Name: I Cried Because I Couldn't Recognise My Parents ♥ Wengie
Uploaded: 2016-11-15T09:54:30.000Z
Duration: 7 min 1 s
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is a.. *guitar starts* heart to heart and a real talk with you guys

because I actually don't do enough of that on this channel, I do weekly advice videos on my

vlog channel where I share a lot of my life and even cried in one of my last one's with you guys

and one of you guys asked me to let people know,

because they didn't know, I had the vlog and advice channel.

But today, I just wanted to do a heart to heart with you guys,

And I just wanna say before I start this video. I have no intention of gaining any sympathy for this video

i'm not sharing this story because I feel like I was in the worse of circumstances

The reason why I wanted to make this video is, I wanna show you guys you shouldn't be limited, by any circumstance.

I think about being born into certain families,

countries or situations - is you actually have no choice about that.

But it doesn't mean, that it should limit you.

If you kind of sense any other, intention other than that,

I just really wanted to share this story with you guys.

The things that you guys, that you probably don't know is..

Now my dad came to Australia, as a refugee

And that was the only way, he was able to leave the country

And he had to make that difficult decision, to come to Australia,

versus having a more comfortable life in China.

He had to take out a loan, to come to Australia,

At the age of 35, not knowing any English

Learning it from scratch, and then doing a PHD. So..

For what he has achieved and it was really great lesson for me as well

To learn from him, he basically while living on 7 dollars a week

He washed dishes, to earn money and ate the leftovers there because he could not afford to eat - food I guess.. to go out and buy food.

So he was really lucky, that he got through that period,

with a very, very little amount of money,

Then he was able to bring my mom over, and I was left in china with my grandparents.

I remember coming to Australia, when I was four and my parents told me that

I cried when I saw them, because I had been away from my parents for so long.

and I was holding onto my grandpa, who was the one brought me to Melbourne, in Australia

And I didn't wanna leave him and didn't wanna go with my parents

Because I didn't know who they were, they were strangers too me.

That was an interesting experience, I don't quite remember it

My mom who was actually an university graduate

and would clean during the night, because that was the only job she could get

Really, really late and I would sleepily go with him in the car

Because I didn't want to be left alone,  to pickup from her all nightshifts

My parents worked alot, so I spent alot of time by myself at home

They worked because we needed to pay, for our rent

our vacuum cleaner was picked up from the side of the road

like - fifteen years; alot of the stuff I got, was from garage sales

I remember one time I had new toys was I when I was five,

and I got like a, 8 dollar transformer set from K-mart and that was the highlight of my childhood

A lot of my toys from stuff that I would make

So I would take tennis balls, make them into dolls

By myself and that forced me to be creative

So I was really glad, that I had that experience.

I didn't really have a lot money to spend on toys.

I think that's, the reason why I have such a big imagination now,

Because I didn't have any toys to play with,

so I literally had to rely on my imagination

and things to create games and stuff to entertain myself.

That is one awesome thing that came from that

My parents both found jobs in Sydney; that paid a little better

and one really important lesson my parents taught me is you can come from nothing,

and actually create a good life for yourself

and now my Dad has paid back all the debt

Now owns his own home now, I'm so proud of him.

although I wasn't born in an incredibly affluent family

and you know I didn't get a lot of luxuries

that a lot of other kids get because we moved to a more affluent city in Sydney

I was surrounded by kids that came from really well-off families