The Final Blog

     My leadership journey was so bumpy that it's too dangerous to put a roller coaster on it. A basic summary is that I started off great, and I started dropping a lot. So it all started when Laila recommended me, and I got into leadership after an eh interview. I was so happy and determined to do good. Which I did, for only the first quarter. The second quarter, I had a hard time following things. Our whole period started falling around that point and that's when I started to stand out, negatively. I had my vest taken away and it took a lot of effort and determination to earn it back, but it wouldn't be easy. Then after that problem was resolved, we moved onto Quarter 3, which means YEARBOOK! So honestly I didn't have a mistake as BAD as the ones made in the second, but I did need a lot of reminders and close calls before I actually could do this properly, but at the end of the day, I didn't get the grass shaded properly and I had to get it edited for me because I was absent for almost a week. That's also a problem this school year, my attendance. I'm always sick, and other than Chad there's always people in Period 5 that are always in the "sick chain". But this is just negativity in these past sentences. The school year wasn't really horrible, but neither was it the best. It's either good or alright but I wouldn't say outstanding. Other students stood out more than others, and people who weren't up to expectations were categorized. There's a lot of things I don't know what could've made this school year worse. So I'd just rather be more happy that we didn't have a rough school year and a rather good one, especially in the first and fourth quarters. I mean after all our class was great, we had a few bumps along the way but it's okay because we all became closer and that's what makes us Leadership 2015-2016.

     Highlights of the year: Well for starters, getting accepted into leadership was probably the main highlight of this whole blog. Retreat was amazing. We didn't have a lot of glaring mistakes or problems this year. I got closer with most of the people in leadership, especially my group leaders, Chad and Deriecka. I got to meet new people and experience something different. Learn more things that make so much more sense and makes me seem like an idiot. There is a lot more highlights but I can't remember most of them because there was a lot going on in most of them. Lowlights of the year: Well for starters, my period ran into some problems along the way and me and Miah eventually dropped a bit, but me mostly. And then kaylin had some attendance problems which affected her too so Chad and deriecka had a lot of things to deal with. And then there's Laila, she went out of her way to make a recommendation for me and I ended up being a nuisance for her, I had my moments though, and hopefully Laila got her rank back because she's probably mad at me but I don't blame her, but I owe her a lot and this is not helping at all.

     Lesson Learned: Things gotta change. Obviously if something doesn't gotta go right, then you gotta fix something so that it'll actually work. It's like trying to use a key sideways, straighten up and maybe something will happen, (basically I mean it WILL). Why do you think your having these problems? You gotta change the way you do things and make it better. If I'm being honest, I tried to change things but it wasn't the correct change. That's just exactly how I dropped in leadership, because what I tried to do was wrong, if I try to fix it then it's still wrong. Why? Because I don't think before I try to fix it. There's a narrow gap between me and the correct thing to do, yet I still can't get it right. There's still a lot I have to work on. And this is definitely one of those.

     How to improve on this: Just think. Use common sense. The only thing I'm good at using my head for is pretty much my school subjects, but when it comes to interactions, I have bad common sense and its really glaring. I need to just mention the fact that everytime I go to a place, or am sent there, I always have trouble getting it or I have horrible detection skills because sometimes I don't even see those things. I feel like I know what steps to take to get there since sometimes I already am like that, but other times, I really need to know what to do because there's times when I get it perfectly and times when I just look stupid or I am stupid. The In-Between part, is non-existent when it comes to me. So that's something really important.

Retreat Cheer W/ PERIOD 5!