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I decided to put video camera as the first most significant thing in my life because my grandfather made a compilation of videos of my brother and I from a young age until we moved to a new country for the second time. He made the films with footage that my mother had of our family and sometimes my brother and I watch them back and think about how much has changed.

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My mother teaches year ones at school and she introduced me to children’s books ahead of when I was supposed to start reading. By the time I started school in Portugal (aged 4/5), I was reading books from the year above, but I remember loving the books from the Mr Men and Little Miss collection as well as The Rainbow Fish.

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When we were living in Jordan, I watched Turma Da Mônica (Monica’s Gang) as my parents raised my brother and I in a multi-lingual household having English and Portuguese as our first languages. I also remember loving the Teletubbies as I had toys of all of the characters as well as watching Pingu.

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The first film series I remember having an intense interest in was High School Musical around 2006/2008. I memorised all the songs from all three films, knew all the scenes by heart and definitely wished I was Gabriella Montez.

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I remember my parent’s 3rd generation iPod nano and taking it around with me everywhere, listening to Beyoncé, Shakira and Miley Cyrus. It was quite significant since I used it so much and really began to shape my taste in music as well as introduce me to the world of technology as I inherited the iPod before I had my first phone, etc.

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Having a Nintendo was a big part of my childhood. All of my friends had one and we used to play games together, exchange Pokémon, pass levels for each other, feed our Nintendogs puppies and train them for competitions, etc.

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News reports of the 2004 & 2011 tsunamis

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News reports of the 2004 & 2011 tsunamis

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This was the first time I can recall being actively interested in watching the news. I had friends who survived the tsunami in 2004 in Sri Lanka and I had family members living in Japan close to where most of the destruction was from the 2011 tsunami. I don’t recall the 2004 tsunami as well as the 2011 one but I do remember that it terrified me and kept me on my toes to know about updates and how I could try and help.

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One of the best parts of growing up was having a Wii because I have so many great memories of having friends over for Mario Kart tournaments, Just Dance competitions, Wii Sports tournaments, etc.

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I started my journey with dance in year five, and until I left for Newcastle, I was involved in running practices, going to the studio early to choreograph with my coaches and come up with costume ideas for the shows. Comparing when I started dancing to now, there is so much dance content on the internet, such as videos in the Millennium Dance Complexes that go viral on YouTube or even TikTok dances, it truly shows evolution throughout the years.

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I had my first phone when I turned ten years old and since have worked my way up from a flip phone with a keyboard to an iPhone. Something important when I consider getting a new phone is the camera, because I like to take pictures or record videos of places I visit on holiday or have memories of my friends, therefore seeing how mobile phones have evolved up to the current date is interesting since I remember my parents having Nokia phones and flip phones to us now having touch screens and everything on one device instead of having a phone, pager, MP3 player, etc.

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The earliest proof of my existence on social media is when I created my Snapchat account in 2013. Since then, social media has definitely affected my life in many different ways. It has introduced me to different types of music, influencers, ideas, trends, fashion, etc. and shaped my taste and likings of these things until now.

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Growing up I enjoyed reading different books such as the Cherub series around year nine, however I took a great interest in novels such as The Great Gatsby, around the time I did the IB.

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Once I discovered Netflix I started watching a lot more series than I used to, such as Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, etc.

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Throughout the years I’ve managed to find out which genre of films I enjoy the most, however I can’t choose one film to be my favourite because there’s so many that I enjoy watching. Some of my favourites include Now You See Me (1&2), any film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Lion King, etc however I’ve grown to love films such as Inception because of the details.

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Music is one of the most important things in my life. I feel like I can’t function without music now. If I’m studying, if I’m outside walking, if I’m falling asleep, if I’m in the car, etc., I always feel like I need to be listening to music. Spotify is currently one of my most used apps on my phone, where I am always changing and adding to my playlists. I feel like Spotify, YouTube and television have allowed me to explore different genres of music and listen to new things, even podcasts. A couple of my favourite artists right now are Harry Styles, Ariana Grande and 5 Seconds of Summer.