College Right After High School

After I graduated from high school and before I moved to North Carolina, I went to Dixie Community College a year and a half. I actually went to school for design and business. Very few people know that about me. Design has always been fascinating to me, and still is. I loved my classes, they were so much fun, we created some fun things and I learned many things about the fashion and business world. Though I have always loved fashion, I have always knows it was never something that I was meant to do as a profession. Rather I just wanted to be fashionable and if you know me now you would wonder, “She took a fashion class??????” I know, I know, I am not as fashionable as I would like to be. I have learned that there are more important things that we need to be worried about.

When I was attending Dixie Community College, I was a club president for The Best Buddies Club. I really liked it; however it was a hard job. The college really put a lot effort into training me, they sent me to Florida for two weeks and I received some great training and I met some rather amazing people. With the training I was able to get the club working rather smoothly on campus. That year we were a thriving club and we did a lot of great things. If you don’t know what “Best Buddies” is let me tell you. It is a program where college students partnered (buddied) up with students with disabilities. The college students friended students with disabilities and they took them out into public and taught them how socialize with other people. Many people with disabilities didn’t get to go out unless they were with family. It was nice for them to get out with a peer. I remember teaching my buddy how to order food at a nicer restaurant and then how to eat. We were able to teach a lot of different things. Many of the buddies did not get out into society very often and so they did not know how to act or be around other people. We really did a lot of great things. I was really involved with the program for a year and after that I trained someone else and turned the program over to them and I got involved in other student body activities.

I was so involved and having too much fun that I slacked a little too much in my studies and I didn’t keep my grades up and ended up dropping out, or taking a break from college for a bit. I than moved to North Carolina soon after, I needed to get away from my family; I don’t remember what was going on at the time but I am sure it was crazy.