The first of these two pictures was taken at the zoo when I was about eight. On Monday, 19/1/04, we went to the zoo and Dean took the second one. HOME Family Pages Computer Help Story List Making Pictures All Pages
My name is Alexander Edward Pappas, and I am eleven years old—although in just two weeks I'll be turning twelve. I usually have my birthday the first or second day back at school. I was born in Box Hill Hospital, on the 30/1/1992. I am one hundred and forty-four centimetres tall and I weigh approximately forty kilograms.
The first of these two pictures was taken at the zoo when I was about eight. On Monday, 19/1/04, we went to the zoo and Dean took the second one.
I live in an outer eastern suburb of Melbourne, and go to a high school nearer to the center of the city. My school is a semi-formal school with a good history. This year I’ll be in Year Eight, in the accelerated program.
I enjoy maths, English, science, and sport (in small quantities). I don't like social studies, probably because I don't socialise much, except for with my friends Patrick, Michael, Eric, Andrew, Tim, Daniel, Brandon, Anthony and Luke. Luke is overseas right now. He’s been sending me some great postcards and we email each other a couple of times each week.
I live with my mum, grandma, sister, three cats, an Eastern Rosella called Polly, many finches and a quail, four canaries, a goldfish, numerous zebra fish and a leopard fish. My cats are bony old Toby, who can’t retract his claws fully anymore and therefor when he sits on you it can be prickly, fat Little, who was named so because he was little when Obby found him on Christmas Eve fifteen years ago. He was tiny then, but is now the biggest, and the dominant cat of the house; and Marmalade, who is less than a year old, but already hunting pigeons and mice (the pigeons against our will, the mice, not so much), and though he’s a loving cat, he doesn't know his own strength and often scratches us.
I see my Dad every weekend, and Dean, my mum’s partner, every Wednesday, and sometimes other days as well.
My hobbies are playing with my friend Luke, using my computer,
and reading. I’ve read all of the “Disc World” books by Terry Pratchett, as well as “Only You Can Save Mankind”. I’ve enjoyed “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” but still haven’t read “The Silmarillion” by J. R. R. Tolkien.
My favourite animals are hawks and snakes.
My favourite colours are black and silver.
I am rather untidy and disorganised, and I lose lots of small
things like pens, pencils and erasers—and last year, my mobile phone. This year I’ll keep a tighter hold on things!
A couple of years ago I made a rough model car that can go four meters
twenty-five centimetres on wind.
If you'd like to see some of my photos, look here. You might like to read the poem I wrote about an imaginary tour of Egypt, too. Or you could look at some pictures of our pets and garden.
Would you like to meet my sister? Her name is Jennifer.
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