Cameron Wolki-Jacobson

Cameron Wolki- Jacobson

WORDS BY CAMERON WOLKI-JACOBSON

My name is Cameron Wolki-Jacobson, and I was born in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, October 9th, 2000. Growing up with my brothers, Keenen(20) and Edward(17) we always had something to do whether it be playing video games such as Super Smash Bros, Mario Party 2 and 3 for Nintendo 64, or Tiger Woods PGA Tour for PS2. If we weren’t playing video games we were outside playing baseball or at the park running around. Both my mom and my dad’s side of the family are very competitive by nature, so when we won or lost we weren’t subtle about it. In all of the fun I also ran into some complications as well, I guess you can say that there’s a price for fun. While me and my brothers were being kids and having fun there’s been things going on in the background, like having our parents split up, I think that is the hardest thing I’ve had to go through given that I’d never experienced loss at that age, and having something like that happen was a new experience that I've gradually grown accustomed to. But it’s not all bad, I feel like I have a fairly good relationship with my family, a few years ago I had the opportunity to visit my daduk in Tuk, Fred Wolki. During the visit he was telling me all about the photos of my family that he had, when they were taken, and what they were about. I grew up loving music, my family was always playing any kind of music from Metal to Country. Later I’d try playing songs, like One by Metallica or Perfect Weapon by Black Veil Brides. I didn’t really learn to play a full song until I was about seventeen years of age, the song was Hardwired by Metallica. Which I later played in front of my music class and that was more anxiety inducing than when played on stage because in the music class I was being graded on my performance. The song I played on stage was Sad But True by Metallica. My love for music started when I watched my daduk, Philip play guitar when I was younger.

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