Hi, my name is Jeffrine and I’m in secondary school, I have one sibling that goes to school with me and she is a senior this year so I’ll be watching her graduate. I was born in Canada and raised in Vancouver. I have 4 siblings, three of them live in my home but my eldest one I’ve never met in my life. I watched my oldest sister graduate two years ago and now she has a job and is studying for criminology; she is the person I look up to. My little brother is in middle school and he’s my best friend. My mum is European as well as my father and they both were born in Poland. I speak fluent polish and it is my first speaking language. I was put in French immersion when I was four years old and I learnt how to speak French before English, so English is my third speaking language. I moved to English school when I was in 7th grade so I can improve my speaking and grammar for high school. I love sea food and sushi is my favorite. I like salmon avocado rolls and spicy tuna rolls; I hate California rolls because I just ate too many and now, I can’t stand them. I like school because without it my life is pretty boring. I love travelling because its very relaxing and fun. My favorite meat is chicken and one way to make me happy is by giving me food like butter chicken. My favorite color is orange and I love shopping and going downtown. I have a pet bunny that I got in 2013 named winter because I got her in December, she is my favorite pet in the whole wide world. I love singing and doing makeup in my free time and I also really want to become a model. I don’t have many friends, but family comes first so it doesn’t bother me anymore. I want to become rich and I will because I believe in myself and dreams can come true. I want to have a family and travel with my husband in my future and go to Hawaii and Bora Bora. One of my other favorite foods are ramen noodles even though my mum gets mad at me when I eat them because they’re “very unhealthy” I still love it. I want to have a very good job when I’m older and I want to work for the RCMP. I love animals and I really want a pet dog when I’m older. Last but not least I love listening to music because it helps me cope with my stress. I’ve only been to three concerts in my life and one of the was QUEEN because I love their music.
My quote that I chose:
I chose this quote “if tear drops could be bottled there’d be swimming pools filled by models” because I believe it really relates to me personally and many other people who are struggling or have struggled with insecurities. We develop a critical inner voice in our head at a very young age. This voice allows us to experience hurtful attitudes towards us and others. Personally, I have judged myself so many times and I continuously do it every day without even noticing its practically became so normal to me. I believe these days many teens and adults feel the need to be “perfect” to feel happy, but that’s not what happiness it about. Happiness to me is being healthy and spending time with family and friends also surrounding yourself in a positive atmosphere. Many people spend hours choosing an outfit to wear and forcing themselves to go on unnecessary diets so they can achieve the “standard” body image for being beautiful and it’s not right. When we focus so much on other people like celebrities, we wrap our heads around the image they have created themselves. My point is we are comparing our bodies to people who have spent their own money to change themselves and we get insecure and want to immediately change. These models and creators have probably spent years trying to accept themselves too. The meaning of this quote is that we don’t see the true and ugly sides these celebrities and models have. Instead we see this beautiful and happy image they have created by totally changing their physical features and we compare that image with our own body image. Models are not perfect, and they have definitely been through dark times, but we just need to love ourselves and learn how to do so. We should try and avoid pools from overflowing with tears because we need to be more loving and accepting of ourselves. Everyone is beautiful and there is no need to change, we were given our body for a reason and that reason is to love it not change it.
My favorite image that impacts me:
Greece
This is my favorite image taken by my father on his vacation to Greece in the summer of 2019. He went on this trip with my sister who currently is in high school with me this year. I like this image because my dad doesn’t know how to use a phone and some how he managed to take a beautiful picture like this! Greece is one of the places I want to travel to if I start working and earn money or when I’m older and have a family. Greece is a gorgeous place and very fun to travel to. I’m a huge fan of Greek food but since I live in Canada, I only eat at Opa. My dream is to eat Calamari and Donairs in Greece while sitting in the soft sand and staring out into the ocean. Travelling is something I want to do in my future with my husband. I’ve only traveled to Europe with my mum and siblings in 2008 so I was very young, and I didn’t remember much. I recently traveled in 2018 on another trip to Europe with my little brother, my mum and I but I got to experience more and make plenty of memories because I was much older, and I could understand everything. I flew to Europe and stayed their for two months and it was very fun. I really enjoyed this trip because I traveled to my home country which is Poland and I got to reunite with family which is very special and important for me since I don’t have any other family in Canada. I was able to improve my speaking because I am fluent in polish and it is my home language, but this trip helped me discover many new things and opportunities. If I get the chance to travel to Greece, I want to learn something new and have a memorable experience. my dad’s feedback from his trip was amazing and picking him up from the airport was relieving because I’ve never seen him so stress free. My sister showed me many other pictures and Greece looked like such a calm, peaceful and very relaxing place to be. My sister made friends so quick and they even spoke polish there, everyone instantly bonded and it was great! Travelling helps me cope with my stress because I feel at peace and its usual really hard for me to feel happy, just by looking at this image it already makes me feel relaxed and I love that about it. To sum this all up I hope to achieve one of my biggest goals and I hope to travel to this stunning place. This impacted me because I realized that If I want to travel, I need to make money and have a good paying job. This is very important because I have to work extra hard in school and, maintaining good grades is something I need to do or else I will not be able to fulfill my dreams and achieve the goals I want to achieve.
My favorite video:
My favorite video on YouTube is Jaclyn hills first makeup palette release. I’m going to tell you guys about how this palette was able to change me for the better. Jaclyn has over 5 million subscribers on YouTube she is a beauty guru which means she does makeup videos and other stuff like beauty tutorials that are really helpful for people who are just beginning how to use makeup. Although her channel does revolve around makeup, she occasionally does blogs and QNA’s so we get an inside perspective of her life. This helps her fans get to know her better as a person. In July of 2017 Hill collaborated with one of my most favorite beauty guru Kim Kardashian and she launched her KKW Kardashian lip kit. Jacklyn got married at the age of 19 and found out that her relationship was very toxic so unfortunately, she had to divorce her partner which was very difficult for her to do. Jacklyn faced many struggles and even had severe depression. We all start from somewhere dark, but things do get better, Jacklyn found a new partner many years later and she’s very happy with her life right now. Jaclyn has tons of fans supporting her and I’m glad to be a part of one of those millions of fans who support her. Makeup has changed her life a lot, this is what she does every day for a living. I relate to her on many levels and I can say she has helped me a lot through my tough times. In sixth grade I moved to a middle school and I found it very challenging to make new friends, I really had no one at all. It bothered me at first, but my dad always told me that I should be independent and that I didn’t need a big group of friends to be happy. I believed him but it did suck a lot when I got excluded for most of the year. I was bounced back and forth through friend group to friend group and it was a struggle for me. I met my best friend in sixth grade who also had the same issue so her and I became best friends and it was just the two of us in our friend group, it was honestly all we needed because we both had each other’s backs. I became very sad because she moved away in grade 7 and that meant I was all alone and this was extremely hard to accept because I was back at point A with no friends. Yes, I loved going to school but seventh grade changed me as a person. I became diagnosed with depression and I also started to have zero motivation, I missed out on school and I went from loving school to hating it instantly after getting teased. I survived grade seven and I figured in the summer I needed to change my health and mentality. I thought to myself that if Jaclyn went through such horrible times and she’s so successful and happy now, maybe I should try use her way of coping with stress which was using makeup. That summer I would stayed up super late every night and I watched all these makeup videos so I can get good at it. I woke up one morning in such excitement because my dad was taking me on a trip to America. Jaclyn only sold her makeup products in the states, so I was able to buy her makeup palette and I was so happy because it was my very first makeup palette ever. I spent the rest of the summer doing different looks and practicing my makeup. I went to grade 8 and I decided to wear it to school, I didn’t get the reaction I wanted mind you I felt very comfortable wearing it and I didn’t even need any reactions, It was my way of coping with my issues and it was something I became passionate to do. Many kids started teasing me and I was called names like “cake face” and “ugly”. I never wore makeup for the purpose of looking pretty I know I’m beautiful with or without it and I do show my natural skin a lot, but It made feel bad about myself because I believed the negative comments I was receiving. I knew that if I wanted to be strong, I needed to keep doing it and just get better at it like everyone else does. I wasn’t going to let my happiness stop and I really didn’t want to be sad again. Makeup became a part of me, it’s a routine I do, and I really enjoy doing it. Makeup has distracted me from many issues going on in my life. Being diagnosed with an illness and having many visits at the doctors made me feel weird and like I was doing something wrong, but I needed a change and I wanted to be happy so I’m very glad that I’m continuing to do my makeup. I still get negative comments to this day, but I also have parents and strangers who come up to me and compliment my makeup and my artistic skills. Makeup is a talent anyone can do if they try hard enough and become passionate just like I am. I believe everyone deserves to do what they love even if they don’t necessarily get a positive reaction. This is something I will continue to do and maybe one day ill be able to be recognized by Jaclyn hill.
My favorite website to visit is:
My favorite website is Zaful because it’s really fun to browse around when I’m bored and even when I don’t have money. I purchased five jackets from Zaful that are super nice! I like to do online shopping because its always fun and it’s really easy to do. Zaful is used for clothing shopping and buying accessories. Zaful offers many varieties of clothing styles and trends you can follow if you like to be up to date with new styles. I find it a very good website and I never got scammed before when purchasing clothes. All my things have arrived on time and not damaged. Shipping is great and you can find many good deals. I bought a bathing suit and it looked just like the one I ordered from the website. The products deliver really fast and I suggest just visiting the site when you are bored because you can costume and design your own clothes which I like to do for fun.