Why Luke, Why?

why are you dating kelly osbourne and not me!?!?

i'm happy that she's found that someone special

but

....

i love the tall skinny chizzled types

especially when they come with a nice accent

oh well

i search on

oh, well kinda. i'll explain about my date with hockey boy soon

James Dean

i still can't put my finger on what makes him so sexy
but he is
i guess he's my celebrity crush of the 50's era
and i am not ashamed
i love the black and white pictures of him
sexily slouching while he puffs away on his cigarette
his jawline looks carved by the greeks
and he has a confidence that is not too loud or cocky

Beignet for Breakfast

je les adore!
but i will surely get fat
i had at least four for breakfast
they're just so yummalicious
i'll never tire of them

Multiple Citizenship

the multiple citizenships of my family has been a problem that calls us back to embassies time and time again


lets start simple then go on

dad: born in virginia and only has american citizenship
his family moved to the united states ages ago and he has no contact or awareness of relatives overseas.. very simple, no?

gabriel: born in montreal (this was the year my dad took off from work) . he has canadian citizenship by birth (also the fact that my mother is canadian). when he was born my mother was married to my american dad and so they immediately went to the american embassy there and filed a report of a "birth abroad." they basically had no trouble and was sent an american passport for baby gabe, it also helped that they moved to anchorage the next year

jean-todd (todd): born in anchorage, alaska. 1. the canadian embassy of anchorage doesn't do shit 2. it wasn't even opened until 2004. my parents had to go to the consulate of seattle. i guess things went relatively smooth there, until we received a letter from the state department asking why "this person" (aka baby todd) would want to acquire a canadian citizenship and asked if he knew that he would have to renounce his american citizenship in order to become a citizen of another country. my parents were so confused and went all the way from anchorage back to seattle again. apparently there was a mixup or something, the u.s. people in charge of that didn't know he was an infant with a canadian mother

me: same as todd, born in anchorage and had to get canadian citizenship from seattle consulate except i didn't have any problems

here's where things get slightly confusing

mama: born in montreal to a french canadian (technically just canadian) dad and an actually french mother. so she is considered french and canadian and has citizenship of both countries. and she lived in france from age 17 to 23 (atleast five years etc.) but since she went to a french university that was reduced by two years

since gabriel was born in canada and its very common to have french citizenship, he easily became a french citizen at five. todd & i are much much older than age five
and because we were born in america, we are having alot of trouble getting a french citizenship as well. and i think we might have had to live there (france) during some period..

long story short we're having some trouble

Date Night

its date night with hockey boy
wish me luck

Not Z, Zed..

his name is joe
and we are canadian

damn, i never get tired of this commercial

And the love boat sets sails again...

the first week of school, i never noticed a guy in my french class that i'd never seen before. and then i was sick forever so if i had noticed him, i would have forgotten maybe
well apparently he noticed me
and how could i not have noticed him, he's 1m90 (that's around 6'2 - 6'3 for you amis) and actually pretty cute
we started talking in class and the reason we don't know each other is because he transferred in the year i was in france
apparently he's really good at ice hockey & is one of the two ice hockey captains this year.. also he knows my brother Todd who graduated last year, he even said he knew i was Todd's sister right away because we look alike. and people never tell us we look alike
i'll take that as a compliment as todd gets with tons of chicks(i dont support it though!)
ok so to get to the point we've been talking a lot lately and he asked me on a date this friday. i haven't "dated" in forver but i said ok
hes taking me to a restaurant called maenam and i've never been before, or heard of it, but my friend leia freaked out about that (you know, girl freak out) so i'm guessing it's pretty nice
i'm kinda nervous,i still don't know him very well

new topic
later this fall instead of flying into england with my mom, i'm just gonna fly in and gabe is gonna meet me there and go with me on my college visits in france and england. nadja will come too of course
i'm really looking forward to that and just college in general really

ok i'll end with my favorite ice hockey player Jason Spezza

True and Pathetic Racism...

recently a blogger, zek, was being called racist..meanwhile i stumble upon a truly racist and kind of disturbing website
everyone knows that i'm kind of a sensitive person
and its really upsetting for me to see such obvious displays of hatred and intolerance and ignorance that you often see on the internet, as i am from canada where we don't have so many race problems here
and i have never experienced racism (knowingly) first hand

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2009/08/racist_she_pref.php

they even congratulate austria on their 'progress' and everyone with a brain knows that austria (nadja describes as "un pays très raciste") is the country with the second highest number of neo nazis in the world
after america
and actually nadja and gabriel just explained to me why this is (about austria) and why germany has a considerably low number of neo nazis interestingly..but i'll post that later

in the words of Harlem Désir

Pierre Casiraghi

the incredibly cute Pierre is the grandson of Grace Kelly
he's just the cutest thing
and also 3rd inline for the throne of Monaco
i think i love him :S
he used to be really nerdy when he was younger too
sighs
plus his sister is the incredibly gorgeous Charlotte
i love them both actually

i've been to monaco a few times and the natives are pretty cool, some of my most embarrassingly drunk moments where there too

Extremely Exhausted plus Globally Underground...

frown, i cant embed this. this song is a little old but makes me want to run around in my kitchen and cook at the time of morning when the light's really good

camille ~ au port
i forgot all about it when i came back to canada but terribly sorry here reminded me and now i can't get it out of my head
shes got a great young, very french voice and you can listen here

oh shit im falling asleep while typing this, truly i am exhausted. went to bed a 3:30 last night, and not because i was at a wild party for once

ok so recently i have rediscovered transglobal underground who i love love love em and am working on acquiring all their cds since 1994 right now.
some of my favorite songs by them
army of forgotten souls
la voix du sang
i, voyager


also they often collaborate with the fabulous natacha atlas
her voice is ... wow
shes got the whole sultry parfois raspy middle eastern thing going on
she sings in arabic plus other languages (but it still sounds like arabic when she does)



ok so i definitely just fell asleep for like 3 hours with the lap top on my chest


i'll finish this later, blah
plus in like an hour i'm supposed to sneak out or something (?)
apparently the soccer team won and you know how it goes...

eh... this is the worst post ever

Adoption

after i was born my parents desperately tried to conceive one last child
and failed of course

but recently they have been talking about adoption especially now that Gabriel is here we as a whole family have been seriously discussing it and apparently my parents already found a child they've looked into for months
a 6 year old boy from france named chandler
chandler amsel ..my new baby brother?
he is biracial like my other sibling and i, and my parents think it would be good to be adopted into a family with a similar background with hopes it would be easier for him to fit in with the rest of us for being so similar in that aspect
the only problem is that he doesn't speak english, which really isn't a problem for the rest of us. only for my dad
more on that plus tard

on another note nadja tells me my last name amsel means merle in french, or blackbird in our lovely english
am i distantly german??

peut être thinks nadja

German Forecast? plus Up Early Today

up early today finishing my loads ap french homework that i missed. as of two days ago i am now taking german. nope, i haven't been back to school yet, i've had a whoping total of three days of school... luckily
so i still haven't been to school recently yes, but this year i decided to take a second foreign language. it was originally supposed to be spanish but after meeting nadja (j pronounced like y & more about her further below) i've decided to give german culture a chance. my brother (gabe's here now) is so excited, he really does love the place. he went up to school and even talked to my college counselor and had it changed for me. so now, as a senior i am in a freshman class pre-ib german 1. it's really embarrasing actually because i was atleast in spanish 2 when i was taking spanish. gabe also went upstairs and talked to the german 1 teacher mr.weiss, a kind of elderly man (apparently) who he is just best friends with now and got all of the work i missed for me. i'm not going to school again until Wednesday so I have plenty of time to catch up and nadja and gabe are going to help me get acquainted with the language, now i'm actually getting kind of excited.

ok so about nadja
she is unfairly and painfully beautiful, my brother should never break up with her.
with curly light brown hair and german blue eyes she in thin but not skinny. with an incredibly womanly hourglass figure...like scarlett johansson

her english is absolutely shit-tastic, i think she secretly hates the language, but her french is really impressive, she's a french major apparently. giving her a million plus points on my mothers "amie du fils" scale
so this is rather unfortunate and akward for my father as he has no knowledge of any foreign language except he can say bon jour in a truly awful american accent and on a good day je m'appelle paul. lately he stands around awkwardly while the rest of us make jokes in french and laugh histerically
the house (or condo, as we recently moved) was a bustle with french. nadja mostly hung out in the kitchen helping my mom or animatedly chatting up gabe in german. they seem to have a good laugh together and i sadly realized i hardly know my brother
what is he like? what does he do for fun? his favorite color? i have no idea

she made a traditional southern german food which was actually a pretty good noodle dish called spaetzle, i was actually kind of unwilling to try at first as germany is not known for their delicious cuisine but was pleasantly surprised
the only thing about nadja is that, even though i imagine she does very well in her university studying french, she is not especially bright
she is definitely not stupid but.. i don't know, i don't mind and it's not important really but
maybe it's just that she is simple, but not in the country girl way as i get the feeling she is a big bar hopper (presents consisted solely of tons of german beer and some wines they bought in montreal). maybe it's just that she is unconcerned with the problems of life
maybe i worry too much for my age?
oh well, i suspect she will make an excellent teacher as i can already say
guten tag ich heisse samantha und ich bin seibzehn jahre alt. ich wohne in vancouver
in german w's are pronounced like v, and j's like y. it's been one day and im already learning so much! haha
in a short while she will help me progress even further into this new world of discovery, and to think last week i could have cared less about german. i wonder what future chain of events this could have set off?