Where do I start? Getting kicked out of two countries (Italy and Brazil)? Camping across Canada out of the back of a VW Beetle when I was ten? How about living in both France – with a Parisian balcony view of the Eiffel Tower or Milan Italy – playing in a rock band in between weekend ski trips? Yeah, I’ve done a lot and it sounds like one big adventure. But there were other moments: fourteen schools, the result of a lot of moving and for a short time living close to the edge of poverty: a working mom who knew how to stretch a dollar, who refused to give up and kept us afloat.