We have to brag on Liz now!!!
We are so proud of Liz! Out of over 500 entries at her High School, she won first place for 10th grade and then first place overall for the school in a “Laws of Life” essay contest sponsored by the Rotary Club. She will now go on to the state competition where there were almost 45,000 entries.
Liz’s essay was on the Law of Life: “You never know what you’ve got until it’s gone.” She wrote about her experience of being pulled from a foster home several years ago and thinking it was just another very bad day for her, but then realizing it was one of the best things that had ever happened to her. She describes how she quickly came to know and love Karen (her soon-to-be adoptive mother) and then of her subsequent sudden death. She showed in her essay that even at her young age of 16 she has already learned, the hard way, that “you never know what you’ve got until it’s gone.” Liz truly is wise for her age and has a lot of appreciation for what she has.
This past week we attended a luncheon in honor of her and the other class winners.
Above: Liz, the 9th grade winner (he’s 6’4″!!), and Liz’s Literature teacher Julie Kimble.
Above: Liz was asked to read her essay for everyone at the luncheon. She did a great job.
Above: Just a very small snippet of her presentation…I didn’t think it was showing up well on the camera.
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Above: Photo op at the end. The winner from the senior class had to leave early, so she didn’t get into the photo.
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Above: With Ms. Kimble….who also happens to be one of the Young Women leaders at church…which is cool.
Above: This was an article in the local newspaper this weekend.
Above: This was the article in the high school newspaper after she won.