Angela Bellers:  

Life I home schooled myself after leaving YHS in the 9th grade. I graduated a year early and scored college levels in my college entry testing. I traveled all over the USA, Canada and Australia doing music promotions for EMI. It was volunteer street team work, but I got to meet and do promotions for several bands such as VAST, Queens of a Stone Age, Sunna and Unified Theory. I worked at Briarwood mall at Waldenbooks from 97-99. I went to Community college and took culinary, voice and the basic academic classes for a year and a half. After leaving school and working at TCF Bank in Ann Arbor and The University Of Michigan Educational department for nursing for a year I got antsy. I had done promotions and traveled in between school and jobs from age 17-20. I was also tired of the weather and the mind set of that little part of the world. In the winter of 2000 I booked a one way train ticket to New Orleans. I didn’t know anyone there but decided it was a place that had always called to me and a place I needed to live. I stayed and eventually worked at a youth hostel in Mid City for about 6 months. It gave me time to get to know the city and the people. I had THE best time with people coming in and out from all over the world. New Orleans is where I turned 21, and learned how to drink and do a lot of things. I had lost a bit of weight since my days living in Michigan. I might not have gotten much healthier though due to all the drinking and hard work trying to survive. My parents pretty much told me I would get no help, and it was good to make it on my own. I started waiting tables there and eventually got into bartending...Expand for more