Board Thread:Season 28 - Generations/@comment-7654138-20151009180247/@comment-24215409-20151010092638

Hi Mihai! I’d like to start off by thanking you for helping me and by apologizing for not being able to return the favor. At the point of the game where you left, there was no way for me to save you. Molly had immunity and the best that could have happened was us going to rocks. I wasn’t willing to leave my game up to chance, I wanted to have control of my own fate and going to rocks would have prevented me from doing that. The reason I didn’t want to take you to the end was because I believed that you could win and I felt the same about Molly. I do believe that I played a very strong game but sitting in the end up against the two of you would have been very difficult considering you were both underdogs. Everyone loves and respects an underdog story and I felt that the jury would reward one of the two of you with the win because of that. I don’t think I needed goats like Yap and Kevin. Although they are viewed as goats, the two of them played a big role in my game. I have been aligned with them since the beginning of the game and while the alliance may not have been stable the entire time, we all worked together. I think that I played a more upfront game than they did and I was a bigger threat and ultimately that’s the reason why I think i’m not viewed as a goat and they are.

I fully understand not wanting to vote for a Mangatar, I’m pretty guarded like that and I don’t like posting too much personal information about myself in a public place. In a private setting I’m fine with getting on video calls or sending people snapchats with my face in them but we never did that, and maybe we can after the game is over but for now, I will tell you who the girl behind the mangatar is. I’m an extremely guarded and person so opening up to you here is really hard for me. My name is Samantha but my family and friends call me Sami and my last name is not McCanada. I turned 22 yesterday and I live in Quebec. I live with my parents and my sisters who are 20 and 13. I was raised in a small Jewish community and I was very sheltered. My favorite color is purple and I love dolphins and mermaids but I have an extremely irrational fear of fish. My favorite thing in the entire world is my teddy bear, appropriately named Teddy, that my grandmother bought me when I was 6 and I can’t sleep at night without Teddy. I don’t like watching TV shows because I can’t handle the suspense of having to wait a whole week to find out what happens so I only watch shows that are already done, this way I don’t have to wait to find out what happened. I have something called selective eating disorder where I only like very few foods, something that I have been made fun of for my entire life. I eat the same thing for every meal, every day I have a muffin for breakfast, I skip lunch and I have chicken nuggets for dinner, every single day. I don’t like change so I like to keep things simple. I like owning physical copies of things like CD’s and DVD’s. I have every Maroon 5 CD and I have all of How I Met Your Mother, Full House and almost every season of Survivor on DVD. My hobbies include scrapbooking and arts and crafts. I like everything sparkly and add rhinestones and glitter to almost everything I own. I spend a lot of my time on the computer. I like to make gifs, talk to my friends over skype, play sims and go on tumblr (here is my personal blog: http://rachelfoulger.tumblr.com/ I really think that the content on my blog reflects me and the things I like) I graduated from pre-college with a diploma in Cinema and Communications and then moved to New York City and got an associates degree in Advertising and Marketing Communications. I finished my degree a semester early and came back home and I’m still not sure where I’m headed in life.

When I was 11, I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. I spent almost 3 months in the hospital. In that time I had to mature very quickly and I lost some of what it was like to just be a kid. Because of this, my parents felt the need to be overly protective of me because they didn’t want to see something bad happen to me again and still at the age of 22, they feel the need to be protective of me rather than allowing me to make my own mistakes. They think that they’re helping me by pushing me to do better but they can’t understand that they’re just doing the opposite. Over the past year and a half, I’ve been kind of depressed and started having panic attacks and I don’t feel like anyone around me understands how I feel and why I behave the way I do. In life I feel like I am a very strong person in that I am able to overcome a lot of shitty situations. However, I allow things to happen to me without standing up for myself. I’m often passive and take a back seat rather than voicing my opinion in fear of rejection. A weird thing about me is I don’t like to be touched. Like if you tap me on the shoulder or touch my hair, I’ll freak out. I like to think that I’m a nice person and I try to see the best in everyone so I go out of my way to do things for other people. I really feel like I'm a kid in an adult's body.

When I started writing this response, I didn’t think that I would get that personal. This is me. I hope that this answered your question and I think more than any picture in the world, this should give you a genuine idea of who I am. If there’s anything else you’d like clarification on, I’d be happy to elaborate.