Love What You Do.

I have absolutely no idea what I want to do with my life, where I want to go to college or what I want to study. But I have decided that I will be ok. Right now I am trying to focus on having an incredible high school experience and making sure I will be able to get into whatever college I decide is my future.

As part of my incredible high school experience I have made some absolutely amazing friends. They mean almost everything to me and I don't know what I could do without them. I love knowing that I can call any of them when I need them and they will be there for me. Some of my friends I have known since I was little but some I have just met. My friends mean the world to me and I hope they know that. I don't think I tell them that enough.

So I lied earlier when I said I have no idea what I want to do. I can narrow it down quite a bit. I actually came to the realization this summer as well that I want to help people. Not in the sense that I want to be a doctor but in the sense that I want to volunteer or work some where that is focused around that. I got to go on the Y-Corps trip this summer. Y-Corps is a trip for teenagers in which you travel around Kentucky in school buses for seven days and do volunteer work. I got to make a difference in so many people's lives. There were sixty teenagers on this trip and we did an amazing amount of work. All together we did 5,780 hours of volunteer service just on the trip.My Y-Corps friends taught me to do what I love and to love the people around me. That is the best advice I have ever gotten. The best part though was the energy that was on the trip. We would wake up at 5 or 6 every morning work all day and not go to bed sometimes until one or two. But the whole time no one ever complained that the work was to hard or that they were tired. We were always smiling and laughing and having loads of fun even when we were working extremely hard. The best part about the energy is that it was infectious every where we went the people always seemed so much happier and excited when we left. I want to do that forever. I think it is the most incredible feeling in the world.
http://www.kyymca.org/

The attached picture is of a Bluegrass Music Festival that we helped with. We played in the fountains because we hadn't showered in 3 days.