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__**Ali's Amazing All-Time Adventures:**__ Hi my name is Alexandra Cooper but all my friends call me Ali. I am 13 years old and I was born on February 3rd 1997 at Queen Mary hospital in Dunedin. I have lived in Dunedin all my life with my family. My mum Sam, works in Tourism at Speight’s Brewery Tours and my dad Greg, coaches rugby in Japan for a club called NEC Green Rockets. My sister Hannah is 19 years old and finished St Hilda’s two years ago. She was sports prefect. My brother Ben is 16 years old and he is in year 12 at John McGlashan College. He loves all sports and wants to be a pilot when he finishes school. Finally my dog called Sydney. He is a eight year old Black Labrador and loves to swim and give you cuddles all day. I love being involved in sports. I have done athletics for six years and have represented Otago for five years. I run for the Hill City Athletics club with Georgia, Sheridan and Libby who is in the Taieri and Rachel who is in Ariki. This year I won a silver medal, at the South Island Colgate Games in Timaru. I made the Otago Interprovintials team and went to Invercargill this year for it. I got 3rd in New Zealand for discus and 15th out of about 48 people in New Zealand for shot put. I got personal bests in all my events. I also made the South Island secondary school athletics champs. I played netball for the year 8A team last year at school and I was in the Otago development-training academy and co-captain in the year 8 Otago team. This year I got into the 9A netball tem. I also play basketball for 9A, badminton, touch rugby, volleyball and cricket. I did classical ballet for 4 years and got distinction in all my exams and won a trophy for the most promising Ballerina. As you can see I really do love playing sports. Last year I was in the St. Hilda’s stage challenge. We spent months practicing after school and on weekends. It was a lot of fun and all the hard work was worth it in the end because we came first in Otago. It was so exciting when they read out “St. Hilda’s” as the first place getters. I will definitely to it again next year. In my spare time which isn’t much after all my sporting stuff I like to read books, go shopping and hang out with my friends and go to movies or up town. At school my favourite subjects are PE & Japanese. I like Japanese especially as my Dad works in Japan for some of the year & my sister used to study it at University and knows quite a bit, so it is fun to speak to each other in Japanese. Last year I went to Japan two times and to Vietnam. It was great to experience the different life styles and cultures. I am going to Japan again at the end of the year and to Fiji next holidays. My least favourite subject is music.When I am older I want to be go to the Olympic’s with Athletics and to play netball for the Silver Ferns. When I finish school I would like to be a news presenter or an Air hostess. Going on planes is fun. I really enjoyed camp last term and it was fun that my dad was able to come and help. It was great to meet so many new girls and have so much fun in the outdoors. I love abseiling and the confidence course and also the campout which was on the first day because we got to play spot light, toast marshmallows an cook pancakes for breakfast. I love camping. For Christmas last year I got a tent and some airbeds and I camped in our back yard at our holiday house in Arrowtown. As I lay down at night “ The moon seemed to smile at me from the sky” and “ the stars winked at me”. I love going to Arrowtown for holidays with my family. At camp I found out that Zoe, Emma and Mikaela live in Queenstown and Arrowtown and at Christmas I spent time with Polly who has a house just down the road from mine. My Grandparents have a house down the road at Lake Hayes and my other Grandparents live in Napier so we get to go up there as well sometimes.