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So I'm doing a video called Draw my life. Basically I'll be drawing big events that
have happened to me throughout my life and talking about them, so yeah, enjoy!
So it all started in B.C., I was born in 1996 on May 20th in a small town called New Westminster.
It was pretty close to Vancouver which was nice because Vancouver is awesome.
I was the first child of my mother so I was obviously pretty spoiled, it was great my
mom wanted a girl so she was happy, I was happy.
Then my brother came along a year after and I didn't like that too much. I kind of liked
the attention on me. So I was not very nice to him and I would like throw toys at him
and stuff. When I was five my Dad decided to move to
the East Coast, he wanted to start his own business, like a bed and breakfast business.
So we flew across Canada, and just started from scratch.
We went to this place in Nova Scotia called Cape Breton, there was this beautiful place
called the Cabot trail. Great scenery, great beaches, it was awesome. We moved there which
I've got to say was one of the best experiences I've ever had. We actually had a lot of land
there, I believe it was fifty six acres of land that my dad had bought. We had our own
beach, we had our own huge forest. In the summer we would go to the beach and I actually
learned how to swim in the Atlantic ocean with my brother which was pretty cool. I started
school there, at Northshore, and met this great girl named Brooke and she's still to
this day my best friend. Over there it's not called kindergarten it's called primary, so
for all of primary we would always hang out with each other. She would come over and she
would play on our land with us, it was pretty awesome. The school was really small though
because of were we lived there weren't a lot of people there, so we kind of stuck to a
couple friends. My brother was also probably one of my best
friends, he still is. His age is quite similar to mine so it was easy for us to play together.
A lot of the time we would go outside and whatever season it was we would try to make
something of it. My dad built us a tree-fort. But we used to fight a lot, so there would
be the days that we were best friends like, " Oh yay let's have fun" and there was the
days that it was like, " I hate you blah blah blah" and we'd fight and we'd kick each other.
It was terrible. My dad, him and my mom had been together for
a while, but they would fight a lot, which kind of sucked.. My brother and I, we tried
to tune it out. Which was, you know it became ritualistic after a while because we'd hear
the yelling and we'd just be like, " Ok time to you know just ignore it." So we'd play
you know, we'd play lego or whatever, and you know just try not to get too involved.
We were kids, and all the while my mom was really upset about it and so we could kind
of see it in how she acted, fake smile on and deep down she was upset. I felt like I
wanted to do something about it but I couldn't, cause I was a kid you know.
So she decided to leave, and we actually got a place in the city. She just wanted to get
away from my dad and I was like, " Ok yeah lets go." You know I was a kid. I was kind
of unhappy at the time. We got a little duplex, and one side of it we rented it out, my mom
bought the whole thing, and then on one side of it we stayed.
And then my dad had started to stay over and they started getting back together and it
made me unhappy because i was like, " oh no" i was upset because i though maybe things
would go, you know, how they used to go, which was pretty crappy. So I started getting really
upset, and I couldn't really say anything because i was scared you know my dad intimidated
me. I felt pretty, you know I was sad but I wasn't that sad yet.
And then they eventually moved back together and then we wanted to move to Alberta so my
dad took me and my brother to Edmonton in his truck. We drove all the way across Canada
and my mom wanted to see her family there so my dad was like. "yeah sure whatever" because
jobs weren't going very good on the East Coast. So we went there during the summer, when I
turned ten and I, me and my brother stayed with my aunt and uncle and their daughter
and their four cats. WE didn't stay there for too long my mom and dad had just gone
back to bring the U-haul here and then once they got here, we got a house and i went into
grade four. But I still wasn't very happy, my mom noticed
that I wasn't happy and she decided to take me to my aunt's house because i told her that
i couldn't, you know, i couldn't do this. My dad had slowly makin' me pretty unhappy.
So I went to live with my aunt for a while. You know, I wanted my mom more than anything,
I felt pretty alone. It didn't really matter how many people were surrounding me, I still
just need my mom there for me. Me and my cousin fought a lot. So my dad had
actually come to my mom and given her these letters, and she would give them to my aunt
and my aunt would give them to me. And they were little letters saying, " I'm sorry for
what i did to you, I'm sorry for treating you like this, I'm trying to get better."
I thought that my dad had made an effort to get better so I was like, you know, maybe
I'll go see him and maybe things were better. So he had actually come out to my aunts house
and taken me to his house because he knew that i wasn't really liking it there. So I
went to his house but you know nothing had changed, which was pretty bad. My mom didn't
want me with her because i had taken out my frustrations with my father out on my mom
and i actually had pretty bad behaviour. you know just talking back and things like that.
I didn't really realize it at the time, so I was kind of confused and she, you know,
didn't really want a part of it. So I kind of had to stay at my dad's house, that wasn't
as much fun as I had hoped. So I felt really along. And It was a really bad time. That
feeling of helplessness, it's got to be one of the worst feelings i could ever imagine.
And then my parents got back together, which was confusing for me, and you know, obviously
made me pretty upset because of everything that had happened. So again, I was pretty
sad. But they would get back together and then they would break up and then get back
together and it was hard. And I was even more upset about that, so come grade seven I had
low self esteem, very low, and I got bullied probably because of it. Which, you know, kind
of made it worse. At that point I really, you know, I didn't even feel like living,
as awful as that sounds. It was really hard I kind of felt like i was in my own box. And
then my mom finally moved out for good, out of the house and we moved into a really small
one bedroom apartment. And she got fibromyalgia so she was in bed a lot. You know, fibromyalgia
is when you, i don't know a lot about it but apparently you get really tired from it.
So then I went to this place called CASA because I had just gotten out of an abusive household
and I spent five months there and they tried to, you know, give me therapy and me through
troubles and blah blah blah. It was pretty awful because I had to live there and I did
not like it, a lot of crazy people were there. But you know eventually I got out, and I went
to grade eight. So I met this girl Sevina there and we were best friends for, like,
first week we met we were like best friends but you know how you are in junior high. Like
I had acne, pretty bad, and you know everybody kind of had their things they were dealing
with. But you know we made it, so after junior high we went to high school together and we
were like best of friends. we spent summers together. And then I got my first job at this
place called Once Upon A Child and it was kind of like a consignment store and that
was not a fun job. And then summer came, yay, So I worked a lot
in the summer. And I learned to long board which was pretty awesome, I would always take
my friends' long boards and you know fool around with it. I actually got pretty good
and it became something i was always doing and I really wanted my own but somehow I just
never, i spent my money too fast. So I never got my own.Soon enough the summer was over
so it was back to school and my job i was really not liking it. I told my boss, I'm
like you know, i gave him a letter, a resignation letter, and I'm like, " ya i quit." He did
not like that too much so he got after me about my resignation letter how i had bad
grammar and what not, and i was like, " ya ok bye." And I applied at Old Navy which has
been pretty awesome. And then Grade twelve hit so, you know, i had a great job and i
was going to high school. So right now I've been with my boyfriend for six months, I got
accepted into Alberta's biggest modelling agency, I also got accepted into Grant Macewan
and I'm actually really happy now. That's really all I have to tell you. I hope
you enjoyed my crazy life.