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 Name: Hope Anderson, at your service!! :) Location: Ontario, Canada Age: My birthday is June 8th, 1995-- you do the math! ;) Birthday: June 18th Description: Waaaayyy too skinny (but I still have muscles and I'm lucky enough to have pretty nice curves (or so I'm told), pretty vibrant red hair, freckles, green eyes (even though I'm 1/5 Chinese and 1/5 Native Canadian), pale skin, and a closet consisting of cute T-shirts with witty phrases (like the kind you see on the web, like the one with the cookie and glass of milk that says GPA:3.7, I've been on the principal's honor roll since 1st grade :) Hobbies: Well, I wouldn't be on this website if I wasn't into writing, but other than that, I like reading, singing and dancing, photography, playing guitar (acoustic), hanging out with my friends and family, and figure skating. Favorite Color: ORANGE!!!! :D Favorite Food: Freshly-caught, homemade cod! Favorite TV Shows: The Office, Glee, Canadian Idol, H20: Just Add Water, Malcom in the Middle, George Lopez, Drake & Josh, Victorious, iCarly, Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, World's Strictest Parents, That '70s Show, the Simpsons, and Modern Family. I Favorite Movies: I like the Twilight movies, Harry Potter movies, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Easy-A, Pirates of the Caribbean, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Flicka (all of them), Uptown Girls, Four Christmases, E.T., Wizard of Oz, Walk the Line, Alice in Wonderland (the new one with Johnny Depp), Karate Kid (ALL OF THEM!!!) Valentine's Day, Charlie St. Cloud, Grown Ups, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, and the Chronicles of Narnia series. But I do watch a LOT of kids' movies while I babysit LOL :) Favorite Books: I've been a Harry Potter fan since I was 6, a Twilight fan since I was 12, and a Percy Jackson fan since the books came out. I also like the 39 Clues series, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, PARTY, the Summer Girls series, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney, the Death & Life of Charlie St. Cloud, and Confessions of Georgia Nicolson. But, honestly, I read a LOT, so those are just a few of my VERY favorites. ;) Favorite Music: Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Johnny Cash, Lady Antebellum, Montgomery Gentry, Zac Brown Band, Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw, Josh Turner, Gretchen Wilson, Gloriana, Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Toby Keith, Trace Atkins, Rodney Atkins, Ke$ha, Train, Rihanna, Aly & AJ, Avril Lavigne, Justin Bieber, Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, The Script, Paramore (MY FAVE!!), B.O.B., Jay-Z, and Miley Cyrus (I'm not really a fan, but I like her new CD--Miley, not Hannah-- I HATE Hannah Montana, but my sisters love it). Pet Peeves: Justin Bieber fangirls (I like his music--he's a fellow Ontarian!!--but those girls get worked up for no reason and it's SO annoying!!), liars, cheaters, bullies, and Robert Pattinson. Celebrity Crush: TAYLOR LAUTNER!!!!! I'm Team Jacob ALLL THE WAYYYY!!! (you can tell a lot of that in my fanfics) Career: Well, I want to go to the Olympics with my skating, but if that isn't possible for some reason, I'd like to be a doctor, because when I started babysitting, I took a few courses on first aid at the local community college, and I thought it was really fun, so that's my backup plan. :) But for now my actual "job" is working at my mom's candy shop (it's completely family-run-- I think there's enough of us for that ;P) and my "side-job" is babysitting. Trust me, the latter is more frequent (but still not as good paying) than the first one LOL. Favorite Skaters (yes, I had to put this one in! LOL): Evan Lysacek (HOTTTT!!! I became a fan since my dad is from Naperville lol), Kim Yu-Na, Joannie Rochette (you GO girl!), Michelle Kwan, Kristi Yamaguchi, Sasha Cohen, and Mao Asada. But, honestly, those are just a few. :) Random but Fun Facts: I have a birthmark on the small of my back shaped like a butterfly (it should be on Ripley's Believe it or Not!!); I can sing unnaturally well, especially considering I have never had any sort of lessons or assistance (ok, my sister Amy put this on here, I'm a humble person and don't think I'm that great, but everyone tells me I'm "fantastic"); I am the oldest of ten, among even more animals, yet I still have time to pursue my skating career; I'm German, Italian, Cree (Native Canadian), Chinese, and French; I wanted to delve deeper into my origins and taught myself French, Italian, and German--apparently people think that's an AMAZING feat or something--but my mom taught me Cree since she IS Cree; and lastly (but not least!), when you meet me, you might think I'm quiet and kinda shy, but if Taylor Lautner walked in the door, I would start screaming like a Robert Pattinson fangirl (I CANNOT STAND HIM!!!!!-- Robert Pattinson, I mean). There, now we know each other... NOT!!! Hey, guys, I'm Hope (yeah, I have the coolest name in the world!!) and I live in THE SMALLLLESSSTTT (or so I think) country-redneck town in the world, in gorgeous Ontario. My family and I have lived there forever, but my dad is originally from Naperville, Chicago, Illinois, USA. We live on a country lane where the sun always shines and the stormclouds almost always seem to pass over us. I have five brothers and four sisters (LOL everyone teases my parents about getting an even number-- 5 girls and 5 boys-- I'm the oldest of 10) and we all seem to find time to be together even though we all play sports or music or have an extremely time-consuming hobby, all around our chores. We live on a farm where the fields never seem to end and our 3 dogs can run, as well as our 6 chickens, 3 goats, and 4 cows. We also grow wheat, corn, soybeans, and my mother's/sisters' HUGE flower garden. Even though we live in Canada, it's very rarely as cold as people expect. It gets pretty chilly at night, and sometimes 15 below zero in the winter, but the summers are gorgeous, and perfect for boating, four-wheeling, and bonfires. My dad is an engineer in Toronto (well, we technically live on the outskirts of Toronto, but he has to drive into the city, which is about an hour and a half away), and my mom owns a small candy shop a few blocks away that doesn't get much business but is a HUGE town favorite. As far as my hobbies go, I think it's pretty obvious that I'm into writing, but my main priority as far as sports go is figure skating. There's a fairly large pond in our backyard, and I got my start when I was 3 years old and I strapped on a pair of hand-me-down skates at least 2 sizes too big and fell every five seconds on Christmas morning (when I was little, I watched the winter olympics and LOVED watching the pretty girls in frilly pink dresses doing twirls on the ice ;P) but I still thought it was great. When my parents saw that I was really into it and not just going through a phase, they signed me up for proper ice dancing lessons (my dad taught me to ice skate: standing up, gliding, starting and stopping, etc.) and I was winning silver and gold in local competitions by the time I was 6. When I was 8, I switched to figure skating and was able to do near perfect camel spins and toe loop jumps immediately. So, my life is pretty hectic. I wake up around 3 for skating practice (I wanna make it to the Olympics), go home and do my chores, shower and get ready for school, somehow manage to get straight A's (and maybe a B or two), go home and skate a little, go cheer my brothers on in their hockey careers (yup, I'm a Canadian alright lol), do more chores, and scrape together my homework, getting to sleep at around 10:45. Yeah. I'm a busy person. Okay, now let's move on to my friends. I have 2 close friends, Helena Corrohsohna and Dhelia McAsheb, and we are all the same age (give or take a few months). Helena is short (well, not REALLY short, but at least 2 or 3 inches shorter than others my age), blonde, and hyper. We call her Alice because she's obsessed with Alice in Wonderland, her middle name is Alice, and she is a total fashionista, short, and hyper like Alice Cullen. If you don't see the freakiness in that, you're crazy. She moved to our community when we were 5 from the hustle-and-bustle of downtown Vancouver. She was born in Seattle but moved to British Columbia a few months later. We actually met on the first day of kindergarten, and she was the perky, gorgeous blonde girl in the frilly pink dress and matching Mary-Janes, stockings, and earrings. She was the only girl under 8 in our town that had their ears pierced. Helena was almost immediately made an outcast for that reason, but only I still played with her. It was a match made in heaven! She's been dragging us into Catacombs and NYC Stylz (in case you're not a local, those are incredibly girly clothing stores) and forcing us into dresses and frilly outfits ever since--she's MEGA strong for her size. Apparently, my description as "the tomboy farm girl" means absolutely nothing to her. In her opinion, "violet brings out my eyes". Dhelia is the quiet, bookish, aloof type. She was born and raised in Wisconsin, USA, and moved to Novia Scotia, Canada when she was 4. Her big sister Ophelia (her parents are REALLY old-fashioned, as you can tell) had her life threatened 2 years later and they moved for her protection when Dhelia was 6, because, obviously, when you're hiding from an attempted murderer, you move to the smallest, most remote town you can find. Her parents fell in love with the gorgeous natural surroundings and decided to settle down there. Her mother got a job at the local diner (she's a pretty well-paid chef), her dad climbed up the career ladder and partnered with many big companies in Toronto (he works 2 blocks away from my dad) and reels in the big bucks like the Prime Minister, Ophelia became the star of the Toronto snowboarding team (she's headed for the Olympics, like me), but poor Dhelia didn't fit in at all. Everyone made fun of her because she was a star student (3.9 GPA), calling her a nerd, and her lack of athletic ability (I love ya, Dheels, but you're NOT a star in P.E. class!). Me and Hells meeting her was almost like a movie-- she finally cracked under the teasing and was in the bathroom crying when we saw her and took her under our wing. I mean, we never teased her and sat with her at lunch and stuff, but we never officially called her our BFF until that day. The McAshebs are like, the 4th richest family in town, but they are suprisingly down-to-earth. Ophelia babysits twice a month and Helena and Dehlia help me babysit, like, every day (they're like Sam and Freddie on that Nick show iCarly-- they are at my house more than their own!!). All the neighbors call us the Troublesome Trio (the name is the actual joke, since we NEVER get in (major) trouble for anything). Then there's the town. Our tiny town (okay, fine, if you really want to know, it's called Lakeside Wood-- the perfect name, since it is mainly large ponds, forests, and rolling plains--gorgeous!!) is a little bigger than Forks, Washington, but I suppose it's actually around the same size (give or take a few people) because a lot of it is forested. The neighbors are like family-- bringing you homemade food when you're sick, babysitting for you, helping you when you need it, and then small things, like going fishing, four-wheeling, or camping with you. Everybody knows each other. There's one elementary school, one middle school, one high school, and one daycare. All our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents went to school together. Also like Forks, our town is split half-and-half: one half is the town, and the other is the Cree Native Canadian reserve. My mother and her family (siblings, parents, grandparents, etc.) were born and raised there, but she was the palest one in the family, for reasons unknown, so by looking at the rest of us, you could definitely tell we were half Cree, but not that much. My dad was born and raised in Naperville, Illinois, USA until he was 18, when he was sent to Edmonton, Alberta to attend the University of Alberta, where he majored in BioResource and Agricultural Engineering. When he was 20, he went on a class trip to Toronto, where he met my mom. They started off as good friends, keeping in touch by hand-written letters, since my mom's reserve had little to no telephones. When he graduated, he took a 2-week trip to visit my mom where they professed their love for each other and broke my dad's family's tradition (over 60 years' worth of his ancestors followed this!) and my mom's ENTIRE RESERVE'S tradition (EVEN LONGER!!) and did the tango of love before they were married... and thus I was conceived. My mom's parents and, well, the whole reserve, were ashamed of her, but once she brought it across to everyone (rather heroically, I'd say) that this was the 21st century and having a baby at 22 years old would begin to spread throught the reserve, the town, the country, and eventually the world, whether or not she had gotten pregnant when she did, and they all gave her gratitude again (that's why my family calls me the miracle baby :D), and my dad got a job as an apprentice for an agricultural engineering plant in Toronto. My mom moved in to the town and my dad moved in with her, and in 8 and a half more months, I was born. YAY!!! :) I'm not going to go into the full history of my family, so you'll just have to be satisfied with that. :D Well, I think I've babbled on enough and used an obnoxious amount of in-parenthesis comments, so I hope you all enjoy my fanfics and please, please, please, please, PLEASE review! It makes my day when I get feedback (positive or negative) from my readers! And I also want to make it as clear as possible that, in case you haven't noticed, I'm a very busy person, between my figure skating career, farm chores, family time, friends time, and schoolwork, I might not have time to update my stories as often as other authors on the site. I won't be disapearing for long periods of time (unless I go on vacation or something), but there might be a 5-12 day span between chapter updates. I'll do my best, so keep on reading!! -Hope Lilliana Anderson If you're against stereotypes, copy and paste this into your profile, and bold the ones that you identify with. Stereotypes: I'm SKINNY, so I MUST be anorexic. I DYE MY HAIR CRAZY COLORS, so I MUST be looking for attention. I HAVE STRAIGHT A'S, so I MUST have no social life. I'm SCOTTISH so I MUST have ginger hair and wear a skirts. I'm CANADIAN, so I MUST love hockey and beavers. |
