LYS Can You Dig It, Everybody's Here, So Everybody Cheer!

I can never help but chuckle about this week every year as I see a multitude of high school students walking on campus (this morning right outside of my office window) and the random red shrit guiding traffic on their way to the union. Chuckling because I realize that I was in that multitude of students hoping to see what I could learn at the Louisiana Youth Seminar (LYS).

I attended LYS twice during High School and despite being at the same conference, the experiences where quite different. Only remembering vaguely, I remember my first year being a little ackward since I was the youngest in the group, but enjoying a couple of times where I had stepped up into leadership positions. That was also the year that I almost vomited up an entire year because someone (you remember who you are!) finally convinced me to try his Red Man chewing tobacco. The second year was a little different in that I had taken a leadership role much earlier and in turn helped get one of my fellow group members elected LYS president.

And LYS always makes me realize that I get to laugh out loud next month - Louisiana Boys State!