So I did end up deciding to run for Honor Council. Quick and easy – sent in my statement of intent (a paragraph saying why I wanted to run and not so much on why I’m qualified heh) last Friday and was put in the running. Actually a lot more people than I expected ran – about 8-10 people, from which our class will choose 4. Originally, when the e-mail for the poll was sent out, we could only choose 1 person. To me, that was really inaccurate, because if there were 4 positions and people could only pick one but had a couple others in mind, the ones that most people want might not get chosen due to vote splitting.
So I e-mailed the girl in charge, and she said that’s how she thought they did it last year, but she’d check with someone else. I was thinking that didn’t make a lot of sense, but I just thanked her and asked her to let me know what he said. Yesterday, she sent out an e-mail to everyone in my class saying she accidentally formatted it wrong and that she’d extend the deadline to respond. This time, we could choose 4 places. Yay! So I e-mailed her and thanked her.
It’s always weird when you’re running for something. Or at least it is for me (and that’s one reason I do it so often). You don’t want to be selfish or cocky by voting for yourself, so I usually vote for other people when I run. But then you might lose by that vote you could have used for yourself. I think this is the first time I’ve run for something and voted for myself haha. But thanks to the revamped survey, I could vote for some of the others I thought were qualified too 🙂 I hope we all make it.
Today, I had two people tell me they voted for me. I really had no idea how to respond, but to thank them awkwardly… hopefully that doesn’t make them regret their decision haha! But yeah, that was cool – it’s interesting to finally be involved in a school organization that everyone else in my grade knows about and is voting about.