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Hi! Welcome to the Student Council Blog! Here, you can post your thoughts and ideas about Student Council and Ridgecrest! Each week or so, we will have an “insider’s opinion” from a Student Council member about their experience in Student Council. I hope to hear from you! Through this blog, the Student Council website, and many other forms of communication, we can use the students of Ridgecrest to help enhance the school so it can be in the best possible shape. Please give your thoughts and ideas—Student Council will try to always listen and represent you!

For me, Student Council has been very exciting experience. From when I went around gathering signatures to when we had our first meeting, I have learned a whole lot. When writing my speech, I was sitting at our dining room table the day before it was due, pondering my speech while really just looking at the tree outside our window, when I suddenly remembered my friend’s idea- where I have little stuffed animals at the beginning of the speech. Slowly, I created an idea where I not only said my good qualities but also added some stuffed animals to make the speech more lively and exciting. I was very excited about doing my speech, and I almost forgot the posters. Personally, I think that the posters made the campaign. Though everyone’s speeches were fabulous, the five or so days of walking down the hall seeing posters that said “Vote for me!” really made a difference in how I voted. I worked hard to make my posters pop out, but I do think that mine wasn’t the best on the wall. I put my posters up a couple days late, but I’m glad that I put them up- when the first time you knew that someone was running for an office was when you watched a speech, it didn’t give you very much incentive to vote for them. Even though running for the campaign and experiencing such a fun process was exciting, being elected and working as a co-president was even more exciting.

I walked in on our first meeting with energy and excitement pulsing through my body. I jumped in and when I saw Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Storms, I got even more excited. The first time I spoke, it felt like a huge climax had just peaked, but my excitement never fell. For this meeting, we found out about our goal and we sorted ourselves into committees. I’m on the website committee, which I’ve been on since third grade. I was found some quotes about goals to begin our discussion on finding the Student Council goal, and the one that we finally settled on was to make Ridgecrest a more respectful school and to promote community service. I really like that goal- community service is something I love to contribute to and respect is a great trait to have, so I felt very honored to get to start that conversation with my quotes. Even though we didn’t start the real meetings until the next Thursday, just talking as a co-president was good enough for me.

The next meeting wasn’t as exciting, but it was still very, very fun: the website, poster, and spirit day committees all came down to the computer lab after a long series of complaints and praises from the Student Council representatives and officers. We seriously would have gone on and on complaining and praising until 4:00 if Mrs. Storms and Mrs. Whitney hadn’t stopped us at 3:40 or so. It was still super fun to go for the fifteen minutes we did down to the lab, where we learned about the Student Council website and blog. Each week, two people from our committee will work on the Student Council website and two people will work on the blog. I can’t wait until we actually start running the way we will run for most of the rest of the year! Our next meeting will be on November 13, which isn’t very far away, but I still am super excited and I can’t wait! For this meeting, I am to find a quote/word of the day, and since yesterday was Veterans Day, I think I’ll find a quote about that day. If I were to sum up my co-president experience with one word, I’d probably say “exciting”!

I am really looking forward to the future Student Council meetings. I hope that we can find a cause, like Hurricane Katrina or the flooding (two that we did in previous years) and help them. It’s a really good feeling when you contribute to someone who really needs help. I am also excited for our Teen Gift drive and fundraising for the 6th grade camp. One thing that I really like about Student Council is that its purpose is no t only inside of school and it doesn’t only revolve around Ridgecrest, and meeting people like the PTA president is really cool. Every day, I’m more excited to go to student council. It’s really, really fun!

I hope that you post some of your ideas in this blog! I also hope that we can realize our goal for this year. It’s been a hectic but very fun start to the year! If you have time, please also post to the discussion blog on the Student Council website (you can get to it through the Ridgecrest website homepage) and talk to your classroom representatives so everyone can have their voices heard throughout the school! I hope that you have a wonderful day and a wonderful year! Thanks so much for reading my blog- I’m very sorry if I bored you. See you later!

~Gigi V., Co-President of Student Council