Hello, My name is Jojo and I will be your nurse today!

David didn't have an easy childhood. He used drawings to express the way he felt. His childhood was rough.  He didn’t have anybody to lean on or anything when he needed help. Drawing was his only escape.

                When I was a child, I was already sure that I wanted to be a nurse. My parents were able to bless me with all the proper toys that made me feel like I was a nurse.  This started around the age of 5.  When I was 5 years old my sister was 3, she made the perfect candidate to play the sick patient. My parents where always busy planning for my new baby brother’s homecoming. My sister was really one of the only one that was there to play with me. I would always watch the medical shows, especially anything that had to do with the ER. According to my mother, I would watch back to back episodes of the same medical shows, and then I would go off and wake up my little sister just so I could play with her.  My 3 year old sister was very helpful and almost always complied. I as a child always wanted to be the leader. I hated being told what to do. So when my sister was beginning to get older, she too wanted to be nurse, and refused to be the patient anymore. We would argue and fight and pull each other’s hair till I got it my way. When I would play nurse I felt like I was superior to my sister and I got to tell her what was wrong and I would always cure her.

 Dance queen

Another way that I expressed myself as a child was through dancing. I was a handful as a child and I always liked to be active. As a child, I never really watched televise on unless it had to do with medical stuff, and very little cartoons.  Growing up I had a lot of cousins, some were around my age. My cousins would always come over and we would have dance battles. Once again I thought I was the queen of dancing and I always thought I beat them. Dancing was a way that I expressed some fury that I had due to my parents not giving me all the attention I wanted. My brothers and I are close to age so we had to share attention, I wanted it all to myself. So when I danced in front of them it made me feel better. They would say how great I was and to teach them some moves. Of course now that I am older, I wonder if I really did dance great!

When I was 5 years old, I would always get my Barbie dolls and paint all over their faces, I was blessed and always ended up getting new ones. And ofcouse I would also destroy those. I also would tear them apart.

Also I cut my sisters hair at around the same age. It was funny she was only two at the time, my mom was not happy lets just say.

8 years old in Mexico

 

My summers in mexico where always the best. Since I would only see some of my cousins once a year, we would always make the best out of them. Mexico was a much safer place back when I was a child, so going out with my other little cousins was not a problem. We had our "secret" place of hanging out. It happened to be in a little river. We loved going swimming in it. There was also little fish in it and we would try so hard to catch them and we never succeed it. My aunt would pack us sandwhiches and we would be gone for the wholeday. One river day, I had slipped in a rock and the river dragged me, I never went back after that day! 

 

Another day, I joined my cousins for a game of soccer. Well in Mexico people are always just sitting outside their home talking to the neighbors. We decided to play soccer in the street rather than a field. My cousin kicked the ball pretty far and hard. The ball ended up hiting a older lady in the head and we ran. It turns out that that same lady went to my aunts house to charge us for all her headache medicine. My aunt gave her money but could not take her seriously. We were children after all ha.

 

 

My partner in crime and I

When I was younger, I would always spend my summer in Mexico. I had plenty of family that lived there including a few cousins. My grandmother had plants placed all over  her back yard. My cousin and I always found the need to go and mess it up. At first we would go and start tearing off all the leaves, then we would sit down and cut them as if we were cooking. We would do it for hours till one of our mothers came and chased us around with a broom.

With the same cousin, Our mothers weren't paying attention to us so we both got mad, so what we did was get the whole sidewalk wet with a waterhose. The floors where tile so it got real slippery, even the sidewalk was tile. So my aunt came out the house running and she slipped like as if she was on a slip and slide! She actually got hurt ha! We were laughing. My aunt knew we had done it on purpose but she laughed out of embarrasment since the neighbors were also out.