Modular oh Modular how I love thee!

Did I ever tell you guys that I LOVE Mod's? Like really, I've missed this so much! I'm in my first day, knee deep in homework for the week, and having on of the best days ever since I've gotten here. I wish I could just do everything by Mod! (oh wait... next semester I almost am! I'm doing three of my courses by mod... can't wait!)... ok, that's my randomness for tonight, back to homework!
Take care! and Jim, Melissa and Ashely, I am so jelouse that I couldn't be there for 'Christmas supper'! Looked like fun though!
Ambre

Painting with light!

Sooo I found out this very cool techinique and so I thought I'd share my results with you. This is no photoshoped, or have any type of computer graphic done to it, it is completely as is.

ok....soo blogger doesnt like me, this may take a while to get the photos up....

Got it working! Here we go!

I have become Jordan Nielsen

So...Since going to schoo this semester and having to wake up at 7am Monday - Friday, I found myself needing a little boost in the morning, so I went to coffee. This has been going on for almost 2 months and then a couple of days ago I had a headache and I couldn't get rid of it, I popped some advil and went to bed. On Sunday, I had another headache and wanted some coffee, and it went away. So I started thinking, o my goodness I am addicted to coffee so thats when I decided to quit cold turkey. I did that this morning, no coffee for me and I feel horrible. Today has been horrible, I am grumpy and I can't focus on anything that has been happening in class, and my body is shaking. So coffee is good and I am craving some at this moment, I have to cut myself off so that I don't become dependent on it and my teeth don't go yellow.

hey friends!
Look at the slipper i made!!! yay! i am so proud...i just have to make another one!

Prayer, please!

I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier, but if anyone happens to read this today, please pray for one of the youth I worked with this past summer (I'm calling her Emily so you at least have a name to pray with...God will know who you're talking about). I obviously can't post tons of info on the internet about what's going on, but there's a fairly crucial meeting with Emily and her social worker today and Emily's asked me to be here with her for it. Please pray for the three of us, but especially Emily and her family. She's terrified right now (and rightfully so) but has also recently started on a path to get to know Jesus better. If you want more info, ask me and I can tell you a bit more. For now, just pray for strength and courage for her, wisdom for her social worker, and healing in her family. Thanks for your support guys, we can use all the prayer we can get. I feel very blessed to have a family I can bring this to. I miss being able to get together with everyone to pray, but let's face it, if I'd stayed in the bubble any longer I would have missed the opportunity to support this amazing young woman. So I guess it's not all bad. Anyway, I should end this now, but if you're reading this, please pray. Right now, just a few words can make all the difference. Thanks guys!

A homework assignment from the project girl!

Ok, I just have one question for you guys.... I've been talking to some Kaleo 2's lately, and I'm just wondering... how many of you are still struggling with 'life after kaleo' I know some of the girls have recently realized that they have not been communicating because it's hard or... I'm not sure what hte exact phrasing is, but I was wondering... honest opinions now, who still has issues with finding thier place, wanting to be elsewhere, and unhappy with ministry, ect in your church, ect. I know we have the added emotional demention of loosing one of our class that the other classes won't (hopefully) have to deal with but I just kinda wanted to know, what are we still struggling with in this respect, let's find out, and let's see if there is a pattern... can we give this a try? I'm really just curious and hearing what some of the Kaleo 2's are going through fits what I went through last year to a T... we'll call it research. Wow! can you tell I'm doing better! I'm already scheming and dreaming and giving you extra homework assignments. I've been absent to long! it's good to feel liek I'm finally starting to be myself again! (watch out this may mean more little 'assignments' but it may also mean I will get your video's done sometime in the next year! lol oh dear! I'm not making any promises!)
Take care my friends! I miss and love you lots!

Possible Scheming....

iKal�o The Life Here After
SO... here's what I was wondering... Have with thought of planning a reunion type thing sometime in the future... like not this year, maybe even not next year but sometime in the future so that we can all get together and have a blast... maybe even a multi-Kaleo one or something while still giving people enough time to really plan on being there... I donno, maybe it's that I'm finally not overwhelmed and overly tired and I have time to start schemeing again but it could be fun.... like a five year reunion, cuz we're already on year two out!
Anyways, enough scheming for Amber... time for bed!
Oh, and the picture is of Julez and I with pumpkin guck! we had fun carving this weekend when I went down to visit

Oh My!!

Just to let you all know-I'm now officialy old. Today I am 20!
So I am sorry if I begin to forget your names, believe me I love you all, however loss of memory comes with this whole ageing thing!
I woak up today with a soar back, no JOKE! I've never had one in my entire life, but now as soon as i'M OLD MY BACK HURTS.
i WILL BE BUSSY IN A PANNICK FOR THE NEXT WEEK TRYING TO sort out my life. I figure since I'm 20 I should have mid-mid life crises! I'm not exactly sure how to go about having an efficient mid-mid life crisis so if any of you have any tips about how I can do this crisis thing to the best of my ability that would be great! Here I go- Into the world of being old! Wish me luck!
~Melissa~Dotto~

iKal�o | The Life Here After

iKal�o | The Life Here After
ok so... I have fifteen minutes to do this before I go to class... Yikes! but here's a bit of an update.... point form
I'm at Briercrest going to school.... not liking it to much, wanting to escape back to the island but knowing I have to push through and finish this blasted degree!
I just went to Winkler/Winnipeg for the weekend... Saw Julez (she's awesome) Saw Britt's parents and Kevin and Kristen and bawled my eyes out... something that I have been doing lots of in the past while.... but I'm learning that that's ok. I'm reading this book about grief that says that even five or six years down the road I will probably still be grieving, that's normal, we don't just get over people (so I hope that that helps a bit Julie... I'm in it with you and there is no way to just 'deal' with it and be done, it's a process (as Ashely would say in her upbeat voice).
I'm learning to stay still, give community a chance, it's not built in four months.... and those are the hard months, the first few.
Pray that I make friends as I am quite the hermit hiding in my room
I'm in Counseling, Getting all the issues out, so that's good, I should be able to work things out better.... cuz at the moment I'm not sleeping. I can't seem to fall asleep and I'm up til three or four so I'm so tired and end up sleeping through chapel.
I'd love to add some photos of the last while but I don't know how on this thing.... Oh well! Step by step instructions would be awesome Jordan.
LOVE YOU ALL
And I'm going to work at this... work at staying in touch better.
I've deleted msn so I need to make the effort to email and phone.
by the way
LOVE YOU ALL!!!!
Take care
Amber

Tough Moments

So here I am in Vancouver, having spent the weekend trying to reconnect with friends, kids and youth, and worrying about whether or not I'll be able to contact a certain social worker tomorrow and take care of one of my kids in time to get back to Victoria for a midterm Tuesday afternoon.

And it hits me.

All of a sudden I'm in tears, missing Britt so much. I don't understand it, but this is the most I've cried for her since the memorial. I'm really confused, since I thought I'd dealt with that, and that I was at peace with her being in heaven. I talked to a good friend of mine who reminded me that it's ok to miss her. Even though I know she's in heaven and I'm happy about that, I'm still allowed to miss her, and cry, and wish that she was coming out west to visit sometime soon. But I still don't understand why the tears come now.

And I think what it boils down to is this: my life has been insane for the last few months. Very busy, and VERY emotionally exhausting. And once again, like the shmuck I am, I've been trying to do it on my own. When something like this hits me out of nowhere, I find myself being forced to turn to God to figure out what's going on. And wow, I didn't realize how much I'd missed him this last little while. It feels good to remember his presence.

Quick Note:

Just a bit of house keeping:

If you know of anyone in Kaleo that would like to join iKaleo and somehow didn't recieve an e-mail, just drop a comment attached to this message. Thanks!

I got a new camera!!!!

I am so excited. I just recently sold my car and with some of the $$ I was able to get a digital SLR camera! The Canon EOS Rebel XT. This thing takes amazing pictures, just today I have taken 300+ pictures. You can check some of em out at my webpage: aeroworksphoto.com Here's a little teaser -




I'm such a photography geek now ;)

Hope you all have a wonderful week! :)

lONG oVER-DUE pIC'S

Here are some beautiful and long-overdue pictures from Dave Horton's wedding!

Sorry it's taken me so long, that seemes to be my theme these days-lol-

We had a fun trip getting up there, We got into PG @ 5:00 AM!!! Continuing on with the Kaleo 2 Tradition (and having Jen in the car) we started our very own quote wall....But it was on the car windows and with window markers. Can you read the first quote bu Jordan C. Hahah It says "Jordan you just danced in my pee" hahah lol
I stayed awake thew whole drive. My first real all nighter, well almost allnighter, honestly I was just to scared to sleep! heheh!

Ok, God Bless you all! Miss you!

~Dotto~

ikal�o | the life here after

ikal�o | the life here after
ok so... I don't know how to blog. I wanted to blog this on the Kaleo 3's site... it didn't work, but now you know what's going on, and if anyone know's how to post on the Kaleo 3's site, please tell me!!!! I have such issues posting!

KaleoLife

KaleoLife
Hey Kaleo 3 Students!!!!
For those of you that don't know me, My name is Amber Fee and I"m a Kaleo 1 student. This year I'm at Briercrest and I have been given the oppertunity to make up your page for the Eye Witness (the yearbook here) Basically the page includes all your student pic's, a few fun and candid photo's and a write up about Kaleo, what it is, and maybe even some specific things to your year. so... here's what I need from you! I would like to get some pic's off you (I emailed Jim about this, but maybe some of you have some awesome shots that he may not have seen yet... as long as it's not another picture of Parker's toe, cuz that's bad, so gross! so ya, you can email them to me (amber_fee@hotmail.com) make sure you send it HIGH RESOLUTION!!! cuz it's going in the yearbook and it's got to be good quality. And, if any of you that are good at english write-up's (like Jen, your summit write up was cool) if you would like to write a little write up that basically states what Kaleo is (the key phrase 8 month foundational program for developing young leaders comes to mind, but expand more than that) and then maybe even some things that are unique to Kaleo 3. If you could sum it all up in one paragraph or so and email it to me or post it in the comments section... that would be cool and then it would be a Uniquely Kaleo page! It would reflect the true Kaleo 3 Class. Ya, I'm probably going to open the write up request to the Kaleo 1&2's too cuz I really would liek some good feedback to use. So hey, here's a project for you guys at 1 in the morning when your bored. Take Care Kaleo 3's, and know that you are in past Kaleo student's thoughts and prayers often.
Amber

Hey everyone.
I havent posted a blog in a while hehe. I miss you all :)
How was everyones thanksgiving?? I was in surrey with my family I got to see my sister and all my cousins it was soo great. I did a whole lot of eating and sleeping and shopping :D
One thing that sucked was that a close friend of my sister and I died in an car crash on sunday morning. he wasnt a christian and I find that its so much harder to face his death then it was to face Brit's I can at least rest assured that Britt is in heaven it hurts so much knowing that cameron is facing an eternity without God It makes me mad at myself because I didnt tell him about God, why dont we think this is important until something like this happens. arg! there were two other guys in the car and they lived they are not doing to well. Cameron fell asleep at the wheel and when the truck crashed he was pinned by the steering wheel and his two friends were trying to help him and had to see him like that and I cant even imagine what they are going through. Please pray for camerons family and the two guys that were in the vehicle one of the boys is not talking to anyone and the other is having a really rough time. several of my friends in mcneill grew up with cameron and they are angry and hurt. I am so sad this is so unfair I dont see a point in all of this I know that Gods plan is bigger but cameron was only 18 I dont understand.
please pray that I can give my friends here hope and pray for the town because everyone knew him.
well I love you guys and im so thankful that i have your love and prayers.
have a great week
love Kait

What's new in the life of Jordan

Nothing much...

But I am going to Summerland for Thanksgiving! :) Anyone going anywhere exciting for Thanksgiving?


So I was just in Sacramento, California for the Youth Specialities Convention. That was pretty nifty. Lots of big name speakers and concerts going on. Third Day, Steven Curtis Chapman, Kutless, Thousand Foot Krutch, etc. Then for speakers we had; Mark Yackonelli, Doug Fields, and the infamous Marv Penner, and many others. They give so much free stuff out at those things it is amazing. Just walking around all the booths I got about 2 t-shirts, 10 books, 6 CD's, 2 DvD's (all for free!). Although most of the stuff they shove in your face is pointless stuff that will never work. It's still nice to get free stuff :)

So....I am thinking of getting www.ikaleo.com for our blog, although financially speaking I cannot afford it. Right now I have found a host, that can get us ikaleo.com for $6/year and 1GB of space with 25GB bandwidth/month for $5/month. If you can help out, I'd love the help! :)

Well I'm gonna go scavange for some food. Later all!

Snow?

Yes it is that time of year again! Winter is upon us!! YAY! For those of us who greatly enjoy winter sports, this is a good thing. So, I just got back from a field trip! heh, we went hiking in Wells Gray Park!! So awesome! and yes, there was snow, hence the title and such! It was so freezing cold - like think Strathcona hiking trip! well not quite so bad :P, but I was still feeling chilly. The folk from the Yukon made fun of me...anyways, we hiked up into the Alpine area on one of the mountains and it was so beautiful! We saw Krummholz trees! Krummholtz trees are the oldest trees that grow twisted and small...to protect themselves against the harsh environment! oh man, I'm a geek...lecturing ya'll in dendrology! Well what can I say - school's fun, I have awesome classmates...It's a TON of work though...I thought I was busy and had no life last year...well this is busier...try learning to identify and name (common name AND scientific name) 80 trees, over 100 plants (which by the way all seem remarkably similar...), and all the soil orders, diagnostic horizons..., and 14 biogeoclimatic zones! And that's only 3 out of my 5 classes...good times! so great news! actually it's not. I shrunk half a centimeter from my climbing tower extravaganza! I squished one of my disks in my back! oi...I'm supposed to take it easy...that's why I went hiking for hours....right...anyways...as fun as this is, I definately have 4 tests in the next 2 days...so I'd better get a-studying! heh, actually I'll probably more likely be a-sleeping soon...Anyways...I was just bored so i decided to write on here...so bye...