My Time At ACLC 

For my fourth and finally project if chose the speech I read aloud at my final LLC during the first semester of my senior year. Originally I had made a video of myself reading it aloud that I intended to show during my LLC. However I ran into technical problems and ended up having to last minute do a live reading. The speech talks about the effect of the passing of time has had on our school. It shows my passion for ACLC and the perspective of someone who has watch the school change over the years.

 

Time, things have always changed with the flow of time. Everything from the form of the smallest insect as it grows older to the light produced from a sun as it begins to die after billions of years. The point is change is inevitable, time brings with it one thing that is for certain and that is change. Whether or not the change we’ve seen in ACLC is the result of a new lead facilitator, a new campus, or simply a cruel act of time; change has come and there is no denying it. We are not the same school we were only a little over 3 years ago when I first walked through those halls as a learner, nor do we have the same traditions... though we may call them the same things.

 

The important thing is that you can not stop change. You will always find people trying to stop change, to keep things exactly the same way they are. still in a single moment and preserved forever because that’s their favorite moment and anything else may scare them.

 

Things are different and some things can never be put back to how they were before. but that doesn't me we should give up on what we believe in. Aclc, though she wears a different face, is still a beautiful school.

 

Now how did I as a learner adapt to this change... better yet how did I deal with it.

 

Like anyone else i went through the 7 stages of grief. Shock, Denial, Anger, Bargaining, and when the bargaining didn’t work guilt. what if it had spoken up a little sooner a little louder, could have i made a difference. followed by sadness or better yet a loss of hope. I am only now becoming familiar with Acceptance.

 

I did learn something through my acceptance, ACLC will always be ACLC as long as the learners still hunger to learn and the facilitators still strive to facilitate. Even when beloved traditions like dead week become distant memories and leadership becomes something of a forgotten figure head. As long as the learners still have fight in them, the heart and strength to stand up for what they believe in, to better themselves and their community. and as long as the facilitators can still evoke and inspire this in their learners than ACLC will still be ACLC. no bad seed can change that, no matter how high up the food chain they may be.