i've waited here for you everlong

remember natalia bell? god she was awesome. i wonder what she's doing now.

things i dont want to forget:

- conversations i had with xiao during trip to italy
- the time i threw an umbrella at an italian lady's face by accident (it was windy!)
- grade 11 strathcona trip for trailbuilding with lara
- collecting berries and making jam
- being an extra in natalia's sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock&roll movie
- intently watching chelsy z light up a cig at a starbucks
- quilchena park on 420 with rox, es, and neese
- vancouver art gallery's frez herzog exhibition
- saying 'fuck you' to ian
- watching pat perform the napoleon dynamite dance
- spending hours in vancity downtown - the same route always: the #16 bus, charlie's records, pacific centre, stitches, la senza, food court
- wasting quarters at chapters with dara
- decorating friends' lockers
- making fun of rachel's pms
- making a model of DNA with anna
- making mini grad yearbook with anna
- starting a blog in february 2005
- hanging out with hugo and zach in victoria
- bad music dance party at anna's
- doing science experiments for a lab at roxy's
- mixing cetyl alcohol with water at denise's
- reading denise's mind
- watching House on lara's bed
- feeding lara's cat with my sister
- making fun of dara's sailor moon poster
- being freaked out by a creepy stranger high on E at arts county fair
- seeing metric for the first time at arts county fair
- sweaty metric/most serene republic concert with lara and rox
- our lady peace/pedestrian/neverending white lights concert with denise, lara, rox
- lining up in front of future shop at 7am on the release date of olp's 7th album with lara
- going to an all-acoustic olp concert at the commodore with lara
- the amazing broken social scene concert i went to with caitlin and peter
- making tshirts at ester's
- lara's infamous house parties
- emo xiao
- emo matt hair
- emo david (shudder.)
- emo michael
- michael's flask and his 90% alcohol
- matt's obsession with drinking
- ester's obsession with pot
- heather and amy at winter formal
- making fun of indiana at grade 8/9 formals
- rachel and svet, rachel and kevin, rachel and colin, rachel and bar, rachel and dylan
- organizing arts night 2007
- the notorious grade 10 valentine's dance
- regina spektor concert with dave and es
- playing poker at the fireworks, summer 2007
- having deep talks with pat at the end of summer 2007
- having deep talks with eric at the end of summer 2007
- going grocery shopping with rachel and lara at fortino's in hamilton, on
- being a gossip queen, grades 8-10
- having code names for mini's
- writing huge plane letters for people
- volunteering at ymca camp for two summers
- taking pointless pictures during spares with ester and ben
- seeking refuge at the mini computer lab during french class
- teaching a class (in french) how to make paper cranes with denise
- making congee with denise, es and dara
- sprouting alfalfa and sweet potatoes with ally
- writing "ftw" and other l33t with matt
- going to the beach with matt, dave and lara
- spending more than 48 hours straight at lara's on new year's, 2007
- drunken talk with malcolm
- playing on the swings at shaughnessy elementary with malc
- three-hour arguments on whether photography is art with malc
- looking at malc's thailand pictures at starbucks
- starbucks in front of pw, in general
- going to mexicali with toby (fucking odd, i know)
- watching silence of the lambs with lara's family
- watching blood diamond with lara's family
- playing on the wii with denise
- watching mini guys play basketball/pingpong/soccer at lunch
- rolling down the hill on a rainy night with rox and lara
- going whitewater rafting with mini girls
- mountain biking down whistler mountain with dara and alex (buckley)
- watching zach put on red tights at arts night
- the night with rachel, david, denise and dara in grade 8 strathcona
- mr. taylor's writing class
- days when swain and palmer looked for ian concerning his scholarship
- lara's drawing of ms. hatz on her math textbook
- the day we recited the poem to kinnear in grade 11
- grade 12 strathcona, chanting jordan's name
- grad sleepover at the school, running from the cops
- sleeping in lara's mom's bed with lara (this must have been some party... no frigging clue)
- listening to denise plan her wedding with ardie
- swimming in the freezing water at cape scott with rox, lara and denise
- lying outside on the grass in sleeping bags, gazing at the stars at cape scott
- going to the beach and sophie's cosmic cafe on my 16th birthday with rox, lara, denise, dara


now i'm a little sad.