Monday, November 28, 2005

For Teenager, Volunteering Is Second Nature

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For Teenager, Volunteering Is Second Nature: "For Teenager, Volunteering Is Second Nature
Fauquier Girl Lauded For Preservation Work

By Karin Brulliard
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 24, 2005; Page PW01

Sarah Christian tutors younger students twice a week, helps out at her parents' nonprofit organization, started a conservation club at school, leads children's summer nature camps and, in years past, has sold her homemade peanut butter dog treats to help preserve the leafy Bull Run Mountains near her home in The Plains.

But lest you think the junior at Battlefield High School in Haymarket is simply stacking her rsum for college applications, consider this: Sarah says she hates school, with all of its testing and 'process.' She has no idea where she wants to go to college or what she wants to study. She hasn't the vaguest idea what she wants to be when she grows up."

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