24 October 2013
Dear diary,
I think that I will ask my parents about buy a ticket for me to go to China for my graduation present. In six months, I will be graduated, I can’t wait to graduate and get my present! And the reason that I want to go to China.. do you really want to know, diary?
When I was in elementary school, my history teacher was teaching us about multiculturalism. He asked me about how long had my parents lived in Canada and where did my parents come from? Well.. what could I say? They lived in Canada since they were born, but I was an orphan child who was born in China.
I had never thought much about ethnic in that time until I was in high school. I got to know more people like Chinese-Canadian girl and Vietnamese girl. From that time, I got to know that some families like the Lee family had got their own accents, traditional foods and sometimes they could fly back to their homeland to visit their relatives as well. I wanted to feel like that once in my life.. I wanted to know how it feel to live with my own family and speak our own accents. Even though the Parker(my family) had been raising me up and taking care of me most of my whole life, I still wanted to find out and get to know more about my real family.
Right now, I feel like I don’t belong to Parker family, I don’t feel like I fit with them. This is not my place. Compare my yellow asia skin with my parent’s white skin.. my hair colors and their hair colors. It is so obvious for everyone that I’m not Parker even though Parker family treats me like I am not an adopted child.
Grace Parker
