Starfire Research Paper

Starfire, a sixty-member high-school choir, is often described by alumni and current members as a group where members make practically all of their best friends. As an introvert, I joined Starfire my freshman year, unsure if I would make friends like everyone else, or if my shyness would make Starfire just a weekly extracurricular, similar to Lightshine, the middle school equivalent. But after traveling with Starfire to the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, and Ireland, performing an original show the summer of my freshman year, I too became one of the members who had immensely strong friendships with the other members. I had some of the best experiences and realized that Starfire is an amazing group that I cannot take for granted.
The next year, Starfire would be traveling to Mexico over the summer to build a house. After my first trip, I knew that missing out would not be an option. However, my parents didn’t see the immense value that I had for Starfire, as its importance something that must be felt or experienced, and cannot be explained. They didn’t realize that I came to rehearsal on Wednesday and sang on Sunday not because I was supposed to, but because I genuinely wanted to. They didn’t realize that going to Mexico would be more than building a house for a family in need, but it would also be about building

Eventually, the bullet-pointed list became sentences, the sentences became paragraphs, and the paragraphs formed an essay. I didn’t think I would do anything with what I had written, because I had written it for myself. Since my parents didn’t understand the importance of Starfire in my life, I didn’t think that presenting them with it would cause them to ignore their initial decision. So in the meantime, the essay lived as a mere thumbnail in my