Hello I am Alex Paraskeva and over the next few pages of this essay I am going to explain my life story, or what I have lived of my relatively short life.

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Alex Paraskeva

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Hello I am Alex Paraskeva and over the next few pages of this essay I am going to explain my life story, or what I have lived of my relatively short life.

         It all started on the 18th June 1987, at approximately nine pm, I was born in Northwick park hospital in Harrow. From then on until the age of two I don’t remember anything significant except for the first word I said was “lamppost,” when I was young I know I loved Winnie the Pooh and was almost fanatical about the books, expecting my parents to read them to me every night. When I finally reached two years old I would say I probably had the most traumatic experience of my life, when my parents decided to get me baptised. It wouldn’t have been such an ordeal if I was baptised Church of England or Roman Catholic, but they chose to make me Greek orthodox, where their idea of baptising someone is drowning them in the font.

          My first school was Edward Bethams where I met one of my best friends Sharif we used to always play at school, and were constantly in trouble for misbehaving, we both continued like this until year two when we were put into different classes and didn’t really get to see much of one another. Whilst at school the thing I remember most clearly was running around playing with my friends, when suddenly an older boy and me had a head on collision and I received my first black eye. It didn’t hurt that much. But my mum was quite shocked when she saw what had happened. My best year at primary school was year six the very last year before starting high school, this was because we didn’t do a great deal of work and we had a great two week holiday to the Isle of Wight which was excellent, as I got to get way from my parents for the first time.

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           My first holiday abroad was to Ontario in Canada when I was about twelve, I went with my parents and we were staying with family, who had migrated there. The flight was long, roughly eight hours but it was worth it as it was probably the best holiday I have ever been on, there is so much to do and see in Canada. Obviously Niagara falls was a must see and it was absolutely amazing the amount of water which flows over is incredible and is quite frightening, as it is so easy to fall ...

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