A homeless student was named Valedictorian of his Texas high school, MyFoxHouston reports.
Victor Cardenas is a film student at Houston Texas' Furr High school. He picked up a camera last year and crafted a haunting story of his life.
He was homeless."We never had money, we never had food. My mother didn't care that she had four kids," Cardenas tells his own camera in the film he dubbed "Being Victor".
"It was knives, guns and it was people ending up in the hospital. It was my own family ending up in the hospital. She kicked out my brothers, she kicked out me and it was on our own. I was 14 years-old," he says during a tightly framed monologue within the film.
Vistor kept his homeless state to himself and slept most nights on a park bench in Denver Harbor.
"I guess I didn't want to say anything, to anybody," he explains.
Furr high friends offered him shelter and support in their homes.
"Like they are my family. That is what I always say, they are my family," says Victor.
Victor Cardenas is acing multiple advanced placement tests, mastering the Russian language and earning national accolades for his film work.
Next fall, he'll attend Texas A&M University and study bio-chemistry on full scholarship.
