Figure I better fulfil my weekly quota of posts here at TAH, and thought I would let you know what I have in store for me the coming week.\u00a0 Good Times!<\/p>\n
For those not familiar with Boys State programs, we bring in rising High Skool seniors and replicate a state government from the ground up.\u00a0 VA is broken into 14 cities, each with roughly 51 kids.\u00a0 Each city is broken roughly in half with the two political parties, the Nationalists and the Federalists.\u00a0 The names are not indicative of any political view, its only to replicate the gov’t.\u00a0 Anyway, so\u00a0I will have 51 kids, and my Junior Counselor decided last night to just not show up.\u00a0 Which means your bud TSO will be virtually alone.<\/p>\n
Another exciting element not present in past years will be the presence of 1000 girls aged 10-19 on campus.\u00a0 My girlfriend was of the opinion this was a good thing, since young boys will behave better when young women are around.\u00a0 She CLEARLY doesn’t know the brains of adolescent males well.\u00a0 To me, this seems like a disaster in the works.\u00a0 So, luckily, I was given a state police officer to also reside on my floor.\u00a0 That way we can play bad cop\/badder cop much better.\u00a0 Yeay me!<\/p>\n
Anyway, boys should be arriving shortly and I will be assigning them to their rooms, with 1 Federalist and 1 Nationalist per room.\u00a0 Once they all arrive I will brief them on the State Gov’t make up.\u00a0 The kids themselves run the program, and I basically facilitate.\u00a0 Today we’ll be electing the Athletic Director and City Sherriff.\u00a0 Sherriff is the most important job here, since he gets to do the bed checks while his elderly counselor studies for the bar exam.\u00a0 Also electing elections officials, moot court people (to be attorney general must be moot court), a city chaplain to lead the prayers before each city meeting, and I need to identify one guy over 6 feet tall to work the color guard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anyway, I will likely do a daily update on my mental health, and my city.\u00a0 Try to keep it clean in the comments if you would, because some parents might drop by to see what their kids are up to.<\/p>\n
This is honestly my favorite week of every year.\u00a0 These kids are the best and brightest in Virginia.\u00a0 We have the Governor, LT Gov and AG all coming here this week to teach the kids, and a slew of State Senators and Reps from our House of Delegates.\u00a0 They’ve got some top notch people here, myself excluded natually.<\/p>\n
Anyway, for any parents who find their way here, TSO is the head counselor of Washington City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"