My Time in FFA by Justin

I’m Justin a sophomore in my highschool who is in FFA and I became the chapter(club) treasurer and it’s one of the best things to happen to me but is also incredibly scary. I need to explain how I got there so I'll go back up to the start of Freshman year when I walked into my Ag Bio(Agricultural biology) class and I sat down and that was the first day I learned I was in the FFA and as time passed I got really interested in livestock judging. Livestock Judging is a CDE(career development event) where you go and judge a class (set of 4) of animals that can consist of cattle, lambs, goats, and swine which are either raised for meat or for breeding. I’m okay at it and I got a 4th place ribbon once but that wasn't the best part of joining the team. My favorite part was the people I met with one of them being the man, the myth, the legend James. He is one of my three idols and a genius but he is no longer in an Ag class so I don’t see him as much and the other member was Kat one of my closest friends she is also really smart and we’re still friends to this day and there was a third member named Karla but she quit after she found out there was a test. Months later two more girls joined, Jade who is still on the team to this day and Emelin who left the team to join the floral team. We were led by a man named Mr. Vanwinkle who left us on a few occasions and nearly led the team and I to a highway. Really fun times but Mr. Vanwinkle did move to work at a different school so now the team will be led by Mr. Kanter who somehow is able to be really funny and serious at the same time with Jade, Kat, my friend Jovan, and I as the members. Also at many of the competitions that I went to I saw a guy named Gunner and would take a picture with him whenever I saw him. Later towards the end of year there were flyers for officer positions and at first I wasn't interested but at a livestock judging practice Kat said she was trying to become an officer and I should be one too. After that I was like why not so I went for the role of treasurer. Kat went for the role of sentinel so after filling out a form we had to do a round of interviews which went pretty well and after everyone was done I got slated for the position of treasurer and had to go up against someone else to officially get the spot and it so happened to be Kat. When I saw that my brain just shut off and I couldn't think about what just happened. I went home, did my homework and slept. That Thursday would decide who became treasurer but there was one hope I had that was whoever lost would slide down and have a chance at winning. I went through my classes that thursday to get people to vote for me and later that day when I was getting ready I realized how nervous I was not the fact that I could have lost but the fact I could win because I felt that I would have stolen it from Kat and I was questioning the if I wanted to win. Then Kat and I had to answer two questions with her answering one first and me answering one first. We both did well but I truly believed she did better and would win if but somehow I won. I was shocked and I felt bad and I still do every now and again but I won and there was no going back. After that Kat said that it was fine that I won and I felt a bit better after that. After school ended the rest of the officer team and I took a trip to Disneyland to work on team corporation which was fun. During the trip I got a text from my girlfriend saying she was breaking up with me and I didn’t really react all that much because I felt her starting to care less and she said she needed time to work on personal stuff in her life which is fine but my friend she started to try and date someone else so looking back on that is fun. At the end of the day I did cry because I hate loud noises that I can’t see and there were fireworks going off behind me. That about everything that has happened to me and now as of late I am raising chickens for the SoCal fair which is really fun. The one part that I don’t like about being on the officer team which is not their fault at all and only mine is that I feel like I don’t deserve to be on the team because I am Youngest, least educated, overall just not as good as the rest of the officers. I also feel this way about the livestock judging team and I tell myself I'm fine but I feel like I am letting my teams down. At the end of the day I love everything that I do and I am glad I could just say what's on my mind.