My life story.
Feb 6th, 2007 by denis
I was born in Ottawa, Canada, in a French Canadian family. I was the fourth child. I was happy, that I had a younger brother, because I was not the baby of the family.
We always spoke French in our house, but their was so much English speaking around our communities that we had so speak English very early. I remember being in primary school, a French school and we were learning English in first grade.
My mom and dad used to speak in English as a secret language, in front of us, so we would not understand what they were saying. Of course, that soon ended when we started picking up some of the words in English.
I was an average kid in school, and had a desire to become either a missionary in Africa or an airline pilot when I was in primary school. In high school, things changed and started to enjoy acting in my theatre class. I then had this crazy idea about acting, that I would not act the character but become that type of person by remembering that type of person whom I had met. I figured that if I travel I would probably meet all kinds of people and would fill my mind of all kinds of people, which I could come back to, when I had to act as that type of person. I would then revolutionize the acting business.
I started my traveling in three stages. The first two were done during my summer months in High School. To be continued
Hey Denis,
You have an interesting story. My parents spoke to their kids in Dutch and we always replied in English. The first Dutch words we understood were swear words. If you’re a parent you would know why:-)
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Thanks for the nice read, keep up the interesting posts…..