Александр Владимирович Павленко

like one of the teachers.

What did Alistair do after his degree?

one day I was called to speak about dinosaurs and to tell the other children about my interest in them. Looking back on it now, it probably

primary school we used to play netball, on a really big pitch. It was strange, it was more of a field than a netball court. For playing tennis, we went to somebody’s house that was near the school and used their hard courts. I really like tennis, and swimming. When I was in Somerset, we’d go on a coach once a week, every week, into the nearest town, which was about 8 miles away, and go swimming for an hour.

Once he went to jail because someone paid him to take his place.

is really easy to find out who are the best and worst teachers. I guess most teachers are good. They are not bad, they are not excellent, but they are good and they give good lessons. And the best teachers are always very strict, but they make their lessons really interesting. You work hard and they don’t accept any sort of low quality homework. They pack a lot into the lessons. They talk to us as adults, as intelligent adults. They expect that we can

Famous people aren’t different

What was your favourite day when you were a kid? 2. Who did you invite to your birthday party? 3. How many people were at it? 4. What was there in your room?