17 and Life Doesn't Wait

Girl: I play basketball.

And, you know, a cheerleader

would be sexy or like a dancer, but not, like...

Somebody who plays basketball is considered the opposite.

A manly sport.

Yeah.

Wow.

Everyone always looks so depressed on the subway,

like, every morning I come here and everyone's like...

I got in a fight with my mother.

I got kicked out kind of thing.

It was really bad.

But it's better.

We are kind of finally started to talk again.

But living on my own, it's been, like, a struggle.

It's really hard, like money and stuff,

but, makes sense, like welfare's really helped me out.

Like, shout out to that.

I gotta do deco stuff.

A couple of days ago, I came to the realization that,

like, wow, I'm, like, old. Like high school old.

I've got the last year, and now, like,

within a couple of months, my future is gonna be,

like, just blown up, and, like, put right and put in front of me

and, like, I'm gonna see what's going to happen

for the next four years.

If there's a really tall mountain,

there's always gonna be a mountain even higher than that.

So, maybe I've reached the pinnacle of the first mountain,

but eventually,

I just keep reaching higher pinnacles of higher mountains.

I think what guys do is pretty fascinating.

Like, I've tried gaming because, like,

my close group of guy friends are all gamers.

I think I'm also, like, pretty academically driven

in terms of, like, STEM and, like, programming and coding.

But I'd say that STEM still focuses more towards the guys

rather than the girls,

and I think that's something that we're trying to change.

Lady Noles on three.

One, two, three.

All: Lady Noles.

Girl: My goal is to get a scholarship.

A lot of people don't look at basketball

as a way to get an education.

They look at it as a way to go to the league.

But I wouldn't want to go far into the league with it

because I feel like WNBA is, like, way underpaid.

Um, they don't make a lot of money.

Ball.

Find it ladies, find it! Find it.

Kiki: But for a while, I didn't, like, want to get up every day.

My dad talked to me about that, and he out here,

"No, you need to work on this!"

Coach: Get her foot right back there!

Actually, like,

I want to be a OBGYN, yeah,

an obstetrician, you know?

Work in women's health and stuff like that, and deliver babies.

That's what I want to do.

Um, yeah. I like babies.

We have six different muscles

that hold, uh, the eyeball in the eye socket.

And the grossest thing you're gonna see

is the fluid coming out.

And the prettiest thing you're gonna see is the retina.

This is Summer.

Hi.

That is Kenneth Horsey.

That is Fred Ward.

That's Kevin, and that's Jada Gage.

And these are the people I know.

Okay, these are my friends. I kind of like them.

Oh, Ding Dongs.

I'm excited.

And it's so cheap, like, and filling.

You never go hungry 'cause of this place.

My favourite.

People are gonna steal these from me.

Would you like a bun?

Boy: Yeah, I'll take one.

Oh, they're fresh. Oh, God.

I've had a lot of bad experiences in my life and,

actually, my friend that just committed suicide

was my first girlfriend.

So when I found out, I went to... I was just in my room,

and I was like, oh my God, like, I cannot be alone right now.

Like... so, I like... it was, like, two in the morning

and I called my friend Kamal and I was like, "What you doing?"

Like, I'm coming over, Like, I just, like, need to.

I just went to his place and fell asleep, yup,

and then I went home, and I was like,

probably not gonna go to school today.

But I ended up just going to school anyway,

because being alone is, like,

the worst thing you can do in those situations.

I've dealt with depression myself too, and, um,

it's really hard. And like, finding the strength

to tell people is, like, the hardest thing to do.

Oasis Skateboard Factory.

This is my school.

Hopefully no one else shows up today.

It's an alternative school where we make skateboards

and we start our own brands

to earn our credits for high school,

which is really cool.

Like, I don't learn from sitting at a desk and writing,

like, page notes over and over and over, like.

I take in absolutely nothing from that.

It's literally just giving my hand cramps.

So, like going to Oasis now,

like, I went from, like, a 50 average to a 93 average.

I think that says something, like... (laughing)

Um, I want to go to OCAD University,

eventually become an illustrator.

I want to start my own manga or anime.

This is my first board I made this year,

which is, like, Often Extremely Mad.

It's, like, a comic about, like...

About one my biggest pet peeves,

which is when people eat with their mouths open,

which is disgusting.

Thank you for all blessing us with great health,

and thank you for just letting us be here together

to eat this food. Amen.

All: Amen.

Everybody has to say at least one thing

that they're thankful for.

I'm thankful for Corinne, because without her,

there's no Kenneth, and then without Kenneth, there's no me.

Thank you, God, for blessing me.

He blessed me to look good.

Woman: All right!

I'm thankful for safe travels, and most of all,

I'm thankful that I got better grade of hair than Kobe.

Chill!

Like a really hard job.

Gladys: I'm trying to teach my daughter how to cook.

She ain't trying to learn.

Not Kiki.

Not until I need to cook.

Like, I don't need to cook right now.

But who gonna have time for that anyway?

Audrey: Oh, I'm so busy.

Girl: Yeah.

The Girls in Tech conference is on Saturday.

Yeah.

Then in two weeks, there's DECA.

Do you think Mom and Dad are gonna let me to live here

by myself when you're at DECA?

Maybe.

Bus announcement: Next stop, Hallmark Ave.

Audrey: My parents' house is an hour and a half commute to school,

but downtown, that's a 20 minute walk.

Next stop...

Audrey: A lot of people think I'm rich,

especially with a condo

at the most luxurious intersection of Toronto.

But I'm not rich.

We get a lot of support from our family in China,

and that's pretty much the reason

why I'm able to live downtown.

Unlike my apartment downtown,

where it's little bit more luxurious,

I share a bed or space and a room with my sister.

I always felt so embarrassed

by the fact that I always had to share a room,

much less a bed with my sister.

So, like, before, I would always say, like,

"Oh, yeah, like, this is my room."

My sister just... I have the bigger room,

so the other desk is in here and vice versa,

and we just we make up whatever story.

Eighteen.

Number eighteen.

I get so, like... I love when I get in the elevator

and someone's, like... like, ten or lower.

But as soon someone hits, like, nineteen or higher,

I'm like, "Ah!"

'Cause they're on a higher floor than me.

Oh, jeez.

Welcome to the bed room.

The chill spot.

Laundry sucks, but my problem is too, though,

like, when all my laundry gets dirty, I just buy more clothes.

And then, that's my little baby, Buddha.

He's my best friend in the whole wide world.

Hey, look at the camera, Buddha.

He's the best.

He loves everybody. Good boy.

Okay, one night, I couldn't sleep,

and I was, like, really sad 'cause I hate living alone.

It's just, like, an empty feeling.

I used to have five dogs.

Without having a pet and stuff.

So, I went on Kijiji and I was just, like, looking around

for, like, animals, and, like, puppies and things.

And I saw him and people were just, like,

getting rid of him, like, for free.