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Tristan Peter Ambrose Cardew.
Born 11 November, 1989.

Tristan is a 17 year old male who currently lives in Castlecrag, Sydney, Australia. He is in year 12 at Redlands, a private school in Cremorne, NSW, as is currently studying Design and Technology, Drama, Visual Arts, English, Geography, and English Extension 1. Tristan's interests revolve around mountain bike riding, surfing, skiing, photography and film, digital imaging and writing. He tries to incorporate each one of these into his daily activities, and so gets little sleep!

Childhood
Tristan was born on the afternoon of November 11, 1989 to parents Anthony Hayden Cardew and Linda Kay Cardew. At the time he had one sibling. A sister, Holly Amelia Penryn Cardew. They lived in Spencer Street, Summer Hill, in Sydney's inner west. Tristan attended Moonbie Street Childcare between the ages of 3 and 5, and started primary school at Summer Hill Public School in 1995. Growing up in spencer street consided of riding bikes around the backyard, visiting next door neighbours and generally being a regular child. Throughout Tristan's childhood he always had a fascination with anything that moved fast. At first soccer and cricket took his fancy, but after these phases died down, the more individual sports started to stand out to him. Skateboarding and bikeriding became of suprememe importance and so were primary activities throughout the early years of Tristan's life.

Pre-Teen
In 2000, at the age of 10, Tristan started year 5 at Trinity Grammar School Preparatory School in Strathfield. After developing a strong dislike for Summer Hill Public School he was finally granted access to a private school, and thought this would solve all the problems. And it did, for the first two years. By now his family had also moved to Ormond Street, Ashfield. Tristan was enjoying his education at TGSPS, but, after various run-ins with teaching staff, as well as other school students, he decided it was not as romantic as originally planned. It was time to move. Luckily for Tristan the family had decided after living in their current house for 7 years was enough, and was ready for a shift in geographical location too. They searched many areas all over Sydney and finally found a house for the right price in Castlecrag, on Sydney's lower north shore. It was continually said by Linda that "The house was bought so Tristan can keep his boat down at the water near the house", as Tristan had by now developed a keen love of fishing and boats.