The Story of Valerie

This is Valerie. Valerie attends Hastings High School in Hastings and will soon enter her junior year there. At her high school, Valerie is involved in various activities and sports from journalism to cross country. Valerie also has a twin brother, as well as five other siblings. This, however, is not the only thing that makes her different from some other people.

The first thing you notice about Valerie is her smile. It’s the kind of smile that makes you feel comfortable around her even if you don’t know her and maybe even makes you want to get to know her more. It’s the kind of warm smile that makes you feel important; like she cares about every word you’re saying. The truth is she does care about other people very much, which is part of the reason she uses some of her spare time to help others in need.

This is a story about helping people you don’t even know, people from a whole different country, people that you can barely even communicate with. It is about barely knowing them, and yet finding it within you to care about these people. It is also about venturing out of your comfort zone and doing things that you never saw yourself doing. It is a story about being a better person for the good deeds that you do. In the end though, this is merely a story about human beings helping other human beings and the world being a much better place for it.

Who is Valerie? In many ways Valerie is a normal teenage girl. She enjoys shopping. She is outgoing and involved with activities within her school. However in some areas she goes above and beyond what many teens do. One of the things Valerie enjoys most is going on mission trips, and she even traveled to Mexico for one mission trip.

It is Valerie’s last day of her mission trip. She has spent many hours with the kids at a Rio Bravo school for deaf children, and she has had quite an impact on some of them. Valerie and her church helped build a wall around the school to help keep the children from being endangered by violence. They also got to know many of the students quite well. One little boy even warmed up to Valerie so much that he gave her a keychain and signed to her that she was his girlfriend. The little boy was so attached to Valerie that he even tried to follow the van as they left. Valerie says she was so sad to leave all the children behind because they had all come to care about each other a lot in the little time that they spent together.

Of course what makes Valerie interesting is that she is full of so much compassion for other people. Many people choose not to help others because they do not feel that they can possibly make a difference in the lives of others, but for Valerie, caring for other people seems to come so easily.