Re: Olivea Sea Flickinger-Renzi have known Olivea for more than ten years. | have been pri grow into a most engaging young woman. ged to watch her Asa retired, but active, pastor at Federated Church in Placerville, | have interacted with Olivea through youth group activities, mission trips, and numerous individual interactions. Olivea's participation in church activities has been self-initiated and consistently sustained without much parental or family support. This is conspicuous and unusual. As a child it meant walking from home to church. Olivea’s personality is open, outgoing, friendly and engaging. What impressed me at an early stage was her ease in relating to adults. She learned names, asked questions, made friends and looked out for herself . .. and for others. She does not gossip or bad-mouth others. For the past few years she has been very involved in theater at her high school. Dramatic productions are very time intensive at El Dorado High School. This has meant juggling school assignments, part-time work, church youth group activities and leadership in school clubs. She is self-motivated in these things, getting herself places on-time, finishing assignments on time while maintaining a positive attitude and getting good grades. | cannot stress enough that she accomplishes these things of her own volition and without much parental support. Olivea understands children. She is in demand as a babysitter in homes and at church because she plans activities for children in her care ~ keeping them happy and interested. She would make a great teacher!Olivea sang in our church children’s or youth choirs for eight years, During that time she taught herself to play both piano and ukulele. She enjoys backpacking. ‘and working at the farm connected with her high school environmental science class. It was her idea to plant a bee friendly garden at our church; this inspired the youth group to plant pollinator friendly flowers in the church grounds. She is currently studying solar panels for her senior science project. lam confident that Olivea will handle the independence of college life well and will flourish in a college environment. She will always be a contributor and college will lead her into the wider world where she can make the most of her abundant talents. Very sincerely, Mi le