My name is Orion Marchese and it is my first time traveling with people to people. I am excited to be a part of this organization because I feel that traveling to other countries is the only way to truly learn about this country. Also I feel that traveling with people to people is a much better experience than being a tourist because with this organization you get a behind the scenes look at the country rather than being a tourist who doesn’t know where to look.
About me: I was born in Glen Cove N.Y. and have lived there all my life. I am currently in 9th grade at Glen Cove public high school. Glen cove is a very friendly town because everyone in the town knows each other so all the restaurants are owned and run by friends or friends of friends so it a very quaint town. I can speak Italian pretty well I have been taking it for four years and my grandmother speaks Italian. I have been in Boy Scouts for four years also. It is a very good way to teach people leadership skills as well as survival skills.
Hobbies: I have been playing guitar for about 3 years. I took lessons to learn how to read notes but I mostly taught myself how to play. Also about a year ago I started teaching myself how to play the piano being able to read notes made it easy for my to learn the instrument. I love listing to music to. But I really like older music from the sixties and seventies but I also like classical music to like Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven. Another hobby I have is stargazing I love reading constellation and often map stars.
Travel Experience:I haven’t really traveled much except to Florida and also to Canada when I went to Canada I went to Niagara Falls. The experiences was amazing seeing all of that water crashing down its truly breath taking. I also went to the museum, which tells the history of the falls, and the people who try to go over the falls in boats and also barrels!
