California FFA News Winter 2015 | Page 3

Trevor Autry, Treasurer Tim Truax, Sentinel Danielle Diele, Reporter My most embarrassing FFA moment came when I was at Superior Region’s Chapter Officer Leadership Conference (COLC). Dani and I were facilitating our routine leadership workshops and I was overcoming a cold that I had caught two weeks prior. As I stood on a chair to yell out a direction set with enthusiasm, my voice decided to crack as if I were in middle school. Needless to say I was embarrassed. With a red face and injured pride, I tried to play it off with a joke...nobody laughed. During the first few months of high school, I had volunteered to help out with our chapter’s nacho night FFA meeting. As a greenhand member, I was new to the agriculture department and had just started getting to know the chapter officers - let alone the chapter advisors. I offered to carry two huge bags of tortilla chips (the long 10lb bags) from the ag truck to the meeting room with a few of my friends. While I was waiting for my friends to grab their bags, I somehow thought it would be a good idea to spin in circles with the two large bags in each of my hands-so I created a helicopter type spiral. Although looking back, this alone is embarrassing enough... at the age of 13, all I wanted to do was keep spinning faster and faster! I was not paying attention to anyone except myself and how much fun I was having. I started to pick up more speed, and then...SMACK HHY