Lorenzo John – A Very Young Swiss-Mexican Voice from the Future
“Envisioning constructive citizenship and developing constitutions in imaginary countries”
Lorenzo will be turning 11 on June 3rd and is our first voice from Generation Alpha which is the first to be born entirely in the 21st century. His father is from St. Gall in Switzerland and his mother from Mexico City. His parents moved to Miami when he was 2.5 years old.
Lorenzo is finishing 5th grade in the International program – German at Sunset Elementary. He is fluent in English, Spanish and German. He is a very good student and received his school’s Academic Excellence Award for his perfect scores. Lorenzo loves to write short stories and together with his classmates is engaged in the planning of the yearbook with over 200 stories created during the pandemic!
Like most kids this age, Lorenzo is perfectly comfortable around computers and knows how to create websites to play and communicate with his friends. During the Pandemic, Lorenzo and his friends created LOREDMIT, and online game, which involves an imaginary country in which they can create the laws. The country of Loredmit was created from combining the Empire of Bunerz and the country of Fleringturn extending from Switzerland all the way to Greece. The official languages of Loredmit are English, French, Swiss and Russian and players can apply for Loredmit citizenship and to run one of its institutions:
Lorenzo loves geography, aviation, and technology. He is very engaged in plane mechanisms and controls and loves to play a video game called Airline Commander. Although still very young, Lorenzo already knows what he wants to do when he grows up: he would like to become a pilot and travel the world but with less pollution!