Introduction: A native-born Utah'n, I've spent most of my life in various parts of Salt Lake City . . . graduating from Woodstock Elementary and enrolling in Bonneville Jr. High I would eventually finish my Jr. High career at CVMS in Carmel Valley California. After spending a relatively short few years in San Diego my family and I eventually moved back to Salt Lake where I found my now current residence in Cottonwood Heights. The transition between states played as a major factor in my interest in bettering myself on a social level. Before moving to San Diego, I was nestled in Jr. High quite comfortably with my life long childhood friends from Elementary whom I had grown very comfortable with, life had taken a counter-productive turn into complacency. The move to California was the first major transition in my life, it was a whole new environment with an entirely new population of people . . . I was very anti-social and very quickly found myself labeled as the shy new-kid from Utah, a state most people in California couldn't be bothered to think terribly hard about. However, a group of girls took it upon themselves to make me feel welcome, all of them becoming great friends of mine, and one in particular becoming a life-long friend whom I will keep in contact with forever. Along with my mother's insistence in enrolling in the cross-country team I was introduced to a much smaller group