SOMA Seventh Grader Attends Leadership Conference in D.C.
People to People's World Leadership Forum drew attendees from around the world; they visited sites including the Smithsonian, the Holocaust museum, and Arlington National Cemetery.
A wise man once said, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” My journey began with a stumble. Perhaps it was because I had been anticipating for so long my People to People trip to Washington, D.C., the journey and new experiences, and the friends I would meet along the way. This was a journey that began with a letter of recommendation from my sixth grade Language Arts teacher Melissa Williams at South Orange Middle School. Now, 10 months later, I had finally arrived at a World Leadership Forum. But when we stepped into the hotel that would be my home, the only faces I saw were unfriendly and only made me more sensitive. Slowly I began to see that those unfriendly faces were nervous students like me. They were from all …
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