English 7
Mike Martinescu

Tuesday, February 05, 2002

Essay About Me, 2nd Draft

Everyone is unique in their own way. What makes them unique is their background (family, nationality, beliefs and religion), talents, interests and hobbies, accomplishments, and goals and challenges. So sit back and enjoy the personalities I have.

My background is very unique. I was born in Bucharest, Romania. I'm a single child and my parents are divorced. My dad lives in Ottawa and I live with my mom in Vancouver. My other relatives all live in Romania. I once lived in Montreal for four years. But unfortunately, I lost touch with my friends in Montreal. I made a new friend, Liviu, when I first came to Vancouver because I stayed at his place.

Like everyone else, I have great talents! I am y talented in Math, even if I don't enjoy used to go to Kumon, a program that helps you in Math. I stopped going because my mom thought it was too expensive. So she borrowed my friend's kumon work and photocopied it. I'm also very talented at tennis. I go to tennis lessons every Monday, Tuesday and Friday at the University of British Colombia. I'm very good at basketball since I'm tall. I've been to competitions, including to a Real Basketball Season and an advanced summer basketball camp at the community center.

Each of us have different interests. What I like to do the most is to read. I enjoy books with adventure, action and mystery. For example, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, A Series of Unfortunate Events and The Chronicles of Narnia. Not only that I enjoy action books, I appreciate books that are at the same time funny and have a good moral. The Cricket in Times Square is a perfect example, as it is my favorite book. I also like to watch TV shows, comedies, like the Simpsons and Third Rock From the Sun and movies like MI-2, 007, Matrix, funny western movies, Kukijiro, Billy Elliot and Stand by Me. Piano is really enjoyable and I'm in grade five piano. I also enjoy playing chess with my friends. I played in tournaments where I won several trophies and one medal.

I'm proud of myself because I have made great accomplishments. What I am most proud of is that I learned how to build a Web Site with The Hypertext Markup Language. Now I can show my friends with what great homework and projects I hyave done. My grandfather (who's in Romania) can stop asking me to email him my work. My other accomplishment is that I have advanced to Grade 5 Piano. I passed the grade 2, 3 and 4 exams for The royal Conservatory of Music. I am also good at chess, I won 5 trophies and a medal at Chess Tournaments.

But I think I need to improve on some things. My first goal is to win a prize at the end of the year. I'm very good and skilled at math so if I put some effort in the subject, I would be able to win the prize. I also want to win another prize, the prize for French and the one in English. My second goal is to do my best at Tennis lessons. I want to move to the second level and I want to be good enough to be able to get in competitions in the summer.

So now you know that everyone is different from each other because of their personality. I have a different background and that makes me who I am.