My River Journey

My River Journey ……………………………………………………………… Growing up in my family I had a father who was a talented artist I remember being mad with my second eldest brother as I felt only he inherited my dads’ artistic genes. He was always winning colouring in competitions at the local news agent and for school the students would have a competition to design the year book cover. My pictures were never as good as his and I would feel like I shouldn’t enter the competition.

My primary school years were also hard as the friends I made happened to be very good at Art as well as musically gifted. The only thing I felt I was good at was dancing but the school didn’t offer any dance classes and nowhere locally to learn.

Although I enjoyed performing I was extremely self-conscious, shy, anxious and nervous every time I had to perform. Through my school years I was bullied quite badly and developed a fear of people looking at me. I wanted to be an actor in the school play, but I was always to scared to ask to play a part.

However, despite being quite conscious of my artistic abilities I still loved to draw, and I would make up comic books about my dog being a super hero. I also loved colouring in books.

The good thing about having friends who were musically gifted is it made me want to be like them. I thought it was amazing that my best friend could play the piano, so I asked my mum to get me lessons. This led to me joining the school band and developing my music abilities. I also joined the school choir and enjoyed going to different towns and performing.

My love for music and drama outgrew my fears at time. The passion for performing was exhilarating and once the nerves settled I always enjoyed myself especially doing dances in the school plays. In my final year of school, I put my hand up to be one of the lead actors, all my teachers and fellow community members who watched the play said how great I was and told me that don’t know what I was worried about.