Elena is a foreign exchange student from Sardinia, Italy. In Italy her freetime consists of hanging out with her friends and family. Her biggest motivations in life is her family because they are hardworking and caring. She also finds her friends very comforting because she feels she can really be herself around them. Elena has always lived in Sardinia Italy but hopes one day to live in the United Stated but is unsure where as of now. In the United States she spends her freetime on her extracurricular activity playing volleyball for SPASH and well as in Italy when she is home. Other then volleyball Elena enjoys being outside, going on walks, and watching tv. Outer Banks is the only television show that she has seen in english. While she is here in the US she hopes she is able to improve on her english as she can understand but has difficulty speaking it. After her stay in the united states she will have one more year of schooling to complete in Italy then she will hopefully be able to know what she wants to do in lfe. After all of her schooling she will hopefully have a career in sports or in her family’s business.