Personal Narrative: Boy Scouts

Boy Scouts was initially something that I never truly expected to enter my life. The most exposure I had of it was cartoonish representations that I would see in the funnies section of the newspaper or spoofs of the organization in my daily cartoons. This all changed when my friend one day invited me over to one of the weekly meetings. I was a little scared at first, a group of people I didn’t know was frightening to my middle school self. But for some reason; I’m not sure now if it was the friendly scouts, or the exuberant leaders, I decided to join. This inadvertently changed who I would be throughout the rest of my schooling years. Looking back from my senior year, I can see how scouting has influenced my decisions and choices throughout high school. During high school, I picked up various leadership positions that I don’t believe I would have felt prepared for if not for the experience I gained from my troop. Currently, I’m the president of the Young Buddhist Association group in my district, Vice President of the Konawaena Leo Club, former historian for my school’s Japan Club, and I was chosen to be a youth ambassador to Hiroshima, Japan in 2016. Many of these things that I put myself into came from the confidence I …show more content…
I hope to major in pre-law and go to law school after. Although I’m not sure what field of law I want to specialize in, I know that my main goal is to make a positive impact to people who need help that they aren’t able to supply themselves with. During or after schooling, I would want to still keep in contact with scouting, whether it be helping out when I make my summer trips home, or possibly even lending a hand to the local troops in the area. Something that I learned from my years in scouting is making sure to give back. I want to be able to do this for my home, and the organization itself since both have been an indispensable asset to my