My Life Story: Birth/Early Childhood

My Life Story The purpose of this paper is to describe my life up to this point. I will discuss key life events and changes, while providing some context of my and racial and class background. To do this, I will divide my life into three sections; birth and early childhood, adolescence, and my transition into adulthood. Throughout this text I will reflect upon my life for future analysis.
Birth/Early Childhood My life started off unexpectedly as I was born three months premature. My mom was on her way to Florida when she was airlifted to Toronto. I was born on January 25th, 1996 in Women’s College Hospital, weighing less than two pounds. For the next three months, I remained in an incubator with a constant staff of nurses around me. I was told that my mom stayed with me, …show more content…
This changed when I started having knee problems in grade five. My knee would dislocate frequently and this resulted in me having knee surgery at the beginning of grade nine (2010). I was on crutches for six weeks in high school and because of that could not try out for any of the high school sports teams, unlike my friends. As I entered grade nine, my immediate friend group changed. They were allowed to drink and go to parties and I was not, therefore, I made some new friends (people I am still very close with today). Throughout high school I took the academic stream, I was part of student’s council, was a peer teacher, and peer tutor.
In grade eleven, I was given the opportunity to volunteer for 10 days in Costa Rica installing solar panels, a trip that I believe to be one of my greatest experiences to date. My peers and I partnered with an organization called “Light Up the World” we fundraised in our local communities so that we could install solar panels in remote areas of Costa