Cover Letter

662 S. Carriage Dr
Milliken, CO 80543



April 23, 2011



International Student Exchange
119 Cooper St
Babylon, NY 11702

To whom it may concern

I understand that an opening has arisen in Colorado for your organization as an Area Rep. As a person who has studied abroad over the summer of 2009 in Europe, I grasp the gravity of the opportunities your organization provides to students and feel I would be extremely comfortable working under this position in your company.
As a graduate with a 3.4 GPA and AP courses in my last year, I have proven myself as a capable student with an increasing self-image and goal setting aptitude. I enjoy knowing that experiences such as the ones your organization provides, motivate students to bring out the best in themselves and expect the best of themselves and others. I feel that my dedication to my studies in these past years, when applied to your organization, would be a great complement to you and bring about a better experience for your clients.
Considering I held an advisory position within the gaming club held at my high school, I feel such an experience would aid me in my ability to act as a true representative of not only your organization but the clients to which I may be assigned. This along with my studies of foreign languages such as French, Italian, and Spanish, will give me an edge when speaking with the clients, as the language barriers that would exist naturally between the client and their host family could be softened with a little aid on my behalf. I feel that my continued study of the alternate cultures to which your organization focuses, could procure a far easier transition for the exchange students and thusly make their experience as a whole, less stressful.
I thank you for considering me for the position of Area Rep. I also thank you for adding Colorado to your list of areas to which you would bring foreign exchange students. Feel free to contact me via my email: s.ch1m3ra@gmail.com if you have any further questions. Enclosed are my resume and application for your position. Thanks again.

Sincerely


Dalton Brumbaugh

Revised website

(I don't have all my letters of recommendation up as I don't have all of them scanned and transferred, apart from that, here is my revised website)
https://sites.google.com/site/daltonbonline/home

The effect of drugs in my life

Drugs have a powerful impact on the lives of those who experience them. The reason for my use of the word "experience" is due to the fact that everyone involved in the drug user's life is affected by their habit. Every day, we as humans, are faced with the challenge to forego the 'poisoned apples' and, in lieu of experimenting hazardously, act as responsible citizens. While lesser habits may arise, such as smoking and drinking, they still harm others. Their impact, a statement of one's experience is something tattooed to its owner like a scar. Allow me to show you one of my scars, given to me by another person's choice.

My friendship with the person who scarred me, started in 6th grade, I was the new kid and he took a liking to me. We were friends in very little time, enjoying middle school as it should be. I managed to jump from 7th grade to 8th grade, and in spite of the jump, we still managed to hang out, be friends and have fun. During my freshman year, that's when the problems began.

The first couple months of school, somewhere along the line, the friend I made had chosen new friends. He was on medication for ADHD, after his 'experiments' with alcohol he would fall into depression. I was the one he called in the middle of the night multiple times, being told he was going to kill himself and talking him out of it over a phone. I attempted having him talk with parents about his problems and this resulted in him almost severing the friendship.

As he entered high school, he greeted me as an equal, but he also began developing a stench about him. The next year, I shared a class with him and got to hear every last secret he wanted to confess. Smoking pot, starting to smoke cigarettes and developing 'friendships' with people who openly despised me and harassed me. Something I held no grudge for, until he stopped standing by me when they all decided that I needed to be stolen from, when my backpack was rifled through and calculator, workbook, and even ipod were stolen.

"How do you know I helped get those things stolen?" he asked me at one point. All I wore was a smile, "Your friend Chris has an Ipod with my name engraved on its' back. Explain to me how you didn't help, when it was stolen in the same class you were talking to me and your friend happened to be behind me. Where my backpack was not near me solely for the short time I was speaking with you." No words, only silence. I will not deny that I partially blamed myself for the mistake. "I can see where loyalties lie, it's my problem. Right? Good to know where we stand." I walked away from him, upset that I lost one of the few friends I made at school. This is why when someone asks me why I will not do drugs, I can tell them from my own experience, "You lose too many important people to them."