Have you ever seen a high school MTV reality show? One when the high schools are thousands of kids deep? Where the leadership is impressive, the sports teams are on top, and everybody paints their face for the football games? I can tell you straight up my high school is nothing like that. We are 600 kids deep, the leadership can be sketchy and the sports teams are usually on the bottom, and painting faces for football games? We don't even have fans.
 I spent 3 days and 2 nights in Bothell at a leadership conference. All the Associate Student Body leaders were there, the class presidents were there as well as the leadership teams.Everyone was decked out in their schools colors, ready to share ideas to have fun and get you excited about being a leader in your school. As soon as I stepped off the bus I felt the school spirit from every direction. I was excited. I had never been apart of something like this.Kids were screaming cheers, dancing to the music and proud to be apart which ever school they were coming from!
While my time in Bothell I listened to speakers that motivated the hell out of me, received ideas on how to improve my school as a whole and enjoyed a new surrounding of people. It felt almost unreal, that I was apart of this huge production that was a delegate at the WASC(Washington Associate Student Council) conference. I was chosen to be sent out so I could come back and bring some of that thousand kids deep spirit to my tiny 600 kids deep school. I took advantage of every moment, scribbling down notes, taking business cards, making friends and taking it all in. Taking in what a high school should really be like.
My school had sent only 4 people while other schools sent fourteen it was a little disappointing to be a represented in small numbers. Although, WASC is every year and next year no doubt were rolling deep, And this year I am ready to make a change! STARTING WITH THE FACE PAINTING AND FANS AT OUR FOOTBALL GAMES!