I don't know if I ever wrote this before, but I guess I might as well let anyone interested get a peek at what made me, me, since more than a few of you have asked the same question: "How did you end up in Japan, Cam?"I have decided to break this up into parts, so there should be 13 shorter episodes. Some of you don't have time (or inkling) to read a 10 page blog...
I love you!
Cam
P.S. The cartoons are not necessarily related to the Life, but I just wanted to add them as they are a part of my life over the past 13 years. Enjoy!
Up To Speed, Part 1: Day One to University Graduation
I was born on September 19, 1965. My dad's mom looked at me and declared me the best looking mop she had ever held on that day. I guess by holding me upside down by my ankles it shocked the body into going into hyper drive regarding growth hormones that led me down the path of 6'5" and slim. If you work better in metric these days, as I do, that would be 195cm and 72kg current dimensions.
My life with my family was warm, loving, educational, and extremely nurturing. I don't remember anything traumatic ever really happening in my childhood. I love my family with all my heart and still do.
I went to Springfield Heights for elementary school, Chief Peguis for Jr. High and then River East for High School. I really enjoyed the sciences as well as French and decided to go into the Faculty of Science @ U of M in 1983. After finding out that physics was not my forte in the first year, I moved over to a specialty in Honours Microbiology and finished my degree, graduating close to the top with marks above average. I enjoyed my environmental microbiology classes immensely (thanks to my professor and mentor Dr. Halvorsen) and really wanted to go into that field.
I went to Springfield Heights for elementary school, Chief Peguis for Jr. High and then River East for High School. I really enjoyed the sciences as well as French and decided to go into the Faculty of Science @ U of M in 1983. After finding out that physics was not my forte in the first year, I moved over to a specialty in Honours Microbiology and finished my degree, graduating close to the top with marks above average. I enjoyed my environmental microbiology classes immensely (thanks to my professor and mentor Dr. Halvorsen) and really wanted to go into that field.
During the summers I worked out at the University in Agriculture Canada Research. It was a lot of fun planting the fields, wearing the tiniest swimsuit and thongs coated in suntan lotion, listening to CBC classic music all day and hoeing the weeds. For three years I did that. I enjoyed it.
I love you!
Cam
Stay tuned for Part 2: My working Life in Canada
Wow... a cool little flash of Day One to Graduation Day, but MUCH shorter than I was expecting!!! Still - very cool *smiles*
ReplyDeleteThat's it???
ReplyDeleteThis has got to be one of your shortest blogs ever.
I hope part deux follows shortly.
this is a story i've heard some of, but can't wait to hear more.
Love you, Mou.
I really do.
Especially since it's easy to wax poetic when i say it :-)
Just got a visual of that long skinny body in a thong, working the fields.
ReplyDeleteUmm.... ok!
...hehehe.....
did you at least have a smokin tan?
One a day, for 13 days. Maybe at this length, it won't keep Mr. Crabass SocklessWonder SlowReader Iglesias away...
ReplyDeleteHe'll be in NYC... with Paula (and ME!) for 4 more days so i don't know if he'll get to Cam: The Early Years.
ReplyDeleteBut the rest of us will look forward to it!
Hmmm..thought of you out in a thong in the warm sun. Nice visual to start out a cold morning here in Po Dunk, MO. *grins*
ReplyDeleteThe blog however, was a teaser....not fair, not fair! Look, Iglesias, read faster!
Hey Cam, maybe this is the Cliff Notes version for him...ey?
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ReplyDeleteMichelle - thongs = flipflops. Although in those days speedos were cool and yes we did wear them wandering around the large fields, tucked up into our buttcheeks slathered in oil, praying to the sun goddess (and hoeing).
ReplyDeleteThose where the days where "hoe" meant something you did in the garden and not some derogatory term for a woman! How I thong for the old days of yore!
ok JOSE
ReplyDeletewhat is up with you?????????????
are you trying to keep it under 5 minutes???????????????
I'm ready! I have wanted to know all about your life for awhile now and thank you thank you for making the episodes short. You know I fall asleep if I try to read something that takes longer than a couple of minutes to read. hahahahahahaha. The bad part is that when I do fall asleep reading I snore, and if there is anyone else around its embarassing.
ReplyDeleteI like it too that you are reading to us. *I love you*
hey I am a biologist too...well in my other life i was... lol did you study in the University of Montreal? i studied in UQAM and did my master with the TOXEN (in environmental toxicology) ...then i went to UdeM to study another 7 years and be able to find a job!
ReplyDeletein wich episode will we learn why and how you went to Japan?...just teasing you I am a bit hyperactive...
ReplyDeletewow, you are tall!
ReplyDeleteTall, skinny Canuckian geek...
ReplyDeleteLMAO @ Robin.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it great how we love you, Mou?
I'm so excited to hear more of the cam story.
ReplyDeleteI love you . I weigh 205lbs and am 5 ft 6 inches tall, I was born in 1967. I am a heavy weight, but your arm is longer.
ReplyDeletePPC - Nice to see you popping in again! Have a great evening. I love you!
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