Mission Statement

I am my best when I am comfortable and at my worst when I am tired and cranky, nervous and scared. I will find opportunities to use my natural talents and gifts such as I am good at cooking and baking. I like making cakes and cupcakes and then decorating them. I want to go to college and get a good job, so that when I get married and have a family I will be able to support them. I can do anything I set my mind to and I won't let people bring me down. My life's journey is to help others and let others help me when I need it and to be happy.

FFA

I am going to talk about FFA again because last year I didn't realize at how much leadership in FFA. There are so many people willing to go out and beyond something they would normally do. Mosanto and Dodge donate so much money to see us suceed in agriculture, they don't have to do that but they do. People don't have to be National FFA officers and give speeches at Convention but they do. College representatives don't have to travel to Indiana to give out information about their college but they do becasuse they also want to see us succed.

Leadership in the FFA

 When I went to National FFA Convention last week there was a really inspiring motivational speaker. He was an older man. When he was young he got married and was in the war. He said how scared he had been and how much he missed his wife. One day, he didn't feel right and so he had a missle thing he was going to throw. Somehow it ended up blowing up. He ended up in the hospital and asked for a mirror when he woke up. He said he was mortified at what he saw and tried committing suicide by pulling a plug out of his nose. It didn't work. A person that was laying on a bed beside him wife had come in and told him he didn't want to be married anymore. The speaker said "No, no that's what is going to happen to me." His wife soon came in and told him she was so happy he was still alive and that she would always love him.
He told us to surround ourselves with people that make us happy. And even though there will be people in this world that make us made there will always be the good ones.

Advocacy

  Today in my health class there was someone there to talk to us about advocacy. She seemed like a real leader to me because her job is to help sexually assaulted people and to inform them what they can do to cope with things that have happened to them. It would take a lot of strength and courage to do what she does because she might hear a story and the victim might not want to press charges or tell the police. She also goes to schools to inform people about where they can go for help or call hotlines. I didn't really know what advocacy was until she came in to talk but I think she is a real leader.

Movie

In the movie The Pursuit of Happyness Kris was very motivated to get a better job. Not only for his son and his wife but himself. He wanted his family to be happy and he wanted to be happy also. He didn't want to be in debt anymore. He wanted his son to get a better education than he did. He wanted the cycle to be different.