Team Fresh Faces – Hannah Besso

Meet the team! Members of the 2008-09 Unleashed crew are charged with serving as the eyes and ears of their campuses, communities and generation. Their job is to document issues and ideas, events, people, places and things that are important to today’s young people, particularly the young people in Central Washington. This group — the 10th since Unleashed started in 1999 — has been writing, photographing and creating illustrations since May. Their stories, columns, reviews, photographs and works of art appear in the pages of the Yakima Herald-Republic as well as on the Unleashed blog at unleashed.yakimablogs.com. Here’s a chance to get to know them a little better.

Hannah Besso
Davis, 14, freshman
Favorite subject: English.
Favorite activities: Soccer, reading, watching movies, hanging out with friends, listening to music, tennis.
Favorite food: Bananas.
Favorite music: Jack Johnson, The Beatles.
Favorite films: “Stardust,” “Juno,” “The Princess Bride,” “Mulan,” “The Lord of the Rings.”
Favorite books: “The Book Thief” by Marcus Zusak, “The Golden Compass” by Philip Pullman, the “Sabriel” series by Garth Nix.
Three words to describe yourself: Opinionated, compassionate, friendly.
Greatest achievement: Playing Brutus in “Julius Caesar.”
If you could leave tonight on an all-expenses-paid trip, where would you go? Australia. It’s far away and has kangaroos, and Australians have great accents.
What would you do with $1 million? Buy a new house with a pool, put some in the bank, start a fund or organization to build schools in an underprivileged country.
If you could meet anyone, who would you choose? Jack Johnson. I love his lyrics and agree with his opinions.
Who is your hero? My dad. He’s an amazing cook, he works overtime in a job he doesn’t get paid enough for, and he loves the outdoors.
Biggest fear: Being unhappy.
Greatest wish: Finding someone with whom to live happily.
When and where were you the happiest? The day of my bat mitzvah.
Most treasured possession: My laptop. It’s my link to the Internet and friends who don’t live in Yakima.
Favorite place in your hometown: The library. I love browsing through books and being able to choose any of them.
How do you see yourself in 10 years? Still in school.
Why do you want to be on Unleashed? I think it will be a great experience and an opportunity to work on my writing.