Today I was a model for a bridal fashion show. Katharina's Bridal Boutique located in Summerside PEI asked me a while back if I would like to be a model in their upcoming bridal show. The following are pictures from today!
Not too much has been going on with Miss Teen PEI. This weekend though, I have an awesome event, the lovely woman who wants to sponsor the next Miss Teen PEI a gown, asked me to be in her bridal show. I am very excited for this weekend. Other than that I have nothing else scheduled for Miss Teen PEI, I am hoping to set some things up near Christmas.
Lately I have just been busy with university and work. Due to the fact that I live on a Potato Farm, the nights that I don’t have school I help out my father. My dad works the windrower, one of my uncles runs the harvester and my other uncle makes sure that everything goes smoothly into the warehouses for storage. Here are some pictures of the machinery and what they do....
This is both the Windrower (orange machine behind the green tractor aka 'John Deere') and the Harvester (the small red and white machine in the background)
The Harvester then comes after the Windrower and picks up all of the potatoes that come out of it, and loads the potatoes in to trucks show in picture below:
And this is where my job comes in. When the truck begins to unload, there are workers that stand along the belts who pick out rocks, grass and the odd rotten potato:
Hello everyone,
This is just a quick update about what has been going on with my life..... well....not too much has changed. University is going great, life is good and well tomorrow is my 19th birthday! I am really excited i only have one class tomorrow, so after that my family and I are doing a big birthday bash for me! Yea I love Family!
Also with Miss Teen PEI, I have been talking to some companies and seeing who would like to sponser the next Miss Teen PEI. So far I have three companies: Katharina's Bridal Boutique wants to sponser a dress when Miss Teen PEI competes in Toronto, Faces Cosmetics is willing to sponcer her with makeup and Sandpiper Studios wants to sponcer her with photo shoots so she can get her name out there! So not only will the next Miss Teen PEI win the title she already has sponsers! I am so thankful and greatful for these amazing people who want to sponser the next Miss Teen PEI.
I am hoping that enough girls apply this year and follow through to have our very own competition here on the Island! Guess we'll just have to wait and see........
xoxo
Wow the summer when fast! This week was the first week back to University! I started again on Monday, and even though it is only Tuesday, I was up in my room doing some work to make sure I don't fall behind in my studies, can you believe it only the second day and I'm spending hours doing school work! Hahah. Due to the fact that the Canada Games were here on the Island, University started a week later, and the campus looks great! My classes seem exciting! So far I was only in 4 classes out of five, on one night of the week I have a three hour class, at least it's only one night! My life at University consists of only one building. Instead of me walking all through the campus to get to my different classes I only have to be in one building! That is only because I am going to major in English and all my courses are found in the Arts building!
Not only did University start back up, so is GEMS (Girls Everywhere Meeting the Saviour). It is an all girls youth group for grades 3-8. I have volunteered for the past three years, and am now a counsellor. Tonight is the first night! I am excited for this year because my best friend and partner in crime (we are teaching a class together) get to do skits together. They are pretty funny too! I am excited for this year not only for the skits but the fact that each year God seems to give me awesome girls! We all got along last year, when I left to go on a trip with my family and missed only three nights of this youth group the girls from my class told me that I was not allowed to leave them again, it was quite cute.
Ever notice how hard it is to get younger kids to listen to you when you are trying to either do a lesson or even talk to them? Well I found a solution..... Briber! It actually works quite well. Every week just before we start the lesson I pull out some candy, yes I did just say candy, and set it out in the middle of the table or on the floor (in a container of course) and tell the girls that they can have some candy only if they listen and participate in the lesson! It always worked! So this year I am going to do the same, and since I have the same girls they should all be familiar with how my teaching works!
I am excited for this year. Not just becasue of GEMS or University (i'm not too excited about that) but I was talking to the right hand man for PEI's Premier Robert Ghiz. about going to schools and talking to girls between the ages of grade 7-12 about how it is your personality and what is inside that matters most, not the outward appearance. I would be talking to the girls about my expirence with bullying and how it affected my life, I would also tell them what being Miss Teen PEI did for me and how my family friends and boyfriend helped me believe in myself and changed the way I thought about myself. My goal is to at least affect on girls life positively! It would be an amazing opportunity to talk to girls and tell them my story!
Miss Teen PEI really has done a lot for me and I want to give back. I want to help other girls realize the potential they have and what it feels like to believe in yourself and believe that you are beautiful inside and out. Every girl struggles with this concept. Girls are so hard on themselves!
So that is my life so far in one post. I will try and keep up with posting but I can see that now that my schedual is becoming more and more packed it may be hard!
One more thing my birthday is coming so soon. I will be turning 19 in exactually 9 days September 24th! I am pretty excited I mean who doesn't love birthdays! :)
xox
A few days ago my aunt came up to me and asked me if I would like to help out with their VBS at her church! I love volunteering for things such as this! VBS is a Vacation Bible school that happens only in the summer; it lasts a week, Monday to Friday from 8:30am until 12pm. I am with grades 2&3, and am really enjoying the group that I am with. The kids are wonderful, and I can already notice a connection between them and me. They are great young kids, causing me to be excited to go tomorrow! They learn things from the bible and its even cooler how the lesson that they learn is tied into their snack. For instance todays lesson was about Moses and the Burning Bush! Moses was a man that God asked to go to Egypt and ask the Pharaoh to let Gods people go. Now God did not ask Moses in a way that people would consider 'normal' he came to Moses through a burning bush. It was cool because the kids got to eat a snack that looked like a burning bush! Another thing that I love about VBS would have to be the people that I get to work with! My aunt is a great director! She does such a wonderful job and puts 110% into everything that she does. It is easy to see that she did the same for VBS.
I cannot wait until tomorrow! I am excited to see what the leaders have instore for the kids tomorrow! I am also excited to see my group of kids, they are all so different, but all share one thing in common, they are attending VBS and are in my group!
Be sure to keep reading to find out more about my week of volunteering!
Part way through my Family Reunion vacation Kenneth and I headed home to the Island so that I could be in the Gold Cup and Saucer Parade. Hillside Motors a car dealership located in Charlottetown asked me to be on their float. They did not have a float they had a Truck pulling a very nice boat with me sitting on the top of it. It was so awesome! On the truck and the boat it said "Miss Teen PEI Julie Nieuwhof." I never realized how many people actually cared and made a big deal about Miss Teen PEI until that day. So many people were chearing and clapping for me. It made me feel so great! It was an honour to sit on that boat. I felt very supported! It was great!
Here are some pictures of that amazing day:
The Reunion was amazing! I cannot wait until the next one, in 3 years! I love hanging out with my cousins and family! This year Kenneth was able to come on to the trip with me! It was awesome having my boyfriend on the reunion. I can't wait until the next one to see who out of my cousins has a significant other on the reunion.
This is in a cave at Fundy Park!
My aunts came up with this awesome idea to have matching T-shirts or sweaters. This is what the t-shirts and sweaters had on them.....
After the pageant, not too much has happened. Until about a week ago. I was contacted by a local car dealership.... Hillside Motors.... and they wanted me to do a radio broadcast for them. It was so fun. I went in to Ocean 100 and K-rock (two local radio stations) and did the radio broadcast!
I also have plans for the future as Miss Teen PEI. I am going to hopefully go to schools across Prince Edward Island and talk to girls about how their personality is more important than their looks. I am excited to put my being Miss Teen PEI to work. Although right now it has slowed down and given me some time to catch up on my sleep I am excited for this fall. My goal as Miss Teen PEI is to use this title to help change young girls thoughts on themselves.
I am so blessed to have been given this opportunity. This month does not have a lot going on on other than in less then two weeks my whole Nieuwhof Family is having a Reunion. I am excited to see part of my family that I have not seen since the last family reunion. I am very excited!!
I want to start of by saying thank you to everyone who made my trip to Toronto for Miss Teen Canada World possible. It was because of all of you that I had an amazing trip of a lifetime.
The pageant was amazing, even though I did not win Miss Teen Canada-World I am still Miss Teen PEI for a whole year and get to give up my crown next spring, to the next Miss Teen PEI. I also received a $2000 scholarship to UPEI for having the best written essay. I had an amazing time. I met so many wonderful girls and have made lifelong friendships!
Congratulations to Seira Bearchell.... Miss Teen CANADA WORLD.... YOU WILL MAKE CANADA PROUD!
Here are some pictures of the pageant and my experience.......
Drive Home:
My parents arrived in Toronto on Friday July 24 and watched me compete on stage in Toronto July 25th now instead of us flying home we are driving home, and going through the states. Before we headed to the states we went to Niagara Falls. It was beautiful....
Here are some pictures of the FALLS:
This is the bear that I bought my boyfriend!
The Falls at night... It is so beautiful!
After the falls we drove over the Rainbow Bridge that connects New York and Ontario. We then stayed the night in New York and today we went shopping! It was so much fun. We then drove to Boston, we have family there, and I am now about to watch the Bachelorette it is the final rose ceremony!
Tomorrow we are leaving early in the morning to head home, we have a 12 hour drive ahead of us and we loose an hour so really we may arrive home at about 8pm Boston time, but it will be 9pm in PEI.
Well I am about to hope into my cousins hot tub then off to watch the Bachelorette!
xo
This pageant so far has been an amazing experience. Each and every girl that I am competing against is gorgeous inside and out; just the way God made them! They are fun to be around, very pretty, and all have great personalities! Even though every day is busy and full of activities and we are all tired, some how 54 girls seem to be doing a great job keeping our cool.
We have done so many things so far: The CN Tower, we have been on MuchMusic on Demand, we have been on MTV, today we went to a Faze Magazine Media Party and heard Shiloh, as well as listened to three sisters with amazing talent. We also met the newest member of Degrassi and she sang.
Toronto has been so fun. The things that I have been able to experience just because I am in this pageant have been unreal. Growing up in Prince Edward Island there are not near as many opportunities there as there are here in Toronto.
If I do not go home with the title of next Miss Teen Canada-World, I know that I will go home with a set of new friends, great memories as well as confidence.
xoxo
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