{"id":52957,"date":"2019-06-16T15:11:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T15:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkuxposure.com\/?p=52957"},"modified":"2022-06-17T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T17:27:13","slug":"profile-abby-adams-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkuxposure.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/16\/profile-abby-adams-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile: Abby Adams-Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Henri Aboah
<\/strong>Louisville Male High School<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abby Adams-Smith has traveled to seven countries and has already mapped out a future career that includes worldwide travel \u2014 and she\u2019s only 15. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This daughter of two journalists hopes to take up the family practice and visit many more countries. Adams-Smith was 11 when she first decided she was going to follow in her parents\u2019 footsteps and become a journalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was kind of born into it,\u201d the rising junior at Bowling Green High said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bowling Green native went on to say that her middle school journalism program also encouraged her to choose a news career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat helped me foster my interest in journalism,\u201d Adams-Smith said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both of her parents have worked for award-winning news organizations, and met when they both worked at the Chicago Tribune. Adams-Smith\u2019s mother is currently a photojournalism professor at WKU, and her dad is retired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being the child of journalists has its benefits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t say this in a bragging way,\u201d Adams-Smith said, \u201cbut I\u2019m fairly well traveled.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has visited England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Italy, France, and Malta. Her mother has visited 13 countries, while her dad has been to 16 or 17 \u2014 he\u2019s lost count. Adams-Smith hopes she can beat their records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the seven countries she has visited, Malta and France are at the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019d probably say the No. 1 place I\u2019ve been is Malta,\u201d Adams-Smith said. \u201cIt\u2019s this little island off the coast of Sicily. I was there during carnival season so that was in the spring and it was just really nice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malta, she said, is also \u201cone of the first countries to legalize gay marriage, so that was cool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adams-Smith said France is a close second on her favorites list. She was among one of the last groups of tourists to see the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris before it was severely damaged by an April fire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was wild,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afterward, when she heard about the fire, Adams-Smith called it \u201cmind blowing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was certainly glad I got to see it,\u201d Adams-Smith said. \u201cBut at the same time, all of that destruction… I\u2019m glad they were able to deal with it before more damage was done. I\u2019m glad there\u2019s been a lot of effort into funding rebuilding. It will be decades before it\u2019s restored.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adams-Smith is reserved by nature and often leaves the talking to others, but she will put herself out there. She has participated in many school and community activities that interest her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adams-Smith sang \u201cWishing You Were Somehow Here Again\u201d in a community theater production of Phantom of the Opera. She also performed Mark Antony\u2019s speech to the Forum from the play Julius Caesar in a community-based show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\u2019s also tried her hand at writing poetry, but journalistic writing remains her true passion. Where she lacks spoken word, her written work comes through loud and clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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