HOBY

This summer I go to attend the leadership conference HOBY at Translyvania. I was really excited that I had been chosen to attend this conference but I was also really apprehensive because it was 3 nights and I was going to have to use community bathrooms which was a first for me. I almost didn't want to go because I was afraid that my roommate would be weird or that I wouldn't know anyone and it would be no fun. However I decided to take the risk and go anyways. I'm so glad that I did. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life. It was really nice to get to be around kids who are leaders just like you. In my group, C2, almost everyone was their class president. I am a pretty outgoing person but only if I know the people that I am around. At HOBY I had to step out of my comfort zone and do things in front of people that I didn't even know. The people in our group were all very outgoing and we were probably one of the loudest groups there. Every time our leader would yell out C2 we would all yell Oh yeah. We did that so much that eventually other students not from our group would join in. We also got to compete in an Amazing Race style race around Lexington. That was something different that I had never done before. Although our team didn't win (we had to stop for a coffee break at a coffee shop) we still had a lot of fun. We also had a dance on Saturday night that was lots of fun. I couldn't believe that I was the only person that knew how to do the hoedown throwdown. After that night I think that every one knew how to do it I was also able to get over my fear of public bathrooms. The first time that I had to take a shower with flip flops on it was a little weird but I was able to over come my fear. So I now feel like I can handle it when I go to college. I also had a really nice roommate who was from Whitesville which isn't that far from Owensboro. We even knew some of the same people. So unlike my fears I didn't have a weird roommate. I don't even think that there was a girl at the conference who would have made a bad roommate. Overall I had a great time at HOBY. I wasn't ready to leave when the conference was over. I'm really glad that I took the risk and did something that was out of my comfort zone because now I have great memories and lots of new friends. I can't wait to go back this year and be on Team Alumni. HOBY is not just a conference but its a way of life. This is an example of one of the many cheers that we had to do it HOBY. We had to say this after every speaker finished speaking.

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They were O-U-T-S-T-A-N-D-I-N-G

out, out, outstanding