NSLC Part 1

I went to a conference this summer called the National Student leadership Conference. I had never heard of such a conference before in my life, so at first I thought it was a scam until I looked into it more. I thank God that I looked into it more because if I hadn't and I had just written it off, I wouldn't have made 100 new friends that I will have for a lifetime, also memories that will also last a lifetime.

It all started when I got this big envelope from Chicago and it said NSLC Exclusive Invitation to Bobby Tull. I am like this looks cool and its for me sweet! Then I got suspicious I had never heard of it before,and then it said I got nominated by one of my teachers cool. They sent me all this awesome stuff which looked really cool, and then I was looking at the cost I am like yeah right! This is so much money it looks awesome but I will never be able to afford this. Well my Awesome Grandpa stepped in and said he will pay for it. Time passed and never was able to get to the application, until about 5 days before it was due! Then it was 2 days before it was due! I got all the stuff together and faxed in, I got the application done online, but I was like yeah I turned my application in so late that I wont get in!!

Well a week or 2 later I got the letter that said I was accepted!!!! I was so thrilled and happy I couldn't believe that I was going to NSLC which I had never heard of before, and now I get to go to California and be in San Fransisco which also had never been to before! I was so pumped I couldn't wait to go. I was also really nervous about it to.What about if no one likes me there. What about if I have a terrible time and get nothing out of it! Lots of questions of doubt!! Then the money question arose again what about the clothes we have to get I don't have all this neat attire stuff ahhhhhh!! Well luckily thank God for the Salvation Army Store, Marshals, and T.J Max we found lots of nice stuff for a lot less!! I was wondering if there any other people from Michigan going to this NSLC at Berkley. So we found that there was one other student coming from Michigan her name was Lauren Schmidt! Well we didn't really hit it off with a band when we first meet at a Bob Evans in Ann Arbor a week before we were suppose to leave. It looked like she didn't even want to go. We didn't talk to much, which was excepted, the moms did most of the talking and starting up the conversation. So when the awkward experience was over, I need a few more clothing items and then I need to start to pack!! This was going to be first time on a plane all by myself! This was also going to be the first time that I was going to be away for this long, this far way from home!!

I was pretty nervous. We did all the little detail packing the night before and we finished packing about midnight! We got to the airport and it was pretty crazy,especially when it came to security! We were at the front of the line for security and they weren't going to allow my thought because she didn't have a gate pass to come with me, so they said I had to go with her, and she told me to go on and I thought we weren't going to be able to say good bye. I got back into the front of the line and my mom got her pass and got back even before i got all the way through security. She got through security even faster than me!! We went and got some breakfast and then we took the tram to the gate which was all the way at the end of the terminal!! Me and my mom said our last good byes as I boarded the plane, for Cal Berkley for 2 weeks. who knew that it would be a 2 weeks I would never forget, and it would create friends for a lifetime and an experience of a lifetime!