Alex's Journal 1
by elvenranger02@yahoo.com


Introduction
Journal 1: August 1998

	How to begin... My name is Alex (short for Alexandria) and today I 
just bought my first journal/diary (ugh I hate the word diary)! I went to the 
mall with my friends to do some Friday-night browsing. While browsing I saw 
this cute little blue journal on sale. It had a plain yet formal design 
without all the really girly stuff like flowers and hearts, which I am not 
overly into.. so I bought it! That was a few hours ago, and here I am 
entering my first entry. I've never written any kind of journal or anything 
so I should get better with each new entry.

	Let me start it off by describing my beginnings. I was born in 
Florida no July 6, 1982 near Gainesville. We remained there until a few 
months ago, so I went through elementry and junior high there as well as my 
first 2 years of high school. I did pretty well in school, getting mostly As 
with the occassional B and rare C, with school being relatively easy to me. I 
liked my old school but my Dad got an opening higher up in his company 
located in California so we moved to Glendale (a Los Angeles suburb) during 
the summer. School just started recently so I am going to my new high school, 
which is going pretty well. So far I've made a few friends and got some good 
teachers, though I haven't hooked up with any boys yet.

	Next I'll describe my background. My parents are, well, pretty well 
off. In fact I guess you could call them rich. My dad is in the real estate 
business (mainly office buildings) and my mom is a lawyer who works on local 
cases (not one of those huge big-time lawyers). Though I am still not sure 
what I want to be when I grow up, I know that it will not be either of those! 
Not only do both seem pretty boring, but they work all day and even on the 
weekends. Unfortunatly that means me being home by myself after school until 
late in the night. Sometimes one or both of them have to go out of town on 
business, so I am left home alone. I've grown used to it by now, I just watch 
TV or play video games.

	My parents wanted to give me something to do, so they signed me up in 
gymnastics when I was 4. They would drop me off there and pick me up later 
on, kind of like day care. I love doing gymnastics, something that I enjoy 
spending time on. I used to practice and practice until I fell over 
exhausted. And I was really good at it too, I could do backflips and flip up 
10 feet into the air. The feeling of doing that is hard to describe, but it's 
like the rush you get when you go down a rollercoaster. I won a few local 
competitions and got quite a few medals and trophies, which my parents are 
very proud of. They are in a display case in the front room, along with the 
pictures and stuff.

	Now you may be wondering why I use the past tense when talking about 
my gymnastics past. The reason is somewhat complicated, but it has to do with 
me. You may or may not know that gymnastics requires you to be very very 
balanced, which means that the taller you are the harder it is. Unfortunatly 
for me, I got too tall. I was around 5'8 by the time I was 15, which was on 
the upper end of the scale. I was the tallest one in my gymnastics class, and 
a lot of my classmates were pretty short, like 5'2 or so. By the time I was 
16 or so I grew to 5'10. I had another problem as well, my breasts. I was 
around a B cup at 15 and just recently started wearing C bras, which is 
pretty big for a gymnast (not that I'm bragging).

	Anyway, my coach had a talk with me about 6 months ago regarding 
these things and told me that I could continue being in the class but I had 
little chance of winning any more competitions. Even so I stayed in the class 
and got to practice with everyone else but I could not participate in the 
contests so I sat in the stands and cheered my classmates on. However, when 
we moved I decided not to join another class because I'm bored of it now and 
was not getting as much of a thrill as I used to. So to stay in shape I will 
be joining a gym as soon as I can find a good one nearby.

	I guess I should end this by describing myself as I am now. As I said 
I am 5'10, and I have long brownish hair and blue eyes. My mom is of French 
origin and I have her eyes and similar features, while my dad is from Spain 
and I got his height and natural tan. Physically I am what you could call 
lean, skinny yet athletic as most gymnastics are.

	Well, that's it for today, hope to write again soon!