Monday, October 1, 2012

Two weeks of Junk

The past two weeks have literally been the busiest two weeks of my life! I will begin with the luncheon at the country club. Elaine Shannon was amazing! I learned so much about injustices and corruptness that faces our world, and the different views on freedom had by different countries. I will never take for granted our first amendment right after listening to her speak, it's truly astonishing to realize exactly how free we are in this country and the importance of our freedom. Also I saw Butch Miller again and he remembered me! Funny Story: after the Luncheon, as I was driving home, I was dancing and singing in my car and I pulled up to a red light. I continued to be my crazy self at the red light and dance and sing only to turn around as the light turned green and discover Mr. Miller was in the car next to me and he saw me! He just laughed and waved at me as I quickly drove away embarrassed.

Now to Saturday.......
If I didn't know I was a liberal before the "constitution" class given by the Tea Party more than confirmed my political views! I sat there for 8 hours listening to so many skewed facts about our constitution it literally, I'm serious, made me sick. I thank the thought notebook given to me by Mrs. Mellette for keeping me sane throughout the whole ordeal, because I vented to that journal the whole class. At one point I couldn't take it anymore and I had to raise my hand and point out an inaccuracy to the guy giving the class, but being the well educated speaker he was, he intelligently dismissed my question. -_- On the other hand as enraging as the class was, I'm glad I went. If I want to seriously pursue a career in politics, I need to become acquainted with all the different views the public has, and this class was a true eye opener to the basis behind fundamental conservative ideology.
 
Tuesday I went back to the Country Club for Youth Leadership and learned about Etiquette. It was an amazing experience and the only thing I disliked was that the class was given after the Luncheon, because I would have loved to have had all that information while sitting at a table full of important Bank people.
What really kept me busy last week however was Questbridge. I think I was up until at least 1 am everyday, there was days when I was up until 3, working on my application and essays. What made it harder was that it was also competition week, so I would spend all day at school and my afternoons at band practice or a club meeting, and then I would come home to Questbridge and homework, I also had a test for my GSC class that week, and an interview for the US State Senate Youth Program. However, as busy as I was it was a successful week. I finished my application, our band won first place at competition, I felt pretty confident about my test, I found out I was voted most likely to succeed,  and I got a free taco at Taco Bell!
 
 As far as my mentorship is concerned, I love it! Mr. and Mrs. Cooley are two of the most amazing people I have ever met, and I agree with most of their views. I haven't done any glamorous work with them so far but that's what I love. When I applied to Honors Mentorship, my goal was to learn about the real world, and all the details in a job that aren't mentioned by the media. I'm learning what it  really means to run a campaign, and all the tedious non-glamorous work associated with it.

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