Paola Andrea Peralta

I moved to Florida when I was seventeen (my senior year), which is a long way from my family in Canada. I've always wanted to go to school in the states – NYU more specifically. I've always known that to reach the ambitions I'd set for myself I'd have to leave home and my family. I aspire to be successful at my school here at UCF, and then hopefully transfer into the program in New York in the next couple of years. To write has been my goal since I was old enough to put words together to form sentences. It's a dream I've been working towards my whole life. And I hope The Odyssey will be the first in many steps to achieving my lifelong goal.