Post by Alex Kirkland on Feb 4, 2011 1:51:52 GMT -5
Alexander Kirkland
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( WELL I WONDER )
which song they're gonna play when we go..
[/color][/center]which song they're gonna play when we go..
WHERE DID YOU FIND US • ….
CONTACTS • pm is fine.
OTHER CHARACTERS • Belgie
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( I HOPE ITS SOMETHING )
quiet and minor and peaceful and slow..
[/color][/center]quiet and minor and peaceful and slow..
NATION • Belize
GENDER • Male
NICKNAMES • Alex
AGE • 14
OCCUPATION • School Student[/SIZE][/color]
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( WHEN WE FLOAT OUT )
into the ether, into the Everlasting Arms..
[/color][/center]into the ether, into the Everlasting Arms..
EYES • Blue (But he sometimes wears brown contacts)
METAL AND INK • None.
HEIGHT AND WEIGHT • 5’3” and 110lbs
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES • Feminine complexion
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( I HOPE WE DON'T )
hear Marley's chains we forged in life..
[/color][/center]hear Marley's chains we forged in life..
Scotland
England (Referred to as mama)
Fruits
Crane Machine games
Swimming
Acting independently
Messing with people’s heads
Tea
Weird outfits
Cross-dressing into loli-outfits
DISLIKES •
Spain
People touching Scotland
Being left alone
Being told what to do
Adults who assume they’re smarter just because they’re older
Pain
Being scolded
Being pitied
Fast-food
Boring situations
STRENGTHS •
Smart
Persistant
He has no sense of pride to hinder him
WEAKNESSES •
Childish
Even he’s not exactly sure who the real him is anymore with all the deceitful masks he wears
Stubborn
FEARS •
Losing those he loves
Being abandoned
QUIRKS •
He’s always got something up his sleeve or on his mind and it makes it hard to tell what his true personality is.
He becomes bored too easily so he likes to stirr up trouble by messing with people
PERSONALITY • Alex is small and cheerful with an open but one track mind. When he decides on something he sticks to it -even if it makes him cry. He’s actually quite brilliant but it doesn’t usually show. He’s a bilingual child but he prefers speaking English over anything due to the fact England was the one to settle on him. He has a strong dislike of Spain who he drove from his lands before England and Scotland came to them. There was one main reason why Belize took to England and not Spain -Spain tried getting up close and personal whereas England stayed on the edges, giving him room to be himself.
However, due to England’s fear of a skirmish with Spain he did not colonize Belize, giving Belize the chance to stand on his own two feet. Those two feet led Belize to obsess over England’s elder Scottish brother who had quite a charming air about him. Although some would consider Scotland his father or uncle, Belize outright refuses to see it in that light. If you ask him about his relation to Scotland he’ll say, “I’m his lover, wan~” and smile. Belize is a hundred percent sure he belongs to Scotland -and that Scotland belongs to him.
Happy and out-going as he may be, Belize cries easily like any child would and he does have his different sides. He has a selfish side. If he becomes attached to some one like he has England and Scotland and he believe your getting too close to them, he’ll be the first to shove you away crying and accusing you of horrible things that hadn’t even crossed your mind. He has many cute sides to him and one of the more creepy cute-sides is when he’ll give you an adorable smile for seemingly no reason. He also has a guilty pleasure. Alex could easily blow ten dollars or more playing crane machine games if you‘d let him, and he always ends up with a goofy grin when he wins something out of them.
Belize can speak Kriol, Spanish, Maya languages such as Kekchi, Mopan and Yucatec, Garifuna, Chinese, Hindi, and plautdietsch -Mostly he’ll play clueless and speak only his main language, English however. It’s so much easier to ignore people if they believe you don’t understand them. All in all, even with his devious devote-ness to getting what he wants he’s rather innocent and sweet and will try to put his needs last if it doesn’t cause him too much inconveniance. He can be very sweet -but sometimes under that sultry sweet voice a demon will appear. Such cruel words can come from such an ‘angel’. Hey, at least he’s honest though, right?
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( CAUSE THE CHAINS )
I been hearing now for most of my life..
[/color][/center]I been hearing now for most of my life..
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS • He considers England is “mama” and Scotland as his "important person" despite the fact it's not true.
He has a male pet Ocelot that’s five years old, leaving it only fifteen more years to be with him. He calls it Paws due to the translation of the local language’s name for it.
HISTORY • 562AD Mayans from the city of Ah Witz Na conquered Tikal.
(SFEC, 6/1/97, p.T3)
1660 Bartholomew Sharpe, a British pirate, turned Belize into a base to harvest logwood. British buccaneers settled the coast.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
c1720 The 1st recorded African slaves were brought to Belize in the 1720s to help harvest logwood.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
1783 Sep 3, Spain, in the Treaty of Versailles, recognized British rights to cut logwood in Belize between the Hondo and Belize Rivers.
(HNQ, 7/19/98)(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
c1820 The Garinagu, descendants of African slaves and Caribbean Indians, fled to Belize in the 1820s from the Bay Islands of Honduras.
(SFEC, 6/1/97, p.T3)
1859 A treaty between Britain and Guatemala defined the boundaries of Belize.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
1862 The Baymen, named after the Bay of Honduras, sought protection from their Spanish-speaking neighbors as a British colony, British Honduras.
(SFEC, 6/1/97, p.T3)
1871 Belize was declared a Crown Colony.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
1936 The Mayan city of Caracol was discovered.
(SFEC, 6/1/97, p.T3)
1940 Guatemala declared the 1859 treaty void and reasserted its claim to Belize.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
1950-1960 Mennonites from Canada emigrated to Belize in search of religious freedom. Some still speak Low German.
(SFEC, 6/1/97, p.T3)
1959 Belize and Guatemala signed a border treaty
(AP, 9/19/02)
1961 Hurricane Hattie destroyed much of Belize City. The capital was moved inland to Belmopan in response.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.B2)
1973 British Honduras legally changed its name to Belize.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
1974 Sep 18, Hurricane Fifi struck Honduras with 110 mph winds and killed about 8,000. The hurricane made landfall as a Category 2 storm in Belize on the next day, and continued through Guatemala and Mexico as a tropical system. After weakening to a depression, Fifi emerged into the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first crossover storm since Hurricane Irene-Olivia in 1971.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Fifi-Orlene)
1981 Belize gained independence from Britain and joined the UN under protests from Guatemala.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
1989 The Mayan cave site Chechem Ha was discovered.
(Via, 3-4/99, p.59)
1990 Belize legislation was drafted to privatize the ship-registry industry and the registration of off-shore companies. The draft was made by lawyers of Mr. Ashcroft’s BHI Corp., the largest company in Belize.
(WSJ, 9/19/96, p.A14)
1991 Guatemala recognized the independence of Belize and established full diplomatic relations.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
1993 The Terra Nova Medical Reserve was established as the world’s 1st ethno-biomedical forest reserve in western Belize. It was the brainchild of Rosita Arvigo of Chicago.
(AM, 7/01, p.2,34)
1996 Don Elijio, a Mopan Maya h’men (doctor-priest), died at age 103.
(AM, 7/01, p.35)
1997 The population of Belize was about 230,000.
(WSJ, 5/10/96, p.B-8)
1998 Oct 5, It was reported that Orange Walk, a town of 14,000, was overrun by crack cocaine addicts known as “sprungheads.”
(SFC, 10/5/98, p.A8)
1998 Oct 9, The body of Sherilee Nichols (13) was found along Western Highway with 40 stab wounds and evidence of rape.
(SFC, 9/23/99, p.A13)
1998 Oct 27, Hurricane Mitch cut through the western Caribbean, pummeling coastal Honduras and Belize; the storm caused several thousand deaths in Central America in the days that followed.
(AP, 10/27/99)
1998 Nov 8, The body of Samantha Gordon (15) was found floating naked in the sea.
(SFC, 9/23/99, p.A13)
1998 Said Musa took office as prime minister of Belize.
(Econ, 8/28/04, p.31)
1999 Mar 24, The body of Jackie Malic (12) was found along Western Highway with her hand cut off. About the same time the body of Becky Gilharry (13) was found dead on the grounds of the Santa Rita Mayan ruin in Corozal.
(SFC, 9/23/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr, The body of Jay Blades (9) was found.
(SFC, 9/23/99, p.A13)
1999 Jun 22, A skull and bones identified as the remains of Erica Wills (9) was found behind a quarry.
(SFC, 9/23/99, p.A13)
1999 Jun, In Orange Walk the body of Karen Cruz (10) was found with signs of rape at a stadium near her home.
(SFC, 9/23/99, p.A13)
1999 Belize troops killed 2 Guatemalan civilians in a disputed border area.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
2000 May 30, Three crew members of the Maria Estela skiff, enroute from Guatemala to Belize, killed at least 5 people and threw survivors overboard into the Gulf of Honduras. 3 of 10 passengers survived.
(SFC, 6/2/00, p.A15)
2000 Guatemala officials claimed that the British mistakenly awarded to Belize some 4,739 square miles of Guatemalan territory.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
2001 Aug 2, Belize agreed to conserve 23,000 acres in exchange for the cancellation of a US debt that included $1.4 million in debt relief and $10 million savings in interest payments over 26 years.
(SFC, 8/3/01, p.D3)
2001 Oct 9, Hurricane Iris hit Belize with 140 mph winds. 17 members of a Virginia diving club and 2 local sailors were confirmed dead with 3 missing. Winds nearing 200 mph left 20 people dead.
(WSJ, 10/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A17)(SFC, 10/11/01, p.A21)
2002 Sep 17, The foreign secretaries of Belize and Guatemala announced a proposed border settlement in their countries. The proposal retains the border between the two countries established in a 1959 treaty, which Guatemala has rejected, and suggests a series of measures aimed at sharing resources.
(AP, 9/19/02)
2004 Aug, It was reported that the Belize state pension fund had shelled out over $3 million to cover debt guarantees to a company owned by a former government minister. Half the cabinet resigned and demanded the resignation of finance minister Ralph Fonseca. PM Musa took over the finance portfolio, brought the rebel ministers back in and gave Fonseca new responsibilities.
(Econ, 8/28/04, p.31)
2005 Jan 21, In Belize a 2-day strike ended to protest a lawmakers vote to approve tax hikes opposed by a majority of the country's 250,000 people. Some 500 protesters clashed with police in front of Belize's House of Representatives.
(AP, 1/22/05)
2005 Mar 3, The seven Central American nations (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama) agreed to create a rapid-response force to combat drug trafficking, terrorism and other regional threats.
(AP, 3/3/05)
2005 Apr 15, Belize Telecommunications Limited (BTL) suffered an apparent act of sabotage which left the entire country without any phone, Internet or fax services. Unfortunately, BTL was unable to restore its services for the entire weekend, leaving Belize completely stranded.
(www.sanpedrosun.net/old/05-161.html)(Econ, 4/30/05, p.34)
2005 Sep 6, Nine countries: Antigua, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Dominica, Suriname, St. Kitts, St. Vincent and the Dominican Republic, signed oil deals with Venezuela in Jamaica. Cuba and Jamaica had previously signed. Chavez urged Caribbean governments to consider Cuba-style socialism as an alternative to capitalism.
(AP, 9/11/05)
2005 Oct 24, Abigail Brinkman (28), of Columbus, Ind., died and three companions spent three days floating in the stormy Caribbean off Belize after their weekend diving trip went awry.
(AP, 10/26/05)
2005 Nov 13, In Belize Julia Armstrong Minard (20), daughter of the late Lawrence Minard, a former managing editor of Forbes magazine and founding editor of Forbes Global magazine, was found dead in the Mayan town of Indian Creek. Police on Nov 17 charged Agripo Ical (19) with killing Minard.
(AP, 11/17/05)
2005 Nov 20, Tropical Storm Gamma weakened into a tropical depression after it deluged the Central American coast, killing 14 people in Honduras and Belize. 2 US newlyweds were among the dead in Belize.
(AP, 11/20/05)(WSJ, 11/22/05, p.A1)
2006 Jul 11, Central American presidents agreed on a plan to ease border controls and install a common customs system on the way to negotiating an eventual free-trade agreement with the EU. The agreement signed by Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Belize would allow residents to cross borders without passports or visas.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2008 Jan 19, Andy Palacio (47), Belize musician, died in Belize City. His 2007 album “Watina” was acclaimed as one of the best world music releases of the year.
(SFC, 1/22/08, p.B5)
2008 Feb 7, Belize's opposition United Democratic Party won a landslide victory in general elections, ending PM Said Musa's 10 years in office. UDP leader Dean Barrow was to be sworn in as the country's first black prime minister the next day.
(AP, 2/8/08)(Econ, 2/16/08, p.44)
2008 May 31, Tropical Storm Arthur the first named storm of the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season, kicked up surf when it made landfall at the Belize-Mexico border and headed west.
(AP, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 3, Belize PM Dean Barrow declared a disaster area in southern Stann Creek Valley as flash flooding carried away houses and ripped a child from his father's grasp. Falling trees killed two people in Honduras, raising the death toll from Central America's twin tropical storms this week to at least nine.
(AP, 6/4/08)
2009 May 28, In Belize and Honduras a magnitude 7.1 earthquake collapsed more than two dozen homes, killing at least 6 people and injuring 40 others as terrified people ran into the streets in towns across much of Central America.
(AP, 5/28/09)
2009 Aug 25, In Belize PM Dean Barrow rushed thru the nationalization of Belize Telemedia, the country’s dominant telecommunications company, and appointed a new board of directors. This was seen locally as an escalation in Barrow’s long standing dispute with Michael Ashcroft, a British peer with interests in Belize Bank.
(Econ, 10/24/09, p.41)(http://tinyurl.com/ykson7t)
2010 Feb 26, In Belize a single-engine aircraft crashed. Michael and Jill Casey of Albany, NY, and their two young children died in the accident on the island of San Pedro along with former senator and bottling magnate Sir Barry Bowen as the group headed to a fundraising event hosted by Bowen. The Caseys taught at a school in northwestern Belize owned by Bowen.
(AP, 2/28/10)
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( Did you hear your favorite song )
just one last time..
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Alex silently sulked his way into the kitchen, pouring himself a bowl of cereal, with milk. Grabbing a spoon, he sat at the table, staring at the other side where Scotland usually sat. Huffily eating his cereal before the bowl and spoon, sitting them in the drainer.
He grabbed a banana from the counter on his way out of the kitchen. He ate it on his way to the bathroom. Shutting the door, he stripped out of his jamies, starting with the top. He slowly unbuttoned the yellow buttons and slipped the soft yellow, cotton fabric off his shoulders, producing petit, creamy white shoulders with a red flush from the blood that flowed through them.
Following suit, his jammie bottoms were discarded, and then the underwear. He hopped into the shower and prepared for another day. He’d have to find Rory if it took him a thousand years! And then bring him back to the house where he could continue to show what a good house-wife he was to the older nation.
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