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Lekha Ravichandran
Period 0
IB English 11
08/30/08
Different Aspects of Life
I will always fondly look back on the memories of my ten-day trip to New York City to attend the Global Business and Entrepreneurship Conference. It was a leadership program that took place over this summer, which brought together kids from all over the U.S. and taught us crucial skills that would guide us throughout our lives. Never will I forget the incredible things I’ve encountered throughout this crowded city with busy people and the streets packed with cars, taxis, and buses - all surrounded by tall skyscrapers. It was different from Greensboro, and I felt like I needed that change. What I like most about New York is that it's alive, and you can see the vibrancy of life as you turn the corner of any street. While walking along the street of South Sea Port, a popular place for shopping and entertainment, I was thinking about how all this – the rush of excitement that pulsed through my veins, the never-ending sense of bliss than ran through my body, the lighthearted feeling of a carefree existence – won’t last much longer. Soon, in two days in fact, I’d have to go back to Greensboro and to the monotonous, dull days of my everyday life, so I tried to make the most of the time I had left. I took a moment to reflect on my experiences and thought about how the conference not only raised my confidence and degree of interest in pursuing business, but also changed my outlook about myself and helped me discover many different aspects of life I haven’t opened myself up to before.
