Confessions of a California FFA
Gage
Gabrielle
It was freshman
year. This was the
day I had been
secretly dreading
for quite a few
weeks - the day of
the Opening and
Closing Contest. I was playing the part of Vice
President and when I had finished making sure all
the officers were at their stations I proceeded to say
“Madame President, all officers are...” There was
just one small problem. The President was a boy
and my inexperienced public speaking skills sent
me into panic mode! Instead of moving on I said
out loud, “Oh shoot. I mean...ughhh...I meant Mr....
uhhhh”. By that time I had forgotten what else to
say. That’s the day I figured out it’s probably better
to just pretend that John who sits next to you in class,
clearly a boy, is a girl for the day than freak out.
Lesson learned.
I can remember back to my freshmen year at the Greenhand
Leadership Conference in Colusa. We had to do a type of obstacle course
race, and when it was my turn to go, I
was sprinting down the pavement in front
of everyone and of course my feet flew out
from under me. Suddenly, there were a lot
of “ooohs” and “ahhs” and my face turned
an interesting shade of hot crimson. When I
skidded to a stop, I got up and scurried out
of the range of attention. Needless to say,
the orange team won that fateful day. My
bleeding knee, however, did not.
Riley
Just thinking of all the embarrassing
moments in FFA makes me turn red because I
probably have way too many for the average
Joe. Probably one of the more hot face
instances would have been just before COLC
my senior year when we were practicing
for our lip sync. The song was ‘Gangnam
Style’ and our team had spent hours the night
before perfecting the choreography to show
our advisors after our officer meeting. With
less than five minutes until the end of lunch, we showed the advisors and all the students in the ag department our lip sync for critique. Sure enough my purple corduroy
pants that I had had since freshman year let out a loud rip. Not just any rip, my pants had literally split in half in front of EVERYONE. I wanted to die and I had to
wear a sweater around my waist for the rest of the day so I wouldn’t be late for class.
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