Girl State Research Paper

Are you from Girls State? Yeah Yeah. The week that I spent in Claremont McKenna was an amazing experience. Girls State is a week long program where young women from all of California, one from each school, learn about the government system and discuss the social issues occurring in our state and nation. In effect, this empowered us to try to become leaders in the world and in our community as well.
Girl State is important me because it was a completely new and different experience. I always want to join and participate in almost everything because it could be a new or different experience that I would enjoy. Girl State was different, because only one girl can represent her school. So when I was chosen, I was ecstatic. After writing an essay, being interviewed by a panel of three women from the axillary unit, and competing against three other girls, I was the one that was chosen. I felt proud because to me it was a huge deal to represent my school. I wanted to show my school and …show more content…
And it was a culture shock, because some things I was familiar with were practically rare to them. For example many didn't know what Enchiladas were and since I'm Latina, it amazed me because where I come from that's a common Mexican cuisine. In addition,we all had many different views on relevant issues like immigration, gun control,etc. I met a girl who knew how to hunt so that brought an interesting perspective on the issue of gun control. Because in Santa Ana it's rare to find someone who can hunt because it's an urban area. So it's difficult to get their perspective about the gun control issue. Therefore since we were all so different, I felt it brought dimension to our debates. All of us had different perspectives, like some came from a rural area so their main concern was the drought. Others were daughters of policemen so they were concerned and were more