Looking in the mirror back in 2011, I viewed myself in a different light than what I see today. Anti-social, self-disciplined, and maybe a little too hard-working added to the formula created a young student who was more concerned with higher grades than going to Six Flags with friends. Not to say those are horrible traits to have, but with a low number of close friends, I never experienced being a free-spirited kid. I didn’t have a sleepover nor did I attend parties, and the acquaintances of which I did communicate with seemed largely disinterested in my conversation topics. So naturally, when my seventh grade homeroom teacher offered me an opportunity to attend an exclusive school program, the occasion more than intrigued me. “Faces of Change”, previously something I’ve never heard of, was an event that takes a select few number of boys from my school to attend a trip to the campus of Georgia Tech and various other sites of business to hone young men into, well, men of the future.
The biggest concern at the time was the cost of the trip. My family didn’t have a car due to mechanical failures with our former one, and to top it off …show more content…
A guy named Tariq Thomson was the first to greet me, and little did I know he would be one of my best friends today. When we got on the charter bus to ride to Atlanta, I loosened up a bit. Talking with everyone on the bus, I felt as if I could be good friends with all of them, because we all didn’t know each other. They gave me a slew of things to talk about with people. Some were mindless conversational starters such as how the video game developers behind the Call of Duty series could make repetitive games and people would still buy it due to branding, and others were more intellectual like the key differences between Atlanta and Chicago, which ranged from annual events like the Bud Billiken Parade to simple block parties. I created a new voice for
The biggest concern at the time was the cost of the trip. My family didn’t have a car due to mechanical failures with our former one, and to top it off …show more content…
A guy named Tariq Thomson was the first to greet me, and little did I know he would be one of my best friends today. When we got on the charter bus to ride to Atlanta, I loosened up a bit. Talking with everyone on the bus, I felt as if I could be good friends with all of them, because we all didn’t know each other. They gave me a slew of things to talk about with people. Some were mindless conversational starters such as how the video game developers behind the Call of Duty series could make repetitive games and people would still buy it due to branding, and others were more intellectual like the key differences between Atlanta and Chicago, which ranged from annual events like the Bud Billiken Parade to simple block parties. I created a new voice for