Top Model Ermelinda Manos

And now she wants to be Miss Albania. At some point in the future, she plans to return to her homeland and compete for the title. If she succeeds in that, she will go on to try for Miss Universe. She wants to be the first Albanian and the first Albanian-American to win that crown.

She has a saying that helps guide her life: "It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice." It's an American saying, but someday we may hear it in Albanian.