Good morning Mr. Ian Morris, Mrs. Grazia de Bettaglio, staff members, teachers, parents, fellow students, and inductees. It is a pleasure for me to reunite with all of you in a new campus, on such a significant ceremony. I am really happy and pleased to see the new members, who are about to join the National Honor Society. Students that due to their outstanding service, character, leadership and scholarship have been granted the opportunity to join such prestigious group.
All Throughout the 4 years I was a member of the NHS, I was able to see life from several perspectives, whether it was from the people in need, from a high school student trying to help others, or just from a human being asking myself how I could impact someone’s life positively. Being in a group dedicated to helping people, you learn to put others first before yourself. Constantly thinking of new ideas to raise money or of an unknown charity that needs some help to keep going on. You learn to plan activities from scratch, having several backup plans to ensure everything goes as planned; but most importantly you learn that the biggest form of gratitude can be shown as small as a kid’s smile. In addition to how my parents raised me, the NHS allowed me to do one of the things I love most, volunteering. …show more content…
Always give the best of you, never settle for less, and even if sometimes you may feel as you cannot go on balancing school work with NHS assignments, keep going, because at the end seeing people’s gratitude is the greatest reward you are going to get. At some point you may think that what you are doing is so small that is not meaningful, but to someone it means the world that are you are giving your time to help them. Let’s make the world a better place for everyone. At last I want to share with you what Steve Jobs once said, “Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who
All Throughout the 4 years I was a member of the NHS, I was able to see life from several perspectives, whether it was from the people in need, from a high school student trying to help others, or just from a human being asking myself how I could impact someone’s life positively. Being in a group dedicated to helping people, you learn to put others first before yourself. Constantly thinking of new ideas to raise money or of an unknown charity that needs some help to keep going on. You learn to plan activities from scratch, having several backup plans to ensure everything goes as planned; but most importantly you learn that the biggest form of gratitude can be shown as small as a kid’s smile. In addition to how my parents raised me, the NHS allowed me to do one of the things I love most, volunteering. …show more content…
Always give the best of you, never settle for less, and even if sometimes you may feel as you cannot go on balancing school work with NHS assignments, keep going, because at the end seeing people’s gratitude is the greatest reward you are going to get. At some point you may think that what you are doing is so small that is not meaningful, but to someone it means the world that are you are giving your time to help them. Let’s make the world a better place for everyone. At last I want to share with you what Steve Jobs once said, “Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who