Hi Krystal, i think it's very courageous of you to tell your very personal story, it's a lot you've had to deal with in short time but it sounds like you're on the right track not running away from the past but instead dealing with it. It must be really hard not seeing your parents and sisters, can they contact you if they wanted/needed to? Well, welcome to the board I'm the odd dutchman and I went to Montreal twice in recent years, I loved it!
greetings from Holland
Bas
edited: PS we can't see your picture, you'd have to put it on a server to make it work...