Personal Narrative: A Career As A Chapter Officer

The Rio Vista FFA Chapter means a lot to me. The officers, as well as the members, are like family and the organization is my life. I schedule my everyday activities around my FFA priorities and that does not faze me. I even have attended an FFA meeting over the phone when I was sick because I felt guilty for not being there in person. I love FFA one hundred percent because of how much I love my animals and get to be around them. Not only do I love it because it gives all of the more reason to tell people my animals come first but because of the additional things I get to be involved in. Being in all of the activities I have joined has changed my attitude toward hard work. FFA has showed me what priorities really are, what they mean, why a lot of things have to be put last, and the purpose of leadership, respect, and responsibility. The things I get to do in FFA helps me to realize that hard work will pay off and that it’s not all about livestock, fertile soil, crops, and leadership. The things I have done in FFA have not only made me a better person but also improved my skills and my self-confidence.

In addition, the FFA means leadership and that is one thing I am for. Leadership leads to organization and that's key. Leadership is one thing that want to learn more about because I'm always trying to find ways to be a better leader. Whenever there's a time for leadership I will try and have an input in it. Without leadership the world wouldn't be the way it is.

My favorite part of being a member was the conventions and leadership conferences. The conferences are upbeat and attention grabbing with great speakers. The first convention I attended I was amazed at the loud music, dancing and the awesome energy I felt. The enviroment gave me the feeling that this is where I belong and this is what I want to do as a career. The FFA motto is "Doing to learn, learning to do. Earning to live, living to serve". That means to learn new things and use them in everyday life. FFA also builds up the confidence in students and in their work through speaking events, making presentations, and helping the community.

I chose law enforcement, because it is all that I grew up around it all my live and I have always found it very interesting. Once I am old enough to I plan on enrolling in to the police academe. I know some of the things you have to do, are to complete a physical training test to completely pass the academe, but that is all I know with academe besides the basics of learning of what to do as a officer. I have an idea of what police officers do, they will run drug and drunken test. As a cop you make or get warrants to search though peoples house, vehicles or anything that you think you need to search that item that person owns. Some cops have to attend court to sometimes to report on the case or other times just there to put the person in jail if they are convicted guilty by the judge and the jury. You have cop on patrol, drug task force and on the warrants division.

The Waterford FFA Chapter has benefited me in many different ways. Holding the office of reporter for two years and president this year, has helped me become a better leader and has improved my leadership skills. The summer before my sophomore year I got the chance to attend WLC (Washington Leadership Conference) in Washington D.C.. I roomed with three girls that lived in different states throughout the United States that i had never met before. This experience along with attending FFA camp every year has helped me open up to people and improve my people skills. Before FFA I would have never even thought about going to any camp or conference where I would of had to learn to talk to people and make friends on my own. I have also been in Parliamentary

Having a black father and a white mother has always had some family members question my kinship to them. The older I got, the more my identification became reliant on one aspect of myself over the other. The African-American part of me became suspect in the eyes of certain family members with no real comprehension on my part as of why. I saw ignorance towards my whiteness, not only within society but within my own family, which resulted in the inability to perceive my blackness.

Over the past four years, FBLA has helped me grow in many ways. Of course, FBLA has provided me with limitless knowledge on leadership and business. This has helped me prepare for my future by giving me valuable leadership opportunities that will help me in college and beyond. Serving as a local chapter officer and attending several conferences has taught me the valuable skills that will help me make new friends, stand out as a leader, and communicate effectively with my peers. FBLA has also helped me make long-lasting friendships. I have grown extremely close with my fellow officers

1. Whenever I was younger I had always heard “Not all heros wear capes” and I did not understand the significance of this phrase until I got interested in the law enforcement field. I saw men and women that wear blue put their lives on the line to keep us safe every single day. I became so passionate about the law enforcement field that my mother would always catch me watching investigation murder mysteries or shows like “Cops”. My interest only grew more and more as I got older. I would always try to comprehend why criminals would murder, steal and try to bring so much evil into the world. It is my goal that someday I would be one of these heros without a

As a Senior Reconditioning Associate, I can build on all the training and knowledge received as a Detail Associate. My work as a reconditioning associate I have shown exceptional result focus and attention to detail to every station that I could learn on this side. I would like to transfer these traits along with outstanding work ethic and teamwork to our paint

Until I reached high school, my parents never stressed about college. They never talked about college and majors or even scholarships. Moreover, I believed college was a dream, something that I shouldn’t pay much attention to. However, I desired to attend college, and at that time I assumed I would major in a math or science, or even become an engineer. My assumptions grew from my sister, who planned on being an engineer. When I entered high school, my sister began to stress about my education after high school to my parents considering her dream that I would become a success compared to her. Since my mother wasn’t informed on how our college system works in terms of how to apply and the importance of majors, she truly believed my sister’s

Nigeria, 2001, I awakened startled with people screaming indiscriminately. My dad's head was bleeding profusely, and my cousin, sitting in the passenger seat was bleeding from his neck. There were shards of shattered windshield everywhere. I was in the backseat uninjured but scared. This commotion was the aftermath of a car accident involving my dad, my cousin and me, while he was driving us to school. Next, we were rushed to the hospital, however, upon arrival, we were refused treatment until we paid an admissions fee. This practice was common in my country. Although the incident was disturbing, it drove me towards a career in healthcare, mainly working with patients who have a difficulty affording their medical care.

What do little kids say when you ask them what they want to be? A few things that come to mind are the president, a princess, maybe a firefighter. When I was little, I never knew what I wanted to be, but that's because I hadn't discovered it yet. I want to be my band director. I want to inspire people as much as he inspired me.

I believe i would be a good role model for the existing FFA members as well as the officer team because with being a senior I will be well prepared to contribute anything needed to help any way possible.

As the Chapter Assistant for the MS Society, a fundamental part of my job was focused on the overall working and organization of the office. These tasks included organization of event materials, mail sorting and a re-organization of the resource library. In undertaking these basic tasks, I learned that in order for an organization to be successful there needs to be organization at all levels. A big organizational project I offered to undertake this year was to purge and shred the old and outdated financial, membership and fundraising documents from the filing cabinets, as it was more efficient to have them online and the required length of time to keep them in paper had passed. In doing so, it allowed my manager to focus on other more important things, de-cluttered the office space and made reviewing these documents easier. Through my classes in Organizational

At the Summer Seminar Program, I expect to catch a glimpse into the life of an Air Force Academy cadet and what it means to be a cadet. I expect to be treated no better than a fourth class cadet so that I may learn what a cadet goes through on a daily basis. I will have to fight through challenges, both mentally and physically, but it will not be harder than what I can handle. I think that I will be given tools so that I can better myself, if I am to get into the academy. I also expect to see classrooms and professors to see how classes work at the academy. I aspire to be a pilot in the Air Force, so I would like to speak with cadets in the piloting program. When I attended the forum last summer, I talked to the parachuting team about the parachuting