Narrative Essay On Eagle Scout

Five years ago, I joined the Boy Scouts of America. I was such a little kid, full of hopes and dreams about one day becoming an Eagle Scout. Fast forward 4 years to August 2016. Around that time I started to get my act together about starting my eagle scout. For those who do not know, the eagle project is the hardest part of your eagle rank because it test your leadership and your sense of responsibility. When I finally completed my project last spring, I realized that I had learned a couple of things. Over the summer of 2015, I tried to find an eagle project. My last idea had fell through due to a lack of response from my sponsor. I was stuck. My parents wanted me to get this done, but I didn’t have an idea. Then it happened, the miracle

For the next week I sent emails to friends and troop members asking them if they could make it for the project. By March, I had gotten enough people together to start my project. On March 5, My volunteers and I started my project. Our goal was simple: rip up all of the old boards and replace them with new ones and do the same with the railing. I separated the deck in half because the members of the church still had to go to the Sunday service and needed to get in the church. The church had double doors so I could extend caution tape to one door and the other would still be free. On that first day, I had the most volunteers I would have for the rest of my project. We ripped off half of the old railing and took out the lampposts that lit up the deck at night. Then my volunteers and I started to rip up the old boards. This task looked easy, but it wasn’t. The job took twice as long as I had planned because of difficulties with the old nails. But nonetheless by lunch we had a lot of the deck ripped up and had already started putting new boards down. By 3 o'clock that day we had extended the new deck to the beginning of the stairs. We were about ⅖ done the decking boards. We repeated the same process the next Sunday and throughout March. Around Easter I went on vacation and couldn’t work until April. But by then the decking boards were done. During March, I also fixed some of the