alys+interview-for+mia

Aly: uhm (Pause) what does your future hold?

Mia: uhh umm well let me think about that a second (pause.. faint far off giggles) uhmm well hmmmm (slight laugh)

Aly: (slightly laughing) is someone actually gunna listen to this

Mia: I don’t know if they will they will be very disappointed in meuhmmmmyfuture.. (tongue click) well...i… think that right now I think that my future (voice kind of trails off) like-ok I’m someone that thinks a lot about being happy and because in my past I’ve been malcontent. I think that the most important thing that I can do I surround myself with people that make me happy and doing things that make me happy. And not worrying about what other people think about those things just kinda living them and I think that because I learned that lesson my future holds a lot of happiness and a lot of friendships and doing what I love. No matter what that means. So (abruptly stopping).

Aly: what kind of occupation do you think you’ll have?

Mia: I really don’t know, I mean, I haven’t really (sigh) thought all I’ve thought about is like getting into college I don’t, I haven’t gotten as far as where I want to go yet. Uhmm I think that will change what I want to do and I think that right- as of right now- I would like to work with children who have diabetes because I think that making the the experience of being a kid with a disease like that that holds so much responsibility, better, being able to better their life is something I would really like to do. That would really rewarding and something I would enjoy doing since I do like spending time with out diabetics (slight laugh while she speaks). But um. (Tongue click) I think that no matter what I will do ill be happy. So.

Aly: um you say you wanna do uhm (laugh) help out diabetic children is that because you’re a counselor at camp?

Mia: yeah, uhh I think that that’s how I know I would want to do that because uhm well ive been going to the same camp for 12 years and I went back as a counselor this year, but not a paid counselor its called an LIT a leader in training, which is jut like this total bull shit where I have to..

Aly: you can’t say bull shit

Mia; Total BS where I have to stay up until 2 every morning. At at like 2 am check their blood sugars for them and spend time with them, but I don’t get paid, but it was still the best experience and I was soo inspired by these kids and I connected with a lot of them and its something that I love to do, to work with them, and to make their experiences with diabetes what other people made mine and just umm I like kids and I like working with them and I know that because of camp and its just like this thing the connects us that I know I can help their burden so that’s what I would wanna do.

Aly: (pause) that’s very very touching..

Mia: I hate you.

Aly: (laughs) what’s your earlier memory

Mia; oh god, umm, I have a really good memory, oh my god I TOTALLY KNOW THIS! OK. I wasn’t two yet, I was literally younger than two and I remember this because I talked to my parents about it like last week and they never told me this story. Ok. Were going to Disney world. My aunt and..

Aly: my first memory is in Disney world

Mia: no way really?

Aly: yeah

Mia: (speaking over aly) its such a good… ok well talk more about that later.. ok um so my aunt gave me a glass doll and I used to collect dolls, like glass dolls, porcelain dolls when I was little because I was such a girlie girl..

Aly: (interrupting) I had them too

Mia: oh did you? That’s cute

Aly: mhmm

Mia: umm so this one had like a peach dress and a hat on with a little umbrella that was peach color and I thought it was literally the best thing ever. I was so excited so I ran down the stairs.. it was like my present before I went to Disney world. I don’t know why someone would give someone a present before they go to Disney world, but my aunts like crazy. So she gets me this doll and I was running down the stairs and I tripped and fell and I don’t remember falling, but I remember being on the stairs with the doll and the next thing I remember is having a pealed lip. So my lip cracked open and like part of the skin pealed off because I bit into it, like I bit into my lip. And so, it was like dead skin kind of a thing and it was bleeding and I was crying and I was supposed to go to Disney and I had my suitcase. Somehow my suit case was there too, I don’t really remember it because we were going to Disney world and I had the doll and I think I was so excited about the doll that I fell (tongue click) but uhm so my mom took out a pair of nail scissors and like wiped them with alcohol….