An Introduction

I'm guessing many of you are wondering how exactly I decided to join the Americorp, let alone City Year. This goes back to my time at Marietta College when I studied leadership at the McDonough Center for Leadership and Business. Not until after graduation did all of this leadership stuff start to make sense. It was hard to grasp during my time at Marietta because it wasn't the real world.

After working in different settings, the skills that my professors instilled in us started to reappear. It was at that time that I began realizing the magnitude of my Leadership certificate and was really proud of what I accomplished as a student. Then I began remembering why I wanted to join the program and study leadership: to help others, change the world, and make it a better place than I found it. 

After being rejected to graduate schools, I began to scurry for ideas for my immediate future. Some of my friends mentioned the Americorp, so I applied, was emailed about City Year, and being that it is a situation in which I am very familiar with, inner city schools ( I attended Perry Traditional Academy on the North Side of Pittsburgh, a city school), I was able to empathize and very quick knew that this was a journey in which I needed to embark on.

Giving back to the community is something that each one of us can do, but very few actually will. By taking on this role and showing kids that education can take you anywhere, I am hoping that this will blaze the path for people in the future who read this blog.

Throughout the next 10 months, my life will be dedicated to bettering the lives of those less fortunate, those who don't have the strong support group that I had growing up, and hopefully expose these kids to ideals and activities that they otherwise would be sheltered from.

I urge you to check back regularly as I hope to have a daily update with pictures!!!(Sometimes pictures say more than words, and some of my friends would rather look at pictures than read my posts anyway).