Wednesday, September 6, 2000

High School.

I started attending public high school in the month of September of the year 2000 at the Forest Grove High School in the city of Forest Grove of the Washington County of the state Oregon of the country United States of northern America, which was my first time in public school.

Prior to this, I was only in Home School as taught by my own mother, Marilyn Mitchell Morehead Arnold Cunningham Mitchell, and also Self-Taught through the aid of books, television, computers, clubs, Bibles, friends, games, songs, and other such means.

Friday, July 14, 2000

Family Reunion 2000

Family Reunion 2000.

In the year 2000, when I was 15 years old, in July, while I was still in home school, before I started public high school for the first time, me and my family attended the Morehead Family Reunion 2000 in Long Beach, Washington USA.

My mother's maiden name is Morehead. In other word, my mom was born and raised with the last name Morehead. The reunion consisted of her side of the family. Me & my brother have attended 2 family reunions with my dad, which had dad's side of the family. In 1992, when I was 7 years old, me, my dad, my brother, and my sister Katie, went to Los Angeles California, and Disneyland for around ten days to see the relatives of my dad. In 1997, when I was 12 years old, me, my brother, and my dad drove my sister Katie's car to southern Oregon, to Goldhill, Medford, Roseburg, Crater Lake, to see my dad's friends and and adopted family, since my dad was born in the year 1950 in Los Angeles but was adopted when he was 2 years old and was moved to southern Oregon. My dad did not know he was adopted until he was about 15 years old, and he failed at trying to find his real family until my mom somehow found a lucky phone book or something and was able to find my dad's real mother, but my dad's father died when my dad was 3 years old. So, we do not know much about my dad's side. I think my dad's dad, Peter Jr. Marinus Rasp, was born 1908 in like Holland, Amsterdam, Netherlands, or one of those places, or I am confused. Let me look for a map.

The reunion in 2000 had my 2nd cousin, Ted Pickett, who may be 40 years old, and he write and performs songs on his guitar and has a band. My mom's father and step-mother was there. We went go-cart racing. I was able to play basketball with people including uncle Jim Williams.



July 2000
15 years old
Long Beach, Washington, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Saturday, June 10, 2000

Mission Trip in Idaho

Mission Trip in Idaho.

Me & my youth group of the Cornelius Community Baptist Church (in Cornelius, Oregon, USA) went on a Mission Trip in Idaho, USA for about 10 days in June or July or something like that of the year 2000 when I was 15 years old, just months before I started attending public high school for the first time ever (since I was Home Schooled before that via my mother). My brother may have went with us. There was also Stephanie Bishop, Matt Oakes, Dan Anderson. There was the youth pastors Dan Beaty, Rich Libby.

We went to Idaho to help out former church friend and missionary (who was previously in the Ivory Coast, Africa) Bill Williams, who is not related to my uncle and aunt, Jim and Karen Williams. We painted and fixed cracks, swept, did some construction, and a few things to make things better at their church and the very small village town that they lived in, in Idaho. The city may have been a population of less than 1,000 people.

June 10 or so, 2000
15 years old
Idaho, United States
Joey Arnold

Monday, February 14, 2000

Valentines Day 2000

When I was 15 years old in the year 2000, for Valentines Day, which was on Monday, the 14th of February 2000, I recorded our church party at our church, the Cornelius Community Baptist Church, with my new smaller VHS-C compatible camcorder that came from my father.

The party went from around 5 - 7 PM. I tried recording those 2 hours. It may have lasted longer, if you count waiting for the children to be picked up by their parents. The party was designed to allow parents to drop off their kids on their way to a romantic dinner or whatever that they want to do as parents or as a couple in need of rekindled intimacy.

Only a few children and teens attended. There was a total of around 20 people, including youth group leader Rich Libby who was married in our church, Stephanie and Brian Bishop, Christina Beaty, two twin brothers who like Pokemon, the neighborhood (from the Rose Grove where I was raised at) girls who are friends with my younger sister who was also there, a baby, and there may have been a few others.

We had a few snacks, games, a cartoon movie to watch, drinks, and there was me with my camcorder. In another room was the like temporary secretary or accountant Tom Bamford or I forget his exact last name, and I surprised and caught him on camera in the church office. I recorded Crystal, me, and the neighborhood girls in the church playground running around and some basketball. I recorded Stephanie drawing a picture of the baby. I recorded myself making slam dunks with a ball into the carpet and ground of our church. I recorded the twins talk about Pokemon. I made a balloon talk like my guinea pig Ra Ra Hercules Roberto.

Friday, February 11, 2000

I Want It & I Want It Now

In 2000, I made an hour-long stop-motion toys and stuff animal featuring Arnold Attic 163 feature presentation film called "I Want It & I Want It Now" which stars my pet guinea-pig Ra Ra Hercules Roberto, which is not to be confused with his girl-friend, the former Oreo whom I accidentally smashed by sleeping on her (my guinea-pig friend) after sleeping with her.

This live-action film is about a father, Ra Ra, and his relationship with his rebellious teenager son, who is played by action-figure 9-year old Anakin Skywalker (the Phantom Menace version of Vader).

Anakin struggles with the mysterious disappearance of his own mother, Miss Piggy, when he was only 3 years old. In real-life, my mother was hit by a car when I was 3 years old, and she almost died.

Anakin did home-schooling until he was 15 years old, when he demanded that he attends public high school, as I actually did in real life.

Ra Ra objects that they teach God-cursing evolution in public schools. Skywalker turns and says something like, "But where was God when mother was taken by the Rick Arnold Hand monster, which stars a fifth-grade school-photo of my one and only older brother with the same name, Rick Arnold.

The disappearance was still semi-mysterious since they knew nothing about the hand monster.

Skywalker gets picked by some local bullies, but Ra Ra comes to sort of save the day by making a dare. They made fun of them, saying that God is not real and that Ra Ra has no brains to believe in organized religion.

Ra Ra answers, if God is real then it will rain here, and then clouds started arriving. At the first drop, Ra Ra poops his pants that he doesn't actually own.

The stuff-animals all asked Christ to save them, as the Christian music rolls them all into a theoretical sunset that you cannot see but can certainly feel if Jesus is your home-boy.