#save ghp

[theatre-techs-blog]

Calling all GHPers and anyone who can help! Major Changes are happening to the Governors Honors Program and they are not good.

For those who don't know GHP (the Governor's Honors Program) is an amazing, life changing program for Georgia  high school juniors and seniors to go to Valdosta State and study their major area totally expense free with industry professionals and other students who are each so amazing in their own way. It is truly life changing. 

 This is as of September 16, 2014. "

Change is afoot... And it's not looking good. The changes so far:

-Theatre Design major is gone -Executive Management major is gone -Biology, Chemistry, and Physics are now just "Science" -2 units of Agricultural Science merged

...and more to come, potentially. GHP 2014 seems to have been the calm before the storm. It's time to pick up the phone. At GOSA, call Ricky Parmer. Call the Governors office. Call your state senator and representative.

Express how much these changes disturb you, how valuable those programs are, and how GHP needs to stay diverse, stimulating, and magical.

Let's go, guys." https://www.facebook.com/groups/655962944428030/ 

Please, If you cared at all about the program, please call, email, write, visit, do whatever you can. SAVE GHP! Even if you never got to go, please save the program that has changed so many lives, Mine included. Please....

[write-with-light]

GHP, you still take my breath away

It's been two years since I began the application process for GHP. I was selected as a Communicative Arts major for the summer of 2012, and there is not a day that goes by in which I am not grateful with all of my being that I got to participate in such an amazing and unique world for four weeks. 

It's been two years. And now I am in college. I am an adult. I live on my own, I apply for jobs, I buy my own food. I do my own laundry. And I am writing a persuasive speech for my Public Speaking class about why we need to save GHP in Georgia and instate it in all 50 states. Having to write about it means having to delve into some of the most emotional and joyous times in my life, and it still brings tear to my eyes to know that I can never go back. 

But I am so grateful that I got be a part of something that meant so much. When I left the Magic Square, I was so afraid that I was never ever again going to feel like I was part of something, something that was bigger than me and that actually matter, like I would never fit in that same way that I did there. And it took me a long time to come to terms with the fact that I probably never will feel that way again. But GHP has absolutely made me who I am today and I wouldn't change any of it. I will never stop talking about it. Hell, I got a tattoo to commemorate it. I know that I will always have Valdosta, and the amazingly intense friendships that I built. 

GHP and 2012 GHPers, I love you guys so much. Each one of you is still my family. Special shout out to Yvette, Constance, and Kenna for being my sisters. And shout outs to Aasees, Sheridan, Caroline, The ever lovely Anna Squires, Sophie, Charlotte, Sam, Dalton and all the rest.