Julie Nieuwhof

My life has been decently busy since I was crowned in May of 2009. The amount of amazing things I have experienced as Miss Teen PEI-World could create a very long list. In May 2010 I will be giving up my crown to another girl, but before that time comes I will continue to enjoy being Miss Teen PEI-World. One thing that I want to do though is encourage more girls from PEI to apply. The amount of doors that being Miss Teen PEI-World has opened for me is unreal. Not only in May will I be giving up my crown, I will also become the assistant of NWH Modeling which will be opening in May here in PEI. Here is just a quick list of things that I am doing as well as got to do as Miss Teen PEI-World:

·       Compete in the Miss Teen Canada-World pageant

·       Won a $2000 academic scholarship through the Miss Teen Canada-World pageant

·       Meet a large amount of people who sponsored my trip to Toronto to compete for the Miss Teen Canada-World title

·       Compete on the Canadian Idol stage

·       Tour around Toronto

·       Meet many lovely girls while competing for the Miss Teen Canada-World title (I still talk to them)

·       Model for Katharina’s Bridal Boutique in Summerside PEI

·       Become the Director of the Miss Teen PEI-World Pageant

·       Become the assistant for NWH Modeling coming soon to PEI  

·       Be the spokes person for the PEI Rocket Hockey team

·       Be a part of 2 parades

·       Did fashion shoots with Sandpiper Studios

·       Did interviews with Ocean 100, K-Rock, CTV and The Guardian

The journey as Miss Teen PEI-World has been an amazing one, and thankfully is not yet over. I love every minute of it. The amount of doors that this pageant has opened up for me blows my mind away. My job now is to recruit as many girls as I can in hopes that they will apply to be Miss Teen PEI-World 2010 and experience the things that I have, as well as have doors open up for them. I will be going around to PEI schools in the next couple of weeks putting up posters promoting the pageant because I believe that every girl deserves to “Be their own kind of beautiful” and what better way than to apply to be the next Miss Teen PEI-World and see what kinds of doors open up for them!

Thanks for supporting me through my journey. It means a lot to me!

<3 Julie

 Here is the poster which I will be putting up in schools across PEI:

Become Miss Teen PEI-World 2010

“Be your own kind of beautiful”

The Miss Teen Canada-World Pageant is looking for girls between the ages 13-19 to represent PEI.

This weekend was awesome. I have not done a lot of things with Miss Teen PEI lately but this weekend I became the spokes person for my local hockey team, the Rocket! It is so much fun, I get to go on camera and announce prizes and then give them to the winner, and I get to do this every home game, all becasue of Miss Teen Canada-World Siera. I was reading Siera's blog a few weeks back and she was talking about how she dropped the puck for her local hockey team, that made me thing 'Hey I could do something like that too' so I contacted my local hockey team, and now I go to every home game! Here are some pictures from last night:

This is me and the mascot for the Rocket Team.

This is Nathan, my boss.... well he just tells me what to do.

These are some pictures from the game.  

And this is the camera man, Rob..... we tend to hang out a lot, because he tells me when I have to be on air. 

My next game in on December 2nd, and Nathan told me that I will be doing more than just prizes. I will be doing things like interviewing some people from the audience, as well as asking trivia questions, giving away prizes and just watching the game. It is pretty exciting that I am actually doing something now as Miss Teen PEI, because things have been slow lately, and I hope that if they like me as the spokes person, I may be able to do it next year too!

xo

<3 Julie

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 windrower is used to pick the potatoes out of the ground and put them inbetween two other potato rows. Show in picture below:

 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:

When the trucks are full of potatoes they leave the field and head to the farm where the will be unloaded. The trucks back up to a belt and unload

 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: