I am trying really hard to stop smiling so wide before my face splits in two. I have just received some good news that I am both humbled and made more confident by at the same time. I will start at the very beginning. Quite a few years ago, I attended Camp Greystone in North Carolina. I went to the June Camp for the first two years and Main Camp for the third. June Camp is three weeks long and Main Camp is five. If you count the days we spent there before camp, I would say I spent about twelve weeks there. It is sometimes hard to imagine that such a short time could create such lasting memories. When we moved from our former home to where we are now, I could not go back because of the distance and gas prices prevented me from going back.

Fast forward three years and I am walking through the teen section of our local library. I looked down and saw something on the floor. After picking it up, I saw it was a bookmark advertising a release party for the Book Brisingr by Christopher Poalini. At the party the next weekend, I was told about the Teen Advisory Board (TAB) by the teen coordinator. I attended the following meeting and have been a very faithful member ever since. In two weeks I will have been a member for two years, only missing two or three meetings. In March, 2010, our teen coordinator told us we would be getting a new coordinator and that our former coordinator would be working at the reference desk full time. I will admit, I was a little disappointed. I then got to know the new coordinator and immediately liked her. She was friendly, open minded, and eager to prove herself. A few weeks later, our coordinator announced that she would allow us to run for positions in TAB. I was ecstatic by the news. I had been in the program for almost two years and wanted to do even more to help the program grow. TAB was the first thing since Greystone that I was dedicated to. Without TAB, I would have been stuck in a small town with nothing to do. The local homeschool co-op was full of people who told me and my family on a regular basis that we were going to Hell. You might be wondering what their reasoning behind this was. I’ll tell you. one day at this co-op, my brother and I made the mistake of bringing up Harry Potter. We immediately became outsiders. We eventually dropped out of the co-op. Back to the matter at hand.
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