"Let us, then, be up and doing,...
To be honest, the second day here I thought i made the wrong decision.
Then the third day went by as with the fourth and my doubts grew stronger into frustration.
Frustration with the school system here and the acknowledgment that I might not aways be the brightest kid in the class. I'm now competing with these super students who don't know when to shut the fuck up and use big words that confuse me.
Now I'm going on my second week and I have never been so sure with what I'm doing in my life.
I decided to get up and go out and do something.
I've now clocked in 20hours of community service with the local Democrat campaign in the past few days. I'm now a field intern for the Obama campaign and newly promoted Team Leader for Section 28 of Pensacola. I'm now in charge of assembling, training, and organizing volunteers to promote voter registration and the Obama campaign for the Gulf Breeze region of 98. I feel like I'm finally going somewhere and in the right field of my education. I spent the better part of Saturday canvassing Pensacola with a woman who happens to be the wife of a prominent lawyer who takes pharmaceutical companies to court for malpractice. That day ended with an offer for an intership at the firm for next semester. And i think thats what kind of law i want to practice. I have so much work ahead of me, its daunting, but inspiring that in such a short amount of time I AM BECOMING SOMEONE. I've made a difference and if working for this campaign be all the difference I'll ever make, I'll be content in knowing I was involved in, what I think, the most critical, influencial election in our history.
I can't help but tell everyone about this. Theres this excitement that comes the moment your aspirations leave the abstract. I've never been so happy.
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Then the third day went by as with the fourth and my doubts grew stronger into frustration.
Frustration with the school system here and the acknowledgment that I might not aways be the brightest kid in the class. I'm now competing with these super students who don't know when to shut the fuck up and use big words that confuse me.
Now I'm going on my second week and I have never been so sure with what I'm doing in my life.
I decided to get up and go out and do something.
I've now clocked in 20hours of community service with the local Democrat campaign in the past few days. I'm now a field intern for the Obama campaign and newly promoted Team Leader for Section 28 of Pensacola. I'm now in charge of assembling, training, and organizing volunteers to promote voter registration and the Obama campaign for the Gulf Breeze region of 98. I feel like I'm finally going somewhere and in the right field of my education. I spent the better part of Saturday canvassing Pensacola with a woman who happens to be the wife of a prominent lawyer who takes pharmaceutical companies to court for malpractice. That day ended with an offer for an intership at the firm for next semester. And i think thats what kind of law i want to practice. I have so much work ahead of me, its daunting, but inspiring that in such a short amount of time I AM BECOMING SOMEONE. I've made a difference and if working for this campaign be all the difference I'll ever make, I'll be content in knowing I was involved in, what I think, the most critical, influencial election in our history.
I can't help but tell everyone about this. Theres this excitement that comes the moment your aspirations leave the abstract. I've never been so happy.
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow