no longer single...

...Yes i know, me, the little Erica, has a boyfriend. I don't have a picture to show you yet of who he is, but soon you guys will find out. My life has been full of wonders and disappointments. One of the biggest ones is, MY PHONE IS OUT OF MINUTES! I'm dying getting by, so if you're texting me and i'm not replying, that would be why.

I sent out my application for Parole de Vie Bethel and now I'm waiting for a reply from the college seeing if I got accepted. If that doesn't work, maybe I'll go to the University of British Columbia and learn french there. The whole reason why I want to go to Parole de Vie Bethel, is because I want to go to a college to learn french and a bible college, so I figured that I could hit 2 birds with one stone. The only bad thing about it is that I'm going to be far away from Travis and it would cost a lot of money to fly home.

Another plan that I have is to go to Regina, take first year university courses, and live with my sister, who would hate love me to be there 24/7 =]. I have no clue what I'm going to be doing until I get the phone call or else the acceptance letter. My life is so flustered and I wish everything would just come together.

oh and guess what? 25 DAYS UNTIL BRANDON COMES HOME! I haven't seen him since June 28th. Well I was in the same house as him for like 2 hours when I came home from camp, but then Annette came over so I didn't really get to see him, so I'm just saying that I haven't seen him since June. I'm so stoked for Christmas because then Brandon is home and Nick and Teresa are coming up to. It would be better if Jen but i guess you can't get everything for Christmas.

Well now that I'm done whining, I'm going to start doing school work. I got a quiz today so I better get studying.

reba, being sick, failing part 1 of a math test, being sick, and more REBA!...

... this is basically my week so far. Sorry that I haven't blogged lately, but I haven't really been all into it. Since then I've played volleyball, hurt my shoulder more, and texted a lot of people.. as my sister and mother say, I'm an addict, well at least my mother says it more. I'm watching Reba season 3 right now. My wonderful sister let me borrow all her Reba, thats ALL 4 SEASONS!, and I've been watching them basically everyday. I'm pretty sure my parents hatelove Reba now. Yesterday I went to the movies and watched Passchendae. It was a really good movie and kinda sad. It was hard to watch in most parts. Over all its a great movie and everyone should watch it. Anyways, Thats all for now. ohhh and.

HAPPY BELATED ANNIVERSARY JEN AND NOAH!!

I love both of you and can't believe that its been 3 years already. miss you and see you soon!

sorry its been quite some time...

... since i've last blogged, but I've been busy doing stuff and haven't really had the want/will to write. Anyways, since I've last blogged I've had a egg thrown at my leg while walking back from youth group, a fire cracker shot at my van and the cars around me, gone to school, sat in a doctors office for 30 minutes and then the hospital for an hour. Its not FUN. After all of that I haven't found out whats wrong with my shoulder and I have to go to Physiotherapy. Oh what happened to my shoulder? Last year in volleyball we had to do diving lines (its like running lines at school, but you have to dive to each one, meaning hitting the floor for those who don't know about volleyball) and then my arm kinda caught on something and my shoulder popped out and it tore the muscles around the joint in my shoulder. In the picture you can see the white thingy that circled, well yeah, its torn and all gibbled and well yeah. Every time I start to run or go jogging, I get sharp pains going to my shoulder and it causes me great pain and whenever i quickly move my arm, my shoulder pops out (due to nothing really holding it in firmly) and then I'm in deep paint. SO yeah, I'm a gimp basically and it sucks. After I'm done this season of volleyball I have to quit playing volleyball according to the doctor because I'm murdering my body. So far in volleyball I've Sprained 8/10 fingers, destroyed my shoulder and my ankle, and got really sore knees. So yeah, my body isn't in good shape. Anyways, my plans now changed for next year. I want to become a flight attendant, but in order for that to happen I have to be bilingual in 2 languages and there is no way that i'm going to learn all of the asian languages, so i'm going for french since I know quite a bit of french. So I'm planning on moving to Quebec and hopefully go to a school Called Bethal____. I don't remeber, but go to the website and you'll see. Well I'm at school waiting for the "wonderful" bell to ring.

i love how good it feels to be done homework...

... after doing if for 2 hours. For the past 2 hours, I've been having to educate myself about Phylum: Ciliophora, Zoomastigina, Sporozoa, Sacrodina, Euglenophyta, Pyrrophyta, Chrysophyta, and Slime Molds. I had to write about what they were, how they reproduced, what they eat, their functions, what they do to the body (that is if they do anything to the body). I got sick of doing the booklet right when i started. I'm not a big fan of biology, but what i am a fan of is FRENCH!! I think i finally found what i want to do after school, and that is to become a Flight Attendant, but in order to do that, i need to be bilingual in 2 languages, and i only got one..APPARENTLY!! So what i think i'm going to do, with the assistance of my mother, is go to Quebec and go to a college to teach me french (there i can also go to Africa with a group to speak more french) or else i can stay with my french twin Alexandra. Who Alexandra is?? Back in march and April, my school did a french exchange with SEVEC. It was the time of my life and i really enjoyed it and my twin and i got along great! So i'm possibly going to live with her, or else go to the college. Anyways, theres an update on me. Its really late, and i'll try and say more later, but first a picture from today. My mother bought me this GIANT BEAR! and she wants me to remember that its because she loves me and wants the best for me. Well here is my bear by the name of Brandon (she thought that it was a good name. I wonder why???)

Its actually a giant bear. Its over half the size of me, let alone 3/4ths of my body probably. and it takes up a big portion of my bed.

Don't worry people! If you are choking, having a stroke, having a baby, have something sticking out of you...

... DON'T WORRY I CAN HELP YOU! I'M TRAINED IN FIRST-AID!! "Hello, Hello, can you hear me? My name is Erica Braam, I'm a trained first-aider and I'm hear to help you. Can you hear me? Can you Hear me? Hey you in the red shirt, call an ambulence, 250-638-1102 and report back to me and bring the AED!"

That is only part of what I had to do for the past 2 days. On a thursday night at Air Cadets, Our Commanding Officer asked who wanted to do first aid and i thought that i would give it a shot because it sounded fun. Well it was for most of it. I'm such a squimish person and its not even funny. After watching videos of people amputating themselves, gettting things gouged into their eyes, having someone cut open their hand, leg or head, just makes me so squimish. I'm not the best person to go to with a cut because i get to discusted, but i just need to sit for like 2 seconds and breath, then i can work on the person. At Air Cadets people always get hurt for some reason and they always come to me. When we were filling up sandbags, one girl got a shovel in her foot. Well guess who she came to?? ME! I was like, 'Oh what happened?' She went on to tell me that some one was shoveling "dirt" and they nailed her foot instead. When i first heard her tell me i thought they got the front of her foot, but no, they got her toe. It was gushing and bleeding all over the place and i was the lucky one to help her. Well after being really grossed out i managed to help her. I gently wiped down the surrounding part of her toe and then swipped her toe to get the dirt out. Then i stuck a bandaid on her toe and she was set to go. I felt proud.
Then another girl later on came to me with a sprained ankle of some sort. I had her keep it still while i put a tensor bandage on her ankle. It didn't take long until she was set to go and her foot was doing good. Thanks to my wonderful knowledge on first-aid i got through it. Hahaha, i'm such a retard, but thats okay, there are my real life first-aid storys. I just hope that i don't get people coming to me with amputated fingers or arms, because i can tell you one thing. I'll either:
a. Pass out or
b. Vomit
Its not that nice. I'm very squimish i tell you. But if its someone that really needs me i'm sure i can get over it.

pizza are the only thing i can think about right now...

...maybe because I've been around them since 3:20 pm today. The youth group I go to is planning on going to Historymaker (the site is old, but you get the picture) during the May long Weekend. It is taking place in Chilliwack, BC and its a great place to be around other christians. So yeah as I was saying I was sitting around helping make pizzas and I was hanging out with 2 of my favorite people. One being Emily and the other Brandon. Meet Brandon (i hope you don't mind) ...

This guy is basically my bestfriend. Hes a good talker, listener, hockey volleyball basketball wakeboarding tennis badminton player (theres more, I just can't name them all), and a really good friend. If there is anything that I need help with, he is always there for me with a big smile going along with it to. Also this guy is my escort for GRAD! I'm so excited. Hes been a good friend for me for the past 3 or 4 years. Anyways, doing the pizzas we had quite a few good laughs. Everything from trying on sunglasses to argueing about ice cube trays. Okay so here is the argument we had about ice cube trays. If you and your future-husband (Romeo) walk into a store and see ice cube trays that are on sale, of course you are going to buy them and then put them in your hope box for when you get married right?? Well that is what this one girl (we'll call her Juliet) thought until Romeo told her that he wanted to use them while he was living in his parents house and Juliet said, well no we are going to use them when we get married. So Juliet asked us, 'What would you do if you were me right now? I told her that I would keep them stored away and I wouldn't use them either. Juliet told Romeo that Girls want to keep things until the wedding or when its right, and guys just want to use them right away. When we asked around, we started to prove our point. Every guy (sorry should i say man) we asked our question to, they all said, 'Oh just use them right away! What the big problem about that?' and then all the ladies said, 'Keep them stored away until you move into your own house and you're married.' So this just proved our point on how men and women think differently. Well how about a few pictures? They are very bad quality because they were taken on my phone.

I feel like a princess everytime I'm in it. In those pictures there is Marci + Pastor Lowel, Brandon, and Emily. We had alot of fun hanging out working tonight, but wished that it could of lasted longer. But in the end Romeo and Juliet, Emily, Brandon, Marci, Pastor Lowel, a bunch of other people, and I were really tired. It was nice to come home and eat the pizza we had worked so hard on. Now i'm going to shut my eyes and sleep because I got First-Aid in the morning. I did it before, but it expires every 2 years and its been 3 now. Ooops.

today was actually good....

.. for the most part. Yesterday I was at the library studying for Biology 12 and today in 3rd block we did the biology test. We tried to do something different with me and I got the test, well questions, read to me out loud and we are seeing if that helps me more. Im excited and scared to see what i got on my test, but i hope all went good. Today i was once again at the Library. I tend to feel that that is the best place for me to go to becaus ei can actually concentrate there and its not to quite but i need abit of noise when doing my homework, which is just what the library gives me. The occasional sound will be made there, but its not that common.

As my sister says, I do like to text alot. Just today I've sent out 50 and still going on with the counting. Hhaah, yes i guess you could say that i'm an addict, but its a good addict because it still keeps you in contact with people. Its one of the ways how i can keep in contact with people, especially my sister. Growing up I've never really gotten along with them, but since around 4 years ago, i've finally gotten along with my brothers and sister. I've always had the occasional arguement that went on for forever, but now i get along with all of them. Its nice that way. But yeah, as i was saying, I talk to my sister everyday now, well since i went to regina last week. I really enjoy it because I've never talked to her everyday before. Even though texting isn't really "talking" its still a way for me to tell her how i'm doing.

Well tomorrow is another day. I can't think right now. I'll write more tomorrow. I'm leaving now because my phone is ringing. = p