My confession today, I'm happy.
Speaking of things Harry Potter related (don't you just love segways?), I have uber exciting news explaining my I'm so unbelievably happy. On Wednesday, I was offered a staffing position and co-leader position on a project at...the Harry Potter Alliance! This is so amazingly squeeful! Honestly, the news just hit me now. Weird right? I think I was in complete shock for about 3 days or so. Guys, A CO-LEADER on a project and STAFF MEMBER?! ZOMGYAY! I'm going full on teenage fangirl right now, but I could care less. I still can't really believe it, me on the HPA as a staff member. Me, Angelia Louise Simeti, the seventeen year old Harry Potter obsessed girl who never knew that she could really make a difference in the world. Me. This is huge- No, this is epic. Epically EPIC.
Here's the story: This all happened after my blog post (see previous blog post) was posted on the HPA main site. I've gotten such amazing feedback from people, it's just brilliantly outstanding! I started talking to some of the HPA members about a possible project where the HPA and Invisible Children combine their awesome forces, and rid Northern Uganda and Congo of this Voldemort (Joseph Kony). I had a Gryffindor moment, and decided to take the idea to the head honcho himself, Andrew Slack. He co-founded and is the Executive Director of the HPA, he's just an all around amazing person trying to save the world like the rest of us. I emailed him via HPA Common Room, and I told him about a possible future project involving the HPA and Invisible Children together. This is what Dumbledore would love, to help these kids and other suffering from genocide around the area (especially in Darfur). Considering the fact that I was in school, I couldn't check my email frequently. Because I totally would have been going on every minute constantly refreshing, seriously. He emailed me back saying it was a great idea, and he'd love to create a partnership with Invisible Children. He even stated that my "passion was electrifying", I almost died right there. THERE'S MORE! He said and I quote: "I would LOVE for you to take the lead with me in developing this partnership...Would you be interested in joining the HPA staff? I know that myself and the rest of the staff would be thrilled to have you on board. There's much that needs to be done and it would be excellent to have you with us, doing it!"
I don't think I've ever squeed so loud in a public place before, not to mention my high school library full of kids my age. After squeeing loud enough for all of Deer Park High School to hear, I was reduced to a state of speechlessness. To say I was shocked would be a massive understatement. Quite literally, I couldn't form words. The sounds that my mouth omitted were little squeaks of excitement and gasps of breath. Within 5 minutes of staring at my screen, my best friend (who was beside me of course doing a project for her English class) looked over to me and asked what was wrong. Slowly, I turned to her. My eyes wide and tears quickly filling them, without saying a word I pointed to the computer screen in front of me. After she read the email Andrew sent to me, she was shocked as well.
"Oh my god"
I nod my head a little, still not believing what I just read.
"You're speechless?!"
Again, a nod answered her question.
"Angelia, you're never speechless."
Finally I broke my silence by basically shouting "I KNOW! OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD! SQUEEEE!" Needless to say, I was beyond excited about the news. After I was done squeeing my head off (probably every junior in there looked at me funnily, but I didn't care), I basically ran to the main desk and asked if I could use the phone. I called my mom, and she was beyond excited too! I hurriedly explained to her what Andrew said and she was just as shocked as I was. The teacher who was monitoring the library desk overheard my excited chat with my mom, and told me to tell her everything (she's one of those laid back and easy to talk to teachers). I proceeded to tell her everything, I was way too excited to keep my voice down. So I'm guessing every damn person in the library heard of my newly found staffing and co-leader position.
My solution to my confession, nothing. I'll continue to bask in my happiness for as long as I want. Everyone deserves to be happy at some point.
I'm finding that I've been epically failing to update this almost everyday. Two words: EPIC FAIL. But you're still getting a story anyway! Even if it is a few days late :D
TTFN!
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