Kristina Manente is a Middletown High School graduate. Manente graduated from Lycoming College this past May with a BA in History and Archaeology. She had a radio show for a period of time. Manente kept with the features and did cover some news stories. As a junior she studied abroad in London, England and traveled most of Western Europe on her own backpacker style. There she found her home, and while she wrote some, she found her true passion in preserving memories through photography. When Manente returned back stateside and entered her senior year, she finally knew what I wanted to do; she wanted to be a professor. Manente set about writing her senior thesis and 10,000 words later she earned the prize for the best paper. A few awards and presentations later, it helped her earn her way into seven graduate schools in England and Scotland. Manente decided on Kings College London for the Masters in Medieval History and was set to move to England for September 2010. Manente wound up in Japan. She was hired by the Japanese Government to teach English in an advanced high school. She’s in Shizuoka prefecture (Mt. Fuji’s homeland) and has set to start teaching Oral Communication 1 to the freshman.