Party at the Campbells.
After Blake Edwards Webb died on Sunday: the 2nd of May 2010, I moved in with the family of Jackie and Bruce and Maggie and the brothers Cambells in Portland, Oregon USA. I lived at their house until the day I hopped on an Amtrak train to be a Relief Counselor & Program Staff at the Salvation Army's Camp Redwood Glen in Scotts Valley, California USA. A few days before going, Charlotte Battle let me pack my things from my apartment room 414 in the Alder Housing Apartment: 523 Alder: Portland, OR USA, or the address is something like that. I was able to pack my bags into her van and we stored them at The Salvation Army's Moore Street Corps church. After camp, we took my stuff into her house in PDX. I lived with Charlotte from July 2010 until June 2011 when I moved back in with my dad, where I was born and raised at 163 Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon USA.
At the Campbells, we saw movies in the big screen. We watched the sitcom TV show the Big Bang Theory. We would play Wii video games, especially Donkey Kong and the New Adventures of the Mario Brothers where you can play four players at the same time.
Sunday: the 2nd of May 2010
25 years old
Campbell's House: Portland, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal
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Sunday, May 2, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2004
Graduating High School
I started thinking about graduating high school as I was starting high school in 9th grade, as a Fresh Man, in the year 2000 - 2001, when I was 15 years old, and I started thinking about it more as it drew closer. The younger I was, the less I thought about it. The younger I was, the more I thought about more immediate things like advancing to the next year, to the next grade. I thought about advancing to tenth grade. I thought about each grade. Each grade was even bigger and higher than the last one.
For my senior year of high school, I started thinking about which college to attend and what to do for my senior project. I ended up building a Pocket Ball Table for my senior project, which is required if you want to graduate high school. Paul Walker and the Hoefts helped me build the table, which is sort of like a Gutter Ball Table or Carpet Ball Table or Pool Table.
I thought about many colleges but kept on going back to the idea of going to WOLBI, to the Word Of Life Bible Institute in New York or Florida or Canada or even Argentina. I ended up going to the WOLBI NY in Pottersville, New York after graduating high school through the air miles and plane ticket purchase of WOL missionaries Pete and Deb Steele.
I was also thinking about the high school year book. I wanted to be more featured in that book. Every year, I would look for myself in that book. I joined drama class, drama club, and even the earth club. I went to school dances, or I at least did so in 11th grade maybe. I was a girl's basketball manager. Went to their games, home and away, and recorded their games. I partly did these things as an attempt to get featured more in the year book.
I started thinking more about leaving my old life during my last 5 months of high school. You may have to leave your old friends behind. If you go to college, you may go into debt. I want to avoid and minimizes debt as much as I can. I want to minimize how often I say good bye to people. I hate saying bye to people. The older I get, the less scared I get, but I still get scared, and I still worry about the future, about making the right choices on where to go, what to do, in whether to work or to attend this college or that college, to spend money on this or that, to spend time on this or that, and the list goes on.
My uncle Jim, aunt Karen, grandpa Dick, grandma Skip, and my immediately family attended my high school graduation.
The all-night after party was interesting, exciting, but also sad. I was not sure what to do, who to talk to. I was home-schooled until 9th grade in the year 2000, when I was 15 years old. During my 4 years of high school, I started coming out of my shell. I became less shy, but I went back into my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle shell.
I graduated on Tuesday, the 8th of June of 2004.
For my senior year of high school, I started thinking about which college to attend and what to do for my senior project. I ended up building a Pocket Ball Table for my senior project, which is required if you want to graduate high school. Paul Walker and the Hoefts helped me build the table, which is sort of like a Gutter Ball Table or Carpet Ball Table or Pool Table.
I thought about many colleges but kept on going back to the idea of going to WOLBI, to the Word Of Life Bible Institute in New York or Florida or Canada or even Argentina. I ended up going to the WOLBI NY in Pottersville, New York after graduating high school through the air miles and plane ticket purchase of WOL missionaries Pete and Deb Steele.
I was also thinking about the high school year book. I wanted to be more featured in that book. Every year, I would look for myself in that book. I joined drama class, drama club, and even the earth club. I went to school dances, or I at least did so in 11th grade maybe. I was a girl's basketball manager. Went to their games, home and away, and recorded their games. I partly did these things as an attempt to get featured more in the year book.
I started thinking more about leaving my old life during my last 5 months of high school. You may have to leave your old friends behind. If you go to college, you may go into debt. I want to avoid and minimizes debt as much as I can. I want to minimize how often I say good bye to people. I hate saying bye to people. The older I get, the less scared I get, but I still get scared, and I still worry about the future, about making the right choices on where to go, what to do, in whether to work or to attend this college or that college, to spend money on this or that, to spend time on this or that, and the list goes on.
My uncle Jim, aunt Karen, grandpa Dick, grandma Skip, and my immediately family attended my high school graduation.
The all-night after party was interesting, exciting, but also sad. I was not sure what to do, who to talk to. I was home-schooled until 9th grade in the year 2000, when I was 15 years old. During my 4 years of high school, I started coming out of my shell. I became less shy, but I went back into my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle shell.
I graduated on Tuesday, the 8th of June of 2004.
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.
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