Many people have great accomplishments in their life that could help transition them from child to adulthood, but as a young adult I have only lived a mere eighteen years. I have gained numerous accomplishments through sports and academics that would probably be something to help transition someone. Accomplishments that helped one to transition to an adult through academics is what most people would write a college application essay on but being different I am going to write about an accomplishment that not many people can say they have.
The accomplishment I am going to write about is becoming Miss Tree City 2014. Miss Tree City is a local pageant for my community’s fall festival. I decided to write about this because it has showed me different views of the community I live in. Competing in a pageant was not something that was on my summer to-do list before my junior year of high school, at that time I was concentrating on making the varsity volleyball team at my school and getting the grades to get me into the best college for me.
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For instance, I am not a morning person but I woke up at five in the morning to help deliver Christmas to the less fortunate families in my community. I think that this event may have been tiring but taught me how to treasure the little things because others may not have it.
Being Miss Tree City has given me a different outlook on life. It has made people look at me as a different person. I feel like the community has begun to look at me as an adult representing their county and not as a child with a crown playing princess. I was asked to many different events in the community and did not just show up to what I wanted. When the community asked me to come out, I feel as if they were showing me respect and helping me become more of an adult in the