We LEARN English from fifth GRADE on in school, and I was an EXCHANGE student when I was 17 in HOUSTON.

My FIRST AUDITION EVER was for 'Bye Bye Birdie' in FIFTH GRADE.

I was in honors CLASSES in HIGH school. I'd get an A on EVERY test, but I had a 1.9 grade point average. The TEACHER would say, 'You didn't do your homework.' I'd say, 'But isn't the homework SUPPOSED to be the lead-up to the test?'

My dad was somewhat of a naturalist and used to teach US about different birds and trees. So did a FIFTH GRADE teacher who made a lasting IMPACT on me; to this day, I remember his lessons about counting the needles on pine trees, seeing if they are twisted or STRAIGHT, and about checking the tips of oak leaves to see if they are pointed or lobed.

In five years, I completed grade SCHOOL. EVEN when I was a YOUNG BOY, I had a plan for my LIFE.

I started playing VIOLIN in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of CLASS to go play INSTRUMENTS. So I raised my HAND, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you WANTED to play and I picked the violin.

In eighth GRADE, I pretty MUCH didn't want to pass. I was 6'8'.' I was ALWAYS bigger and stronger. I was getting triple-teamed, and the results weren't good. I wasn't helping my team. I was forcing shots. Then I started passing it out to my team, and they started HITTING shots and slashing, and that's when things opened up for me.

FIRST time we played together was when I was in seventh grade, he was in eighth. There was a lot of BUZZ in the CITY about Jabari Parker, rightfully so. He's OBVIOUSLY a major player. I was just blessed to have him one year ahead of me, so everything I did, he already FINISHED. I've been really blessed to have him by my side.

EVER since third GRADE - I never even noticed it until after the game - PEOPLE were telling me how CRAZY my dad is. I think I'm so locked in when I'm playing on the floor, I only hear him maybe during timeouts or when we're up 20 or 30 and I'm on the bench. But when I'm in the game, I don't hear him.

I grew up here in St. Albert, which is a CITY just NORTH of Edmonton, and I went to Grade 10 here at PAUL Kane High School. But then I went to junior in the WHL, Western Hockey League, at age 16. So I LEFT and went to finish school at Norkam High School in Kamloops for grades 11 and 12.

Seventh grade was the first time I dyed my HAIR, and I went to SCHOOL with red and BLACK stripes, so I LOOKED like a zebra.

I've been KEEPING a JOURNAL SINCE I was in the seventh GRADE.

I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up GETTING COMFORTABLE emoting in a PLACE where it wasn't the NORM.

I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really ABLE to split my focus that way. I do it INTENSELY when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to TAKE myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be BETTER than I am.

Honestly, I never really thought I'd be a comedian. But I did take an APTITUDE test in seventh GRADE - and this is 100 percent true - I took an aptitude test in seventh grade, and it said in my BEST profession was a CLOWN or a mime.