Traveling Across Continents

The life of contestant traveling from different places and homes can be stressful for a student to handle, facing challenges to keeping friendship and not having that permanent home to go to everyday after school, especially when you have lived in five different states and not to mention, on a different continent.

That has been exactly Rich Raynor's life.

"When you move constantly, you have to be outgoing and friendly with everybody you know because you don't want to leave a bad reputation because you know you won't live in that certain place for long" Rich said.

Being born in Idaho, his dad was stationed in the Air Force in England when he was only three years old. The Raynor family lived in England for about five years before going back to the United States in South Dakota for military reasons. His journey continued to Florida where he lived for three years, than to Colorado for another three years, and than finally he reached to Kansas where he is currently living. He has been attending Olathe Northwest for about six months now and is currently in Boys Scouts and was also the student team manager for the ONW basketball team.

"Out of the states I lived in, Colorado was my favorite because our family's lifestyle, we are outside oriented and the people were nice."

"Living in multiple states and across the country gives you more perspectives of the world you live in."

"You see and interact with a lot of different types of people and and encounter new places completely different from what you have ever seen before." Rich said.

From England to Kansas, Rich has always been the same person.