My name is Leandra Anderson, and I pretty much hate everything right now. I just moved to a new city. A few months into my last year of school. Great right? I’m almost done with this crap and my parents just insist that we HAVE to move for dad's job and it cannot possibly wait another year. I’m so close and now I have to go through all of this new school stuff again. 12th years should NOT have to deal with this Year 7 crap. And all of this stuff is twice as hard with me. Not because I’m being difficult about the whole situation, which I am. It’s because I'm mute. I've never spoken a word in my life. There’s no brain damage, or any of that sort of thing. I was just born without vocal cords. Talk about your rare birth defects. But you can imagine this makes all of that new kid stuff harder to do. Because I can’t talk, people tend to think I'm a bit standoff-ish. It’s probably because I'm really sarcastic. I know; you’re thinking “how can someone who can’t talk be sarcastic?” It takes a LOT of eye rolling. And my mom says that I'm so physically expressive that I don’t need words anyway.
What else can I say about myself? I’m 17 years old, I'm almost 18 though! I have two siblings. My sister Stephanie is two years older than me at 19, and my little brother Brendan is 15. My dad is an accountant and my mother stays at home. I have a huge appreciation for music, especially singers. You can guess why. I want to produce music when I get older (I’d say “when I grow up” but I don’t think I’ll ever grow up) so that I can be around it all the time. I’m about 5’6” with light skin (freckles too), medium brown eyes (think root beer), and short, wavy, auburn hair. I also have about 7 streaks of different colors in my hair, and I’ll let you in on a secret, the curls aren’t natural, I get perms. Shh don’t tell anyone.
That’s about all there is to say about me. Things are pretty normal in my life, but I imagine that a new school is going to bring all kinds of new experiences into my life, good and bad. But Sydney can’t be that much different than Canberra.
