Personal Narrative: Joining The Multi-Cultural Leadership Club

My last two years of high school, I joined the Multi-Cultural Leadership Club, I was rather reluctant to be honest but I grew to love it. My first year in the club we started off with raising money to go to the Cesar Chavez Leadership Conference, (CCLC), at Western Oregon University. The CCLC is a conference where schools all over the state come to encourage kids to continue their education. To raise money we did car washes, sold clam chowder, and sold raffle tickets where we raffled off donated gift cards from a wide range of restaurants in our community. We were all competitive, trying to sell as many tickets as possible. I am a very competitive person so the raffling was right up my alley, and if I remember correctly only one person sold more tickets than me. After they pulled the tickets a couple of the members, me included, had to count the money. There were a lot of bills and coins, so much that we were all little overwhelmed, so the president of the club and I came up with a process line, and it …show more content…
We had to do a project that helped one or more person in the community. My senior project was encouraging teens to volunteer thus I created a presentation for middle schoolers where I had copies of volunteer applications for many different organizations and a power point with many reasons why. My essential questions was, “How can I use my interest in becoming a nurse to persuade the next generation of high school students to volunteer in a humanitarian organization.” This is what I began my presentation to the members with, I then lead on to explain how I volunteered at Willamette Valley Hospice and how that experience helped me in encouraging the teens. I explain how it pushed me harder to work towards the health career from the experience gained at the