I'm doing 27 things
Ok so The person who most influenced me positively in my life and who I believe gave me the determination to do the same for others has to be the form teacher I had at Aotea College her name is Isabel Fernandez-day and she believed in me when nobody else did she was such a beautiful woman and I will always be thankful for the support she gave me.
So the hard part about this is that I have not seen her since I left that school at the end of 2003 thats 5 years ago and she has since moved on I wish I hadn’t left it so late.
The next person on my list is a guy called Chris Bean who gave me free tutoring in maths in fifth form he has no idea what that meant to me as I felt so stupid and pathetic having to ask for help because I used to be brilliant at school but he never looked down at me or treated me like I was dumb. Chris had no idea how much this helped me I had missed almost two thirds of my school year because I was going through a very testing and traumatic time in my life. My home was like a prison I was hardly even allowed to attend school I was submitted to physical, sexual and drug abuse at home and no longer believed in my future at all half way through the year I ended up in a refuge and couldn’t attend school until I had protection orders I also became very sick at this time probably from the stress, I also got away from my family shortly after this. When I finally got back to school it was almost time for exams and I had missed so much that there was almost nobody who thought I would make anything of myself. I was so deeply ashamed of my home life that I never told anyone of my circumstances I couldn’t even face it myself so they all wrote me of as a loser who was not trying. I don’t blame them they didn’t know better. however I knew there was only one way to a better life and that was through knowledge and making myself better so I swallowed my fear and asked Chris to help me in my worst subject maths and like I said he never treated me like I was stupid he actually made me feel good about myself like I was working hard I will always be thankful for this without Chris and the few others like him I never would have got through and had a future and in case your interested I came very close to scraping through but not quite I was 3 points off however I managed to make up for them in 6th for instead of redoing 5th form so in my books I passed!
Kylie the first person I told about the abuse she was so strong to take that knowledge on board and she helped me come to terms with it and also helped me to realize that I had the opportunity to help many others with my experiences, I will do that. she gave me the idea to write a book that thought kept me moving forward during some of the toughest times.
Lisa’s father he took me in when I needed to get out of my mothers house I can’t imagine how hard that must have been I was one messed up 16year old chook then I could hardly make it through a night without crying for hours. He did such a great thing for me I had never been in a real family before then even though I was dealing with a lot and I only stayed with them for a couple of months it really showed me what life could be like. It gave me hope.
OH MY GOD whoever said that anything is impossible I just looked up Mrs Fernandez-day
on my old school website and noticed that they had full staff lists so I looked her
up at a few more schools in that area with no luck and then as a random chance I typed
in her name to the google search engine and there she was working at a school reasonably
local WOW!!!! ah where to from here I have no idea what I am going to say to her!???
No words will express how much gratitude I have for her.
