<p>Dear Solfam’s daughter,</p>
<p>I understand from your mother or father that you are looking for a topic for a college essay. Here is a suggestion.</p>
<p>I am thinking about the prompt *Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea. *</p>
<p>Contact your Spanish teacher as soon as you can and offer to take a leadership role in the organization of a vegan event for Spanish Club. In my mind, you would coordinate with her/him, and with other students, in planning the event, arranging to get food, explaining to other students what is involved, etc. </p>
<p>The purposes of this event would to help everyone understand an aspect of Spanish culture and food that is perhaps not widely recognized or appreciated, and to educate others about veganism and advocate for it. I have done a basic Google search for Spanish food vegan<a href=“or%20vegetarian”>/i</a> and there are plenty of hits. (I recognize that * vegan is not identical with vegetarian, and you may be able to educate others about that point as well.)</p>
<p>I understand that your teacher may not be able to approve or implement this event. Perhaps another idea would be for you to prepare some Spanish vegan food and bring that in to Spanish Club yourself. That approach would allow similar opportunities to appreciate the food, to educate other students, and to advocate for veganism. </p>
<p>For purposes of your essay it would be okay, though, if it turns out that you advocate passionately for veganism but are not successful in bringing an event to reality. That is okay: You can still write a college essay about whatever experience you have in passionately advocating for your beliefs in this manner. (You would then, also, have the opportunity to use the failure prompt if you so chose.)</p>
<p>However, you do need to hurry. In order to get the essay done in time, you will need to aim for a date that is early in the school year. So, if the concept appeals to you, get to work as soon as you can. Mobilize your high principles so that they can gain more traction in real life, so that others may learn from them, and so that others may even come to adopt them.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>ADad</p>
<p>(ETA: cross posted with sakacar)</p>