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Rotary Youth Leadership Academy

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Spring break of my junior year, I attended a leadership camp called RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards). My dad was the president of rotary at the time so I pretty much didn’t have an option in going. I wasn’t too excited about spending my spring break at a leadership camp with weirdos I didn’t know. The camp site was up in the mountains of Ojai so we had to leave my house pretty early. My dad had to stop and pick up some kids from my school that were also going. When they got in the car, I was annoyed and tired. Everyone said hi to me and I just looked at them and put my head phones back in and went to sleep. We finally arrive at the camp. My dad’s friend Cliff is the leader of camp RYLA and also Moorpark’s sheriff. Cliff was a homie and could tell that I wasn’t too happy. He helped my dad get my luggage from the car and handed me my stuff. I got out of the car and looked around. The camp was so beautiful. It had the prettiest view. …show more content…

I started seeing kids that were my age and lots of girls and boys. I would say there were about 500 kids attending this camp. The guys were super cute so I was a happy camper. When I kept walking to the field, I noticed a girl sitting by herself on the grass. I walked up to her and introduced myself. Her name was Ellie and she was from San Diego. She was about my height and had the blondest hair and bluest eyes. She was wearing a crop top and a mini skirt. She was pretty much a blonde version of me. I asked her what cabin and group she was in and she said cabin two and in the brown group. My anger just turned to happiness real quick. It was like Ellie and I were made to be best friends. We went down to the field where a camp welcome meeting was held. Cliff explained to us about what the camp meant and all the rules. He finally let everyone go get situated in their cabins. We started walking up this big hill but we were cabin two so we didn’t have to walk that

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