"Being chosen head girl made me realise that the teachers saw my ability to interact with my peers at a leadership level,'' Jenni said.

Jenni, 16, whose favourite subject is French, has remained on the honour roll since senior one.

She won the Scholar Athlete Award, an award for a student maintaining high academic standards while taking part in sports.

Her favourite sports are field hockey, netball and dance in all disciplines (ballet, tap and jazz). She is a part of her school's netball and field hockey teams and is on the Bermuda under-23 field hockey team.

Jenni describes herself as being responsible, hard-working and well organised.

She enjoys listening to Tecno and eating Mexican food. Her favourite movie is `A Few Good Men'. She has one younger sister named Lauren.

The person Jenni would most like to meet is W.H.Auden. Auden was a poet who lived during the reign of Hitler and Mussolini. His poetry was based on this age of anxiety.

"I am interested to see how he felt and how he saw the world,'' she added.

Jenni believes that racial tension is society's main problem.

"I believe that education is the key. The races need to learn about one another's races so that the can have respect for each other,'' she said.

She said that government should build a recreation centre where the youth could go to after school and on weekends.

If she was presented with an open plane ticket to anywhere in the world Jenni said she would go to China and Japan.

" There is a very different culture in the eastern countries that I haven't experienced yet,'' she said.

Jenni wishes to get through college and to be highly qualified in what she majors in so that she can come back and chose a career she can enjoy.

INTERVIEW By KRISTY WARREN JENNI ROWNTREE