One thousand boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Every year the reward changes, a cool set of speakers, a laptop, an iPad, a gaming system, or cookie credits, large quantities of rewards points usable only within Girl Scouts. Since Kindergarten selling one thousand boxes of cookies has been my goal. A lofty achievement for a high school senior, never mind a five year old. The closest I have gotten was in sixth grade when I sold a little over 650 boxes. I was out every day after school and all day most weekends during the cookie season. From January to March I went door to door on foot through half empty neighborhoods on Martha's Vineyard. I had booth sales in the places with the greatest intensity of pedestrian and bicycle traffic. I went to the …show more content…
fire station, police station, and retirement communities. I made catchy rhymes and jingles, and I visited customers from previous years. I advertised at every available opportunity, I even made attempts at product placement. I learned that people don't care so much about the cookies, delicious as they are. People want to know what buying boxes of cookies does. So I told them "We're going to New York City to meet the President of Girl Scouts", "We're going to Six Flags for an event were we'll meet girls from all over New England", "We're going to the Boston Science Museum and the Boston Aquarium." I told them about the trip we took to Salem, MA around Halloween to learn about the Salem witch trials and meet our sister troop. I never considered telling customers that by selling cookies I am learning to market, budget, advertise, keep track of money, use proper business etiquette, and network.
I was bent on my goal, earning enough cookie credits to help pay for summer camp. I was active in a busy troop all school year, but from the summer before third grade until I moved to Washington state, summer camp was like Hogwarts to me. At camp and in Girl Scouts during the school year, I learned the social skills that interacting with my classmates in school didn't teach, how to be friendly, kind, sympathetic, and sociable. From going to camp I discovered that what my classmates thought of me didn't matter, because at camp people didn't care that I loved reading, didn't care that I wore some interesting hand-me-down outfits, (I recall a sparkly, pastel unicorn sweater causing a particularly unpleasant splash) and didn't care about who said what about whom at recess. In Girl Scouting, I discovered that I still didn't like sports involving balls, but I did love hiking, rock climbing, kayaking, canoeing, high ropes course, and archery. I fed my passion for outdoor skills such as fire building, campfire cooking, and sleeping outside. I learned to work with people I didn't get along with from working through challenge course obstacles and I learned that I can have fun at parties. In high school I sold cookies to pay for a trip to Europe, because the local Girl Scout camp lacks sufficient challenge for me. In
tenth grade I was offered a job on the spot when I sold cookies to my current boss. The money from my job was split between paying for the trip to Europe and saving for college. This was powered by my determined pursuit of a goal that I have yet to accomplish. When I was younger, the saying "Shoot for the moon - even if you miss, you'll land among the stars" irritated me to no end. It was a trite, illogical little platitude used by grown-ups to dismiss my fear of failure, but now I realize there is some truth to it. The most important lesson I have learned from selling Girl Scout Cookies is that even if you don't achieve what you wanted you can still succeed.
Cultures are becoming obsessed with pumpkin spice flavors because it’s just a good flavor. Other reasons why people are obsessed because it’s a newer thing. I really don’t know why everybody likes it I guess just because it’s good. I mean how could you pass up a pumpkin spice latte or pumpkin spice Pringles, pumpkin spice doughnuts or anything like that. People also like pumpkin spice latte because it’s caffeine. The Pumpkin Spice Latte is a coffee drink made with a mix of traditional fall spice flavors.
In the summer of 2015 I attended Camp Four Winds Westward Ho on Orcas Island, Washington. This camp is a non-profit organization that offers two month-long sessions for campers ages 10 to 16 with staff positions starting at age 17. This summer I worked in the barn for one month-long session and 10 days after that. I got up at six-o'clock every morning and I finished my work at the barn at six-o'clock pm. After I usually helped with camp dishes until 9 at night. I felt accomplished in working hard because I felt like I was making a difference to make the camp run smoother. Though after awhile it was challenging to even get up in the morning due to exhaustion, I persevered through it and proved to myself that I have a lot of willpower. I enjoy
The program Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is a successful community mentoring program that has been in existence for more than 100 years. In fact, this program started as two separate programs back in 1904. The two programs were the Big Brothers movement, which formed as the result of a court clerk’s concern for troubled boys he saw coming through the courts and the other program was the Catholic Big Sisters, which formed for the same reasons except for the girls. These two programs sought volunteers throughout their communities to help these troubled children who seemed to just need a positive adult influence in their lives to help them stay out of trouble. These two programs joined together in 1977 to form what is known know as the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. Not only does this successful program extend throughout the 50 states but also operates in 12 other countries throughout the world.
Skittles were first made commercially in 1974 by a British company. They were first introduced in North America in 1979 as an import confectionery. In 1982, domestic production of Skittles began in the United States. Skittles' "taste the rainbow" theme was created by New York ad agency D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles. Skittles is a brand of fruit-flavored sweets, currently produced and marketed by the Wrigley Company
Balancing school and a social life is a task in itself but, adding an Eagle Scout project - also College Applications - makes everything even more backbreaking. I had to turn down going to the movies or eating at restaurants with my friends to work on my project. As a teenager turning down a fun time is painful because, I could either be bored doing monotonous paperwork or, be entertained for two hours. To the average teenage mind, the answer is effortless but I need to look at the long-term effects. If I have fun for a few hours, that will only be satisfying for that amount of time, but I travail the mountain of work now, my life will be so much more surmountable. So through the ordeal of paperwork, I versed an important lesson, accomplishing a tenacious task before having fun and, doing it completely enables one to have more time. The largest task I faced, however, was working with other
Proactivity allows a female to harness her power with aspirations of removing female stereotypes and rising up for equality between genders. The gender difference perspective examines how women's location in social situations differ from that of men. The Paper Bag Princess written by Robert Munsch, explores Elizabeth's transgression with social gender roles displaying feminist values. The pro feminist text challenges social norms by illustrating a non-stereotypical view of Elizabeth and her female empowerment by breaking traditional folktale gender roles.
I was going thru a lot but when It came to that class people actually showed an interest in talking to me and how I was. It also helped me be more discipline and serious.(mentally). I believe my character has changed from shy to outgoing, messy to responsible. It has changed me physically because I became more fit with all the summer camps .The running, hot sun and drinking lots of water sure called for that summer
The rest of my summer vacation was filled with restless nights, guilty thoughts, and worrying about what would become of me once school came back into session. Sam had spent 6 years of our friendship protecting me from bullies. I never learned to defend myself before his passing. School started and, to cope without Sam, I carried a teddy bear throughout the school day. One day a kid on the bus decided to make fun of me and I snapped. That day was the first time since starting school in Harper that I had stood up for myself. I learned that the anger people brought to me didn’t have to stay inside for only myself to witness and that I was strong enough to stand up for what I believed in. Since then my attitude has been better, I have slowly progressed to the happy mindset I had as a little kid, and I was finally at peace with
I made several amazing friendships, took a few incredibly difficult classes and met some of the best educators during my time at Ada High School. My Sophomore year was certainly the least stressful of the three years. My classes were easy, I had a lot of friends and it was the year I joined the Distributive Education Club of America (DECA). My fashion merchandising teacher Mrs. Wright convinced me to do a 30 page written business plan for a fictional tanning salon that offered a revolutionary new color matching technology. I placed fourth in the state that year. Not placing in the top three only gave me more dedication to placing first the next year. I competed again my Junior year of high school, this time developing a business that combined daycare for children with proper diets and kitchen safely. Once again I placed fourth in the state. Not giving up after missing the second time of not placing in the top three was very difficult for me. I had made the decision to devote my high school career to this activity that didn 't seem to be taking me anywhere and I regretted not being active in Student Council or picking up a sport instead. Thankfully my advisor convinced me to give DECA one last try and that is when I developed my love of business, particularly in finance. My senior year I decided to do a role-play instead of a written event like I had done the previous two years. Role-plays can be more
From the friendships they can make that will last a lifetime, to the distinct memories they have of campfire traditions, camp is laced with immeasurable meaning. The skills that children learn and practice at camp can become a part of their identity, and may even grow into passions that they will continue to pursue as an adult. Whether they want it or not, the songs with constantly haunt them throughout the years and though they claim to hate it, they secretly enjoy the reminder of summer fun and adventure. One thing camp taught me that I find of value today, is to say “yes!” to adventures and working with my team to accomplish outrageously fun challenges and
The weekly meetings, the seemingly never ending community service, it was dreadful. Whatever time I spent not at home or at school was spent with my troop; and it didn’t help that my dad was a troop leader. I hated every single thing about it. I never gave it a chance. I begged my dad to quit; I felt as though the scout program was stopping me from doing anything and everything that I wanted to do. Every day I told him,” I don’t know anyone and the whole thing is so boring!” and everyday my dad told me,” just wait until we go camping.” I didn’t understand what he meant by that up until the day we actually went
The Theobroma cacao tree is where it all started. Olmecs, Aztecs, and Mayans were the original consumers of cocoa: they would form it into a drink and ingest it for medicinal reasons (Allen Par. 7). The Spanish then brought it back to Europe and continued to treat a variety of ailments with it (Allen Par. 7). In the last 40 years people have started to question the health benefits of chocolate, but new research is starting to prove that the Olmecs, Aztecs, Mayans and Spaniards were not too far off. Now, the pods from the tree containing cocoa beans are collected, and the cocoa beans are taken out of the pod (Healing Foods Pyramid Par. 15). The beans are then fermented, dried, roasted, then ground to make cocoa liquor (Healing Foods Pyramid Par. 15). The cocoa liquor is then combined with sugar, vanilla, and cocoa butter to make what is now known as chocolate (Healing Foods Pyramid Par. 15). Controversy over the health benefits and detriments of chocolate is slowly subsiding, but there are many things that a lot of people still do not know about how chocolate can affect ones health. Chocolate is misunderstood.
By the time the end of my junior year rolled around I was ready to get away, so I enrolled in the Running Start program. I felt I had outgrown all that school activities had to offer and I wanted to just get on with my life. But as many teachers have clearly demonstrated over the last four years; you never get too old or too mature to have a little fun in high school. It took me this year to realize this. It was around homecoming that I started to feel a little left out.
I decided that my actions were no longer beneficial to me and I wanted to charge. This transition was scary I had to leave the only friends I’d had outside of my brother and start over. My eleventh grade year changed my life. I didn’t have high school or myself figured out yet but I was ready to dive in and swim. I’d tried fitting in mimicking trends and behaviors of everyone else. Then one day I reflected on my experiences and what I had gained from them, nothing! I wasn’t popular, cool, and I didn’t have a girlfriend or any prospects. Trying to fit in was a constant failure, my last resort was to just be myself. My junior year was the year that I decided to be myself my attitude was positive. I was kind, smart, funny, and I had style. I began to work every day after school at McDonald’s and I joined the drama club. With the money from my job I started buying nicer clothes I didn’t always have the newest fashions or the best attire but my confidence was radiant. The drama club shed light on my humorous side participating in school plays showed my peers my talents. Girls began to notice me I got a girlfriend and I’d had a few admirers. High school wasn’t so bad after all. My eleventh grade year was the first year of high school that concluded in a triumphant
Ever since I was little I’ve been what you would call a “high achieving” kid. I did well in school, I did well in sports and I did well in my community. I was always the first one to class, and the last one to leave the field. I was the kid that all my friends’ parents compared their children to. I was the kid with a room full of trophies and awards. In my mind, the worst possible thing I could do was disappoint the people around me. In elementary school I was involved in every club imaginable. I was in the band, I played in the orchestra, I sang solos for chorus, I was in the math club, I was president of student council, I played travel soccer, I was involved in every activity possible, and I excelled in all of them. This