If there was one word to describe my past week, it would either be spontaneous or adventurous.
The week started out like any other week of mine, going through the motions of school, a casual hangout with friends at the local coffee shop, devouring homework, and writing! Well, aside from my usual, but fun week days, I had a SPECTACULAR weekend!! One of the most random encounters happened on Sunday. It all started this past Saturday, I spent the whole day at home doing homework. At one point, I logged onto my personal twitter page to see what the celebrities were up to that day. Now, I’m going to admit my guilty pleasure to you, and I’m sure you watch it too: I’m addicted to the Family channel. It’s just SO adorable!! On twitter, I’m following a cast member of The Suite Life On Deck, Debby Ryan, who plays Bailey Pickett (the farm girl!). She posted a tweet saying, “Okayy, so if you’re around Vancouver, BC tomorrow afternoon, I wanna go for a late lunch/tea with a few rad fans. Wanna come?” Word for word. Since I was on at the same time as she posted it, I wrote back, “I’d love to come!” Not expecting a reply at all. After I posted that, she wrote back to me a couple of minutes later, “Are you in the area?”, to which I replied, “Yep!” and my heart raced. She noticed me? ME? Out of all of the thousands of followers who wrote to her, she noticed MY tweet? Wow. Knowing that her twitter page was authentic, I decided to go along with it. I mean, what did I have to lose? About an hour later, she DM’d (direct message) a few fans the exact location and other applicable information.
Leaving work on Sunday, I made the adventurous trip to Marble Slab in Coquitlam, the meeting place. When I arrived, there were many young ladies lined up to meet the star. She emerged from the back room, and the girls all cheered. The first thing I noticed was her slight Texan accent. She also said “Y’all” a lot. She was so adorable! What really surprised me was how kind and caring she was towards her fans. She asked us questions about life, gave us advice, answered questions, took pics, signed autographs and even scooped ice cream! What really made me smile was when I called up my little cousin Tasia to see if she wanted to talk to Debby, I asked Debby if she was able to talk to her, and Debby took the phone and talked to her for a very, very short time! Tasia said afterwards that she was in shock. She just finished watching the show, and one of the characters called her! She was starstruck! That’s another thing, the whole time I hung out with Debby, I wasn’t starstruck at all, it felt like I was just hanging out with a friend! She’s a very laid back, real, and adorable person. She even recognized my twitter name! She signed my purse, took a picture with me, and talked to me for a few moments. All I can say is that she really helped put things into perspective, and I have a high respect for that girl. She’s a gem.
After that wonderful experience last night, I went to school this morning, and had a meeting with my youth worker and social worker. For those who don’t know, I’m on a youth agreement, and I have to meet with people who help me along the way once a week to get on the same page with them, and make plans for the next step in my life. We all agreed upon the fact that I will not be graduating this year. After miscommunication and misunderstandings, it has come to my attention that I will not be graduating this year. Somehow I’ve got to figure out how I’m going to be able to continue through with school for the next two years (at the most), but I have to figure out how, funding wise, I can pull it off. I’ve got a couple of ideas, but it’s quite scary at my age not knowing what’s going to unravel in the future. I suppose that all I can do is just wait it out, and let the future reveal itself. Focusing on right now is my priority (well, I’m trying to look at it that way, anyways.)
Anyhow, after the meeting, I went my Tourism 12 class and did a couple of assignments. After lunch, our Outdoor Recreation 12 class took a short road trip to Squamish to take an adventurous hike. Now, the teacher told us to not leave our valuables in the bus, so I brought the autographed purse along with me. Stupid move on my part, because my purse was WHITE! Thus, when I got to the bottom of the mountain, it was all muddy. You can still see the autograph though! Anyways, we hiked up Chief Mountain, and we climbed up to the first peak. Boy, I wasn’t expecting it to be that challenging! A couple of times I feared falling off the cliff, and I almost did once! All in all, the challenge in itself taught me something on my ride home… if I can climb a very difficult mountain, I can find a way to finish school. There’s nothing to worry about! I’ve got great people behind me who’s there to support me, so I’ll do excellent! Resources are spread like Starbucks in Vancouver, everywhere!! When I reached the peak, I felt a triumphant explosion of satisfaction crash over me like a tidal wave. Sure, it was challenging, but hard work paid off. Lesson of the day: NEVER take your white purse up a mountain, no matter what you think, no matter how careful you are, it’s going to get ruined.
(I’m the tall, curly haired girl near the left. Debby is the beautiful girl in the center, with the blue shirt on.)
If you want to follow Debby on Twitter, her link is:
www.twitter.com/thedebbyryan <http://www.twitter.com/thedebbyryan>