a year ago.

A year ago I was spending countless hours at the school.  I school would start at eight and often times I didn't get home until midnight because I was putting together my Sterling Scholar Portfolio.  At the time I remember feeling anxious, nervous, irritable, confused, unprepared and sort of like I was wasting my time.  I wasn't completely sold on why I was making this portfolio- I had put it in my mind that I wasn't going to win- but my goal was to get acknowledged as a runner up.  

My Sterling Scholar became my everyday activity - especially through the months of January and February.  I would make a page- get it edited for design.  Write on the page- get it edited for grammar.  (this process was on going)  Then when I had all my pages finished I asked so many people to look through it and give me their two-bits.  EDITING WAS CRAZY!  Then I practiced interviewing (I love interviewing- is that weird?) Questions were asked all through my classes, I practiced with my fellow sterling scholar runners and then we even set up mock interviews.  To this day I am still indebted to all those who took time to help me.  

All this work paid off.  The day of the portfolio review was intense- I made myself sick and even though I felt really good about how my review went I was still ridiculously nervous.  All the applicants I was going against were so talented, dedicated and through my eyes so deserving of the award.  

I still can't believe I won. . . 

I worked long and hard on these pages and even today I look at it and feel pleased with the outcome.

 

    

 

 

I was also working on this:

 

 

 

I was compiling some histories of my high school.  I will one day finish this huge project!  I really like how far I got though.

I get distracted so easily. . .
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