A child's play

Mark here. My full name is Mark Anthony Child, but on my student card, they just use the first letter of your middle name, so it reads like Mark A. Child. Very funny. Anyway, I grew up in Severna Park (where the hell is that?) a town in Maryland somewhere between Baltimore and Annapolis. The neighborhood I live in is Ben Oaks, which is right on the Severn River and connects to the Chesapeake Bay (something more people probably know of haha). Because it's right on the water, our community's very big on water sports, like swimming, wake boarding, etc. I was on the swim team there for god knows how many years and I think my entire trophy case was taken up by awards for swimming, heh. I was also a lifeguard in the neighborhood for our local pond and beach; something all of my siblings have done at some point.

Bringing up family on that note, there's a main six who live in my household; my mom, Patti, my dad Joe, my sisters Kristen (also the oldest) and Sam (third oldest), and my brother Jake (second oldest). As the baby, I'm the last one to leave for school and my parents tell me alot how strange it is with no kids in the house. Of course, all of my siblings actually live within an hour of them, so they see them almost every other day. It always makes me feel weird for being soo far away, but everyone back home's super jealous of me living in Chicago, so I guess that's something, heh.

Well yeah, there's some basic facts of my life in a couple paragraphs. See you all in class!