Amelia Earhart- Just Do It

Amelia Earhart. Born 1887- Died 1939

 "The most effective way to do it is to do it." 
— Amelia Earhart, American Aviation Pioneer

     This weekend, January 24- January 26, I attended the Arizona Association of Student Council’s State Convention. I have been preparing for this for three weeks in my leadership class. You see, each council has to dress up in costumes each day and I, the only person in the council to go to every, was selected as head chair. The theme this year was Game On!

 

The first day: Joystick Day. Dress up as your favorite joystick game. This day, we dressed up as Pacman. The six boys were the blue ghosts and the five girls were the colored ghosts. Mrs. Thompson was Mrs. Pacman and Mr. Hawk was Mr. Pacman. This required a myriad of colors of felt. Mrs. Thompson’s mother sewed all of them, and they were perfect.

 

 

         The second day: Mii Day. Dress up as your favorite Mii character. Holbrook Student Council dressed up as baseball players and we used the HHS baseball team’s uniforms. That night, we changed and Living Energy put on an amazing dance! Everyone was hot and sweaty. It was so much fun and I loved every minute of it.

 

         The third day: Into the Future! Dress up as your favorite phone application. I thought we were clever when we decided to dress up as our individual favorite application and Mrs. Thompson and Mr. Hawk dressed as IPhones. They safety pinned all the application logos to their shirts.

         Organizing this for this shindig put me through an intense amount of stress because this was my last convention and I wanted to go out with a bang! The costumes had to be original and creative. Every council went with amazing costumes and I wanted Holbrook not to go unrecognized.

         When we got there, about twenty councils were wearing Pacman costumes. I was fuming! But, I have to admit our costumes were made better. The baseball day was a success because only two other councils were dressed up. Into the Future day was a bust, because it was raining and we got there a bit late.  

           Overall, the convention was amazing. I had so much fun and the people I went with were all great leaders and showed a powerful amount of spirit. Whenever I go to these kinds of events, I feel such a passion for leadership that I cannot describe. On the way home, I was thinking how much I was going to miss Chris Pate and his jokes, and how much I will miss Alizia and Alaya and the fun night we had.

 

 

 

        Then I had a flashback: My first student convention was held at North High School in Phoenix. I could not believe how forceful and extreme the energy was from everyone. The energy is still there after four years and seems to get more powerful with every convention. With this last convention at Campo Verde High School, I feel accomplished and proud that I stuck with student council for my high school career. If there is one thing that I could take from this is that hard work pays off with all the memories created and laughs that we shared, together.

 

 

 

My version of the quote: “Just do it because it will work out in the end.”