Alice, a 17-year-old who enjoys swimming, shares details about her family, including her mother Ming, who loves painting, and her father John, who used to fish but can no longer do so after a shark incident. They have upgraded their lives, with Alice mentioning a new house and her brother Brad taking up snowboarding. The family has faced challenges, such as a lack of painting subjects for their mother and the father's injury.

1. Written by Timothy

2. Hi I'm Alice and I'm 17 and I
love swimming.

3. My mum Ming loves painting.

4. My dad John works on a fishing boat now and
he loves it and I think its better than the
teaching job.

5. I’ve still got my baxi but I’ve upgraded.

6. This is our house it cost heaps of money we had to save
lots.

7. I've upgraded brad and he has taken up snow boarding

8. And than we have a day of badness.

9. Mum had nothing to paint because she had already painted
everything.

10. And dads legs got inged by a shark.

11. My dad is no longer able to fish because of the shark.