My parents, who are high school teachers, and I have always gotten along well. They always help me with schoolwork if I need it. My mother and I go shopping together and we go out to eat once in a while.  My father and I have gone to the opera together and he drives me an hour a week to my guitar lesson and we talk and laugh and sing on the way. In fact, the time I wanted to see "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" in Uniondale, at midnight, my parents came to see it with me.

I like being alone, although I have many friends, both boys and girls. I love to be by myself in my room. I can listen to tapes on my tape recorder and I have a large and assorted collection of records which I play on my stereo. I have shelves of books, some that I've read six times and others that I have to find some time to read. I can sit in my room by myself for hours and hours, just reading and playing the guitar.

This past summer, I went to Switzerland with the American Field Service/Americans Abroad program. I lived with the Ruelle family in a town in the French part of Switzerland called Fribourg. There were three girls, Anne, Veronique and Cecile, and they became my sisters. There was so much love between the members of that family that I was afraid that they would not accept me. However, they immediately took me into their family as one of their daughters.

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