Here you go Kate-
(This is an essay I wrote for school)
You’re scanning the hallway, looking for someone. All you have is a vague description. A girl, shortish with light hair swept into a ponytail. “That could be anyone!” you think. The truth is at Parker, and many other schools, its not hard to blend in. Parker doesn’t look much different than every other school, and its students don’t either. Without a second glance, people can dismiss Parker as “just another middle school.” But those who know Parker understand that though we may be similar in someways, every student at Parker has a unique personality. So who is this girl on the inside? There is more to her than you know.
She’s not just another student. She’s a kind, energetic, wonderfully fantastic, everything but the kitchen sink kind of girl, there is always more to learn. Let’s start with learning her name, Kate. Over a hundred kids go to school with Kate every day, but more than half of them have never stopped to really get to know her. The #1 thing you should know about Kate is that she is going to do something in this world because she is always helping people, and really cares.
Just this summer Kate got a puppy named Kneeli. Even though Kneeli can be trouble, Kate loves her. A puppy can be lots of work, but Kate never slacks off. She works her hardest to make sure others have the best time they can, even if it means giving up some comfort of her own. I hope Kneeli knows she is a lucky puppy! Kate always wanted to be part of the world, even when she was young. When she was a baby, she screamed a lot. (I bet her parents and her brother Drew can back me up on this.) Even when she was in Elementary School she was involved. She was on Student Council in third grade. Even though she was eight, she wanted to show the older kids that she could still help the school. She has always wanted to help.
Now, Kate is just as involved as ever. She is a peer leader, and never misses a chance to help someone, anywhere. Today, Kate even volunteered to wash of the lunch table, a job no one ever wants to do. The small things add up. In October, there is a walk for A.L.S. The school hopes to take 40+ kids to the walk as “Team Parker” to represent Mrs. Peach, out old cafeteria manager, who was recently diagnosed with A.L.S. And of course, it was all and completely Kate’s idea. She never misses a chance to make a difference.
Kate’s ideals don’t come from nowhere, she has a very involved family. Every summer her dad organizes the Take the Lake 5k, a charity race to benefit breast cancer charities, and Kate always helps out. Her mom is a nurse manager, and to be a nurse you need to take care of people. Kate likes that her mom can always take care of them when they are sick. She wants to be a nurse manager too when she grows up, following in the footsteps of your mom, taking care of people.
There are so many more sides to Kate, and unfortunately I can’t tell you them all here, because I don’t even know them all, and I bet Kate doesn’t either. Remember, when you think you know it all, you always learn some more. But I can teach you one more thing about Kate, she is modest. If you congratulate her on something she’s done that you learned from this paper, she will say that I exaggerated. But I didn’t. Kate is more than just a normal girl. She is a unique personality, a girl on a mission, and a soul on a path to change.
