Summary of Alex's Adventures

Chapter one: The trip of a lifetime\ \ \ -Alex passes his exam and he has a deal with his mother that he can travel wherever he wants to go if he passes his exam\ -He want to travel to Australia because his father lives there and he wants to meet him\ -Before he must work in a factory to collect mon...

Chapter one: The trip of a lifetime\ \ \ -Alex passes his exam and he has a deal with his mother that he can travel wherever he wants to go if he passes his exam\ -He want to travel to Australia because his father lives there and he wants to meet him\ -Before he must work in a factory to collect money for his trip\ \ \ Chapter two: Hello Australia\ \ \ -Alex has worked in the factory a few month and has collected enough to fly to Australia\ -He flies 38 hours\ -Arrives in Australia at the airport and meets his father's family where Alex lives the next months\ -Meets his wife Mary and his two sons Dominic (6 years old) and Luke (3 years old)\ -Tom Connell (his father) is on a business trip in London\ -The next day Alex, Mary, Luke and Dominic go to Bondi Beach\ -At home Alex meets Dani, she lives next door\ -Dani tells him that she plays in a band ("The Beat Crew") and they search for a bass guitarist\ -Alex can play the bass well and so he is a member in "The Beat Crew" now\ \ \ Chapter three: The island and the mountain\ \ \ -Tom can't arrive before the 17th January\ -So Alex does not wait on Tom and spends the next week in Adelaide with Mary's brother\ -Mary's brother's son is 18 like Alex and he has 3 younger sisters\ -As he drives to this brother he looks all the time out of the window and admires the wonderful country\ -Next day he travels with Kevin to Kangaroo Island\ -when they arrive they see a lot wild animals there, it is very exiting for Alex\ -The next days they look at many sights there for example underground caves and they snorkel for sunken shipwrecks\ -They lie in the sun to chill in the Blue Lagoon\ -After some wonderful days they drive back home and the same day they go with the Williams (Kevin's family) in the amphitheatre in Flinders Rangers\ -It's in the Outback and so they must drive a long distance\ -So Alex sees very much of the Outback there\ -Then next day, Kevin and Alex climb on St. Mary's Peak(big mountain) which is 1190 meters high\ -After a wonderful week with the Williams family Alex returns to Sydney to the Connells ( his father's family)\ \ \ \ Chapter four: The big decision\ \ \ -As Alex arrives at Sydney his father is not at home\ -He must travel to Singapore\ -So Alex plays with the band one week and he sees a lot of the country because they play all over the land\ -There first concert is in Melbourne, they play in a club named "Angelos"\ -The members of the band are Pete, Joe, Dani, Alex and Terry\ -"The Beat Crew" have many engagements, mostly in discos and clubs where they play only some gigs, around the Phillip Islands\ -Alex fallen in love with Dani and so he kisses Dani, now they are a couple\ -The band must drive to the other side of the island, to Summerland Beach (they have more engagements there)\ -Alex and Dani want to meet at Byron Bay but they haven't got any free time because the band job is hard and there is always hectic\ -They must always play gigs and learn new songs\ -Alex is very angry about his father because he isn't it Australia when Alex wants to see him\ \ \ Chapter five: The face in the crowd\ \ \ -the Beat Crew travels back to Sydney but the problem is a puncture (in the tyre)\ -the spare tyre is also flat and they haven't got a foot pump\ -And so Terry walks back to a garage which they saw an hour ago\ -The jack is broken, too\ -Their fortune is that another car driver stops and helps them but a bit later they hit a cow and something is destroyed at the car\ -But a trucker meets them and helps them but he wants 200 dollar for his help\ -The band hasn't got any choice, they pay it and drive to Sydney where they must give gigs in Sabrina's Bar\ -After these gigs all the spectators scream, it is a very good entrance and Alex meets his father in this club, too\ \ \ Chapter six: Into the rain forest\ \ \ -Alex talks with his father Tom a long time in the club\ -Tom is sorry that he hasn't got any contact with Alex all the time\ -He wants to have a trip to Queensland with Alex only\ -But Alex plans a trip to Bayron Bay with Dani, too\ -But he drives with his father to Queensland where Alex looks all time out of the window and admires the country\ -When they arrive there, they look sights and go for a walk in the rain forest\ -The walk on top of Mount Sorrow and take a stop at the Great Barrier Rief\ \ \ \ Chapter seven: Father and son\ \ \ -They stay the night in Cairns in a hotel and next day they go by boat to Grafton Passage\ -Alex snorkel to the corals there, it is wonderful for him\ -He see many different kinds of fish but one basker\ -Alex thinks a basker is a shark and so he is very frightened and scream for held to his father\ -But his father laughs and explains him that baskers only eat plants\ -After this they go swimming together\ -At the evening, it is in Whitsunday Island, Alex and Tom just eat, there starts a big shower and all there things get wet, this shower is like a big storm\ -All their things were washed away\ -Now they must survive without anything but so they come closer and closer together\ \ \ Chapter eight: Up to the top\ \ \ -after some nice days they drive home to Sydney, where Alex must play for the Beat Crew on TV at Channel 9\ -They are in the Chart Show\ -Now they are stars, they have lots of concerts and only hectic\ -Parties, girls and all first class\ -It originated posters and T-shirts from the Beat Crew\ -Alex is at cloud 9\ -And after some concerts they have one afternoon free\ -So Dani and Alex go to Byron Bay, what they have wanted do for some months\ -They have fun with dolphins there and have a wonderful time\ -Dani says that the dolphins are free, they can go where they want and we cannot\ \ \ Chapter nine: And down to earth\ \ \ -Joe and Pete drink to much, they think they are stars and must be cool\ -The Beat Crew write a lot songs but no such good ones like the first\ -This song is a one hit wonder\ -Joe and Pete are bitter and angry because of the hectic\ -Joe become a skinhead and has a White Power tattoo on his arm\ -All the success is past\ -No money and no famous and no more interviews, they play in small bars again\ -Joe hits a can of beer from a guest, he says that they hate racists and don't want to see them play\ -So a fight begins, Joe and Pete fight with foreigners and the police come\ -Joe and Pete are arrested and the other 3 members of The Beat Crew drive away\ -At home Alex and Dani get in trouble with each other because of the band\ -The Beat Crew is Dani's life (the music) and now it is destroyed and she is very angry\ -Alex stays another 6 months in Australia because he can't leave Dani now\ \ Chapter ten: New Year's Eve\ \ \ -Alex must choose between Dani and Australia or his mum and England\ -So he asks Dani to come with him to England\ -Dani says "yes" and they go to England\ -Alex and Dani start a band name it "The dolphins" and they play together with other members\ -Alex thinks that he win a new friend (his father Tom Connell)\ -But now he knows that his father names Peter Reid