This Kid's growing up Fast!

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This Kid’s growing up Fast!

        Sometimes I look in the mirror and wonder how I’m growing up so fast, it jus seems like life is passing by so quick to me. October 15 was the day I was brought into this glorious world by my lovely mother; I bet she was pretty excited to see her first son.

         My name is Karthik Sarvepalli, I was born October 15, 1991, Bangalore, Karnataka, in India. Most of you might not know where that is, it’s in the southern part of India. Karnataka is like the province and Bangalore is like the capital. My life goes on like a normal person, I have some interesting moments but I’m just here to live life to the fullest. I moved from Bangalore to Baroda (another city) while I was still a baby, we moved from Bangalore to Baroda because my grandmother lived there and my father got a job there, I started  preschool when I was about 3 or 2 years 11 months to be exact. I went to Anand Balwadi privet school . After I finished preschool, I started junior kindergarten which was also in Anand Balwadi privet school in Baroda. After I finished junior kindergarten, my mother was in the process of delivering my younger brother, my mother wanted to go back to Bangalore because she would get more support for the delivery of my brother. After my brother was 2, my father migrated to Canada searching for a better life for our family. Five months later my mother, brother and myself came to Canada. It was exciting and scary, It was exciting because it’s a new place and because the lifestyle is different. However it was scary because I was so used to being in India, I wasn’t ready to explore this new world yet.

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        So when I came here I went to Niagara Public School, it was very harsh on me. I was trying to make friends learn a new language and cope with the new lifestyle. It wasn’t all fun and games like it is now, back then our family was going through some tough times, we lived in a 1 room bachelor apartment. We lived in a very bad place, you could hear gunshots at night, overall the area wasn’t safe, and so after I finished gr.1 there I went to Parkdale Public School. Here it was safer the environment was ...

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