Terry Scholarship Applicant

Terry Scholarship Applicants utilize this essay to discuss an experience demonstrating your leadership out of doors the classroom. ) Describe a significant setback, challenge or opportunity in your life and the bushel that it has had on you. Dance has always been my passion. When I was undergoing many difficult problems in my life, I always turned back to move. For nine years I had been going to the same bound studio, Pointe & Plie, however, a couple of years past the owner of the company had closed her dance studio and relocated to a nonher(prenominal) city.I was devasted because I had grown to go to sleep the instructors and build a strong experience with the girls there. After that I knew dance would neer be the same. It wasnt until a couple years later, that a opportunitity opened up at my church. sensation of my friends, Tess, had been wanting to start a Praise & Worship Dance Team. She was provided going to start the team, and she asked me if I could help her recrui t more citizenry and make routines.I was a bit hestiate because I hadnt danced in a while, but she convinced me that through my years of experience, I could do it. I ended up adding five more girls to the team, and were able to perform legion(predicate) of times at our church. The dance team was doing magnificent, and with more experience, we started performing outside of our church, such as youth rallies, musicals, local events, and different churches. The girls had grown to love dance.The year was coming to an end, and we could not wait for what exciting performances and activites we could do the upcoming year. However, Tess, the captain of the dance team, was leaving to college. Some of the girls had gotten discouraged because they thought dancing was over, however, I was not going to repeat the same mistake. I took the iniative to break up the team up and draw out the performances even after she left. We continued to practice, and apiece day we got better we even were bles sed to have more members to the dance team.And to this day, we are still performing a different routine either month at our local church. We also have added a adolescent dance team that run ages 9-14, they also perform with us to routines taught my myself and some of my friends. Through this experience, I learned to be a leader and to not loose faith in what your passion is. Dancing will never end for me. Eventhough, I have had some setbacks, I will continue doing what I love. I hope to one day inspire the pack around me to not loose sight in your dream, even if things do not go as planned.