some of
the activities that I did while I was a student here at Toledo
Christian where that was on the track
team track and cross-country I love that
had a fantastic experience
there I was also house leader for
my sophomore year up that was
really great to shout out to mr. westmeyer
that was a fantastic learning experience for helping
to engage with my peers and
peer leadership and understanding Dynamics
other students other individuals and how
to work with different personality types with something that
was a huge learning and growth experience
for me and then additionally I was a part of
the worship team for the chapel from
my freshman year and that was something that I I just
I love to do so those work those
are amazing experiences I really enjoyed those number
of activities
together we're over time
one another really well and
it's bands from Seniors freshman
to their freshman the same classroom as seniors
for about 15 minutes a day and through that you
get to connect with people who are in different friend
groups different age ranges
different stages of life really and because
of that it provides a really unique opportunity
to have mentorship and experiences that you wouldn't
normally have with people who are outside of your friend
group so houses are is a really special opportunity
right TC honestly one of things that say
great sit in the community from other
schools so as a sophomore I started off as
a house captain and I worked with the house of Joseph
and then I moved to the School Chaplain
where I helped direct the chapel
some the chapel services and also the
Paw Patrol in houses like Hull House chaplain
and then finally I was a high school Captain
which is like the captain of all
the house captains and helping them organized and just
supporting them behind the scenes which is a lot of you
know working with hey here let's plan some
do activities how are we going to organize the
next month the next week next quarter of games
that I got to work really closely
with his Camp held in the store westmar which was very
helpful for my development when the biggest
experiences of my entire career was
in Elementary School Mrs segler taught
Higher Ground and for
me that was just a place to unlock creativity
and unlock just this special opportunity
to play with ideas
to challenge myself and to learn
in ways that I hadn't before for
me it was like
School kind of came
easily and Higher Ground provided that area
and place for me to challenge myself in ways
I hadn't before had previously had
the opportunity to do so another
favorite and his favorite
memory and me
forever with something that
wasn't necessary plan I think this is
I'm into the carrot of the teachers at Toledo
Christian show for their students every
day it was my senior year and every
day I had this study
hall at 4th during my 4th. So
I had to study hall during fourth. And
one day early in life in
the semester I realized oh mr.
rob you know my English teacher I
love mr. Rob mr.
Rob as a study hall at the same time and
I saw him in the library in another room and I was like oh
I'll go over and I'll just talk to him and that
developed into something where every single day miss
Robin I would meet during fourth.
And we would just talk for 45
minutes sometimes into the lunch. Like we
would just go at it and
we would learn all kinds of stuff like 5
truly the way I see the world and
the way that I think and
how I've developed is a huge product
of that extra investment in time that
Mr Rob showed to me and
but if it wasn't for that
I don't know exactly where I would be in
person like I learned so much in those conversations got to
explore myself in the world and perspective
and those aren't things are in the classroom
like that's not something that the teacher
supposed to do that was above and beyond I
had Mr RAB as both a sophomore
offer English and then as a senior for
English as well and has worked fantastic
specially senior year
English that was probably my favorite class I ever
Toledo Christian and it was so interesting because
mr. Hattaway and does have a way of
just opening people up and making them feel comfortable in a space
like I've never seen before so we had
conversations in that class that we're
just expansive.
really helped a lot of people everybody in the class
really felt free to share and to open up
people who may be traditionally had not done so
and it was a space for people to
learn to grow and to talk
about things or maybe controversial or talk about ideas
difficult challenging challenging to our faith
challenging to our worldview but
be free about it and I think I was super
essential because if you don't do that you
don't have the resiliency later on in life because you
just live in a bubble and I think
what relief one of the things that really helps me
and won the class and that was why I asked one of my favorite experiences
coming from 2nd
grade all the way to senior year having not
just Bible classes real Bible
classes and those are really great
but it's like in every class there's a Common
Thread there's a common weaving of
this idea of Christ and the Bible and
the tenets and principles of it then it's
just like it's so Universal it's
so multifaceted
that's what a christ-like life looks like he's
using that in all
areas of how we live so I really
felt like I understood the foundation
and knowing the word and understand the stories
but also application
Google principles through classes through
history through English even through Sciences
on and those like
kind of that weaving together really provided
him like a bass level for me to
understand and know
what the Bible says in the word and its teachings and
it became my second nature because
it was constantly there and then I grew to understand
that so well in
the senior year I had a couple schools that I
was looking at after graduation I want to go.
and a number place I looked at mainly
came to this the school call John Carroll
in Cleveland and then University
of South Carolina and I was
trying to look all so it wouldn't be able to these places University
of Michigan was also somewhere I play
but after a while it
really came down to these two and as
covid near covid came up
and hit and I was having a lot of conversations
with the coach from John Carroll and
now. Just like getting to visit
for that a little bit through the fall
and then covid it in the spring
and we actually had planned over spring
break to go visit the University of South Carolina and
now something I could no longer do their campus
visits allowed there's nothing like that everything was on
walk down and just have like
I'm not going to pick a school that I haven't
you know visit it but
it's really interesting I don't feel a
regret towards I need a know
I should have gone South Carolina I needed to
because I found such a
good fit in John Carroll in the waterways
it parallels to the Christian with that you know
it feels like the professor's care it feels like
a lot of used I look for
a college we're actually things I experience in Toledo
and so I pulled from my screens
at TC and said hey what
do I want now that
I I learned from improve and
that was a huge part of my decision
so now I'm studying
I thought I was going to be sitting business however I'm
kind of building
my own major now so I hopped from business
to Communications each
semester if I start in business communication and
I said I'm actually going to like Focus
kind of building my own major
and that kind of is a combination of business
and communication would really
a focus on my new ship which is always
have no Direction starting
a business like that it always cold
however I hadn't exactly
know the path to get there and now I feel like I'm I'm more
on that but if I would just say it's
okay if the plans change and because
I was in high school I
was like I know I'm getting my business degree on
pet store in I know all these things and how to
Locked In And honestly there's so
much pressure on young
individuals coming out of high school that
they have to have a feed up they need to to
be honest with you for the most part you're
major actually doesn't matter as much as the experience
that you have outside of your
just Nestle your classes or it's
a professor's you engagements it's the classmates you connect
with is all the extra stuff that you take an opportunity of I
think I'm still the same for high school
opportunities for you to do that if you
take a short time to talk to your teachers they'll
talk to you for as long
as you want to invest the extra time and you
and like those are the things to
look for if you choose to get involved
extracurriculars at TC like those are going to hands enhance
your experience and I found the same thing is true at
my school now and John Carroll I
think I think Toledo
Christian prepared me in the sense that I had an
opportunity to do a lot
I'm very much wire to be a person who
doesn't tan so I did a
lot of stuff during my time and because of
that I looked at manage my time and feed
a lot of things in and understood I'm
confined like there was a level
maybe I did too much some might
argue and I would just be able to grind
in that and I learned
because of that that prepared me for what
I would need to do like
in college or what I have the
to do in college is bouncing a lot of things on my schedule
and when the time comes like say it's finals week like
you got to push through so
I think a lot of time management skills was something
that I developed in high school with a lot of college
kids struggle with but because I did
at TC and around TC
and in the community that helped
me prepare I think a lot a
lot of people and
I think that is a good fit
there is
so interesting because there are people
like the head of our school you
know mr. Gibson interacting
with students through his program was Gibson
witch's houses, and literally get to
it down you know 15-20 students to sit down with
mr. Gibson in and just talk and like
that level of Engagement that kind of community
that kind of care like that
somebody that high up would have that you
no desire to interact with students right
that's how all of DC feels
like you can go to Any teacher and
have a conversation you can go to a
lot of the other students I think
genuinely care and a lot of ways as well especially
speaking
the staff it's like I always
felt that I could go to any
one of the teachers even to try me we haven't had
yet and how to cut in half, hey I need
some help with with this subject hey I
would love to talk about this hey I had a question
and not just related to class worker School
material but brought her life you
know next steps in Life
or advice about the situation like
they were always there to not be teachers
but also mentors and I think that's the idea
Village raising a child and
that's what I feel like I've experienced a sweet of Christian
well if you're considering coming
to Toledo Christian especially having
come from place maybe you are you at home I
wouldn't be afraid to leave that
because there's a lot of opportunity and a lot of experience
that makes Toledo Christian someplace
that I know I could always go home and
for me I think there
is a level of there's just so much
investment from the staff
so much time and energy dedicated
to the students and so much opportunity for
uni things I think House program is one of the
most unique programs and I've seen in the
Toledo area to create Community
from high schoolers of all
so you're going to get to learn from people
who are older than you people that are younger than you people
who are different than you and
that I really enjoyed
was especially in the house I would say there's
a lot of opportunity to get in
to do extracurriculars whether that sports
with music and
band whether that's whatever it might be whatever
your direction is there's an opportunity to pursue that if
there's
not already something I know people who have
started different kind of gymnastics teams
are different you know opportunities to
represent Lou Christian and TC is fully
I think supported those so there
is a huge opportunity to get in.
Community and to grow
to learn so I would encourage anybody to
at least come to an open house at least
give it a visit and have a feeling and
talk to the staff and other students and I
think you'll quickly understand the level of care
that they have for each and every person comes in
considering the financial implications of
going to Salina Christian thank
you truthfully
it's been an experience
out of shape for you so much and I know
I'm talking to friends who did go
what schools did not have
the same experience that I do and that
sacrifice and not investment that they
gave to me has put me in a position to
succeed in ways that
I'm still yet to discover
so there is Yasir
to cost but I think
the return on that is
more than worth it I can get the exponential
and something that I'm only
beginning to understand the measurement of
as the foundation one of the foundation
for making me who I am today and so
I am extremely grateful that
my parents made the sacrifice and made the
contribution to put the extra effort but they
did send me here because
I know it has made me a better person to
be honest with you like I don't exactly know where
I would be if it hadn't been for TC
armor my experience before I
came to Toledo Christian not positive
and after
a Christian a total likes which
kind of moment and from then
on I grew to
a huge level to
where I am today and I'm continuing to
see the benefits of that