VALERIE THOMPSON
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My BIO is simple. It goes something like this:
"When I stand before God, at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me…"
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I feel excited, nervous, naïve, and filled with unbridled ambition. I am in my senior year of high school, and I won one of the most prestigious awards for a high school student, the Aimee Poisson Grant for Journalism. The grant is awarded to the crème de la crème for high school students. I, with fifty students, will study with some of the world's best journalists for three months. We will stay in dorms at the Université de Paris. The committee will give us a translator, and they have arranged personal tours in Paris for us.
By VALERIE THOMPSON 5 years ago in Wander
