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It literally just blew my mind, like the amount that was going on at one time. I was just like a kid in a candy store.

The thing is, I still think I’m 26 years old. I never imagined that getting older happened so fast. Seriously, so it’s getting harder and harder to convince people that I’m 26 when my one son is 30 and they have a 2-year-old child.

We moved out to Ohio and I got a job at NBC in Cleveland. I was producing their 11 p.m. newscast and I did that for a little over a year, and then this job at the MCC opened. Me and my wife thought it would be a great transition and I remember thinking, “Oh, okay, I can handle this. I’ve done big producing.” But teaching is much, much harder than I thought it would be.

In 1999, when I was 2, my parents found out I had type one diabetes. Since I’ve had diabetes for 17 years many people ask me things like “oh, well how do you do that? I don’t understand.” But it’s always been my normal. Just the other day, I was working Cedar Point and I stashed some smarties in one of my pockets and I didn't want to bring bulky juice because if my sugar goes low I need to eat something and shockingly, my sugar went low, and I was sneaking smarties to get my sugar back up.

You start this journey by thinking you know that you’re fine. I’ve moved around, I’ve traveled. I’ve done things, been places, met people and had new experiences. Then, it actually happens. It hits you like a brick wall. I mean, culture shock going there was tough.