Anya Thompson, also known as “Anya Dawn”, is a senior at Madison High School. But she’s actually never actually lived in Madison. She’s lived in Wessington Springs and then moved to Howard and commutes to Madison every day. She has twin brothers who are older than her. Something that comes easily to her include art and music. Her list of favorites is the movie Stand by Me, the book The Scarlett Letter, the color green, and her favorite food is anything Italian. If Anya could live anywhere in the world she could just live at her family farm in Wessington Springs or travel the world. In her free time, she works, hangs out with friends and drives around.
Her favorite subject is everything, just not math. Anya has a job at the Howard golf course where she is a waitress and a cook. She feels that a rewarding part is getting the job done. When asked what she recommended, she said, “Take every chance you get to live.” When asked what superpower she’d like to have, she responded, “Invisibility.” She adds to it, saying “so I can disappear in any situation that I don’t want to be in.” Another thing is if she had 5 million dollars to spend, she would donate half of it to Children's Cancer Hospital, build her parents a new house and then put the rest towards college.
Other things that Anya would like to do on her bucket list are “travel and go to Italy for a year.” When asked what her advice is for the underclassmen, she said, “Learn how to park.” When asked what she is scared of, she responded, “I'm scared of heights.” When asked what one item that she could not live without was, she says the tropical yellow flavor Red Bull.