DRAFT
Eleni introduction… Say age etc.. then..
Eleni is one of my closest best friends and I have known her since year nine. One thing we have in common is that we were born in Greece. That must be one of the things that we mostly like about our friendship because it allows us to talk in Greek when in public avoiding anyone to understand our subject of conversation. I have recently asked her a few questions and found out more about her. Throughout this presentation I will use most of her sentences though edit a few words in order to combine the information given.
Three ways Eleni described year 12 is stressful, busy and exiting. She lives here in Australia with her mum, dad, her younger 12 year old sister and the best family member, her dog named Sandy. Both of her parents have full time jobs and her sister is busy with school and her hobby, bouldering (which is similar to rock climbing). Due to these busy weekly programs Eleni does not get much family time because she is also busy with her studies. The closest family member she has is her mom and Sandy, everyone’s favourite dog. The good part about her family is the respect they show each other, Eleni considers this as their family value.
Her hobbies involve exercise, going out with friends and watching her favourite series, “Pretty Little Liars”. Two of the bad/strange habits Eleni has is biting her nails when bored or stressed and to take ugly selfies on other people’s phones. One thing she cannot understand is a few things about boys, such as the way they think and how they react to situations in ways no one can understand. When I asked her “if you could change one thing about yourself what it would be?” She replied and said “I’d want to be braver to go for new opportunities that come my way”. Her weakness as a student is that she easily gets distracted. Along with improving her concentration she wishes to improve in her English grammar and vocabulary. Eleni has described herself with three good words. Loyal, proud and enthusiastic. Her future plans include moving to Greece with her family after school and in the future focusing on her studies with either phycology or international relations at the University of Thessaloniki in Greece. After she successfully completes her University course she would love to move to Spain for two years while working within the field she studied. Afterwards she would like to buy a house in either Corfu (her home town in Greece) or Adelaide possibly along with a beautiful family of her own. If she could visit one place on earth it would be Mexico. Mexico was introduced to her from a young age through a Mexican cartoon called “Speedy Gonzales”. As she grew up she would get even more motivated through her Spanish studies as she learnt more about the language and culture which also got her even more excited about visiting this Latin American country.
The aspects of her culture she is especially proud of is that Greeks make a living, no matter the difficulty. They always have fun and live their lives this shows how strong Greeks truly are. Moving on from Greece and going to Australia, Eleni loves the geographical differences such as the differences between the states in Australia, how in one state there is a dessert, in another high snowy mountains and another can be Tropical with lots of beautiful trees and fountains. One thing she cannot understand about Australia is the Australian families, how and why they are so afraid of the outside world and restrict their children from doing all sorts of activates such as playing at the nearest playground.
One of the more serious issues Eleni is concerned of if how everyone from every continent of the world is angry, unhappy and unsatisfied and express those feelings through violence. Two of the most valuable lessons she has learnt is to not take things too seriously because at the end of the day happiness is what we really want and to “Forgive and Apologise” because you never know what will happen tomorrow to the person you are mad at today.