Of course, there is something wrong with that sentence!
COLLEGE FRESHMEN.
Yes, this year's seniors are given a chance to go to spring conference, only our hopes to fizzle away in the hopes of recruitment.
Yes, recruitment.
I know how ironic it is, considering that my first session ever is spring conference, but really, I already made the decision to join YnG beforehand, Spring Conference or none. I don't know if from the previous years that people were set to join YnG without Spring Conference or not.
I don't really know how recruiting fits into spring conference considering some of the people from Westchester who have gone there, are mostly returnees, and those who we are supposedly recruiting either didn't feel like it, or joined then quit.
Then again, I am only looking at one delegation's perspective. Like a statistics concept, there is something called sampling variability where one is greater than the other, and the usual, less than the norm given. So, I don't really know as I don't have any evidence to back this up outside Westchester's grounds.
Whether it is Governor Blumenfeld's work or not, he (or not possibly him -> continuing to emphasize the point) has opened the doors for those who want to do something earlier, and those who want to leave later. With that said, if a freshman gets to savor YnG for the first time, then a senior who is leaving for college gets to savor YnG for the last time, even though it was supposed to happen at Sacramento.
To me, it is really heartbreaking to see jaws drop out of Westchester Delegation seniors when they heard this, since some of them were so excited to hang a hammock on the same spot that they have been hanging it on for three or four years, and the melted ice cream on the grass, or the idea of the slide and a pool on a hot day.
If Spring Conference is truly a recruiting ploy, then it has not worked. Finally came up with my evidence: Most (yes, MOST) of Westchester's new delegates did not attend Spring Conference.
Names? Sure.
Elizabeth Kaczor? Nope.
Drew Hancock? Nope.
Laira Martin, Nope.
Jacklynn Morris, Nope.
Tanner Webb, Nope.
Ellie Hernandez, Nope
Nina Benton, Nope.
Natalie Friedricks, Nope.
Rebecca Rosen, Nope.
Christian Collins, Bob Heutmaker, Jimmy Cipiti -> Nope, Nope, and Nope.
The list eventually ends, and most of them did not experience spring conference (which I personally hope they do this year)
This simply proves that Spring Conference is, for seniors at least, an extension of a goodbye, and for freshmen, it's simply a new beginning. For the people in the middle (including the people with the new beginning and the extension of a goodbye), it's simply a party.
A party that we can't miss.
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