Soo it's the week for getting reconnected it seems. Back in touch with anna and amanda fricker after far to long. time seem like it has escaped me and flown away.

It's starting to sink in that in a year i won't be in public school and more.It's all i know..i've been in school for hmm. 4-17 .. 14 years. uhh. yeah.

So i'm horrible excited and scared for university in the fall..

i'm alright with change but the other day it hit me that i'm going to be leaving a few really good friends at least for a year.
(john boy you better go to stu :P or genna and i will kidnapp you)
anyway as much as i want to go to freddy i don't want to leave my friends behind.

well thats all for now..

-erin

The one with all the gymnastics.

so cirque du soleil was amazing! genna and i and her cousin hannah went and it was edge of the seat kind of stuff!

on the way back everytime i saw a) tree b)pole c) wide open space
i would attempt gymnastics..resulting in some great photos haha.all which will be posted when genna sends them my way.

-erin

The one with all the rain.

So my first week begin home from camp...

after some shopping, and hanging out with alisha hanson at the X..then getting sick at the giant tiger , i made it all the way there..can't say the same for alisha :( Genna gives me a ring.

ring ring.

so we plan lunch.
which made me feel very old.
so after some wandering and genna learning how to get a parking ticket from the machine..and going to the gym, forgeting my wallet then buying cirque du soliel tickets.
we go to lunch.

so a bagette, samosa and some taco pica later...we go buy FISH!

yeh! FISH!

we name 3 of them.... Genna, John and princeton..( i bought another one and named it erin)

the un-named one must of felt left out..so it died on the way home. only to be replaced with 2 new fish.

so then we head back to genna's...

eat supper at her aunts, then chucked some camping supplies in to the breeze ( only the necessities of course :P ) and zoom of to the camp ground to get our free ice capps ( genna works there) and set up the tent head off in to the wilderness to re trace the steps i took last spring.. ( see blog post..granola bars float) we discover that it's changed a fair amount. then we hear genna's dog going crazy and some very high pitch yelps and cries..it was a racoon.. and it was putting up quite a fight...but buddy won. but of course it had to be just barely alive..so that i would feel compelled to put the poor thing out of it's misery..so genna and i kill a racoon. :(

then we back to the camp site to enjoy a very patetic camp fire.. note to self: wet wood and gum packages suck for big fires. we play on the play ground..and i of course have to attempted to jump of the swing..land on 2 feet, take a step and land on my face.hehe.
so after playing a game oof have you ever..and discovering that it dosn't work because we know each other to well, i nearley kill my teeth and genna by attempting to open something with a) my bare hands b) the camp fire pit ( still burning ) and c) my teeth.
about an hour later...

genna's fast asleep..i'm lying on my back in the tent..( with no cover on the top so that we can see the stars ) and i get to thinking..is sure seems cold and cloudy, and windy..and then i hear it..thunder. then comes the incredible lighting. then of course the RAIN!
after a min or so of disbelief i start tell ing genna..who is deeeeeppp in sleep.
i shake her..gennna machum argg. RAIN!

we gather some of our belongings and run to the car..it's puring buckets....my car door won't close so genna fixed it ( god love her) in the rain.
the storm was huge..but we couldn't of drove home for more than one reason. so we spent a very we night in the car..thinking about all the stuff that was in the tent getting wrecked...which turned out to be a mp3 player and a book my pants and my shirt. oh joy.

morning comes and we pack up our stuff and go home..the end..well i went to the dentist to get a filling. but that sucked.

-erin

The one with all the kids.

This summer i played outside, there were lots of kids, it was hot.i had fun, it made me tired.next year i am going to do the same thing.

the end.

Back to the grind

oh dearest blog...i have ignored you. but since the readers..uhh ok more like reader * cough* genna, have requested many times, i will update. serveral times today infact.


so here goes.

Staff week & girls and boys camp #1

So i'm back home from my second week at camp medley this year...the first week was staff training and included lots of team building things to help the staff to get to know each other and work together as a team.Also there was a lot of talks to do with various things that will help us along the summer. overall it was a great week, challanging and streaching, but good. i cam hom on friday from staff week tired but excited for the weeks to come.

this last week was girls and boys camp. so there are ages 7-11 or 12. so it can be an interessting mix of maturity. campers that a very young for there age and campers that are more mature than the majority. i was in dinning hall which was an absolute blast! well all except that one insedent....

we finnaly got the industrail dish washer working and i went to open the soap and it splashed up into my eyes..so i go to rinse my eyes out..but they burn like you have no idea..so someone goes to read the lable of the soap..turns out that i got sodium hydroxide in my eyes...which is those of you that don't know is the strongest corrosive...and it was also chlorinated..so after a few more mins of flushing out my eyes and franticly searching you my medicare card..i become the first emergence trip to the hospital of the year.if you want to know more about the funny expericne of my trip to the hospital than give me a ring. any way..because i flushed my eyes out so well it didn't have a chance to burn or corrode my eyes and therefor my vision is not affected..right now i'm just very sensitive to light and have a constant burning feeling in and around my left eye ( the right got less in it) and i have little blisters on my face and chemical burns. haha. it's kinda funny to me now after i'm getting over the shock.


uhh..there will be more later..but i got to got do laundry.

School is officaly finnished...and only 9 weeks till grade 12....and about 365 days till i graduate...not that i'm getting in patient..haha. i can't wait.

i passed math...but i'm stuck with a teacher that i strongly dislike for math next year...the same teacher that i failed miseralbly with last semester.oh well. life's like that.
i have mrs luts twice in a day...and i might have a breakdown..haha.

later.

Freedom!!!!!!!!!!

last exam just got over so now i'm sittin gin the school library waiting till 3:20 so i can bug miss underwood for my art stuff back.
Law was crazy easy...

re-do...it had been a year and i am bored

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE? So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie

Opening Credits: euro trash -slowcoaster
Waking up: for you - tracy chapman

First Day at Highschool: god of wonders -third day

Falling In Love: babaous- regina spector

Fight Song: the parting glass -the wailing jennies
Breaking Up: weightless- see spot run

Prom: remember -happy medium

Life: brain damage -keller williams

Mental Breakdown: scotch and choclate -nickle creek (fitting i think)

Driving: fast as you can - fiona apple ( also fitting)

Flashback: flood - jars of clay

Getting Back Together:gone -switchfoot

Wedding: ne me quitter pas -regina spector ( fitting)
Birth of Child: glavanting -keller williams
Final Battle: get gone -fiona apple
Death Scene: consequence of sounds -regina spector

Funeral Song: forever -ben harper
End Credits: punck rock princess -something corp

on the bright side.

i have my last exam in a few hours...and then i am free!!!!!!!!!!!!
if any one still reads this i will be posting after camp every wekk as i wont be making that many phone calls.


i am out.

erin

i am an idiot

yeah the title basically sums up everything i want to say. i am a fuckin idiot..and thanks to it i have lost a good friend.

so mad at myself.

so i can see the light at the end of the tunnel now. i only have my law exam left and that's a joke really. we can use cheat sheets and we havn't really done anything all semester anyway.so now that exam stress is over the stress from other aspects of my life are flooding back. but thank god i'm leaving for camp in a tillte more than a week.i\m nervous and excited at the same time. i have no idea what staff week is like and i don't evn know if i'm packing for the summer or just for the week yet.silly things like that. i'm also starting to think about september...what things do i have time to do or not do?will my courses work out as planned? have i taken to many tough cources? where am i going to work?
as for working..places i'm thinking of applying at:
boys and girls club
seramic
the museam
the saint john art center
blockbuster
java mousse
and good old t-hos! ( tim hortans)
will any of those work out.. i dunno but right now i'm at the place where i don't really care. i just want to back a lunch and a change of clothes and take off. where? i dunno. but italy is looking good. as is france.but maybe i'll get my lisence and start out with some roadtrips, a dart and a big map.any one up for an adventure.who knows where i'll go. maybe sussex..maybe korea..although i might have to fly :P

well thats all for now kids.

-erin hodge

oh exams are looming.

with exams looming and the realization that my future relys on a few simple marks i am hitting the books.And hitting them hard for the first time ever. i have never really put much time into studying for exams before...but this time i'm gonna try.

my courses go like this.

ib art..the exam is just us sitting in a circle discussing our artwork.no biggy.well i have a carp load of projects to do for it but meh.
political science. gonna die.exam is gonna kill me in my sleep.
math. is it possible to die twice....? bahaha
law. bahahaha. uhh. i think i can handel it.
English.commentary is what i am worried about.


but next year is looking up.

Ib art :)
ib art:)
english 122a( totally messed up):(
english121b:)
functions and relations :(
ap history 121 :)
canadian history 120 :)
candaian litariture :)
sociology :)
theory of knowledge!!!! :)

so it will be a full course load but over all enjoyable and a great learning exprience.

......but. if i can somehow get 8ooo$ i am going to costa rica or france or germany or australia or switzerland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!for the whole year!!!!!!1
kinda unlikely...but i'm gonna try.

-erin-grace

recent news.

-- i will be in the near future be the ...uh... there is no word haha.well i'll have another second cousin.
--i am now able to say i can fold my tounge in two.very important.
--have been greatly enjoying IB art
--have learned to say quadulateral...still working on how to spell it.
--have eaten sushi
--have spit out sushi
--have died my hair...but it had almost no effect.
--have hid in a closet for an hour
--then have come out of the closet..haha. not that way silly.
--have developed a nasty cold
--and got over it.
--have worn a hard hat.
--went to a fake job interview
--poked myself in the eye at least 6 times
--kicked several rocks up the road.
--have watched little miss sunshine sveral times
--have watched 10 seasons of friends
--have walked a mile in someone elses shoes.
--have devloped a love-hate realtionship with charles Dickens
--have become addicted to facebook
--have covered most of my favorite clothes in paint.
--have gone through alot of stain removing stain.
--have broken down and bought new jeans.
--and got paint on them
and these aree just the highlights of my oh so interessting life. Just joking..there had been more excitment. but nows not the time.

dearest blog, i have unitentially neglected you. but i place blame of facebook.in the future i will pay much more attention to you.

i am humbly sorry and do most earnestly repent. haha.

30 hour famine!

Hey everyone.

Once again i'm participating in the world vision 30 hour famine and would love your support and donations for this great cause. i'm sure many of you know about famine, aids and poverty but here are some facts.


Number of people who die each year of water-related diseases: 5 million

Percentage of children living in poverty in the world: almost 50%

Estimated number of deaths worldwide each day linked to extreme poverty: 30,000-50,000
Number of people living with HIV in the world: 40.3 million (more than the population of Canada)
Percentage of all people living with HIV who are in sub-Saharan Africa: almost 64%

Approximate number of people who die each day of AIDS: 8,400 (approximately 3.1 million in 2005)
Number of children under 15 infected with HIV every day: 1,800
Number of seconds that pass between each new HIV infection worldwide every day: 6 .

by following this link you can donate money through me http://www2.worldvision.ca/famine/13060062

thanks
-erin

Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™

sigh...

Somedays i really wish that i could run away..far away.Somewhere undiscovered i wish i could live on the side of a mountain somewhere on a beautiful island.With nothing but the sound of the wind and crashing waves.nothing to worry about.no war.no poverty. no children dying.no drugs. no global warming.no aids.no terriorism.no pain.no fighting.no fear.no corrupt governments.no broken hearts.no stress.no ulcers. that place would be beautiful.children would be happy.familys will join together in peace.

sigh.

Dear person with all the answers,

Please tell me what the hell I'm doing.

sincerely,

Erin Hodge

P.S: Do hurry.

Thank God for the warranty! i no longer an "Indentured Servant"!!! well i still have to work 2 hours because of the work i've caused my father.

so here's a tip. DO NOT DROP PORTABLE HARDDRIVES!!!

unfortunatly i lost alot of my files in the ordeal...

So my father is letting me work off the debt...12 hours at 10$ an hour

toast

i'm officially toast.
i feel like crap.
i just broke a 150$ hard drive.
It had all of my familys files on it.
including my dads work stuff i think.
i now have to come up with 150$ to pay for it.
But i don't have a job.
i feel like curling up in a ball and crying...
oh yeah i already did.

-The end

coming attraction: barenaked ladies concert photos and video clips

important tip of the day:
check your pockets befor you put your clothes in the wash. i just washed my USB stick. Sending me into quite a panic..thank god it still works.

Just Another weekend in Erin's life....

this weekend i traveled up to fredericton with my amigo john hoben. we stayed at genna's house and it was interesstiong time to say the least.

we took the bus friday night.. we saw practically our entire church in the welsford irving and they all wanted details of what we were doing.. and most of them got the wrong idea.so we then almost jumped on a bus for toronto...well i was broke so no we didn't but we wanted. then we had to take a cab to genna's cause john brought enough stuff to last a life time.we thought he was moving in or something.

friday night we chilled and babysat genna's cousins and watched way to much family guy (Johns note: There is no such thing as too much family guy!!), corner gas and bones.

The next morning we got up at 6:45 then headed to the market..i got a new bag and we chased a girl around to find out where she got her coat...turned out that she got it in NYC. john and i had new york style cupcakes for breakfast..then we had samosas that were horrible...john had a donair and i conviced him it was an animal from mexico with their vital organs in their legs. after the market we walked to paul and beth's where john and genna went off and paul beth and i went to the TEC meetings.

then we came back and paul and i played video games for an hour until genna and john got there and genna reminded me that we were suppose to go meet amanda at andrew's 1/2 hour earlier...so we ran o

John: Anyways me and Genna walked to the mall stopping at blockbuster to get the movie "Little miss sunshine". We went to the bulk barn and we got a crapload of candy. We went to the pet store and Genna got yelled at for trying to take a picture of the dogs they had. Anyways, there were some mice that I swear were on steroids. Two or three of them would climb onto one wheel and the smaller ones would just stand there while the bigger one would run. The smaller one would do flips and everything and it was just awsome. Then we saw some clownfish. We left and Genna had to go to the washroom so we ran into McDonalds and I got a double cheese burger. Anyways so we catch the bus and and take it to Kins Place to transfer. Anyways, we get on bus #11 N because Genna says "Ok this is Bus 11, bus 11 always takes me home." anyways, we end up in nearly deserted part of town and just wait there. Anyways, the bus takes us back to Kings place then turns into the 11 S and takes us back to gennas house. We watched a couple episodes of Corner Gas. Then we walked to Paul&Beths and met Erin and they were playing video games.


erin..again:

so i was kicking pauls butt at video games...just joking i can't play vidoe games if you payed me.

so i'm gonna hurry this post up cause i relized that no one in their right mind wants to read all the details.

so we run to my brothers give him his b-day gift and meet amanda. then we run back to paul and beths and chill for a bit. then run off to eat supper..even though it's like 8:00 pm.

then we bum a ride of paul and head to genna's amanda in tow. we watched little miss sunshine (which was amazing..go rent it) and ate way to much candy.


eventually morning time came...i had to wake john up about 8 times..firts words out of his mouth "get off i'm awake" second set of words " where's the candy" .
we woke up enough to walk across town to go to church.

after chuch we got a ride back to gennas and hung out for a bit then ran to the store..that was an adventure in it's self..videos were taken but due to some bad habits i can't allow them to be put on the internet.haha


so then we went home the end.


there was so much more ..but i'm to lazy to type.ask us about it some time.


ps.. alyson shave says hello.

ohh and so does marrissa.

The update...

Exams are over and done with..until june.

i have to take math again...

my world issues mark was 51% higher than my math mark.


my old classes:
english
enviromental science
world issues
modern history
functions and relations (math)


my new classes:

IB art
Political Sci
Geometry and applications (math)
English
law


so i think my plan for next year is to take:

english 121 AP
math 112 funtions and relations
modern history 121 AP
IB art
Theory of Knowledge 120
french 112
economics 120
journalism 120
co-op
co-op
--alternates--
canadian lit 120
sociology 120

then after grade 12 i'll head off to fredericton to go to saint thomaas to take the justice and globilization course which is a combo of economics, sociology, and religious studies.

then after four years i'll come out with my BA..take a year or 2 off and work/travel
maybe move to NYC for a bit.

then i'm gonna go back to school for my masters of divinity at wycliff in toronto.


so it's not like i have alot of plans or expectations...haha.

i've decided that when i grow up i'm going to be a flag.

one more exam to go.

-erin

2 Exams down 2 to go.
i can now say i comleated an exam by making pretty patterns with the multiple choice questions..oh dear.

x] Gum has fallen out of your mouth when you were talking.
[x] Gum has fallen out of your mouth when you were NOT talking.
[ x] You have ran into a glass/screen door.
[x ]You have jumped out of a moving vehicle
[x] You have thought of something funny and laughed, then
people gave you weird looks
=5

[x] You have ran into a tree/bush.
[x ] You have tried to lick your cheek.
[x] You have tried to lick your elbow.
[x] You never knew that the Alphabet and Twinkle Twinkle Little
Star have the same rhythm.
[x]you just tried to sing them
i can't believe i just did
=5
[x] You have tripped on your shoelace and fallen.
[x] you have choked on your own spit .
[ ]You have seen the Matrix and still don't get it.
[x] You've never seen the Matrix the whole way through.
[ ] You type only with two fingers.
=3
[x ]You have accidentally caught something on fire
[ ] You tried to drink out of a straw, but it went into your nose/eyes.
[x] You have caught yourself drooling.
[x ] You have fallen asleep in class
[ ] If someone says "fart" you laugh.
=3

[ ] Sometimes you just stop thinking
[x] You are telling a story and forget what you were talking about
[x ] People often shake their heads when they talk to you.
[x ] You are often told to use your "inside voice".
[x ] You use your fingers to do simple math.
=4
[ ] You have eaten a bug
[x] You are taking this test when you should be doing something
more important
[ x] You have put your clothes on backwards or inside out, and
didn't realize it(NY!)
[x] You've looked all over for something and realized it was in
your hand.(or on your head.)
[ ] You have ran around naked in your house.
=3

[ ] You repost bulletins because you are scared that what they
say will happen to you if you don't.
[x ] You break a lot of things
[ ] Your friends know not to use big words around you.
[x ] You tilt your head when you're confused
[x ] You have fallen out of your chair before
=3

[x] When you're laying in bed, you try to find pictures in the texture of the ceiling...
[x] The word "um" is used many times a day.
=2


=28 out of 38..pretty sad

here's a parody i wrote for English class. Mind the language...i was trying to imitate J.D Salinger's writing style.I'ts also kinda long.


Rumpelstiltskin

If you really want to hear about it then the first thing you’ll want to know is my name and how I got into this goddamn situation in the first place. Well about the name you can just forget about that, I’ve had enough problems with names as you’ll soon find out. Well that is if you even bother to read this depressing thing. So how I got myself into this mess. You can blame that on my phoney father he made one goddamn slip of the tongue that sure cost me a lot of trouble. See my father’s a miller so life is pretty lousy to begin with. So anyway he had to go talk to this king, who the hell know’s why, and he tried to make himself look all important and crap and told the king that he had a daughter that could spin straw into gold, that’s me. Then the king got all excited. I sure hate it when someone gets all excited over something so foolish as that. He told my father to bring me to the king to spin gold for him.
So this king locked me in a room and told me if I hadn’t spun this pile of straw into gold by the morning that he would kill me. Talk about depressing, I can’t hardly stand to think about it. Well I did what any other person would do – I cried. Anyways that’s not important, back to the story this stupid little man appeared out of nowhere and asked me what was wrong. He was such a phoney... he didn’t care what was wrong. I hate it when people pretend like they care and all but really don’t give a damn. So I told him what I needed to do. So then, of all things, he started to bargain with me. I was so depressed. He said that he could spin the gold if I gave him something. So I tossed him my necklace - I hated that necklace anyway. It was a stupid gift from my phoney aunt Ruth, it made my neck itch.
Any way to this little man did what he said and when the king came in the morning and saw the gold he got so greedy that he wanted more! So The same thing happened the next night - except I had to give the stupid man my ring instead, I did like that thing. That ring was my mother’s before she died, anyway that made me so depressed. So when the king came in the morning he still wanted more gold... He told me that if I spun the gold for him than I could be his wife. His goddamn wife! What a phoney, he went from threatening to kill me to wanting to marry me in a day. Well since my father is a poor miller I had to jump at the chance to marry someone rich. So that night he locked me in a room again. It was pretty stupid of him to lock up his wife to be in a room as a slave... but what could I do about it? So I was sure hoping that the stupid little man would come back.. but the problem was that I didn’t have anything else to give him. So when he came back he told me that I would have to give him my first born child... that was more depressing than anything. But I didn’t have any other choice so I promised him my first child.
So a lousily year later I had my first child and had completely forgotten about that phoney man that spun the gold for me. Then He randomly appeared in my room and insisted that I give him my child. He was so friggin impatient about it too, I hate that. Any way there was no way in hell that I could just hand over my baby. So he gave me a deal – that if I could guess his name in three lousy days that I could keep my child. All night I guessed names and every time he would say “it’s not my name.”
The next day I had a stupid little messenger sent out to get as many names as he could. Not a single name was the one! I hate that people can’t do a simple job like finding a name right, like how stupid can you be. Any way I sent the messenger out the third day and when he came back he told me that he couldn’t find a single new flipping name. But he told me that he did overhear something that might help me out. He had found this funny old man dancing around a fire saying :
'To-day I bake, to-morrow brew,
the next I'll have the young queen's child.
Ha, glad am I that no one knew
that Rumpelstiltskin I am styled.'
So I figured that it must be the same stupid little man. Who the hell is named Rumpelstiltskin? So when he came back that night I guessed a few stupid names to make him think that I couldn’t guess and then I guessed Rumpelstiltskin .Well he got so frigging angry that he stuck his right foot in the ground and that got him even more angry so he pulled on his left leg as hard as he could, I don’t know what kind of idiot would do that, well he pulled it so hard that he tore himself in two. How depressing is that.
The End.
By Erin Hodge

A parody based on Rumpelstiltskin by Brothers Grimm using the form of Catcher in the Rye

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE? So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie

Opening Credits: black cold blues-laura veirs

Waking up: i will remeber you- sarah mclachlan

First Day at Highschool - gone- switchfoot

Falling In Love: shopping- barenaked ladies

Fight Song: to little to late -- barenaked ladies

Breaking Up: almost--sarah harmer

Prom: wild world--cat stevens

Life: fraggle rock--relient k

Mental Breakdown: morning has broken- cat stevens

Driving: one chance -modest mouse

Flashback: open arms- tracy chapman

Getting Back Together: the prodical's song--paul oakley

Wedding: testing 1,2,3--barenaked ladies ( haha)

Birth of Child: holding out for a hero- jennifer saunders

Final Battle: after the rain- aaron and jeffery

Death Scene: silver road--sarah harmer

Funeral Song: ode to divorce--regina specktor ( at least i didn't get it for the wedding one)

End Credits: still- happy medium


side note.This would make a very horrible movie.

i Just found out that one of my good friends from Ont Has died recently. We lost touch several years ago but it still seems odd. 16 year olds shouldn't be dying of cancer.

William and i used to spend hours singing backstreet boys on his kareeokee machine.And Climbing his roof and sliding off.

i can't seem to understand why this happens.

Yes i've been sucked into the facebook fad.
here's the link.


Facebook me!

Take My Quiz on QuizYourFriends.com Can you Ace my quiz? Yes! No Let's Find Out!

Happy new year folks!

This was most definalty my favorite new years so far.
John and i went skating..well i skated and john pulled himself along the boards :)
Then we enjoyed a surprisingly well done show of fireworks.
so i hope you all have a wonderful new year.