There a numerous reasons why I would like to go on the trip to Italy with the Italian Exchange group. One is I would like to explore outside the US for to give me a different point of view. The second is, It would be a honor to be selected a representative of our high school First, I think it would be a learning experience and a chance for me to learn about a new custom. As a bonus I can share my culture to people who would like to get a glimpse of it.

During the summers of my Hampshire High school career going places and doing new things. My freshman year I went to Ohio to see the farm my father grew up on. My sophomore year I went to Texas for Youth Ministries, where I volunteered to run the merchandise stand and the food stand for thousands of missionaries for a week. And junior year I will be scouted by colleges when I go to there, to tryouts for scholarships. I will be working as well to collect money if I am selected. So it I will be great if I can add such an event to my senior year, to make it be remembered even more.

I play soccer for our Hampshire High school team. If I not playing, I am a referee or a coach. I have my advance referee license, which is one level of being the top-notch national referee. I am a certified U-12 coach, and I am coaching a U-10 team called the invaders. I have been a volunteer for AYSO for about 5 years. My family started soccer in Hampshire County since around 1996. If I’m not involved with soccer, I like to be fixing computers, and practicing playing the drums for a band called Klepto. The band started about a couple of months ago.

My favorite past-time activities are playing soccer, paintballing, listen to music, working on my laptop, and trying to play the drums. I have a the view point you so try certain things once. When I mean certain, I mean safe and legal.
I live near Burlington, in a nice little house in the woods. I have an older brother, Gene (25), and a sister (19), plus my mom and dad. I have two dogs, bandit and Bell. I used to have four but one past of old age and the other from cancer. I get along with animals and they seem to like me. So living with a large family or lots of pets then I would not be affected.

This is me, sum up in a nutshell, and I would be definitely honored if I was a chosen candidate for of school and to be an American student in a foreign land. An opportunity like this doesn’t come along every year, so I am trying to grab it while I still can. This would be a great honor and experience. And I would like to say thank you for giving me a chance.