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My name is Kaveri Sameer. I am 11 years old and was born on the 17^th of October 1991. I have a little brother Kaustubh who is 7, my Mum is called Rekha, and my Dad is called Sameer. I go to school at Dr Challoners and I am in Year-7.     

Though I was born in India, since I was 2 months old, I have been living in Singapore for about nine years.  As I grew up in Singapore, I found it quite hard to make good friends, but eventually I did. Though I do have vivid memories of being bullied quite a lot. I suffered and simply could not work out why this was happening to me. But my parents gave me the support and confidence and soon I overcame the situation and made some really good friends soon.  I quite enjoyed primary school and I can recall few enjoyable moments of my life in Singapore, especially the food.  I used to go out with my Dad every now and then and have vegetarian Chawkao noodles, and vegetarian prawns and mock chicken. I think my brother Kaustubh remembers the delicious pretzels in Suntec City.  With all this food around I became quite plump (to be polite). I was quite conscious about that, but not as much as I am now.

When we moved to England on a cold 3^rd day of  December,  I remembered the harsh winter.  It was fun because you don’t have to take  shower or bath every single day, as you had to in Singapore (because it was very sticky), and this was extremely good because I hate taking showers.  In January, I went for the first time to school in England! In the beginning, everyone was very friendly, but a bit apprehensive because I was so tall, (there was a girl in my class who was half my size and now I am 5 foot 7 inches).  As the year went on, I only had a few good friends, and only a couple of best friends, which was fine with me, but I started getting a bit bullied again. It’s just, people don’t actually realise that they are hurting someone’s feelings. I found that very weird, because in Singapore, people did not treat each other like that! Not from what I saw anyway. Sometimes I felt that we should never have left Singapore. However, in the second year of living in England, when I was in Yr 5, I had so many more friends, and in Yr 6, I was extremely popular! So I decided that it just took me a long time to make friends. I used to think that it was because I was an Indian or something, but that isn’t true. Brits are never really like that. We just think they are like that if they are mean to us. Nobody wants to admit that we are not liked because of our personality, so we blame it on our skin colour etc. It is just a self-defence thing. 

Then it was the time to move school again!  I was moving to Dr Challoners  and I felt sad for leaving many of the best friends in my old school.  As luck would have it, a small consolation was that  one of my  best friends was joining Dr Challoners as well. She was in a different class though, which was a pity.   At Dr Challoners, I started well with the  highest marks in the  first maths test, 98%!  I am quite good at sports. I play badminton for the county as well as for a club, I play netball for my school, and in my last school, I was in the netball team, rounders team, tennis team and always in the A squad.  Though I am not a good runner, I am quite good at the soccer ball through and rounders ball throw. For the javelin, I went for the nationals, and came 9^th out of 14. Before I came to England, I had never thrown a javelin in my life, never played proper badminton, and had never heard of netball! The first time I threw a javelin, it was 2 weeks before I was entered into the finals in the nationals, and barely a month before the nationals.