MY FAMILY
Before I start telling about my family let me introduce myself. I am Andrey Zhilin. I am 18. I was born on the 18th of February in an old Siberian town Tomsk, which is situated on the bank of the river Tom. It is one of the oldest educational and scientific centers in Russia. There are more than 9 higher educational establishments in our town. I am a first-year student of Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radio electronics. In our group at the university there are students from many cities and towns of Russia and other countries. I have a lot of friends and we get on well together. Our family is neither large nor small. I have got father, mother and an elder brother. We live in a four rooms’ flat in Kashtak.My father Igor Ivanovich is 45 years old. He is not very tall but well-built with brown eyes and curly dark hair. He works as a lawyer at a plant. By character my father is very quiet, polite and everybody likes him. He is extremely competent and intelligent.My mother’s name is Alla Nikolaevna. She is 45 too but she looks younger. My mother is a top manager; she speaks English and a little French and has a perfect command of Microsoft Word and Excel. She always dresses well and she’s very attractive with fair hair and grey eyes. She is shorter than my father.My elder brother Alexander (Alex for short) is a computer freak. He spends all his life in the Internet. Alex is very friendly, creative and helpful but he’s a bit absent-minded too. He works as a programmer for a computer company. Alex is already 30 but he isn’t married yet. His girlfriend Dasha has got no special education but she loves working with people. She works as a secretary but finds this work boring and unskilled so she wants to enter the university next year. Dasha is pretty, slim and quite fair.As for me, I have always loved music, especially rock and I can play the guitar. We have Leisure Center at the University where the students can play and write music. The students can do any sports they like: play volleyball, football, go skiing in winter and swim. I play chess and I’m good at it. Now let me describe my appearance. I am tall, brown-haired and handsome. I am single but I have got a girlfriend. Her name is Dasha. She is a student too.Our family is very friendly. In the evenings we watch TV, read books and newspapers, listen to music or just talk about the events of the day. We have much in common. Though our parents do not always agree to what we say, they are quite tolerant and listen to our opinion. We like spending weekends out of town where our grandparents live. They are retired. My great-grandmother is old and she is in poor health now. I have also got a lot of relatives: uncles, aunts and cousins. We are happy when we are together.