Last Friday marked the end to the week long Teenpact class, this was the third class I had attended, and probably my favorite of the three.
I ran for representative in my committee, I lost, I ran for Governor and surprisingly enough, I won the nomination so the next step was to campaign and try my best to beat the other 3 candidates, one base I relied on was that out of the four of us running, I had the most Teenpact experience, three years.
So when it came down for the votes to be counted and the winner to be announced I was a little disappointed, there was a three way tie between the other three candidates each with ten votes, I got seven.
during the week I stayed at Camp Good News, Residential, instead of commuting everyday to the capitol from our homes most of us stayed at the camp, it was a lot of fun. every night we would have a evening session, a devotional and then we played games, fuseball, air-hockey, ping-pong and everyones favorite, “Do You Love Your Neighbor” we played until we had to head back to the cabins for the night.
On Friday was the optional Public Speaking class where we are taught how to be more confident while speaking,also things like how to stand, what to do with our hands, one major thing they taught us that you should avoid filler words if at all possible (um, uh, like stuff like that).
At the end of the day we all had to write a speech over lunch and then present it to the rest of the class. I had help choosing the topic for mine, it was “The Merits of Pizza”, I think I did pretty well, I just need to be more Imaginative with my hand motions.
At the ned of the month our family will be going to the Teenpact National Convention is where Teenpacters from around the country come to meet, make new friends and two of the high lights, are Electing a Teenpact President and Vice President, and the yearly Ultimate Frisbee Tournament, we went last year and it was great, so this year should be doubly so.