Rediscovering Tiffany.
In 2001, when I was 16 years old, me and Bill Bailey decided to look for our childhood friend, Tiffany Cumbo. I first met her in 1990. We have not seen her since she and her family moved some years back. We looked in the yellow pages which has last names, addresses, and phone numbers. It may have taken a few days but we found her during the 2nd or so week of August 2001 I think.
I had my camcorder. I recorded our time that day, since it was an interesting reunion that I will not forget. It was the last time I caught her on my camcorder, but it turned out that the video was not working, and so you cannot see her or anyone on those VHS video-cassette tapes from 2001, since the camcorder had a broken video door. I would use duct tape to keep it close.
I was 16 years old when I found her again.
She was 16 when I lost her again, that is when she died in 2003.
August 2001
16 years
Cornelius, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, the Original Oatmeal
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Showing posts with label Cornelius. Show all posts
Friday, August 17, 2001
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
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.
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.
Sunday, August 15, 1993
Bhakti & Juya Sa
Bhakti & Juya Sa.
Brian and his son, Brian, and his other son, and his wife, lived next door to us, in unit 164. In 1993, Bhakti & Juya Sa moved in and they started climbing our tree. Their ancestors may have been from India or something. I would play with them all of the time. They lived with their sister and younger baby brother and mom and dad. They did follow Hindu or something. They started going to our Cornelius Community Baptist Church in Cornelius, Oregon, USA. Their dad was abusive. In 1994 or so, they suddenly moved to their grandparents house, or relatives, in Seattle, Washington USA, in order to get away from their dad. The father may have sexually abused his own daughter.
They were one of my favorite childhood friends of all time, alongside of Tiffany & Michael Cumbo, and Bill & Janet Bailey.
August 1993
8 years old
164, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal
Brian and his son, Brian, and his other son, and his wife, lived next door to us, in unit 164. In 1993, Bhakti & Juya Sa moved in and they started climbing our tree. Their ancestors may have been from India or something. I would play with them all of the time. They lived with their sister and younger baby brother and mom and dad. They did follow Hindu or something. They started going to our Cornelius Community Baptist Church in Cornelius, Oregon, USA. Their dad was abusive. In 1994 or so, they suddenly moved to their grandparents house, or relatives, in Seattle, Washington USA, in order to get away from their dad. The father may have sexually abused his own daughter.
They were one of my favorite childhood friends of all time, alongside of Tiffany & Michael Cumbo, and Bill & Janet Bailey.
August 1993
8 years old
164, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal
Monday, June 1, 1992
Softball
Softball
I played on a softball team when I was 7 years old. They had the ball on a stand. A few times, they lightly toss the ball to me. I rode my bicycle to the games at Echo Shaw elementary school in Cornelius a few times. Sometimes it rained.
1992
7 years old
Joey Arnold
Forest Grove, Cornelius, Oregon, USA
I played on a softball team when I was 7 years old. They had the ball on a stand. A few times, they lightly toss the ball to me. I rode my bicycle to the games at Echo Shaw elementary school in Cornelius a few times. Sometimes it rained.
1992
7 years old
Joey Arnold
Forest Grove, Cornelius, Oregon, USA
Tuesday, July 10, 1990
Tiffany Rochell Cumbo
Tiffany Rochell Cumbo.
My Uncle Jim "Woof" Williams were playing tinker-toys with us. I do not remember seeing Nathan or Alan or even Karen. Jim was showing me how to build cool ships or buildings or something out of tinker-toys. He left. I continued playing. I was at my 163 trailer in Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon USA. That same day, or on another day, I left the kitchen counter, where I played with tinker-toys, and got onto my red scooter. I went towards the park. A young 3 year old brunette girl said, "Hi, what's your name?" I quietly said "Joey" since I was so shy until like college or so. She may have been the first female friend of mine. In 1993, when I was 8, I drew pictures of marrying Tiff, but she would always have boyfriends, we were just friends, and Tiff died on Saturday, the 5th of April 2003.
Back to the first day that I met her, when her mother came home, Tiff told her mom, "Joey is my boy friend." Her mom would say, "No he is not." Yes, he is. No, he is not. Me & Tiff went to my house to get some of my toys. I even pulled her in a red wagon. We went into the yard next to her house and buried some some of my toys.
Before that, right after I first said hi to her, we played a Batman & Robins version of tag on my scooter and her tricycle around her parents car. We would play with each other almost everyday for years. One time, while playing hiding and seek, Tiff hid in the trunk of my dad's small orange car. We may have pretended not to find her. Dad drove us to the 5 days long daily summer Vacation Bible School at our Cornelius Community Baptist Church in Cornelius, Oregon USA. She got home around 8 or 9 PM. Her parents seem to be mad at her because she was out too late. She cried to the leaders during the prayer time because she felt that she was going to someday move and that means losing your old friends.
1990
5 years old
170, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal
My Uncle Jim "Woof" Williams were playing tinker-toys with us. I do not remember seeing Nathan or Alan or even Karen. Jim was showing me how to build cool ships or buildings or something out of tinker-toys. He left. I continued playing. I was at my 163 trailer in Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon USA. That same day, or on another day, I left the kitchen counter, where I played with tinker-toys, and got onto my red scooter. I went towards the park. A young 3 year old brunette girl said, "Hi, what's your name?" I quietly said "Joey" since I was so shy until like college or so. She may have been the first female friend of mine. In 1993, when I was 8, I drew pictures of marrying Tiff, but she would always have boyfriends, we were just friends, and Tiff died on Saturday, the 5th of April 2003.
Back to the first day that I met her, when her mother came home, Tiff told her mom, "Joey is my boy friend." Her mom would say, "No he is not." Yes, he is. No, he is not. Me & Tiff went to my house to get some of my toys. I even pulled her in a red wagon. We went into the yard next to her house and buried some some of my toys.
Before that, right after I first said hi to her, we played a Batman & Robins version of tag on my scooter and her tricycle around her parents car. We would play with each other almost everyday for years. One time, while playing hiding and seek, Tiff hid in the trunk of my dad's small orange car. We may have pretended not to find her. Dad drove us to the 5 days long daily summer Vacation Bible School at our Cornelius Community Baptist Church in Cornelius, Oregon USA. She got home around 8 or 9 PM. Her parents seem to be mad at her because she was out too late. She cried to the leaders during the prayer time because she felt that she was going to someday move and that means losing your old friends.
1990
5 years old
170, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal
Friday, June 1, 1990
Christ Entered My Heart
Christ Entered My Heart
When I was five years old, in the year 1990, I heard Pastor Dave Webber mention how Christ knocks, and I was thinking that Jesus was only knocking on the door of just my heart and nobody else in the world, now or ever. I was paying attention at the Cornelius Community Baptist Church in Cornelius, OR USA.
After church, at home, I asked my mother but she was busy with baby Crystal, my younger sister. My brother led me in the prayer to ask Christ to forgive and take away my sins and to enter into my life. We did this in our room. I was looking at the heater on the ground as I said the prayer.
1990
Five years old
Forest Grove, OR USA
Joey Arnold
When I was five years old, in the year 1990, I heard Pastor Dave Webber mention how Christ knocks, and I was thinking that Jesus was only knocking on the door of just my heart and nobody else in the world, now or ever. I was paying attention at the Cornelius Community Baptist Church in Cornelius, OR USA.
After church, at home, I asked my mother but she was busy with baby Crystal, my younger sister. My brother led me in the prayer to ask Christ to forgive and take away my sins and to enter into my life. We did this in our room. I was looking at the heater on the ground as I said the prayer.
1990
Five years old
Forest Grove, OR USA
Joey Arnold
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