College Essay About Own Words

Fearful of my own words, I kept them inaudible. Being able to find my hidden words, allowed me to thrive as a leader of the organization, Traveling Story Tent in Turlock. I was the shy girl who rarely raised her nose from a book. Being sensitive and continuously insecure of what others thought of me, I took comfort at the library and spent elementary school lunch and recess invested in books. I absorbed myself in other people’s words which suppressed my own. During my sophomore year, I revisited my old elementary school teachers. To my dismay, none of them had kept their classroom libraries and had instead replaced them with computers. Glancing at the reading levels of the students categorized on the walls, I saw only a handful of students who had reached their grade level. The school library was outdated with the same books that I had once read. Words seemed to no longer matter.
Reflecting back to the impact words had made in my life, I knew I could not sit back and watch books lose meaning; I was finally ready to use my own words to prevent this. I took initiative to reach out to the Traveling Story Tent, a nonprofit organization that helps kids become confident in their reading. That summer, I became affiliated with the organization and helped start the …show more content…
The following summer, Traveling Story Tent reached out to me and asked me to be an intern, which meant I no longer was a volunteer but in charge of leading the tent. Growing from a timid third grader who read in the library at lunch to an intern of the Traveling Story metamorphosed me to no longer fearing my own words, but rather, fearless of them. I am not a natural born leader; yet I grew to become one through my affiliation with Traveling Story Tent, and I truly represent the motto of Traveling Story Tent: “read to