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Hi!
After the little buildup there, I think I should say hello. Anyway- do you want to see if I'm online? or maybe, if I am, try IMing me? But first, put your mouse here and see what happens!!

So, here is my brief index:
Me

My Opinions

My Family

Links

Me

I am Olivia and I am 12. I was born in 1988, under the year of the dragon, and am supposedly agile. I am not. Anyway, I like computing and reading, and talking and shopping and things like that, and am quite normal. My favourite ice-cream is Haggen-Daaz Pralitearly 50 times, so the refreshment is (gradually) fading. I go to school in London, which I cannot compare with anythig else, as I have not been to school since anywhere else, and am in Year 8. Nor can I argue that living in London is great, because it isn't that good apart from shopping, and as it is one of the better-known parts of the world, you would expect it to be less dismal and have some decent films on. I have obsessive-compulsive retail disorder (self-diagnosed), meaning that I go out shopping and buy the most useless things, that I will never ever use. I also like The Sims a lot (see links), and the expanson pack is really cool. Anyway, psyho-babble come to an end, and enter my intersting (well, semi-interesting) opinions.

My Opinions

OK. You have come this far, so you might as well have my opinions. I will outline my brief opinions on emotional and intellectual maturity, teaching religion in schools, and shop-owners.

For Topic One, emotional maturity (along with intellectual), mail me if you think I am talking c**p. Now, I think that a child who has been brought up abused (please see links for a NSPCC phone number or call 0800 1111 for childline if anything like this concerns you) , or in a  third-world country is a great deal more emotionally mature that a forty year old road sweeper. Why, just because of age, should children universally be patronised? Whilst sitting on a boat in Barbados, I was reading the Economist, about the Coca-Cola lawsuit. A young couple advanced towards me mto ask me about what I was reading (in an almost quiz-like manner) and started giggling. Why? Why can I not read whatever I like? If I tell an adult my favourite book is Memoirs of a Geisha or Once In a House on Fire, they look at me in astonishment. So why, in England which is suppost to be so just, can children do nothing?

On Topic Two, I am outlining my disgust for teaching religion in schools. I do not find it even remotley fair to sit a Christian teacher (or any other religion, I use Christian as an example) in front of a class of to explain from a non-biast point of view her own religion. I am an athiest, and am condemned to sitting in an assembly four times a week, whilst singing about God Almighty Wondrous One, which is, infact, against my cultural and religious belifs. I will conclude my religious speech with that, and the next topic ought to be fairly brief also...

Topic Three will be my final topic, and my briefest yet. I would merely like to say that I condemn shop-lifters for giving 'youths of today' such a bad name; whenever I walk into a shop, someone comes and follows me round. I am not likely to steal a pack of Smarties in my lifetime, and yet they do not follow round 20-something blokes who look as if they're going to do in the cash register.

Thanks for listening.

My Family

Now, a nice brief one. I have two sisters, Naomi and Rachel, who are two and nine, and my parents are called Carolyn and Andrew. I do not have a close relationship with my grandparents (by my father) and none with my mother's parents, my grandfather, of whom, is desceased. My Aunt (by my dad) I do not speak to, neither does Carolyn, and I have one great-grandma, two cousins in America, and one (by my mother's brother) in Australia who I am yet to meet, the mother of which is his dad's third wife. My Aunt on my mother's side is my (ex) Uncle's first wife and my only cousin (excluding three second cousins) in the country is of their conception. I speak to my once-removed Aunt and I also have an Aunt who is not a blood relation and her husband, and I also have a second-Aunt and Uncle (parents of my 3 second cousins). I used to have a cat, who had three kittens, one of which was stillborn, but three years after having it, my mother realised she was allergic to fur. We had rabbits, mine died after three days, so I got another psycho rabbit who we gave away with my sisters rabbit, we had fish who died, and carp which Fifi (my first cat) killed way way back. Now I am getting a tortoise called Llama-Buffalo-Singer, and hopefully a female called Telula. They will both be hatchlings. This is correct at time of print. .

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Anyway, I am sure you won't want to sit bored, so why don't you find out your chinese animal, below (type in your year of birth, and click show me my animal!), or look at my varied certificates, or have a look at the SCARY wormhole image, add some numbers up, work out how old in days, seconds and minutes you are, look at some quotes...

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