Me..

So i don't think i've ever just blogged about myself..Just me. So i thought i'd do that, to explain all my crazyness..and while i'm doing it i'm going to put what song i'm listening to..because i think this might be a long blog: Here goes..

(24 - Switchfoot) So i was born April 21st, 1985 in Mississauga..at "apparently" 8:40pm. The reason i put apparently is because i, like a lot of people in the world, was adopted. So for a while i never actually knew the nitty gritty's about this and that and the other..but i think thats what i read. Yea. 840. Cool. I was adopted on i believe..September sometime. Into the family of Malcolm and Barbara Robinson. I have one brother (John..6 years older) and one sister (Laura..5 years older). I've had lots of pets in my past too..some gerbils..a cat..a dog, a fish and now another dog, who i love to bits even though i swear he's a Canine terrorist..he hates everyone other than us and himself.

(Hallelujah - Rufus Wainright) See..i was born in Missisauga. From "toronto" we moved to Winnipeg for 2 years..then Labrador (which is "kinda" in Newfoundland) for 3 years. From there we lived in Ottawa for 8 years. In 1999 we moved to near London, England. This was when i was..14? I think, yeah. So it was really the first time a move actually affected me, because this time i actually knew what it meant. But i LOVED it! England was great..great church, friends, hanging out and what not..but then in 2001 i was informed by my parents that we were moving basck to Canada. This shook my world..i didn't know what to make of it.. i thought we were done with the moving, why'd we have to do it again? (Last words - TFK) But all the same, i picked my bags up and left. To go to Edmonton..let me tell you..at first i hated it..cuz i went straight to camp where i sucked my first year. Didn't know what i was doing. Then i went to Edmonton Temple..and loved it..people were so nice..great youth group led by some great people, hockey every monday, and DYB (i mean who can complain, HONESTLY?) This went well, i worked at Pine Lake Camp for 3 summers (01,02,03) mainly beside one of my best friends ever, Skoch. Love you man..so many good times. And then..a few months before i was to head to PLC for 03 my parents told me we had been asked to move to Toronto. I lost it i mean..COME ON! THis is ridiculous..i had really gotten quite tired of having to leave my friends and make new ones. I was furious..why why why why why. So i went to camp this summer and through prayer realised it was for the best.

And so i loved that summer, fabulous..made a really good friend, which made it even harder to leave. But i knew i'd have these friends for a while, especially one who i considered like my best friend ever. So i moved here..and things were good..talked to epople from Alberta..and then my friend stopped talking to me..and i just felt lousy..like why would God send me to cities to meet great people just to move me again and have them forget about me? (Photograph - Nickleback) Wow..ironic..good song. Anyway..so ive know been here for just over 2 years. And i have amazing friends. I could name a few of you but i'm pretty sure you know who you are. And i have great friends in Edmonton who still talk to me, and i thank them for that. I don't think they can realise how much it means to me that i moved 2 years ago and they still care. It's one of the best feelings ever. I worked at the camp here for 2 years now. Not sure if i have a third one in me. We'll see.

So thats my life. I think what i'm trying to say out of the last few paragraphs is to thank my friends who have kept by through thick and thin, including leaving them for another city. You guys have been the glue holding me together. I can't thank you enough for that. Scarborough people, Wabana/JPC/DayCamp/Rainbow people, Edmonton Temple people, Pine Lake Camp people, England people, Ottawa people, and everyone else. Thanks. And to the people who havent forgotten me no matter how bitter they are that i moved..i love you lol. Especially you Skoch you're still such a good friend, even though i live in Toronto and you in Calgary. And to my very special friends at Scarborough..the bunch of you that are ALWAYS there for me..words cant express. Anyway i'm done. Thats me!! To finish off..Nothing Else Matters (Metallica)

the Rain..and the good samaritan

"Good Samaritan: A compassionate person who unselfishly helps others."

So before today i wasn't really sure if Good Samaritans really exist. Sure you hear about them in church and such wonderful stories in the news of this and that but i mean, come on..someone THAT nice to unselfishly do something for someone else? Theoretically in this day and age people like this should not exist. Which brings me to my point. They do. Today is a rainy day..and to get to school i take the #11 bus to a small road then walk 15 minutes to school. So, obviously, today i was not looking forward to walking 15 minutes in this heavy downfall. So i got halfway there when i heard a beep from a car that was driving slowly beside me. What does this guy want?? So he rolled down the window and asked, "are you going to the school?" And i said yeah..so he gave me a ride, out of the goodness of his heart because of the weather. Turns out he is a teacher at the seminary (which is attached to the College) and hates to see students walk in the rain. So he gave me a ride. This blew me away. What a good samaritan!

The way it is..according to Webster's

List 1: PAIN:

affliction, agony, anguish, anxiety, bitterness, despondency, distress, grief, heartache, hurt, malaise, martyrdom, misery, rack, sadness, shock, suffering, torment, torture, travail, tribulation, woe, worry, wretchedness

List 2: DESPAIR:

anguish, dashed hopes, dejection, depression, desperation, despondency, discouragement, disheartenment, forlornness, gloom, melancholy, misery, ordeal, pain, trial, tribulation, wretchedness

List 3: HOPE:

achievement, ambition, anticipation, aspiration, assumption, belief, bright side, buoyancy, concern, confidence, daydream, dependence, desire, dream, dream, endurance, expectancy, expectation, faith, fancy, fool's paradise, fortune, gain, goal, Hopefulness, longing, optimism, pipe dream, promise, promised land, prospect, reliance, reverie, reward, rosiness, sanguineness, security, stock, utopia, wish

List 4: FAITH

acceptance, allegiance, assent, assurance, belief, certainty, certitude, confidence, constancy, conviction, credence, credit, credulity, dependence, Faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, hope, loyalty, reliance, stock, store, sureness, surety, truth, truthfulness

List 5: LOVE

adulation, affection, allegiance, amity, amorousness, amour, appreciation, ardency, ardor, attachment, case, cherishing, crash, crush, delight, devotedness, devotion, emotion, enchantment, enjoyment, fervor, fidelity, flame, fondness, friendship, hankering, idolatry, inclination, infatuation, involvement, like, liking, lust, mad for, mash, partiality, pash, passion, piety, rapture, regard, relish, respect, sentiment, soft spot, taste, tenderness, the hots, weakness, wild for, worship, yearning, zeal

Do you really want to get stuck with numbers 1 and 2?

Go with God and feel the other 3!!!

Love Quotes

So we did some sort of Love Quote movie trivia thing at sanctuary tonight..so it moved me to look up some more Love quotes..this is the best i coudl find..from a movie called, well, Love:

Love is passion, obsession, someone you can´t live without.If you don´t start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love crazy and who´ll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I´m not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you´ll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven´t lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven´t try, you haven´t lived.

Taken by Fire..

Tonight my prayer request..taken by fire..

now it's just between me and you, God.

So let's see where this goes, eh..

Its Been a While..

Wow. It has been a while. Almost like a week and a half since my last blog. Not a lot has happened since then..i started my classes last monday. Now i have class Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and its not as bad as i had thought. On the whole the teachers are quite good with a few disapointements but their usually are. I went to a blue Jays game on Sunday. We had to do some fund raising before hand..but the game was good, the Jays actually beat the Yankees i think it was 6-5 i can't fully remember. Anyway, not a lot to say i'll blog again when i have something more interesting to say. Thanks for reading.

Crash

Hey..i know i blogged earlier today..but this i couldn't pass up saying something about. So, i'll tell you about my day. After i got back from the retreat, i went to buy dress pants at Tip Top Tailors at Eglinton Square. So i bought the pants only to find out they have to be, well, tailored. So i took it across the hallway to the tailor place and paid an additional $8 to get them hemmed at the bottom. So they say half an hour. Thats fine, so i started looking around and came across Sunshine Records i think its called, anyway, a music/movie store. And saw a display with the newly released DVD "Crash" for sale. And i had heard amazing things about this movie, so i thought i'd buy it, and i did. Once i got home i kinda put off watching it for a bit but then i finally said, ok il slip it in then pause it halfway or so to get some food. So along came about halfway, and my eyes were glued to the screen. What an amazing movie. Such passion and drama, something i've never actually appreciated quite as much as i did. I'm not going to describe what the movie is about or say ANYTHING about it, but watch it. After the opening credits, the character played by Don Cheadle says this (I took out a part about Los Angeles, but you'll get the picture..):

"It's the sense of touch...I think we

miss that touch so much that we

crash into each other just so

we can feel something"

Let me see your boogaloo..

Oh. Frosh week 05. What joy. It was fun. At first i was really not looking forward to it because the "dorms" were, well, under par. Rickity old beds with holes in the wall. Then, unbeknownst to me, the food was DELICIOUS! everything from chicken (with rice and potatoes and veggies and more veggies and sausages and salad) to roast beef (with mashed potatoes and veggies and more veggies and soup and salad) and then todays breakfast (bacon, eggs, taters, toast, cereal and muffins) was phenemonal. I was blown away. Also, the speaker, Paul Johansen was really good. He spoke about a few different things but a couple things hit me the hardest. God lets our dreams die. ANd also that we have to find people to interpret our realities. I know it sounds confusing and i'd try to explain but i don't think that would help the confusion. Also, i'd have to say Thursday night really made my weekend. First off we had this 2 person band called "In Between" come. First off, one of the guys can circular breathe and play the digeridoo and the guitar at the same time. That being said, he also proved he can do the most prolonged farting noise by circular breathing that i've EVER heard. Very, very, very impressive. And then his comments about his wife stole the show (Not to mention they played Simon and Garfunkle). He was talking about how she's pregnant and the mood swings..."One moment i have my beautiful wife..the next..pregzilla" lol..It was funnier at the time. Then, on the way back from the concert Jeff and i were walking across the field back to Fair Glen. we weren't really paying attention and out of nowhere the field turned into a hill, but we kept walking. Straight down this hill. But still, the way the dark played off the gravel path above, it looked like we could walk straight into it. Wow. Steeper then we thoguht i actually managed to walk into the path...and was like, Hey, theres a wall there. And jeff almost tripped. We had a good laugh. The next night, i discovered a THIRD dipper. Thats right. I was walking with Jeff and i'm like..hey man..if the big dipper and little dipper are there (pointing to them)..then i turned and pointed to the opposite end of the sky..Why's their a third dipper? And its like an exact duplicate of the little dipper but reversed and on the opposite side of the sky. We named it the Mini Dipper. Good times. Haha i was in a cabin called "rabbits"..by far the loudest. The guys made so much noise both nights, by talking and singing and stomping..but it wasn't until saturday morning that most of them realised i was in there too because i slept through both nights. They were amazed. Impressed, as they said. Anyway, thats about it. I had an overall good weekend and am really looking forward to starting school Monday with the BRE Youth Min crowd, good people they are. Haha i can't wait.

Oh..
and the best lesson i learnt throughout the entire weekend came from Joel..:

"Never say the words "Free Choice" to a Calvanist. You'll lose the next 4 hours of your life."

So i dont plan to. Thanks Joel.

A different side of me..

So..people have been asking me why it's been like 4 days since i blogged. Oh no 4 days eh? I know! Anyway, even though its completely stupid that that would actually matter..it got me thinking. Why HAVEN'T i been blogging. Well..theres' been nothing going on in life. No bad things, nothing to complain about..i've just been content to be alive these days. Thats all. I started college today..i guess i could blog about that. It was kind of a boring day, lots of listening and such to teachers introducing themselves and all that wonderful jargon. And yea, thats it. So i guess i'll leave it there and blog again when i have something exciting or distressing to say.

What is God, then?

The Quest for God - Paul Johnson

So last night, i decided to crack open one of the hundred of books my mom owns on Christianity..and i came across this one. It has some confusing words but is quite in depth. Anyway i wanted to share this passage:

"God is always there. His line to us is perpetually open, even when we do not respond for long periods. For many, contacts with God are suspended for years at a time, sometimes for half a lifetime. That is said, it can be tragic, but it is not irreparable. When we will it, when we remember that God is ALWAYS there, contact can be resumed instantaneously: there is no waiting, no probationary period, no 'technical difficulties'. We can be back on the same footing in an instant."

Wow. So true. Thats on page 40 of almost 200. I really can't wait to see what else me Johnson has to say.

Photography

So a friend of mine told me i'm good at taking photos of people. I guess she's right..anyway..i thought i'd show a few..dont worry if its you in the pic i will say its you to give crdit where credit is due!


There's Lauren..being Lauren...

...Peppi with his guitar...

...and Jenn with her violin.. .

and then Madeleine...don't think i spelled her name right though...