Twin Rocks Friends Camp

My drive to help others stems from my time volunteering with the service organization, Rotary, and their leadership program, Camp RYLA. When I attended this camp as a high schooler, I learned invaluable lessons of self-confidence and connecting with others, traits seldom found in a high school environment. My experience at this program inspired me to return as a counselor, where I have been helping foster the growth of today’s youth for the past four years.

Throughout their time at St. Lucy’s, some girls have a hard time adjusting to the cultural ideals that the

Last summer I volunteered to be a camp counselor at a camp in Blowing Rock, North Carolina called Camp Sonshine. This camp is different from others in that they bring children ages 5 to 18 from inner city Memphis, Tennessee to the Appalachian Mountains. This

Throughout my school years, I have always tried to be a positive role model for younger students as well as my peers. This year I decided that the best way to serve my school was to participate in our school’s Student Leadership Council. It has proven to be a fantastic decision for me. I succeeded in getting the most votes out of all of the candidates and have had a great experience taking a leadership role in my school. I feel like I have become a much better leader and role model because of Student Leadership Council. I have been really fortunate to be exposed to the Jeter’s Leaders program, since they come to our school to mentor us as SLC members. It has been an incredible experience, and I would really love to continue with it. As an eighth grader at Saint Augustine, we are required to mentor our younger students. I

I have demonstrated the qualities of a capable and trusted leader through my involvement in my school, work, and community activities. I have held a part-time job at my church's daycare where I help create a safe, loving, caring, and nurturing learning environment for children of the ages zero to five. All the while, I have continued to be an active member in school functions and be in leadership positions in various clubs. Currently, I am serving as the District 17 FBLA President and the President of Northeast Vernon County's National Honor's Society Chapter. I have also been involved with sports throughout my high school years where I also demonstrated leadership abilities serving as our cheerleading Captain last year and Co-Captain the year

In today’s generation no matter what gender a person is, they have expectations of society to act like either a “women” or “man”. Back in the day when our parents were growing up it wasn’t the same social standers. Girls didn’t have to deal with such high expectations. Adults usually can’t relate to our situation. In the two essays, Mary Piper’s, “Saplings in the Storm” and Sandra Cisneros “Barbie-Q”, gave a better perspective of girls going through adolescents. During this stage in their life they have to deal with social norms, which pressures girls to compare themselves to others and strive to be an unrealistic model of femininity. This emotional battle to blend in leads to metal distress while not allowing adolescent girl be themselves

“Chick-fil-A,” around the world, appears to be only a restaurant filled with good food and “my pleasures,” but to me, this place has a greater importance and meaning. Beginning my 7th grade year, in 2011, I have gathered with a group of roughly 15 female peers every Tuesday morning before school at 7 in the morning to grow closer and form a committed community. As we have grown together, we have gained some new members and grew apart from others, but throughout the years, my favorite opportunity was being asked to lead a group of younger girls inspired by my group. Every Thursday morning, at 7am, beginning at the start of last year, 2015, I gather with a community of younger girls to talk, grow with, inspire, and learn from. Although this group is small, 8 girls at most, and we have not been gathering for long, the love shared around the corner “Chick-fil-A” booth each week feels more like family.

My experience working at Cutler Bay Middle School through a nonprofit AmeriCorps program called City Year, makes me a good fit for this position. During my year of service, I help run tutoring in the morning, I did behavioral mentoring to a set of 8 students during lunch and ran an after school club. In the classroom, I did specialized interventions for sixth, seventh and eighth grade students in ESOL classes. I also helped run two successful events at Cutler Bay Middle school one was a literacy and math event and the other was a talent show. Please see the attached document for a copy of my resume and I look forward to speaking with you regarding my

I have assisted with babysitting and being involved with leadership clubs, however, this past summer was the best voluntarily experience I have ever done. I volunteered at the San Fernando Recreation Park’s summer day camp for eight weeks. Not only was I being prepared to become a counselor, but I obtained skills there, such as patience and responsibility.

Working with my co counselors is really difficult at first because for the most part I’ve never lived with these girls before and prior I had been in the same cabin with the same girls each summer. As a counselor, parents trust me with the lives of their children. I’m still a kid, how could anyone ever expect me to take on such a responsibility. Nevertheless being a counselor is an indescribable experience. I have now had the same campers for four summers. When people ask my about my camp experience I immediately whip out a my phone to show them a picture of my campers, its like a grandpa walking around with his grandkids school picture in his

“Boys and Girls” is a short story, by Alice Munro, which illustrates a tremendous growing period into womanhood, for a young girl living on a fox farm in Canada, post World War II. The young girl slowly comes to discover her ability to control her destiny and her influences on the world. The events that took place over the course of the story helped in many ways to shape her future. From these events one can map the Protagonist’s future. The events that were drawn within the story provided the Protagonist with a foundation to become an admirable woman.

In order to properly view a story from a feminist perspective, it is important that the reader fully understands what the feminist perspective entails. “There are many feminist perspectives, and each perspective uses different approaches to analyze and interpret texts. One is that gender is “socially constructed” and another is that power is distributed unequally on the basis of sex, race, and ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, ability, sexuality, and economic class status” (South University Online, 2011, para. 1). The story “Girl” is an outline of the things young girls

These girls were the people who you would not expect to go to a sleep away camp. They were perfect looking, and I did not expect them to ever accept me. I was wrong. This summer changed my life. With late nights of “Never Have I Ever” and “If I Really Knew You”, sitting on our now neat and tidy porch, we came to the conclusion that although we all looked different, we were very similar. We all had insecurities, some more obvious than others, and I was wrong to judge them without knowing them.

I am hard working, ambitious and creative. Many who know me say that I am super organized, very social and good at noticing details. I love to work with others as I see it as an opportunity to learn and to gain a new friend. I have acquired many leadership experiences from Key Club, STEM, Swim managing, band leadership, etc. Each of these experiences has taught me something different. For example, being the Boy’s Swim Team manager I learned how to work with a group of 70 teenage boys. Also, with all the extracurricular activities that I do, I am superb at managing my time. What I can contribute to Youth Council is all the knowledge that I have gained over the years through all the activities I do and fresh, new ideas.

All the age groups are separated so no groups come in contact with others. After dropping Ari off, I headed to my groups house. Honestly, all of these ‘houses’ looked like giant boulders shaped like houses. I’m in group 2 so when I got there, seven other girls we’re already sitting in the common room with their bags. “Finally, we’ve been waiting on you for like 10 minutes!”one snapped. She had short dirty blonde hair and was in a fancy dress and heels. “She does know this is a camp, right?”I thought to myself “I’m sorry.”I said, even though I could care less. She scoffed and rolled her eyes before storming off. Everyone got up and followed her.One girl came over to me. “Don’t worry we’ve only been waiting here for about 3 minutes.”She laughed. I smiled. “I’m Nessa.” she said. “Ally.”I replied. “We have to share rooms, so want to share a room with me?”she asked. “Sure” I replied, happy that I’d already made a friend. We chose one of the rooms and began to settle in. The room was very bare with two cheap beds and colorless walls and lizards darting around. The walls were also made of concrete so they intensified the echo of your footsteps. Outside there were two rows of irregularly shaped pillars creating a path to the boy