Real Girl: Adisa


Age: 17  Grade: 12  Sign: Scorpio
 
Faves: My favourite colours are pink, red, purple and black. I love staying at home for Hanukkah and my favourite seasons are fall and winter. I love carrot muffins, Green Tea Lattes from Second Cup and my favourite band right now is Fall Out Boy.

Hobbies: I like reading, drawing, playing games on the computer, making jewelry, playing the guitar and violin, designing clothing, listening to music, texting, collecting foreign coins, and going to the park to swing on the swings with my friends.

School and Stuff: I'm looking forward to completing high school. I'm not really a big fan of school, but my favourite subject is philosophy. I love volunteering and I have volunteered in so many places throughout my community by helping kids learn to make jewelry, child minding and doing jewelry workshops.

Personality: My friends and family would say that I’m really random and hyper at times, and at other times I'm serious and quiet. They would say that I smile a lot and some would say not enough. They'd also say I'm really friendly, helpful, have a dry sense of humour, and I'm sarcastic. I would agree and add that because I'm a teenager I feel like my personality changes all the time. I'm constantly changing as a person, every single day... my hair, the way I dress and even the way I act! I might add that I'm a little weird, in a good way.
 
Life challenge: The biggest challenge for me is my weight. I've been dealing with being overweight and feeling like I wasn’t good enough because of it. I've blamed being overweight for the fact I didn’t have enough friends and I've even blamed my grades on it. Sometimes it makes me extremely insecure. It's the one thing that's always at the back of my mind and I can’t seem to get rid of it. I'm still trying to keep it under control and I'm learning to appreciate everything about me physically and mentally. My other challenge is growing up in a single parent home. My mom is a single parent, and I know that being a single mom for her is not the easiest job in the world. My little brother is eight and drives me crazy but I  love him to death. It's really hard at times because my dad isn’t in my life a lot. I get jealous of friends with dads... I feel like I miss out on what they do with their dads. Sometimes I feel it isn’t fair but then I know I'm not the only one. Something I think about a lot is, how come MY parents had to divorce?! My message to other girls would be that you just have to know that it's how some families are. There are so many single parent families out there but they are still complete even if there is no dad or no mom in yours. It's a whole family as long as there is lots of love. You really have to make the best of it. Living in a single-parent family is normal to me now. For others it's normal to have both. I'm happy with that.

Proud of: I am proud of the fact that I haven’t given up on school because I know I'm capable, but struggling with the challenges. I haven’t given up and I'm moving forward and I WILL get it done. I'm also proud of trying my best to help out my mom. As a single mom, she can use the help.

So Adisa: Always having a different hair style, ribbons in my hair, listening to music, chewing gum, drawing, having everything you could ever need in my purse - and then some, not wearing makeup, pulling all-nighters, not being a morning person, drinking coffee and lattes is soooooo me!

Cool Fact about Adisa: I’m Jewish and people don’t think that to see me. I’m a blend of many nationalities, but I believe there is only one race: the human race.

Future: My ideal future would be finding my own way, finishing university, being an author, and in all honesty I would love to have a family and stay home with them. I want a degree but family is very important to me. I look forward to adding more and more hobbies to my life all the time. Plus I’m only 17 and what I want now in 5 years could be totally different.
 
Pet Peeves: When my family members pick on my weight, and when people smoke around me. I really hate that!

Photography by Veronica Jesuthasan
Adisa’s cover photography by Veronica Jesuthasan
Hair and Makeup by Angela Gina Pirrera, Melissa Villa, Stephanie Senater, Julia Hofer, Daniella Villa

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Veesha, 14
My mom is a single mom too and i know what you mean about feeling kinda jealous especially when they don't know how good they got it with to parents.I thnk you are more mature than me about it but some day ill apreciate it like you. Plus i like the same stuff as you. peace - Vee
Nat
wow you always were an amazing artist!

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