User talk:Sheena Ricarte

Sheena Ricarte (born February 20, 1984) is an alumna of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde in Manila, Philippines. She entered the College on June 2001 and graduated on October 2004. Sheena took up Bachelor of Arts major in Consular and Diplomatic Affairs, Magna cum Laude. A very bright student and a perfect exemplar at that, she is also the recipient of the Outstanding Thesis Award. Her thesis is entitled “Higher Education in the United States in the 21st Century: An Advantageous Option for Filipino Students”. She addressed the graduates, delivering her Words of Appreciation, “A Happy Ending So Soon”.

Sheena also studied at Casa del Niño Montessori and Science High School in San Pedro, Laguna, Philippines and Coolbaugh Elementary Center in Pennsylvania, United States for her grade school and high school diplomas.

Sheena possesses the passion for writing, research, and public speaking. A clever linguist, she fluently communicates in English, Filipino, French, Mandarin, and Fookienese. Sheena also loves to collect clippings and prospectuses about schools around the world and gather them into organized dossiers.

Highly interested about diplomacy, political and government systems, and the role of education as the essential mechanism in personal and national advancement, Sheena is also an aficionado of academics, Chinese-Filipinos, and foreign travel.

A wanderlust, Sheena has been to posh and major cities like New York City, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Newark, Hong Kong, London, Beijing, and Paris, among others. Interestingly, Sheena has set foot on Ivy Leagues such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Duke, and Stanford during her tours.

Sheena is a direct descendant of Filipino national hero General Artemio Ricarte. The Ricartes are currently scattered all over the east and west coasts of the United States of America, particularly New York, New Jersey, and Boston.

Sheena is highly interested in Japan and the England. She finds these two countries highly civilized and sophisticated. The Japanese language or Nihongo, has also been a language of interest to Sheena and has been practicing it since 2004. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Go sheena (talk • contribs) 05:53, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

An educator, writer, diplomat, jetsetter, socialite, romantic, and sentimentalist, Sheena is also a graduate student of Political Science at De La Salle University – Manila.