Sofi Tzouanakis

Hello! As you can deduce from the title of this post, my name is Sofi Tzouanakis. To start, I will clear up a common misconception: my last name is, in fact, relatively common. This does not hold true in Kentucky, but if you should go to Greece, my name would be as commonplace as the last name Simpson in the United States. You also may now be thinking, "She's Greek? I was thinking Swedish or Russian!" I know I look like the Aryan poster child, but as my grandfather says, "The first true Greeks had blonde hair and blue eyes."

For this school year, my goal is to not focus on the number on the top of my ACT results letter or the hundredth decimal of my Physics grade, but to try my honest best and hope it is enough. I can attest for every kid in high school when I say none of us live up to our full potential. I've realized though my career as a full-time student if I got a B in a class and I know I tried, then that is certainly good enough for me.

This summer for me was my best summer, no question. There were many great moments I'll never forget, but I think the best moments were when I went on a foreign exchange program to Newmarket, England (horse racing mecca of the UK) and when I visited my family in Crete, Greece. In England, I met life-long friends from both Newmarket and Kentucky. My host Kira and her family were the most wonderful and accommodating people I could've never imagined staying with while I was there. Kira herself is like my other half. I could have not imagined a better fit for me, and I hope to see her this coming February, along with all the other English hosts I became close friends with!

There are so many things that geek me out (books, Star Trek, N64 games, travel, saxophone), but one that seems unusual for a person like me to love is cars. The thing that piqued my interest in the subject was the show Top Gear, a British car/comedy show on BBC. I watched initially because I found the hosts of the show comedic, but I really started to get into the show when realizing how much I enjoyed learning about cars from the show's facts and filmography. I now have an interest in the mechanical aspects of the car, and I am planning to create a 3D model of a 6-cylinder engine in the future. Not only will I enjoy it, but I thought I should know the inner mechanisms of something I will soon be using for transportation.

(An Aston Martin DB9, my dream car. Also the same make as the famous Bond car!)



My favorite website (hopefully the link works)