Girl’s State Experience
Day 1
So I walked into Girl’s State not sure how the week would go. I set everything in my room; bed made, clothes put away, and everything was going well until I plugged my charger in. I got an electric shock and it fried my only charger for the week; so this is it, this is how my week will go. At that time it felt like nothing was going to go in my favor and the tragedy of this week was slowly unfolding.
Never having experienced a college dorm before no one knew exactly what to bring and if you didn’t bring the right assets it could affect the rest of your week. Not bringing a mattress pad made for a difficult night. “I swear I slept on a brick” one delegate stated the next morning at breakfast. Many people also got paired up with someone they had never met before; going into the first day you would have to meet your new roomie and develop a type of mutual bond for the week, this would be the person you roomed with, lined up with, and made sure was always accounted for, this person essentially became part of you.
The food was a whole other story. It was your basic cafeteria grade food, expected of a college campus. We had everything from pizza to mac & cheese to chicken nuggets and so on. Unfortunately that first night we ran out of ketchup, an essential for chicken nuggets and fries. What a disaster. The cupcakes, however, were to die for…at least the frosting was. The ice cream bar seemed full of variety and a big hit. The next morning at breakfast we had eggs and fruit and French toast and more, and the best part…the ketchup was back. The only flaw with breakfast was the lack of real Vermont maple syrup. Can’t have everything in life.
Once we got into our towns we got to meet up with everyone we were going to be living with for the week. It was interesting seeing all the different styles and personalities everyone was able to display. There were a lot of similarities between girls. Eventually we found each other all with the understanding that we came here knowing nothing about politics or what it meant to run or really what any position meant. Over the course of that first day we all started to understand a little more about each town and party meetings.
Although we were the town of Gray there was nothing dull about us. We came together making new cheers revolving around our town model, Rani Gray, the face behind the name. At breakfast of our first official morning we debut our newest cheer. We were all really excited to see that it went as planned since it never did during practice. We were able to vote, appointing our new friends to important positions in the town. After that was said and done we came together as a town to decorate our hallways. Everyone participated; from making posters to hanging streamers the town of Gray was soon bursting with color.
We are excited to see what the rest of the week entails between the State House visit and the Girl’s State election coming up. It should be an eventful rest of the week!
Abbie P. Julia B. Kenzie T.
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