Knowledge Tree

My name is Anastasia Sizensky (a.k.a. Ana Siz). I live in Chelsea, Vermont (USA).My favorite subject in school would have to be a tie between physics and history. I love to learn new languages. I am currently learning Chinese, Russian, Italian, and French. I hope to one day go into buisness managment. I'm more of an outgoing person than  shy or quiet. My school is pretty small so its kind of hard to be shy. My school is not a typical school, to say the least. We have yurts outside were we hold classes. We call our teachers by their first names. Everyone is pretty friendly to one another. We have a saying at my school: if there are as many teachers as dogs at school, you know that your at the Sharon Academy. I love meeting new people and traveling. 

I'm reading "The Kite Runner", which is a wicked good book that I recommend to everyone. The last movie I saw was probably Valkyrie, which is about an assasination attempt on Hilter's life. I subscribe to Time Magazine and The New Yorker. I read the New York Times regularly. My favorite bands are the Beatles, Eric Hutchinson, Flight of the Conchords, the Rolling Stones, Clash, and the Doors. Its really amazing what a broad reach and influence one newspaper or a band or a movie can have.

What I'm concered about in my town is the way stereotypes can really affect a school at even the smallest scale. The kids in the town that I live in go to a different high school than me. They go to a small public high school no one likes. They call my private school the "Shadamy" (Sharon Academy). They think that most of the people in my school are hippies or granola eaters, and it can be really hurtful sometimes.

I think I can contribute to this program because I have a different point of view than most American teenagers. Because I have learned to live in a totally different cultural setting from a suburban, SUV driving, Starbucks sipping town called Greenwich (CT).  I am now on an outpost on the mountains on central Vermont. In a town of less than 1,000 people where most of the them are descendants from the Yankee settlers of 1784. Even though I am only 200 miles away from my former town in the same country the cultural divide is almost as great as if I were in Nepal.