I am Darya.
I am age 19.
I am a year 13 at Hillcrest.
I live in the country in the out-skirts of Hamilton.
Director: what do you think of the colours?
- That's good, I like it.
Well it’s actually to do with alcohol,
um my birth mum drunk alcohol when I was in her tummy.
Um so yeah, that’s all I’m going to say with that.
Um yeah so it’s basically her fault. (laughter)
She died when I was born,
I was in an orphanage and my mum and dad adopted me from Russia.
That’s actually a good question!
Well, I’m in the ILC and that stands for Independent Living Centre.
um they have lovely teacher aides there.
I’m going to name a few there’s Eden, Sharn, Flavio, Tupou and Michelle.
I don’t get bullied a lot if I’m in the ILC but I got shoved and pushed a lot
in going to classes so they don’t know I’m there so like I’m invisible to mainstreamers
they still do it
but not so much when I do recycling.
I think it’s food technology cause
even though I can’t eat the food I can still help my group make the food.
Director: Why can’t you eat food?
- Because I can’t eat any gluten.
Sometimes, I have a lovely technology teacher her name is Mrs McKenzie,
she sometimes lets us do gluten free food and others not, but that’s okay I’m not fussy.
Either I give it to one of our teacher aides or I give it to my friends.
I don’t want to tell you, it was a long time ago but I peeled my finger with a knife at food.
Well, two jobs um
one would probably be volunteering work where I don’t earn money
and then a money job,
um so volunteering, I was really thinking about animals at the SPCA in Hamilton,
and then it just depends where I want to work and where I’m living
at a supermarket sometime.
That’s actually a good question,
I think employment,
so I could have an interview with a job in town.
Well... I love Adele
I love Katy Perry, I love Taylor Swift
and I love Ed Sheeran.
I would say,
don’t let yourself down
because again, if Adele let herself down her fans would be disappointed.
So my advice is number one A: follow who you really like so for me it’s
Adele, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran.
B: just listen to her music or his music cause
I do listen to Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift and Adele a lot
C: is just ignore the negativity.
Well, I want to express myself in opportunities like...
flatting with people,
being independent, cooking, not relying on my parents a lot,
and I’ll be having a lot of money to go overseas.
Well, first I have a disability.
I want them to know I struggle a little bit,
I just want people to help me out in the community a little bit.