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Hi there!

Hey guess what great thing I did last week? I wrote to all our dear roommates from the Creek, and most of them answered me back :D ! I actually made a common message on facebook, and thought it would be great to share it to you, anti-facebooker ;), because you are actually mentionned once or twice :). And by the same time, you could write something yourself that I could write on the wall, or allow me to write the link to our blog, or whatever you prefer. So here it goes:

Hi everyone!!

I came to realize recently that it's already been 2 years since I was in Baker Creek, and I miss you all SO MUCH!! I thought then I should give you all an update about myself, and meanwhile you can answer back so we can all know what's going on in each other's life :).

So here it goes:
Since I came back from the Western provinces, I finished my college diploma in social studies last May, and I've been working part-time in a bakery as a cashier, still in my hometown. I didn't travel much since 2 years, beside New York city and Halifax last summer, and Florida last winter. But I’m almost done at my job here in Montreal because I’m moving to…… Corner Brook, NL !! Yep, pretty far and strange for a move, but it’s only for a year, since I applied for a job as a French language assistant to work in schools. I’ll be assigned half the year in an elementary school and the second half in a Junior high. I’m really excited about this since I didn’t know what to do in life, and this might be the beginning of something, so I’m more confident now ^^. Meanwhile, I don’t have any boyfriend :P.
But for this summer, I stayed in Montreal, enjoying the festivals (Jazz fest, Just for Laugh, and a whole lot more : ) ). I also got myself a really cool gift for my 20th birthday: skydiving!! It was simply AMAZING!! Btw, I posted some pictures of it ;). And I had the chance to host Edna this last May for a week with a friend of hers, I was really happy to see her. She was actually traveling all across the country hitch inking and stopped by in my hometown, so nice from her : ).
That’s pretty much what’s happening in my life right now, summarized a little bit, but it covers it all. But this was mostly to hear from you all that I wrote all this, so I hope you’ll think about answering me soon ^^. Wish you a great summer to all of you, even though we’re already at the half of it :P.
Love,
Robi

Hey guys! this is such a good idea Robi! i miss everyone so much and think about ya guys all the time!!

So i graduated high school and i took a year off and travelled europe with my friend ashley for three months, it was soo much fun! we went to 14 different countries, including germany, greece, france, ireland and iceland! now i am back home working also at a bakery (called COBS i dont know if you guys know it, its all over Canada) i worked as a sales person but now i am a baker! i am just working for another year and maybe going travelling again. not too sure though!
I also do not have a boyfriend haha, just enjoying the single life! and i just turned 19 so going out a fair bit to clubs!
not too much else happening in my life right now though!

love you guys and miss you!!
Jaimie

Gooooooood morning creekers !
I too often find myself thinking of you guys and wondering what everyone is up too !

After I left Baker Creek, I went to northern BC to take an intensive first aid course that would let me work as a medic in the oil patch, buuuuut after finishing the course, they told me I wasn't old enough yet! Boo! So I went home to NS and worked at ... wait for it...... WALMART ! for a year, on backshirt, just waaitng until the day I could come back out west! So , this past January it happened, I came back out to work as a medic in the field, and as of now, I work for 2 companies and have a well-establishedlove/hate relationship with the oil patch!
I think the best part of it all was, a couple month after moving out, I met a guy on a jobsite , who is now my boyfriend of close to 5 months! yay! His namei is Lee, and he's a toolpush for a service rig. I'm super happy with life right now and I hope everyone else is too!

Miss you all so muchh !!
Magi xo

Robi i cant believe u went sky diving...ur insane haha

I have not been up to a whole lot since Baker Creek, tho thank u guys for the update cuz i also wonder what u all r up to! When i first got back to Kitimat i went back to work at the coffee place i worked at before, i was there for just over a year, working and havin fun with mes amies :) i also have a bf, his name is Brian. (Edna would Not be happy with me...hes pretty gingery hahaha) we have been together since about december, last may he asked me to move to alberta with him, so thats where im at. in Slave Lake, Magi i worked at Walmart too, for about 2 weeks, hahah then i quit cause i hated it and it depressed me...how did u do it for a year? hes workin on the oil rigs, not exactly lovin it, so were working on moving to fort mcmurray alberta cause my brother lives there, who is Brians best friend, my dads there and my best friends live there too so it will be all around muuuuuch better! Slave Lake is really small and lame and boring hahaha i basically spend my day with Brians dog...who is basically mine now...we have a thing haha, Brians at work all day so we explore...well ne who, my life sounds kinda boring i should reallt jazz it up...maybe take some dance lessons hahaha Not
miss u allll! love u lots my fellow creekers :) i shall see u soon!

Va-Nay-Nay :)

Magi wrote then: HAHA Vanaynay.. my man is a ginger too ! Edna would disapprove for sure! lol !

Hey y'all, that's sooo funny that you did this Robi cause i ve been thinking about everyone too. I guess because it's the summer and the creek was the best during the summer.
Anywho, my life is pretty much low key since i moved back. i got home last year and decided that i didn't want to work, lol so i was a camp counserlor for the summer, it was a blast! i had so much fun. so when the summer ended i decided that i shoudl get a real job, so i took alll my piercings out:( got myself an apartment and got a job as housekeeping supervisor at the Holiday Inn here in my hometown. i hate it soo much. there is way to many bitchy old women who work there. so im planning on moving to Halifax in Sept. work for a year then im going to go to school to study boulangerie, im hoping in the future i will open a cafe/ bakery.
i did have a bf but i broke up with him because he was getting way to controlling. and i havent been looking since, maybe ill find my soulmate in halifax, lol yea right....
thats pretty much it, i hope all the best for you guys!! love you and miss you all!
cya
Megs

Hey everyone! good to hear that you all are doing great and are enjoying new and exciting things.
Josh and I moved to Banff, will have been here for a year in October. We've got our own apartment close to downtown. I'm working front desk up on tunnel mountain. I'm really enjoying it! I still go visit Baker Creek every once and a while, and stop to eat at the bistro. No plans on leaving quite yet :)
thinking Vegas in November and a visit home to Ontario after winter season.
Miss you all and hope to see you soon!!
Nicole xoxo

Thats pretty much it for the moment, I'll post more if Katy, Cheryl or Sandra are answering.
I hope youre doing ok, even tho it seems youre having a tough time to sort thing out. But your future plans to move to Vancouver seem great, and I really wish you it'll work out :). You can always text me when you feel like it, I'll do my best to put a smile on your face if you need it ^^.

-Robi XxxxX

Robi in the air !

I DID IT!! I can't hardly believe it, but it's done! And it was worth it, so much! Yep, I did jump out of a plane, 13 500 feet above the ground, and it was AWESOME ! And I need to write it done now before I get tired of repeating the same thing, because only since yesterday, I might have tell my experience about 5 times ^^. The thing is, I was nervous and anxious the whole ride before getting to the place, but once I filled out the papers and got my jumpsuit on, waiting for my turn to come, I was simply excited to go, and almost impatient ! It was like my brain couldn't think about the fear, the risk and all the bad feelings that could occur. I actually didn't want to think about those things, but just the rush that it will bring to me, and the experience itself ^^. Once we got on the plane, we had to fly for about 15 minutes up in the air to reach the right altitude, like I said, 13 500 feet, or 4000 meters ! Then, attached to my instructor, Martin the world champion ;), we standed by the door, the sky in front of us. The feeling was all there then: I was going to fall into the sky. But I need first to picture you what the sky looked like at this moment. Because it was a cloudy day, we flew above the coulds and were now surrounded by blue sky, with a white and soft floor under our feet. Just this picture, right before jumping, was worth it. Then came the fall, and the one worst second of my life! Ahahah, well it wasn't that bad, but the feeling I had at the very moment my feet left the plane was kinda awful. Imagine yourself on top of a rollercoaster ride, right in the first fall. Well I got this feeling multiplied by.... I'll say a hundred ! Because you don't see the end of this fall, and because your not attached to any rail, and because the air is so cold, your lungs get all cold too and you have a hard time breathing, with the wind going 200km/h in your mouth and nose. But the first second passed, you acknowledge this feeling and it just feel like flying. I could now really enjoy the fall and breathe normally, which is kind of a relief ^^. We then went throught the clouds and just when we could see the ground under, Martin opened the parachute. I don't remember being shaken at that moment, all I was thinking was "already?" :P. The view up there was incredible, we could see so far all around us. He then passed me the handles of the parachute and ask me to "drive" it. Couple of turns left and right, some breaking, and even some spins, it was fun ! And then, too fast again, he took the handles, getting ready to land. The landing was smooth, he touched the ground first, I just slipped on my feet and I lay there, still amazed by the whole trip. My heart was pounding, my legs shaking, but I surely had a huge smile and my eyes were wet because of the wind.

I could never forget the experience I had, but I might forget the feeling I had during the whole fall. I really hope I'll get to do it again so it was so great. And I really wish you to try it, or though to experience something that will bring such emotions. I didn't to this to prove anyone anything, I just wanted to try something different, not as common as other attractions, but I surely did it for myself, for my own pleasure ^^. And I was damm right about it: I had the fun of my life !!

My....one-fifth-of-the-way-through-life crisis

Where do I even start?
Well, since I saw you, many things have changed. The first one being: Matt and I are no longer "together", or even really friends. He decided that he doesn't want me anymore, and is acting like a reall baby about it. He can't make up his mind one way or the other, and about once a week (after ignoring me entirely the rest of the week) he'll call up and want to do something, it will be fun, and then at the end we'll have this long, repetitive talk about what we did wrong and me saying I'd like to be with him, but only if he pursues me and makes me feel wanted, then him saying he loves me but he hates me and he doesn't want a relationship but he wonders if we would be together forever and he doesn't believe in monogomous relationships but he wants to find someone who he wants to marry and blah blah blah the contradictions just go on and on it's just rediculous!
So that's one thing.
Also, I STILL haven't found a job! I`ve been looking for an entire months, and I`ve applied for over a hundred jobs, but it is just impossible to find a job here! It`s just crazy!!! I`ve been filling in some shifts at my old job, and I did get a job at Tim Hortons, but I wore a bracelet to work and they FIRED me!
I have never hated my life so much! I have hardly any friends, I am almost broke and I`ve got rent to pay, I`ve been rejected for jobs every day for the past month, I`ve been rejected by Matt, i`m super bored and don`t have any money to do anything, and then to top it off I got fired from Tim Hortons! Yup, this is a new low.
Worse yet, I had already done 30 hours of really awful boring training and now I don`t even get paid for it. I want to bash those asshole`s heads in.
But instead, I have decided to take a more productive approach and change my life. Clearly what I am doing now isn`t working. There are no jobs, and even if there were, I`m realizing that it would only be temporary, and without any education I will just end up in this situation again. And I really can`t wait any longer because I`m nearly broke and I really don`t want to have to borrow money from my family.
So...the new plan is this: I`m going to move to Vancouver and take a one year diploma in holistic nutrition, and then either get a job at a healt club or something or set up my own practice as a nutritionist. I could also get a one-year certificate at the community college in courtenay as I do that (somehow), and become registered as a life coach too, because I think the two go together well. Then I can hopefully actually make some significant money, and after a few years travel again, then come back and get a real d bachelors degree as a dietician, and then go work for an aid organization overseas.
I don`t want to preach western ideology overseas, but I would like to help people in some way, and malnutrition is literally everywhere-rich countries, poor countries..and it addresses people`s needs on a truly human level. I really like that.
Anyways, I`ll write a more detailed post soon. My eyes are really tired and all this is still in the planning process (as of last night when I came up with the idea lol) and I`m excited about it and finally I feel like I have some direction again! Horray!
Anyways, I`m stoked to hear about your skydiving experiences!!! Omg, I bet that was a rush!
I want to hear everything about it, and about your summer! :)
Love Edna