Please tell us about your current plans after high school and what inspired you to choose this path? I want to work for a few months after high school, and then I want to see colleges in Europe, because for me is easier to go there because I am Italian, and I also want to study in Europe. I want to study arts, and animation 3D. My brother Paride inspire me to choose this path, because he likes all this stuff and I also love it too and I want to do things that I like and also things that I know he would love and a lot of friends from Costa Rica and here are always telling me that I am pretty talented and that I have that talent so that I should show it to the world.
Please tell us a little bit about your family. My family. I have a really big family, but living here with me, I have one strong and visionary brother Paride, a sister who just got home from LDS Mission and she’s a great example for me, and my older sister, she’s married and she has a beautiful baby girl, my mom, she’s a wonderful woman, studied woman, she’s an theater actress, female announcer, a teacher, and more, she’s a professional, maybe not here in the USA, but in Costa Rica she is and she always gonna be, and my dad (not living with us) but he’s a great man, a great business administrator and a great dad. I have a wonderful family, studied and professional family who loves me. I can’t ask God for more, only thank him for everything
What are couple of your favorite restaurants in our community? Chapalita’s Grill, Silver Dragon Restaurant, and Dang’s Thai Cuisine.
Who is the most interesting person you’ve met here in our community? A man who was trying to cross the street and he was with a walking stick and blind glasses, I helped him to cross the street and after I helped him he took off his blind glasses and told me that he wasn’t blind, that he always does that to see if people help him, and he was so impressed that a high school girl had a wonderful heart to help an old man. He told me he was a Sun Valley Santa Claus for many years, and he never lived something like that. I was really surprised and happy.
If you could travel anywhere in the world right now, where would it be and why? I would love to go to Africa, to help the kids there, because I know how is to feel having pain and hungry, I know how it feels to be alone, but still feel hope that God can use someone to make this world better, because I know that we are here to change lives.
What is one of your favorite movies? TV shows? Sponge bob, Coraline, The Incredibles and Iron Man.
What’s the best advice you ever received from a teacher? Who was the teacher? To never give up, this is only the beginning, and I have a great future that I can’t see yet. (Mr.Ramirez).
What is your go to band / singer when you cant decide what to listen to? Spiritual music.
What one word best describes you? Why? Lovely. I love with my whole soul and heart. I love everything that is created, nature, animals, plants, people. And I always have a space for the people who needs me
What is your favorite thing or something unique about our community? Our community is really peaceful.
Where do you see yourself in 5 to 10 years? Being famous and helping others.
What show are you binge-watching right now? I am not a really big fan of the TV.
What is something interesting most people don’t know about you? I love to write poems, and also read books and since I was little I wanted to be fashion designer.
Who inspires you to be better? All my family, the missionaries from church, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Stimac, and Mr. Ramirez, all of them are like angels in my road, and they always had faith in me.
If you could go back over your entire school career, what is one thing you would do differently? I wouldn’t change anything, I think that everything happens for a reason, and if I wouldn’t have done what I did, I wouldn’t have learned and wouldn’t be where I am right now.
Who or what do you miss the most right now? My life style, my friends, sea foods, our own house, the Beach ( Volcanoes, Africa Safari, Sloths, Dino Park, and more), all the malls and clothes.
What’s the first thing you want to do when this quarantine is over? Go to work, go to California, and go to church.
