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Name Blaine Pike
Age 16
Star sign Cancer
Where I live Sunderland
Type of school Comprehensive school

Favourite subjects
French, German

Favourite sports
Volleyball, badminton, basketball, swimming

Main hobbies/interests
Music, singing, computers, reality TV

Ambition
To get a combined French and German degree and a post-graduate degree in teaching; to teach French and German; to teach English in France and Germany; to become a head of modern foreign languages; to work on the interpretation side of the European Union; to learn a third language (Russian or Japanese) and work on the interpretation side of the United Nations.

10 words that describe me
Chatty, extrovert, strong-willed, determined, flirtatious, alert, sympathetic, hard-working, witty, optimistic

Why me?
I would like to show that people with brains are not all the boring stereotypical figures that people assume them to be.

What did you get out of going back in time last summer?
If I only learnt one thing from King's School, it's that you don't need to be loaded to get good grades. Of course, in some people's cases the £18,000 a year boarding school expenses were actually to buy the grades. I mean, you wouldn't expect anything less than perfect for that cost every year. Me, I worked to get my grades - despite what people sometimes say about me! But it's true. Hard work is all it takes!

Secondly, the one subject I failed was history. I was predicted a general pass C for history at GCSE, but I got an A*. At King's, I failed abysmally with a level 9. We were talked at and expected to take it all in. I only got some overall gists. My grade was almost equivalent to the modern-day U for Unacceptable/Unmarkable. I'm now doing history at college for AS-level and I'm predicted (contrastingly) a high A/B grade ... If that says anything about modern-day education, then it's definitely supportive!

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