Natalie Goodrich
To begin with, I live in Salt Lake City, UT and am the oldest of 6 children. Which is an adventure in and of itself.
I've been attending Williamsburg for about 5 years now - just taking a class here and there up until last year. And may I just say that Williamsburg Academy has changed my life?
Some of my hobbies - for which I am passionate - include, ballroom dancing, listening to beautiful classical music, talking and laughing with my friends, going on adventures, and altogether seeking excellence.
Part of seeking excellence - for me - includes placing oneself in challenging situations. Williamsburg has definitely been one of those. I also had an opportunity the summer before my Junior year in high school to serve as lead youth trainer at a simulation for young girls. That experience was life changing as I was able to work with spectacular youth who have a passion for life and leadership and teach young girls powerful principles.
I have been blessed with an excellent family and dear friends that support me in my search for excellence. High school has been rough but so worth it. I am excited to move to the next phase of life and seek out excellent and beautiful things there too.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a LEADER.
-John Quincy Adams
After Williamsburg there are many adventures to come! I am looking forward to serving an 18-month mission for my church beginning in January of 2017 after which I will be attending college at BYU-Idaho where I will study biology and physiology and hopefully move on to an apprenticeship as a chiropractor. I want to pursue a hobby of holistic living.
My dream is to be a good mother who raises children that know how to find truth and defend it with all their might. I want to help others be able to find their passions - their voices. I want to seek out truth and share it through the way I live.
Life is amazing and joyful and beautiful and painful all at the same time and I look forward to living it with all my heart.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
-Theodore Roosevelt.
