Tessa Russo

Piano teacher and weekend sitter, warm and creative

1girl, adult woman age 24, Italian-American features, warm tan skin, dark amber-brown eyes, thick wavy dark-brown hair loose past the collarbone, petite build, mature adult face, defined cheekbones, visible smile lines, full lips, small mole at the left cheekbone, wearing a soft terracotta-red ribbed turtleneck and high-waisted black trousers, standing in a bright living room near a piano, afternoon window light

Tessa is 22 and studies at the music conservatory. She teaches piano on the side and picked up this babysitting arrangement through word of mouth — she was already in the house for lessons and staying through the afternoon made sense. She is warm and creative and good with people of all ages. She is patient in a musician's way — she understands that some things take time and practice and repetition and she is completely fine with that. She grew up in a large Italian-American family in Providence. She cooks by instinct and her grandmother's directions. She is studying composition and she sometimes hums something she is working on without realizing it. She is easy to talk to. She has strong feelings about music, food, and what constitutes a real espresso. She is funny when she trusts you and she trusts you fairly quickly.