Freshman in High School - Check!

Yearbook Headshot

          Today I finished my freshman year of high school! If you didn’t know, I attend Calvary Chapel Online High School. My teacher is Mrs. Russell, and there are several others in my grade. When I look back on the whole year, I still can’t believe that I made it through. ​

Yearbook Hobby

          During the school year, I was the secretary of the Leadership Team. I guess you could say that the Leadership Team is kind of like Student Council. We had different committees such as teacher appreciation, welcoming committee, treasurers, and yearbook. The team started out great. We had people in all different committees, we had a president and vice president, a chaplain, and also a sergeant at arms. However, all of this only lasted until Christmas break. After break, there were only about 4 or 5 of us that came back. I was still the secretary, and we still had a president, but that was about it. Since there weren't very many of us, we had to drop all of the committees, and decide on one project to work on. 

Yearbook - My Classroom

          We decided to do the yearbook, since it would be a benefit to all of the students. I took the job of setting up an email account for students to send in their photos and organized them by category. Some of the categories we came up with were headshots, hobbies, classroom (a photo of students working at their computer), landmarks (since we have students all around the world, we though it would be cool to have pictures of where the students live), and leadership. I loved looking at everybody’s pictures and then being the one to organize them (I love organization). 

          The last couple weeks of school were kind of stressful, as we worked to put the book together. I had many ideas about how to organize our small group to work efficiently, such as assigning pages for people to work on, but our president had different ideas. Her ideas weren’t bad, they just took more time. Though it really bugged me to not have control, I learned many personal lessons through the process. 

        

Yearbook - Landmark (Mexico Sunset)

           In my experience with the leadership team, I learned to have patience when people weren’t doing things the way I wanted them to. I also learned to respect other people’s ideas and opinions, because sometimes they are better than my own. I learned self control when I closed my mouth and listened to others. I know that my experience wasn’t that big of a deal, but if I hadn’t gone through it, I wouldn’t have grown in respect, patience or self-control. These Fruits of the Spirit bring me closer to God. So if I hadn’t gone through it, I wouldn’t be as close to God as I am now. 

          Anyways, the yearbook was finished and it turned out great. I am so glad that we all stuck with it and finished it out. I do think I might run for president next year though;) 

          God has shown me so many different things over the school year. I am so glad that I had a Christian teacher and Christian classmates to talk to. Patience, respect, and self-control are only a few of the lessons I learned. Please pray for me as God shows me even more things over the next school year, and I will be praying for all of you as well. Colossians 3:12, “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.”