Alexandra Gough 20 May 1990 -

	My name is Alexandra Gough but everyone calls me Alex. Mum said she got my name from a girl off the show Country Practice. Whenever someone asks mum what our names are without us being there, they always think that mum has three boys. I was born at the Mercy hospital on the 20^th of May 1990 which makes me 15 this year. I live in Patterson Lakes on the water in a double story house. I live with my Mum, Mary, younger bro, Zac, and older bro, Max. My mum and dad split up a couple of years ago so we see him on Wednesdays and every second weekend. My dad’s name is Chris and he lives in Edithvale, soon to be Patterson Lakes, with his fiancée Maggie who has a cat called Maisie. On the weekends that we’re with mum, her friend, Rick, has his kids over. He has 2 boys, Pierce (8) Rhys (6), and 2 girls, Alannah (7) and Maddison (5). I love to baby-sit them and sometimes we all go out for dinner together. I love going to movies with friends, watching TV, swimming, playing netball, reading and school holidays. I love kids and babysitting them. I love baby animals and when I move out of mum’s house I’m going to get a puppy. Mum doesn’t want any pets because she thinks they’re too much to look after and they’d make a mess of the house or something. I used to have sea monkeys but we went away and when we came back they were all dead.
		At the moment I’m into a lot of hip hop, pop and rap music - much to the disgust of my older brother Max who hates that kind of music and is into more heavy metal - much to the disgust of me. I have never broken a bone in my life but I often roll or sprain my ankles. I have never had chicken pox, measles, tonsillitis or anything like that but I do get motion sickness but it’s not as bad as when I was younger. The only time I’ve ever been to the hospital for surgery was when I was in year one because I had managed to get a splinter in my butt at school. I was allowed to take in my two dolls and when I came out they had bandaids on their butts. The moment I’ll never forget is the time I got lost at the Royal Melbourne Show when I was three. When mum found me, she told me that if I ever get lost again I should never leave with a stranger and I asked her what I should do if it was a prince. I started at St Joseph’s Primary School in 1996 with my best friend Belinda. She moved to Queensland when I was in year two.
				My favourite holiday was in 2001 when we went to Central Australia. Me, Mum, Dad, Max and Zac all went with some family friends, the Dwyers, Melissa, John, Elise and Calvin. We drove and stopped at many different places. Cooper Pedy was my favourite place to stop and we stayed there a couple of nights which gave us more time to enjoy it. I think I liked it best because we got to see some really interesting opal mines and some house caves. We also saw heaps of Australian landmarks like Ayres Rock, which we climbed and made it to the top, Kings Canyon, which we also climbed, the Olgas and many more. I went to Sydney once and we got to see heaps of stuff like the Sydney Harbour Bridge. I’ve also been to Queensland and Phillip Island many times because dad’s parents have holiday houses there. I have never been overseas and it just kills me. One day, my friend and I are going to travel overseas together. I can’t wait!!!!
		Through my life I have played many different sports. The list includes basketball, tennis, tap and jazz, Tae Kwon Do and I also used to have swimming lessons but they are no longer needed. At the moment, the sports I do are swimming and netball. I love swimming and each year at Kilbreda they have an SCSA swimming team that are able to compete at the Melbourne Aquatic Centre against other schools. It’s so much fun. We train Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 7am before school. I also love netball and have been accepted into the school netball team. We play against other schools on Tuesdays. I play netball outside school as well. We train on Thursdays and play on Saturday. I also play in an open aged team on Tuesday nights. I do drama outside of school as well, at the same place that Zac goes - the Helen O’Grady Drama Academy. We have lessons on Tuesday nights.
The school I go to is Kilbreda collage in Mentone. My favourite subjects are Maths, Technology and Design (TD), Drama and PE. At school I’m in year nine and its so much fun. I’m in the Duke of Edinburgh award as an extra thing at school. For the award we have to do a service, an adventures journey, a skill and a physical recreation. It’s very challenging and the adventures journey is the hardest thing because we have to carry everything on a big hike but it’s so much fun. We’ve already done a practice hike at the start of the year but our real one is in last term and it’s longer. I’m doing the Premier’s Reading Challenge at school also. I have to read 12 books by the end of August and they’re not just any books. I have to read books that are on the list. Most of them are really good.
			When I was little I had a dream that when I grew up I would be an astronaut and be the first Australian women on the moon. Well that dream hasn’t left my head yet but I now have other careers for the future as well as that one. One is that I want to be a pilot and fly all sorts of planes from a jumbo jet to a fighter plane. Another is to be a much loved actress and be in movies or on stage - possibly with my cousin Jess. A third is a drummer in a rock band.

Last updated by Alex Gough, July 2005.

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