EFY application

After regurgitating ideas in a club meeting about our Homecoming Parade Float, the instant we had a realistic designed I volunteered to drive and get my family’s hay bail trailer. A few hours later my brother helped me hitch it, I drove ten feet, hit the barn, blew the tire, STOPPED THE ENGINE, and crawled out. My 6’9” and almost 300 pound brother examined the brownout tire and asked me if I was ok. I nodded. He smiled, “A little shaken up?” He helped me call the shop and said to call when I got to Provo. I called the other club members and explained why I would be late. Once the tire was fixed I drove to campus. We won the Most Spirited Club Award in the parade, but I learned no matter how powerful someone is a team leader stays calm.
While volunteering in Navajo Nations Reservation I was discussing art and asking the students to describe Window Rock (a local natural monument). At first, it was impossible to get the students to say anything beyond red and brown. So, I began asking specific question and the list snowballed: scribble through fire engine red and circle around basketball orange. When the small chalk board was out of room I erased part and kept writing until there was silence. I called for more colors before I turned around and almost dropped my chalk. The students were leaning out into aisles, standing up in the back row, gripping the edge of their desks- all their eyes were on me to know what was next. In that instant I understood that what I was doing mattered: Window Rock, their color being written on the board, me (their teacher), and they (the students) all mattered.


Joyful: My name is Joy and I want to live up to my name even at work.
Creative: Some how art becomes apart of any job I do because it is how I express my thoughts, heart, and ideas.
Worker: I grew up on a farm and am not afraid of difficult or dirty work.
Friendly: People can not be stereo typed and stored like boxes but relationships should grow just as people do. My friendly personality helps me to befriend people I work with.
Brave: Life= new things+ mess ups + ask what to do better+ try again