A good work week so far!

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On Sunday, I ran the senior awards brunch, a two-hour event where scholarships and awards from various organizations but particularly the PTSA, gives out awards to recognize seniors. I had to emcee the event and keep the pace going; we also do Senior Reminiscences and the first showing of the Senior VIdeo. It all went smoothly. Then as the senior class advisor, I'm expected to give Closing Remarks. I worked on my speech 48 hours before the event, rehearsed it a few times, had some edits from Brian and my sister Carol, and then went with it. Apparently it was mind-blowingly amazing because I had rave compliments from my principal as soon as I stepped off the stage and all my colleagues had their jaws hanging open in awe, and after the event was over, moms were coming up to me with tears in their eyes saying it was the most touching and beautiful speech they had heard. I might have to dig it up and post it on Livejournal haha, though now I've probably hyped it up too much and it'll be anti-climatic and it'll be an awful read.

On Monday, when I returned to school, I found out that I was awarded a $1000 EcoSchool grant to work on coastal dune replenishment, so that was awesome! I'm super excited to get started on this project, and my principal was thrilled to win another award.

And today, I took a group of my students in the Marine/Environmental Science Club that I run to a 4H Climate Change Summit. The goal of the summit was to raise awareness about climate change in middle and high school students, and task them with conducting a community-based service project that addressed/mitigated climate change, raise awareness within individual communities, and then report back on the results. We ended up finishing in second place and won $200! Hurray!