english essay

The ‘ME’ essay

Introduction:

Hello, this is a basic summary about me, Dominic Smith. I’ve had to do this for a school project, involving I.C.T, Art, and English (and science). We are using this blog to incorporate all of these things. I am going to tell you about my personality and things I like, don’t like, do and don’t like to do.

Basic information:

My name is Dominic Smith, I’m a 14 year old boy, and my birthday is on 20/03/1996. I’m Australian, but I am stuck in Indonesia for the time being. I love swimming, cooking and travelling, they are all lots of fun.

My “cool” Family:

I have one sister, Siobhan (codename ‘Sro’), she is 18. Well, actually, she’s 17 but she’d kill me if she knew I was revealing her real age, but I guess I’m safe as she’s on the other side of the world. She currently lives in France and hasn’t lived with the rest of the family for six years. She is an awesome sister, and very protective, but she has these moods that can change in seconds, and she is very dominant, everything has to go her way. My mum’s name is Pauline (code name ‘Mro’). She is ‘anciently old’, well, she’s really just fifty-three. She is a bit of a neat and control freak! Every thing has to be perfect. My dad’s name is Paul (code name ‘Dro’), he too is fifty-three, he has been my school principal or VP for my whole life, but a year and a half!!! All the code names are from when Sro and I were acting crazy in Barcelona on our family holidays.

Same old holidays:

When my family goes on holidays, it has to be different every time, while every other family goes to the same holiday beach, Mum and Dad have to go somewhere different! Seriously! Every second holiday at least, we would go somewhere to either (when I was in Australia) South Australia, Victoria, NSW, and just all around QLD! Now we’re in Indonesia, I’ve been to Bali twice, to ‘Thousand islands’ three times, Surabaya, Yogyakarta, Bogor, Bandung, and heaven knows what else! We live in Jakarta, I don’t like it here and my parents don’t like Jakarta either, so whenever the opportunity arises, we go!

Indonesia:

I’ve lived in Indonesia for over one and a half year’s now, and I despise being here, there are good things though. I was told by my parents that I could come to Indonesia if I wanted, I didn’t want to, but I am now here against my will, that’s probably the reason I hate it most here, I didn’t get the choice. I don’t like the beaches, food, religious restrictions, the culture, or the school either! There are good things to try and balance that though, the shopping is cheap here, come to think of it everything is! This is good because I now can watch movies, eat go out etc, for a lot cheaper.

My moods:

I can get very easily aggravated, I’m not sure whether you can get personality traits from your ancestors, because it would make sense if it was true. I really become emotional to insults that are directed at my family, depending on who says it. Although I can snap from happy to sad in seconds, it takes me a lot longer when it’s the other way around, it can take me from anywhere between hours and days to be cheered up after I have been hurt. Once again, it depends on who hurts me as to how long it takes for me to ‘recover’.  But there are the cases when I’m feeling down and I get a hug from a girl that I’m “NOT” related to and I suddenly feel better. J

Conclusion:

With all the bad things that are going round in my life I have tried to make the most out of them, I’ve kept them close, or used them to my advantage. Having negative things in life makes you stronger, or even opens new doors later on in life, even if you don’t believe or know it. 

 By Dominic Smith

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