oh! On Sunday my grand father is turning 95! So the week after I am off to Montreal for his party. At the party my brother and I are going to make a speech I think I'll write a poem... maybe even a Pentina! (Eh Evie and Lee!!?!!?)
Ok. I've got to go, I have a meeting at 7:30.
Miah

My Throat Hurts (mentioned nowhere else in this post)

First thing's first. Who would Lee bring to life, from her favourite book. (*switching out of 3rd person in 3…2…1…)

Well let me think about this! What an intriguing question. My favourite book is probably Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (swear there's a space between hitch and hiker in the edition I have), and of those characters Ford Prefect - an alien posing as a human - would probably be the best one to chat with. Not because he's the most interesting character, but because he's nearly the most interesting character, and seems more friendly to humans. (Played by Mos Def in the recent movie, for reference. But the guy in the old TV miniseries (or whatever) was better.)

Next thing's second. I mentioned that I would give an update about how it went, coming back to the boy in my life right now, after being away for that half-month in Europe.

Interestingly enough, it was a little weird, as I had feared! But luckily that only lasted a little while. If I were Evie, writing this on Thursday, or Miah, writing this on Friday, I may have been less positive. But since then, things have returned to the rhythm they had been going at before I left. Just… chills. Happy and un-serious. Hooray! I don't even know what had happened when I was away, but I came back to a slightly different "feel" than I remembered. Now though, "'s allll good".

Last thing's last, I'm gonna change things up a wee bit. Instead of waiting for your day, can you three comment (and anyone else too) telling me your favourite and least favourite things about summer? Keep it to one fav, one least fav; not gonna make it easy on you!

Later,
Lee

I'm not good at picking favourites

If you could bring one character to life from your favourite book, who would it be?

The problem with this simple seeming question is that I don’t really have a favourite book. There are two series that I love but I don’t have a favourite book. The two series are Harry Potter and The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes. I would love to bring the whole story of Abby Hayes to life. She (Abby) seems like such an interesting person that I could have a nice chat with. By the way I am fully aware that the books are meant for pre-teens and I don’t care. Now as for Mr. Potter I would just be amazing to meet him and all of his friends and ask them all the questions that I have.
I’m sure that there are other (possibly more insightful) books that I could mention but I just love these books so much that they were my first answer.

Anyway... you all got it wrong fact 3 was the lie. I don’t have much else to say.

Till next time,
Rae <3

Washington

Hey!

Oh-My-God am I exhausted!!!!

Like really tired...

Anyways what to write about...

Um?

...

Lets see I haven't really fully talked about Washington. It was a really good trip, kinda weird The thing is that I am so used to going to New York when I go to the states, so when police officers tell you the walk to your hotel is a long walk you know you're not in " a walking city" which are the cities I live for. I love walking, like for me the idea of going on vacation on a cruise or a beach seems so dull, I am in all essence of the word a city girl. Like even choosing Universities, if they weren't in a major city I didn't consider them (not to mention only major cities have the program I'm going into. -- What was I talking about? Oh yeah Washington. Anyways, on our first night we got lost, and we asked a bunch of people for directions, even police officers who didn't know where we were going. Also everywhere you go you have to go through security, like everywhere. There are also a lot of Americans, like a lot. I am used to New York like I said, so I'm used to tourist from all over the world, but majority of those who visit Washington are other Americans. It was also incredibly hot, on our first day we went through six bottles of water! I got a really bad burn that ended up blistering... yeah I'm very pale. We visited the Capital (the parliament building), which was a wasteful tour; it was basically out of date movie (Barack Obama was a Senator and Ted Kennedy was still alive) and then a couple of random rooms with statues. We visited Abe Lincoln, The Washington Monument, the Vietnam Monument, the Museum of American History, (it’s more of a pop culture museum then a snore fest, unfortunately the major section that I would have loved is under construction and isn't open again until 2011) the Air and Space Museum, the Newseum, and being the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors of course the Holocaust Museum. All in all it was a great trip. Just had a lot of things I'm not used to, like paying for museum, massive groups of family reunions, machete guns casually walking about and southern American accents.

So yeah... Washington in a nutshell.

Um...

Camp is exhausting like I said... a lot of cute boys. But no BF material learned from last year that I need boyfriends that I have more in common with then just Camp. There are a lot of jerks, and a lot of princesses, and a lot of drama. But I try to distant my self from that stuff...

Oh and my lie was number 1, I am a big Anne Hathaway fan, but haven't seen all of her movies, yet.

As far as you three see you like five times this weekend, and I have a question for ya'll. I looked up some conversation starters cause at first I didn't know what I wanted to write about... but obviously succeeded in a long post. Any who... answer this for me. If you could bring one character to life from your favorite book, who would it be? I'll answer on my day too.

This just proves how busy I was on Wednesday, I obviously like to type.

Miah

Europe no more, summer chick flicks galore!

Hullo! It's Evie :D
Finally back from my Eurotrip :P A whole two weeks of wonderful adventure. It was pretty amazing living away from home and exploring new cities and languages. Having read Lee's post I have to say that coming home was a different experience for me. I found that I jumped right back into things; it's only been three days back home but it already feels like I never left. I have also been told repeatedly that I was missed :D super sweet right? I'm glad to be home if only because I'm most likely not going to get robbed at home. I do miss the french bread though (I knew I would :P). Coming back home was a bit like trying on shoes or something - let me expand that a bit. Each of the different places were new shoes I was trying on; each one was fun to live in for a bit or 'try on' but at the end of the day it's kinda nice to put back on my comfy shoes, the ones I'm used to, the ones I started with. Yea, I hope that doesn't make me sound like a crazy person. One more thing about the trip, it made me realize I really do like traveling (I wasn't sure before the trip) but I like to travel with other people as opposed to doing it on my own. It seems fun to share such an awesome experience like that with friends and such.
Anywho, on to the second part of the title of my post. Chick flicks baby!! I happen to adore chick-flicks (quality chick flicks that is - the ones with actual acting in them and, you know, good romance and stuff...don't judge me :P) and so today I went with my sister (also a fan of a good 'ole chick flick now and again) to see Knight and Day, the new movie with Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise. I went in to the movie with fairly low expectations having seen the trailer and read the terrible review in the paper and in that frame of mind I thoroughly enjoyed myself :D. I laughed at the parts I was supposed to and I got all giddy during even the lamest of romantic moments. It was pretty sweet, not gonna lie! But you'll notice my use of the word lame, yea it was kinda lame...in fact I predict some harsh criticisms on the movie if I were to bring it up in a conversation with some of my friends (yea Sloan, I'm talking about you!) but...meh! It's all about the entertainment value right?
Now that I'm back home it's nice seeing movies again. While I was away I saw a total of like 1.5 movies...in over two weeks!! It's summer time babay, I wanna see all the summer flicks! I feel like I've missed so many already, which is why I went today with my sister...and then came home and watched Shakespeare in Love. Now there's a fantastic chick flick, but it's not new it's from the 90's. I would highly, and I mean HIGHLY recommend it to the chick flick fan, or even someone who isn't cuz I mean, it's pretty good quality in every aspect. It won a fuckin oscar after all :D ...*sigh...just remembering a good scene. Seriously though, for those who haven't seen it...just...I dunno, go see it and stuff. It's good. Peeps can back me up on that one.
Right. Well this is probably long enough ya? (Throw in a little british for ya...tee-hee)
I hope all of you are enjoying the summer flicks too!! Till next week -
Evie (in a good mood thanks to Joseph Fiennes and Gwenyth Paltrow!) :D

ps. I just realized that I've actually spent the last two days in chick flick mode cuz I saw Eclipse the other day with Lee...also liked that one :P though I'll admit to it's slight lameness also...but the eye candy in that movie is OFF THE CHARTS...seriously.
pps. uhhhhh i have no idea about rae's thingy but I'm just gonna guess number 2 also cuz I feel like I would have noticed something like that :P

Liar! Liar! Pants on Fire!

AAAAH! Ok Type quick cause I have no time tonight as it's parents night!
Guess like Rae. (Thanks for the idea btw.)
1. I am a huge Anne Hathaway fan and have seen every single movie she's ever been in.
2. I am terrified by balloons, like actually terrified.
3. I have been going to the same camp for nine years.
Aha! Miah can write a small entry!
Friday will be better!
Bye!
Miah
Oh! And Rae I guess number 2 also. Forget what it said but I guess number 2!

Back in the USSR

Hey guys, back from Europe. (Lee here.) Two and a half weeks was quite a long time, so I'm not too unhappy to be back home. Saw the sights, met the people, ate the food… now it's back to real life.

But in some ways, I'm finding it hard to get back to exactly where I was. It freaks me out that the world – my world – kept on spinning while I was away. My friends lived their lives, my family did its thing, and everybody moved forward, if only a little. I get a little knot in my stomach, thinking that maybe I don't fit as well now as I did before I left.

We'll see. I can be reasonably confident that two weeks away is not nearly enough to separate me from my friends. We're tight! We can survive much more than a measly half of a month. But what about the other people in my life? You know, the boys. Boy. Whatever.

It makes me so nervous, thinking that maybe suddenly I won't be good enough. That in the time I was away, things will have changed. Imperceptibly, but definitely. But – ack! – I'm being silly. Whatever, moment of truth comes tomorrow. I'll keep you posted?

By the way, Rae, I think #2 was the lie in your post. Not sure, but that's my vote. I'm honestly not creative enough to come up with a lie about myself. I'm honest by default, due to my lack of imagination. :P

Sneaking this post in before midnight. :D Talk to you guys next week!

-Lee

Two Truths and One Lie

I am going to give you three facts and you will have to guess which two are true and which one is a lie.

Fact #1
Despite being 18 years old every night I still sleep with my stuffed animal named Puffy/ Mrs. Puff. I also consider her my security blanket – when I am sad or just need someone to comfort me she is the one that I go and find and I just sit with her and I feel better.

Fact #2
At the start of last August (August 2009) my mother and I joined Weight Watchers and since then I have lost about 7lbs. but despite all the hard work that it took to get here I don’t feel like I have lost any weight – I feel just the same and that is what sucks the most.

Fact #3
I wear a black string on my left ankle as a ‘wish string’ the idea being that you make a wish tie the string on and when it falls off then you wish will or has come true. You can’t tell anyone your wish or it will never come true and just fall off so there is no point is asking me what the wish was.

Good luck and I will tell you the answer next week.

Till next time,
Rae <3

p.s. Ladies, feel free to do your own two truths and one lie

I love QWERTY keyboards.

Hey all, Friday with Lee.

I'm notoriously lazy in many aspects of daily life - though luckily not all - so I'm going to try to write this post with very little energy. But of course I'll attempt to maintain the high standards of the blog, as established by my three lovely friends (R.E.M. haha).

Super Short Answer Time! (I play this game with my parents all the time, you know, where one becomes a mopey monosyllabic teenager...)

Where are you?
London

How are you feeling?
Neutral I guess

Are you hungry?
Nahh

What are you doing right now?
MSN (um and blog)

What will you do tomorrow?
Go with the flow-deezy

K cool

So that was my mopey teenager blog, hope you liked it, I know I did. See you Tuesday, but I honestly don't know when, since that's the day of the big plane ride back hoooommmmeeeeee! I must say, there are a few things I'm looking forward to seeing again slash hanging out with again and by things I mean girls named Miah and Rae.

Lee

Alright I just reread that and it seems a little bare. Bear in mind I was reading it with the formatting... code in it so it seemed chunkier.

So let's fill this baby up:
This morning I went for a walk with my dad's cousin, her husband, and their dog. She - the cousin - took me through Regent's park. It was gorgeous, and especially beautiful because of the way the 7AM sun was hitting the trees and water and even the birds. (Yes... 7AM.)

At one point she steered me to a rose garden that she couldn't go into because she had the dog. So I went in on my own, accompanied by my camera. I'm no photographer but I tried my best to capture the beauty of the roses, even though the scope of the lens couldn't possibly capture the diversity of colours. There were so many kinds of roses, with names like Ice Cream and Heart of Gold. It was lovely!

When I get home, I'll post some of the pictures if they turned out well. So hard to tell on the little screen of a digital camera.

Again, see you on Tuesday.

Edit to add:

Londres!! Oops, I mean London!!

Hey guys, it's Evie!
Just arrived in London today, but still kind of in french mode :D France was a blast, and uhhhh...I guess I have to comment or like reply to Lee's little thingy about the french guy...So as you know Lee and I braved the big scary lobby in the hostel the other night while still in Lille (but I didn't tink it was that scary...meh) Anywho, one of the guys who worked there, Steve, walked over and saw me sitting waiting for Lee to finish so he asked if I wanted to play fuseball. I'm not gonne lie it was pretty sweet, AND I turned out to be not half bad, even got some goals in :D BUT...yea he was like thirty guys, sorry no action there :P NOT to say he wasn't cute or anything. Because he was. And he said my name with a french accent...makes my knees wobble :P The next night was also fun...funner? Lee, myself and Sloan got to sneak into the staff room and play some darts with the like director or something of the hostel...aka another french guy, Ash. Not as cute as Steve but...wtvr. Darts was awesome! I sucked, like majorly but it was cool :D
ANYways, that and shopping made up our visit to Lille. It was beautiful there, and then today was our first like half-day in London! Pretty sweet eh? Already went out for dinner and we're staying with some of Lee's family so it was FREE. Yea free. Unh.
As for tomorrow...SHOPPING! We'll head down to Oxford street and Regent street to hit up some sick shops and stuff :D Also, as Lee mentioned (not in her blog but irl) we'll be exploring more of the actual city itself as opposed to just like one big shopping area. We already took our Abbey Road picture :D We're ahead of the game bebe!
Well, until next week (when I will unfortunately no longer be in Europe) this is Evie...signing off?

The Counselor Haze

Hey Guys!
I can't hear you!!!
Bleh. So I am currently living what I like to call the counselor haze. I mean I am totally exhausted and well in shock of my day. Unfortunately I am legally not allowed to tell you about my campers because well they are small children, but I can tell you I have cuties! One funny story that I will share happened yesterday, with a camper who's name for this will be... Steve. Steve had just swithed into my cabin because his older brother named... Luke was in my group and Steve cried every five seconds. Anyway the switch was made after lunch and at the end of the day I hear Steve crying ( which he didn't do after the switch) I ask him "Steve why are you crying?" He responds "Because (cry) I haven't (cry) cried in Cabin 3 yet!!!! (big cry!!!!)" Honestly the funniest thing that I have ever heard!
Last night I went to see Eclipse... and oooh man... was it special. I will be the first to admit that I was mostly excited about the Harry Potter trailer, (and not just cause Daniel Radcliffe is my husband) but because I had watched it about 30 times prior to last night, but man was it 1000 times better on the silver screen. The actualy movie wasn't terriable like the first, and not bad like the second, it was well... Special. Now I'm not going to spoil the most hilarious line for those of you who haden't seen it yet, but I will tell you how the audience reacted. I was the first to start the O-MY-GOD this is crap laughert. This attitude escilated to some guy yelling at Bella "Stop undressing you fucking idiot!" It honestly made the movie. What else? People applauded, gasped when Taylor Lautner-- I mean TayTay Hotner was topless. Oh my biggest annoyance was the actor who plays Jasper. I am going to admit that to me in real life he is the most attractive one of the bunch. Why? Don't ask, just accept. But for the entire movie when he spoke his upper lip would not move! Like at all, he's such a bad actor!!! It hurts! Ok thats my Twilight rant, I could go on, but I won't.
So... what else...
Hmm...
Oh Rae I have to disagree with you. First off that book is known to have many fabrications to make it more pathetic, also I think that If I think my life sucks at the moment my life sucks. I really could care less about (ok about to be very offensive) poor kids in africa or drugies because I believe that it's all about persepctive. I think that incredibly wealthy children's lives can suck while those who have nothing can suck too. Hopefully I'm being clear. (Had to stop here at 6 for staff meeting.)
(Started again at 11)
Lee and Evie glad to hear France and the rest of Europia are working out for you, bleh this is late even worse in the haze... Can't wait to hear more about the boys.
As far as at camp, nothing exciting... cute but lame guys. Yeah...
Miah

Qu'il fait chaud en France!

Hi! My goodness, I hope you appreciate the lengths to which I've gone to write this on time. I'm in a hostel in Lille, France and it's like 11:30 PM. Was about to go to bed, when it hit me that I hadn't posted yet. Luckily Evie was kind enough to accompany me to the big bad lobby for some free wi-fi on my iPod touch. Yeea man. (She's now playing fooseball with a rather cute French man so everyone's happy I think.)

Oh sorry forgot to mention: Lee here, second week so second post.

So iuno peeps, what do you want to hear about? We finished with Paris and Bruges, and just got in from Brussels this morning. Lille is actually quite lovely, but we're sleeping through our days; gotta stop doing that if we really want to live it up.

Quoi d'autre? Man, so far a lotta hot guys in Lille. (disclaimer: looks aren't everything yadda yadda you get it) Like our waiters and randoms on the street- 's allll good right. Good eye candy but my heart lies west of the Atlantic I guess. In some ways I'm relieved: I'm a person who hates indicision and thus likes when decisions are already made. I have no ambivilence re: dudes in Europe. They're off limits and I don't mind one bit. :)

Aww Evie is TOO cute with that fooseball game so like wanna take longer. But not because who knows what she's really feeling. Let us know in your Thursday post Evie-my-dear, if you wish.

Alright guys and gals, I'll talk to you... on Friday!

-Lee

Does your life really suck?

Last week(ish) I started reading A Million Little Pieces by James Frey this book amazes me. Every page makes me more thankful of the life that I have. The basics of the book are that James Frey (yes it is an autobiography and I am not reading it for school) was heavily addicted to alcohol and crack and one day found himself in rehab. I could never imagine half the stuff he describes and it really happened to him. Reading books of this nature force me to look at my life, I mean truly look at my life and most of the time I realise that for all the times that I say “my life sucks!” it really does not. I have a roof over my head, food in the fridge, a family that loves me and amazing friends who are there for me…
Well on that note I don’t have much else to say so have a good week and think about this book and what James Frey experienced next time you decide your life sucks.

Till next time,
Rae <3

Disney Princess Chicken Noodle Soup :D

I just got home from work and am cooking a can of Disney Princesses Chicken Noodle Soup… YUM! Now that that is done I’m gonna eat it and write this at the same time.

Work is everything I thought it would be, lots of checking out people with what ever they want to buy, stocking shelves and helping people find what they are looking for. I know that is sounds boring (and sometimes it is) but most of the time I love it. Like I said before it is something that I have wanted to do ever since I was a little girl. I know that me talking about work is boring so I will keep it to a minimum.

Yesterday was Canada Day, I celebrated by making cupcakes that spell Oh, Canada! and then proceeded to eat two of them (woops!). Then my Dad decided that he was cold so he lit a fire in my backyard fire pit thing and that was fun but once it got dark I whipped out the leftover sparklers from Victoria Day and lit a few of those… I love sparklers epically spelling things with them. We also had one leftover firework and some small strobes and spiny things and we lit those out on our street. I also wore red and white to celebrate. Canada Day was overall a good day.

Ok so my soup is done, my tummy is full and my Dad wants someone to go grocery shopping with him so I’m off to the grocery store.

Till next time,
Rae <3

From La France :D

Bonjour to zee interwebs!
I am the fourth and final member of this blog to be introduced :D I send greetings from France, as Lee mentioned already we are currently in Paris, enjoying the HOT weather, the yummy food and the sweet busking acts and performances all around the Notre Dame. Sadly this is our last day :( We say au revoir to Paris but bonjour (or wtvr the Flemish equivalent is of hello) to Belgium, Bruges to be more specific.

But I suppose that doesn't say too much about me personally. I'm not quite sure how to describe or introduce myself. My name is Evie, I have an insatiable hunger for films (only good ones), I luuuuv to laugh, I do well in school but I think that marks are overrated, I don't fight with my siblings like families always do in the movies, I play the trumpet and the piano....uhhh, I took a personal fitness class this year in the hopes of getting SUPER fit but kinda failed, and I like to snap my gum, not blow bubbles. Right. So there are a few insignificant details about my life that you may or may not find interesting, wtvr. I'd like to think that this blog is going to be something of an outlet for creative writing in the sense that it will be a collection of stories and opinions and such from the four of us. For our entertainment and hopefully yours too...whoever you are, reading this :D It'd be fuckin sweet if this got popular and stuff, but I do have a more rational part of my brain berating me for being stupid. Oh well, it's nice to dream, no?
As for my plans next year, as in where I'll be and what I'll be doing while writing this, I'm taking a year off. Either to travel, or to work, or just to chill, or maybe all of the above. I know I don't want to go to school next year, University I mean; I'm sick of school and all its narrow-mindedness. So next year I may find myself in Australia! Wouldn't that be awesome? In any case I'll let ya know!
Till next time (next thursday to be exact)
-Evie :D