Miss Teen Northern NS - a Sweet and Daily description of the divine experiences of Adriaana Michels while she learns and describes the ways of a Miss Teen Canada - World pageant contestant!
My name is Adriaana Michels. I am thirteen years of age and live in Joggins NS. I attend River Hebert District High which has approximately 130 kids. I love soccer, reading, writing, drawing, diving, baking, swimming, piano, singing, modeling, photography and much more!
I am a person who loves to express her opinion openly, and fairly, but also respectfully, when it is asked for. I plan to use this characteristic to become a human rights lawyer.
I entered the Miss Teen Canada - World pageant without any expectations, except that I would try my best. I have never been in a pageant before (and never honestly thought I'd be in one!) but when I saw how much this organization believed in charity, education and stood for a belief that every young Canadian girl around the world should love herself for who she is, I knew that I would enjoy taking part. To be continued...
So for today we're going out to ask for donations from companies.
Then tomorrow I will be participating in the Joggins Canada Day parade, Then we head off to Amherst to sing with my band The Whiskey Lullabies (for Canada day celebration)!
On Saturday I will be in Amherst for a barbecue fund raiser at The Brick and then to Royal Oaks to sing for donations( 7-10pm)
Sunday will be the day of our Bottle Drive that goes from 9:30am to 1:00pm.
We'll be having a bottle drive next week, Mostly for Free The Children this time.
I recently came home from the student awards at my school and won the French Honors, Honors and 3rd place standing awards. So academically I'm doing OK!
We're still trying to raise quite a bit of money, so will be having a few more fundraisers soon!
The Joggins Legion (Branch # 4) held another fundraiser for me...their annual wings night had one dollar from every basket sold donated towards me and Free The Children! There was also an All You Can Eat Ice Cream bar on premises and 50/50 tickets sold.
I have been updating a lot on whats going on in the fund raising category, and have not yet expressed my feelings for the pageant itself and how my time was in Halifax.
So I have decided to use this text as an opportunity to describe my time in Halifax.
So here goes!
The First Pageant
On the Thursday before the pageant (which was to take place Saturday -I did not know this at the time-) my mother remembered about how she had signed me up for a Miss Teen Canada-World pageant and how I had never received, nor remembered, my phone interview. So my mother (being curious) decided to call up Michelle Weswaldi (a woman who's number had been given to us for information purposes) and asked about when the pageant was and if I could still have my phone interview, Michelle then told my mother about how the pageant was two days away, but that if I was willing to, I could still have the interview. So that day I went straight to my mom's office off the bus and had my interview. (Later I was asked how the interview went, what I was asked, and how I responded, but I honestly could not remember a single thing! I had been so nervous!)
My mother was e-mailed 25 minutes later with a congratulations and a few pages of information.
I had been accepted!
There was only one day left to fund raise, get my clothes and think about what I was going to have to do. The next day we were off to Halifax with everything we needed in hand. The pageant rehearsal was so much fun, Sean Cuffie was an especially good choreographer and taught us everything we needed to know, including an opening number dance which was TONS of fun!
All of a sudden it was the day of the pageant we had a few rehearsal's then our hair was done and we had another dress rehearsal, and some lunch and it was time to go!
The pageant went over well, and we especially enjoyed hearing last year's girls talk about their experiences and accomplishments, the only thing that went even a little wrong was the fact that i tripped on my dress! Its all over now I thought Oh well, it was fun while it lasted It was alright though I didn't mind the fact that I tripped and I was a lot less nervous after that, and so we stood with heads held high in a row waiting for the girls who made it to Toronto to be awarded. Michelle stood at a podium reading out names of the girls and their titles and then it was time for the third girl to be called up. "Would you like to go to Toronto?" she started "Adriaana Michels!" there was a split second of silence and I heard from the audience in the front row my mom say "Oh my God!" and then they started to clap and I walked up to get my flowers and tiara (which was presented to me by last years Miss Teen Nova Scotia Iona McLeod) and I was bursting inside!
When the awards were finished being given out everybody said goodbye and hugged and took pictures and even videos, we were each spoken to separately and given a booklet explaining what was needed for Toronto and we left and said good night, it was only then that I realized I'm going to Toronto to compete for MISS TEEN CANADA!!!!!
and so here I am! fundraising and working towards my goal of becoming Miss Teen Canada-World!
Well the Summer Spectacular was a load of fun! everyone was so supportive, and we got quite a few outfits from Mansour's Menswear and Leslie Janes, the Malt Shoppe was a HUGE success! everyone seemed to crave ice cream! the tickets were 5 and 6 dollars which was a good price, we decorated the legion(who is now sponsoring us for even more free rental) and since I had received my sash I walked out in my gown and crown and sash!
I would like to thank my AMAZING models for their job well done!
Roger Dorington, Jessica white, Catherine Hurley, Erin Bjarnason, Dylan Ellsworth, David Quinn, and Kyle Brown!
Thank-you so much for making this event a success!
Jump into the season in high fashion with our own Summer-Spectacular Fashion Show hosted by two of Amherst's top fashion shoppes: Leslie Jane Fashions, and Mansours Men's Wear!
This event will have a featured special guest musician as Mr. Steve Haley (your RHDH English Teacher, and now a touring recording artist!) unveils his brand new C.D.! Steve will be playing his newest releases live for our guests throughout the show.
PLUS, The Whiskey Lullabies will be opening the show with a short set of some of your favourite classic country tunes!
ALSO, We'll have an ice-cream shoppe set up, selling your summer favourites: Banana Splits, Sundaes, etc.!
Models include Roger Dorrington, Jessica White, David Quinn, Catherine Hurley, Kyle Brown, Erin Bjarnasson, Dylan Ellsworth, and Adriaana Michels...
It's going to be a jam-packed event, so invite all your friends, and get there early for great seats, as we're expecting a sell-out crowd!
Tickets are $6.00 Adults, $5.00 Students and Seniors.
To pre-order tickets, please call and leave a message at 251-2410.
Proceeds from this event will go to help fund Adriaana Michels trip to Toronto to vie for the title of Miss Teen Canada - World.
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