An Interview with Blaise

Blaise was chosen this year to represent his class to participate in the Westerville Leadership Summit. The representatives went to two summit meetings throughout the year to learn how to better be a leader, then they came back to the school and worked with the principal to plan some community service projects for the whole school to participate in. Friday, Blaise went to the final meeting of the year. It is a great honor to be chosen for the summit and we are very proud of Blaise. He is a leader, not a boisterous one be a gentle leader who does what is right even though sometimes he is ridiculed by his classmates. This will be a quality that will help him tremendously as he grows into a wonderful man. Here is a little interview with Blaise....

How are you?

Fine....I had a good day.

How did you feel about being chosen for the leadership summit?

I felt great because there is only three years that you can be chosen to be in the leadership summit.

What was the most important thing thing that you learned there?

I learned how to be a leader, and work together really good with other people.

What was your fav part?

Getting to write pen-pal letters to senior citizens at the Village at Westerville.

What was your service project?

Pennies for Patients and Penpals

Which speaker did you like?

I liked them all, but my favorite was the leader of the good program.

What is the good program?

Something that you do that helps blind people, and make sure that you don't make fun of them because of their disability. The symbol for the good program is a lion that is blind, and their motto is when the going gets tough the tough gets going.

What do you want to teach other people?

I want to teach people to be a leader and to work well with others. A good leader doesn't always take all the credit, there are other people that deserve it to.

How has being a rep for your grade helped you this year?

It helped me to understand to be a leader and lots of other stuff.

Is there anything else that you want to say?

At the end of every summit they bring someone special out...the first time a puppeteer came and he was really good. The second time a magician came and he did lots of tricks.