Personal Narrative: The Joy Luck Club

As a cross-boundary transfer student, I entered my freshman year of high school knowing very few of my classmates. In order to get to know others, I committed to joining some of the major clubs in the school. The first sign-up sheet on which I wrote down my name was that of the Lisgar KEY Club - a club that would impact me in many more ways than I realized. The first thing I discovered when attending my first meeting was its alignment with values. Its commitment to community service and to the support of major charity projects such as the ELIMINATE Project, run by Kiwanis International and UNICEF, was a mission in which I wanted to take part. It was in this vein of the organization that I focused my energies. From Grade 9 to Grade 11, I volunteered