Jenna’s comments about her shoot:
Some of my fondest memories come from traveling and having the opportunity to live in a number of different places; Vancouver, Niagara Falls, Washington state, South Korea, Illinois & Nevada. Although I was born in Washington state, I spent my adolescent years living with my grandmother in Vancouver. At the age of 12, I started living with my mom who traveled frequently on business throughout Canada. It was so much fun to travel to cool and exciting places when I was that age, tagging alongside my mom sight-seeing, while she did business. One summer that I particularly remember was when we drove throughout Ontario & Quebec and even made it as far as Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island! It was so thrilling to sleep in a new city each night. Around the time I turned 15, I moved overseas to South Korea with my mom for her work. I think that living there for 1.5 years helped shape my outlook on the world because I had first-hand experience functioning in a society where I could not communicate in the native tongue (Korean). At the time, I may not have appreciated the experience; I was homesick and terrified of how I was going to possibly last a year in a place so foreign to what I knew. Looking back, I may have been scared being in a place that was unfamiliar, but I know that the experience provided me with a better understanding of how people are different around the world and provided me with a better understanding why people are different in different places. Coming back from South Korea, I moved to Las Vegas for a year before attending college in Illinois. It was hard to move around so much when I was young; making friends was difficult because I knew I would just have to move eventually & getting to know a place was impossible. Regardless, if I hadn’t had the opportunity to travel and live in a foreign country at such a young age, I don’t think I’d be the same goofy Canadian-American I am today.