Manic Monday-- FFA Week!

Today starts National FFA Week! Have you hugged a farmer lately? In high school, I never really valued FFA week, mostly because I never fully understood the meaning or the purpose. Now that I'm a teacher I try to instill the importance of FFA history into each of my students. If we don't pay attention to the history of FFA how will we understand the importance of its future??

FFA seems to have had such an interesting past and crazy road to what it is today. Gone are the days of FFA, only being important when it came to students taking animals to the fair. FFA is creating leaders of tomorrow, future farmers, future scientists, future businessman and future consumers. 

I'm so proud to have been part of FFA in high school. While I never thought we did enough, competed enough or traveled enough, I'm grateful for all the opportunities that I was provided with. FFA helped shape me into the person I am today. Which is why I work diligently to make sure that my students feel the same impact, if not a greater impact from the FFA. 

In our crazy world it's really important to remember to stop and smell the roses. But at the same time, we need to remember that someone actually had to grow those roses... Embrace agriculture! Embrace FFA!  

Happy National FFA Week!

One of my senior pictures... In my FFA Jacket of course!