“Thank you.”
Character can mean many things to many different people. In my time in high school I have had the opportunity to embrace all different meanings of the word, in an out of school. This term that appeals to me the most however, is citizenship. I believe that if you are being an upstanding citizen, you are exhibiting a strong character.
During my freshman year of high school, I joined a club called Peer Mediation. Peer Mediation is a problem solving community of trained students by youth, for youth. When there is a conflict in the school we are assigned to help by getting the opposing students together and talking them through it. The overall purpose is to make a more comfortable environment in the school. We keep kids out of trouble with the administration while teaching them to talk things out. By my sophomore year I was promoted to an officer position. At my school only officers can participate in the actual mediations and as one may assume, I could not have been more excited to finally start getting into the grit of it. However, when the time came for my first meditation, I felt almost the complete opposite. The case I was given was between two girls that had previously been very good friends however after many open altercations throughout the school, the issue was brought to
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I asked questions and got both of the sides individually. In all honesty, when the girls agreed to meet, there was a lot of tension. The confrontation and issues they had both faced in their lives were unfamiliar to me at the time certainly making it an eye opening as well as a learning experience for me. However, the girls walked out of the room that day with smiles, despite the fighting, the crying and the yelling that had just taken place. The mediation was something small, only two people, but it was a great feeling knowing that I had made a