Welcome to Daniel Brittain's homepage! :)
Here you'll find lots of info about me, my history and my interests . . . (believe me, you don't want to know about it) . . .
You'll also find some of my favourite links on the web.
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Ok, so where do I start? I was born on the 22nd of August 1988, in Munich, Germany. I lived in a town called Garching, just north of Munich, while I attended the Kindergarten am Falkensteinweg until I was 5. I started school at a small primary school called Grundschule-Garching-Ost. My parents split up when I was seven. It took ages until the actual divorce took effect. I was about ten when it finally did. These three years were a time of great insecurity for me, especially because I was already old enough to understand almost everything, all the hatred, that circulated between my parents, and it affected me too! I was constantly dragged to court to sort out who got soul custody etc. . I felt sick every time and, although I never really told anyone, I was angry, very angry. I hated everyone, even those who were trying to help me. I hated my parents, my "friends", everyone! Sometimes I burst into tears in the middle of lessons, for no reason I knew of at the time! I was sick of people asking me the same question again and again, it still makes me angry today, "Who do you like more: Your Mum or your Dad?". There were moments where I really felt abandoned by the rest of the world. I just didn't see the point. That's when I started writing stories. Just little ones at first, then longer and longer ones. This helped a lot. By writing stories I could create my own world, my own people and my own situacions. This was my psychological "fire-exit" so to speak. It was my world where everything was alright and there were no problems. Whenever I felt angry, sad, helpless or just bored, I could escape into my Dream-worlds! Suddenly, (or at least while I kept writing), I was out of the sinkhole. The cess-pit of hatred and problems was behind me and I could cope with the problems and nosy and sometimes hurtful remarks that came my way. I was alright again. It wasn't as it had been before the break up, but it was a start!
Anyway, back to my social and school life. When my parents split up, my Dad moved to a yellow block of flats near to the primary school I spoke of. After four years there I left and went to the European School Munich. I can't describe what it was like. It was another world! Not quite like my Dream-worlds but it was an oppertunity to try and start again. No-one knew me here so I could make new friends. But being "new" also meant I had to be VERY careful of what I did and said, because everything, especially in the first few weeks, would add to my image. It was very difficult and I tended to find myself not being myself, but an ideal image that definitely couldn't of been me.
This was my fifth year in the primary school and towards the end of the year and into the summer term, as the days got longer and the nights shorter, Highschool began to loom out of out of the Mists of Time as the summer-holidays grew nearer and nearer. And when the holidays were over and it was the first day of school: I was terrified!
But I got into the swing and rhythm of the school of big people and the years flew by. Now I'm in the 4th year of the European Highschool (altogether my eighth year of school)and I am fourteen years old.
I hope you've had fun reading this and I hope you've had an altogether less troublesome life than I. :) |
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