"I try to be happy all of the time but it doesn't always work, I'm a little pessimistic,'' Suzanne said.

She loves most kinds of music with the exception of heavy metal and country & western. She enjoys playing her viola in the Menuhin Foundation Youth Orchestra.

Suzanne plays for a number of sports teams. Her favourite sport is basketball and her team were runners-up in the BASA Basketball Tournament.

Suzanne, 17, is the head girl at Saltus Grammar School where she is in her post graduate year.

She (enjoys) her accounts class and plans to become an accountant. She wants to be very successful at university so that she can find a good job.

She has one older brother Robert and a cat named Snuffy. Her favourite food is chicken fajitas and she loves to watch Home Improvement.

Suzanne said that the best time of her life was the week of her school trip to Canada because she got to know everyone better on the trip.

"The worst day of my life was when I got my fifth year GCSE marks back because I thought that I had done a lot better then I actually did,'' She said.

She said that if she was given an open plane ticket she would go to Australia.

"I have family in Australia and I've never been there because it's too expensive,'' Suzanne said.

The person that Suzanne would most like to have met is Adolf Hitler. "He was set in things going his way and he killed for it. I want to know how he could have been so sick and why he killed so many people,'' Suzanne added.

Suzanne would like to see Government build better sports facilities to get the youth off of the street.

She said that society's main problem was illicit drugs, especially among the youth. She believes that schools should have the right to give drug tests.

Suzanne believes that if Bermuda doesn't shape up in the next 15 years the standard of living will drop dramatically and people will do whatever they want to.

On the other hand she believes that Bermuda can become a better place.

"Bermuda can be one of the best nations in the world.'' INTERVIEW BY KRISTY WARREN SUZANNE REGO