Hello there!
I’m Kirsten Nicole Rafinski and I’m a Junior in high school! One major reason I started this blog is to inform others about my life while I’m overseas next year in Poland. I’m so…. excited! I can’t wait to go! The best year of my life is just around the corner! Thanks to Rotary Youth Exchange I’ll be able to take part in a once in a life time dream! But anyways, the following is just some information about me!
Just some of the things I like to do are traveling, swimming, camping, hunting, fishing, watching movies, hanging out with my friends and a bunch more!
I love music from All Time Low, Metro Station, Maday Parade, Boys Like Girls, Hey Monday, Cobra Starship, 3OH!3, Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift, The Friday Night Boys, Robert Pattinson, David Archuleta, Katy Perry, The Jonas Brothers, and so much more!
I love to read! And my favorite books are Rosie Dunne, The Twilight Saga, My Beatfriends Girl, and The Harry Potter Series.
My favorite t.v. shows are Burn Notice, The Office, House, Monk, Bones, Secret Life of the American Teenager, That 70’s Show, My Name Is Earl, CSI: NY, and The Price Is Right
My favorite movies include Interview with the Vampire, The Notebook, Twilight!!!, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, The Usual Suspects, The Dark Night, Transformers, Grease, Vantage Point, Ten Things I Hate About You, Walk The Line.
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I also love sour skittles, chocolate, and my favorite restaurant is Larry’s BBQ in Alabama. I also love Alabama sweet tea and boiled peanuts.
Kirsten's Blog 
Wow, I know i have a bit strange musictaste, so when i recognized myself in that, my mouth was wide open. You seem like a great person, and i actually like your blog.
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By: youngdecember on December 24, 2009
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Hi Kirsten, My name is Rebecca (Becky McEvoy) and I am from Northern Cambria, PA. Small World!! I have been wanting to contact you since I first saw the article in the TD about your trip to Poland. I was so excited for you because I travelled to Poland in January 2008 with ACIS and some close friends. I had never even flown by plane before (and I was 37 years old at the time) and here I was heading for Poland!!! You photos from the Zakopane Mountains are beautiful and I recognized the restaurant with the animals on the wall and the Polish entertainers. While in the Mts. we also ate at that inn. We joked that the plates of food looked like something from Beowulf! I see that you also rode the funicular to the top of the mountains. When we visited, it was so cold and icy. Did you happen to stop at the Little Wooden Church on the way up the mountain? While in Poland I stayed in Krakow and also toured the Wawel—I see you wishing on the bell. My reason for visiting Poland was to have the privlege of visiting Auschwitz. I travelled with a fellow teacher I have worked with for 17 years, and her husband. Over the past few years, we have developed a rather impressive Holocaust unit and were thrilled, as well as humbled, with the opportunity to visit. While there, we took some footage of the outside barracks, buildings, campus, etc. and made a very moving video of our visit to share with our district once we returned home. I have always referred to my trip to Poland as more of a pilgrimage than anything else. I wish you the best of luck in Poland and hope you don’t eat to much bacon lard, haha! I forgot to mention to you that I am an 8th grade learning support teacher from the Cambria Heights School District in Patton. Did I read that you are from Bishop McCort?? I went to Bishop Carroll and was a 1988 graduate. My husband, Jeff, also graduated in 88′. We live in Northern Cambria with our daughter Mallory (9) and Isaac (7). I look forward to reading more of you blog and hope you enjoy Poland as much as I did. Take Care—Becky
By: Rebecca McEvoy on September 13, 2009
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