Music exists because there are things that words cannot describe, nor express. Nothing I write on this page will make the reader feel what it’s like to stand in a choir, a single voice among many, locked into the harmonies. Nothing I write can replicate the...
Ashley Lin, from Union High School in Camas, Washington, wrote this second-place essay for the 2020 Ripley Hunter “World Is a Classroom” essay contest. I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to serve as a U.S. Youth Ambassador to Uruguay. Youth Ambassadors spent a...
It started as an idea. Just a simple thought thrown out. It wasn’t a notion that crossed everyone’s mind, but I came to be more than glad it crossed mine. What started as a flash quickly spiraled into an experience that forever shaped my life. It is over...
