Name: Draw My Life - Jeffrey Chang
Uploaded: 2017-01-23T06:15:34.000Z
Duration: 17 min 46 s
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To-infinitive

Past simple

I was born in the small French city of Montreal in Canada

which is also where both of my parents met

Before I get into more details, I want to rewind a little

She also spoke Cantonese but she was even more fluent in French

since that’s what a lot of people spoke there

Because of that, I grew up speaking Cantonese but mainly French

That’s the language people speak here in Montreal

so my parents wanted me and my sister to adapt

The things is, MOST Asian parents didn’t speak French

So during my childhood, I hung out with EVERY ethnicity

Because most of them usually hung out together and spoke Chinese

Nonetheless, I made a lot of cool friends during Elementary School

And showed me his Game Cube & Nintendo 64

I thought it was so fun I asked my parents to get me one

So they would often drop me off at my friends just to play games

I didn’t really mind it. My friend was really good

And It was almost more fun watching him play and have him teach me

Later on, I found out my classmate Ralph lived across the street from me

Joshua, another friend from school, just moved nearby at that time too

I’d often look outside my window to see if they were playing Basketball

And when I saw them, I’d go join and we’d play until sunset

When I didn’t hang out with friends though, I’d watch TV Shows

I found them so cool, I would draw them out

My parents only purchased English TV Channels

And that’s how they made me learn how to speak English

In school however, I wasn’t doing too well…

My grades were below average while my sister Karen always had straight A’s…

My sister was only 2 years older than me but she was really mature for her age

She was smart, well-mannered, talkative…

And because of that, my parents always compared me to her…

In the meanwhile, my parents took ballroom dance classes every week as a hobby

Since they didn’t want to pay for a babysitter, they’d bring me along

I’d be on the side watching while doing this thing called: Origami

A friend taught me how to do that in school so that’s what I did to pass time

Since I wasn’t doing too well with my grades

My parents secretly enrolled me into ballroom dance classes to see if I could be better at that

When I learned the news, I cried for literally 48 hours

To me, even though I was 8 years old, ballroom dancing was the LEAST manly sport out there

My friends played Hockey or Basketball so I never told them I danced

After a few classes though, I was performing really well…

I started entering dance competitions and won 1st place… Almost every time

I was finally good at something and for once, it felt like my parents were proud of me

For High School, my parents enrolled me into a Private School

It made no difference to me though since I was so used to hanging out with Non-Asians anyways…

But for many of them, having ME around…

During breaks or recess, students insulted me, Pushed me around…

I fell in love with this girl at the time and that really helped cope with things

SO close, people teased me about making it “Facebook Official”

But days later, she started dating this other guys who…

To make matters worse, the boyfriend somehow learned I had a crush on her

He stopped me in the hallway and publicly shouted:

Pfff… I… I didn’t cry or anything but

For some reason, I concluded that what he said was the reason why girls wouldn’t date me

During weekends, Joshua, Ralph and I still met up to play Basketball

Ralph’s parents just got a camera and he asked his sister to film us do Basketball tricks

He said he’ll upload the video on this site called YOUTUBE and send a link to me later

It was my 1st time hearing about this website

A few days later, Ralph sent me the video and I… LOVED IT

I immediately met up with the boys to tell’em and

they suggested me to watch these 2 other funny guys they just discovered

But there was something EVEN MORE captivating that made me keep watching

It was the FIRST time I ever saw other Asians fluently speak English in all of my 12 years

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Draw My Life - Jeffrey Chang

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