There was a contest on My96 and 1270 Chat (Medicine Hat radio stations). The contest was that, from September 27-October 5th, whenever you heard Awake In A Dream played you wrote down the time that you heard it at. Then on October 5th at 7:20 on both My96 and 1270 Chat they told you what to do with all of your times. They asked everyone a question over the radio having to do with the times and everybody was supposed to phone in and they would take the first one or two callers. Well, me, my cousin Genna and my sister Brittany all won V.I.P. tickets. This what we got to do!

We left school half an hour early and were dropped off in Medicine Hat at my cousin Genna's house. I could not sleep that night. I kept waking up and thinking about what I was going to say and everything, because nothing like that had ever happened to me before. I was going to meet Kalan Porter!! So finally at 8:00 my cousin's alarm clock rang. It took me 2 hours to get ready and finally our ride to the radio station in Redcliff was there. We  were  supposed to be there at 11:00 and we were right on time. As we were just about to pull into the parking lot we heard on the radio that Kalan's limo had just pulled into the parking lot too. So we jumped out of the truck with all of our stuff and ran to the sidewalk beside the door he was going to enter through. A few minutes later, Kalan stepped out of the limo and walked down the sidewalk. Everybody was cheering until he got inside and then went back to the other side of the building where they were going to let everybody in. We were walking pretty slow and stopped halfway there, beside a window and we just started talking. All of a sudden I look in the window and there is Kalan, swiveling on his chair, waiting for a radio interview! Hardly anybody noticed him in the window because they were all at the door. He swiveled his chair and looked out the window so I waved at him. He smiled and waved back!! I looked over at the door and they started to let people in so we ran over to the door and walked in. We had to wait a few more minutes before we went up the stairs that lead to the room where we were going into. While we were all waiting there Kalan and his family walked right in front of us and into the room. As he walked past me he looked at me and said Hi! Of course I said Hi back but I looked and Genna and Brittany and I had this huge grin on! Some of the people working there took all the younger kids first because you weren't allowed to bring anybody but yourself, so they wanted the kids to get out first so that their parents outside didn't have to wait as long. After that was all done the line started moving and we were inside the room. We were watching as one by one, each person got their autograph and picture taken with Kalan. I was soo exicted! Just watching him was great. When he talked to everyone he looked them right in the eye and smiled. It was so cute! The Porter family was sitting in the middle of the room at a table eating and talking and everything. The line went up the right hand wall then a few steps around the back and then turn, walk a few steps and there was Kalan. It was like making a square. (Just in case you want to try and visualize this!! Haha)

Me meeting Kalan!:

Brittany was first in line and told Kalan where we were from and everything and he signed her poster and CD. Then is was Genna’s turn. After Genna had left, Kalan was looking right at me. I slowly walked up, looking at him the whole time. When I finally reached him I just hugged him right away without even asking. His leather jacket was soo soft! (the one he wore for "If You Could Read My Mind".) I heard a few people laugh and when we were done hugging he smiled and is said "Hey, your from Burstall?". I was like "Hey, yeah, I am. Jamie's is in my class." He's like "Ohh, cool!" Then I showed him my scrapbook. I quickly flipped to the back and was like "This is my scrapbook we made for you. This is all the stuff we have saved from the Sandfly Festival, the Rally, the Arena and everything else." He's like "Ohh, cool!" And then I showed him my article thingy that I wrote for the paper and I was like "Yeah, I wrote that, that's me". He said "Ohh, oh yeah, that.." I was thinking "Cool! He remembers it!" Then I flipped to the front of the scrapbook and I asked him to sign it and he's like "Yeah, sure! Thanks alot!" Then I gave him the present from me and Brittany. It was a glass or something cross. It has a tiny bow on the front and a little dangly fish (Christianity symbol). It had a loop on it so you could hang it on something. On the back it had a little sticker that said believe. That's what the cross meant was believe. I thought it was perfect for him. When I gave it to him, I took the top of the little box so he could see it right away. He took it and looked at it for a few seconds and he's like "Ohhhh, thanks! That's so nice...Thank you soo much!" I was like ":D He likes it!" Then he was like "Oh, picture." He put his arm around me and we both looked at the camera. I'm pretty sure I put my arm around him too;). Haha! After they took the picture a few people were like "Ohh, that's such a nice picture!". I was about to hand him my scrapbook and then he's like "uhh...thankks" I was like "Oh wait I'm not supposed to give this to you am I?" He's like "Haha, no." Then I just said "Thanks", as I walked away embarrassed.