Leandro, 17 years old, 11th grade, Originally from Dominican Republic, Bushwick Academy of Urban Planning

My name is Leandro Perez, I was born on February 28 , 1992 In Santiago, Dominican Republic. I move to New York at the age of 6. in the youngest of two children in my family. In the present I am attending to the Academy Of Urban Planning is a small school In Bushwick, NY.

What i like the most of my school is that because it is a small school people are closer together and have great communication and the teacher have more the opportunity to teach better. What I like do the most is relax and talk with me friends, my hobbies are fixing computers and make some web dissing but most of the times i don’t have time to my hobbies.

My favorite type of music is Latin Rock also Bachata, latin pop and merengue my favorite band is Mana a Mexican rock band and my 2 favorite is camila and others singers. Most of my time I am in the gym lifting Weight. My Favorite Food is Dominican food the only think the I dislikes is eggplant… but most of the time I eat any type of food.

I have three major goals in my life the are become an civil engineer and go to Cuba and my last is become the president of the Dominican Republic.

I am Planning to go to Buffalo University for my degree in civil engineering. I am now Part of the organization Global Potential as a participant. The reason I became part of this program is because I want to help people less unfortunate than me and because it will help me accomplish one of my goals…

To be continued….