User:The Helper S/Biography

This is a page I've been meaning to write ever since I imported my new userpage since I let go of the tradtional first page a bit over a year ago already. so this is a biography (not fully detailed) about my life. And yes, no pictures and it is written in second-person (non-autobiographical writing, although it is written by THS).

Onto the biography...Signed: The Helper S 02:07, 8 May 2007 (UTC) for proof of authenticity.

Sam Orona, (born Samuel A. Orona, III on September 30, 1992 in West Covina, California) is a teenager currently living in Covina, California, a high school student with several honors classes at South Hills High School, and a Wikipedian since the night of October 11, 2005. Sam is known on Wikipedia for creating over 50 articles on concept cars found around the world. Sam is also known for doing extensive work on Wikibooks' Wikijunior subsidiary, mainly on the Wikijunior Bugs project under a different alias than his Wikipedia one. Sam is also known for being a very experienced percussionist, starting back in 2002 when he had recently turned age nine at end of the previous year.

Early Life

Sam was born at Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina, California and lived in Azusa, California for the first two to three years of his life, moving to his current residence in Covina, California back in 1994 or 1995 (Sam cannot exactly remember a specific time, but he does remeber it was around then). Sam's sister was born on October 11, 1996 (coincidentally, Sam signed up on Wikipedia on his sister's ninth birthday) and she was diagnosed with Autism the year following her birth (originally thought as PDDNOS). Sam has grown to accept his sister's condtion since it was first diagnosed. Sam was introduced to animals at a very young age, going to his first zoo (the World Famous, San Diego Zoo) at age one and was introduced to computers at age four.

Primary School Years

Sam went to a preschool for only one week due to himself getting punched by another young child, but in the following year attended his first year of his elementary school via the kindergarten class at Ben Lomond Elementary in Covina. Sam went to Ben Lomond from kindergarten to 5th grade, which fell between September 1997 to June 2003. During the time he attended Ben Lomond, he was in the school band for the last two years of his time there. He also got into many "cartoon fads", including the Pokemon fad lasting for three years (of which some of his friends at school currently still play the games, including himself who has recently returned to playing just the games as well), as well as the Yu-Gi-Oh! fad lasting less than a year, but developed incredibly quick.

Sam then attended Sierra Vista Middle School between the dates of Spetember 2003 to June 2006 and was a member of the school's band for the three years he attended the school. Sam was even go into his current school's band, but had many reasons why he couldn't do band after all (although his friends who are in the band believe he'd be great in it). Sam also met his new group of friends at this school who are considered to be "the coolest friends around here", as quoted by Sam. Although Sam did develop his first crush in Ben Lomond, he developed his second and third crushes here (his fourth, now current crush was developed at his current school).

Gamer and Wikipedian

Sam is, like his group of friends, a hardcore gamer (usually during the summer) and got his first game, Pokemon Stadium for the Nintendo 64 for his eighth birthday in 2000, and his first portable game, Pokemon Gold for the Gameboy Color was acquired in early 2001. Sam has since sold the Gameboy Color and Nintendo 64, as well as all of the games he owned that were of that console on the online marketplace, eBay back in the summer of 2005. Sam was given his Xbox for his tenth birthday in 2002, bought his Gameboy Advance from a police auction in 2004, and bought his Xbox 360 in early April 2006 from his local Gamestop of which he also bought the premium system with Dead or Alive 4 with money that took him half a year to raise. Sam also plays PC games, of which he mainly plays the award-winning Zoo Tycoon 2 most often than his other games for the PC. Sam has recetly returned to playing games in the Pokemon franchise after calling quits on it five years previously. He returned with Pokemon Diamond for the Nintendo DS.

Sam began to gain an interst to automobiles during the summer of 2005. He liked how many different automobiles were styled like, as well as the fact that he had already been playing racing games for two years before he sparked the main interest. Automobiles were the main reason he joined Wikipedia in the first place. Sam's first article on Wikipedia was the Audi Avus Quattro, which was created a few days after his registration to Wikipedia. Since his registration, Sam has created over 50 articles, and though taking a hiatus during the start of his fourth season, is continuing his work in the projects under the Wikimedia Foundation. As of 2008, Sam has announced he won't be doing any major Wikipedia work such as image submission, new pages, and logging on often, as his real life calls.