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The Major Factors Of Who I Made Me?

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Personality is the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character, therefore it defines who we are. Of course, we are born with a personality, but it is strengthened by our personal experiences. Throughout this essay, we will see how on the first hand, my dual citizenship made me who I am today, and then we will see how the fact that both my parents lived in different parts of the world affected the person I have turned out to be.
Growing up in Canada with a French mother made me experience growing up quite differently than everyone else. Most of the children who lived in my neighbourhood went to the nearest school, they all knew each other from school, they would all meet up before school and would walk there together, after school they would …show more content…

When we moved to France, my sister and I lived with my grandparents four hours away from where my mother lived, so we hardly ever saw her throughout the year, and never saw our father. I had to help out a lot, seeing as my grandparents were quite old and weren’t able to do everything alone. After that first year in France, we moved to where my mother lived, but my mom had to work a lot in order to raise us properly, so I would pick my sister up from school, help her with her homework and cook dinner. This never once bothered me, because I knew that my mom was working very hard and the least I could do was try to help her as much as I could. Being in charged of my sister and me, I think made me mature a lot sooner than most people. I also learnt how to not get attached to places seeing as I moved quite a lot in a very short period of time, which means that I don’t get homesick when I move, I noticed how helpful this was as I moved to Mississauga in order to go to University and most people missed

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