Relay For Life Essay

Making friends was difficult growing up. I was constantly moving, always “the new kid”. Then after a while, when I finally made friends, we would move again. Sometimes in the middle of the school year. This process stopped in fourth grade. The court found my parents “unfit” to take care of my siblings and I, due to how much school we had missed in the last couple of years, and my sister and I were placed into foster care, while my autistic brother was sent to live in a group home. School was never a friend of mine. I never knew what was going on because there was so much education I had missed, and going to school while in foster care was no different. Eventually my mother received full custody of us again, and I attended Burgess in sixth

I decided to join Relay for Life. Relay for Life is a large fundraiser group for the American Cancer Society. They host a two day event every year at the southbridge football field where volunteers create teams and set up booths with games and raffles. People around the community walk around the football field and buy tickets and food that go directly to cancer patients and research. I created a team, and got my sister and cousin to join me in fundraising. Other groups had teams with as many as fifty people but we were the only team made out of only kids, and just at thirteen, I was the youngest captain in the entire fundraiser. We didn’t need adults to do what we believed in. Even just last year, when my sister and cousin dropped out, I was the only person on my team. With no help from anyone, I still managed to raise over a hundred dollars during the two days because if I couldn’t save my cousin, at least I could try to save other people going through the same thing. Participating in Relay for life makes me feel like I’m part of something bigger. This year will be my fourth year doing this fundraiser, but definitely not my