I had the best experience as a Prospect Park Youth Advocate, working with Transportation Alternatives. I thought it would be a great idea to get involved with the campaign and have a safe, healthy, car-free park. At the beginning of this summer, I thought this issue interested many citizens, but after an entire summer of speaking with the users of Prospect Park, I know now totally that the people of Brooklyn, and most especially young people like myself, want a car-free park. But I was thrilled that out of so many applicants, four interns were chosen and I was one of them. This campaign seemed extremely interesting; it worked from the bottom-up, from the youth to the adults to the politicians, in a way different from all of the other politics I have know, and it was totally run by my very motivated fellow interns. We worked very hard to get done our jobs very well. The best part was this was all done by us! We had an awesome supervisor who helped and guided us to the right direction and we accomplished something -- four teens absolutely did something huge.

Saturday was really fun. We all gathered up and walked to Grand Army Plaza for a big day. This time while we were walking up the long hill of the Loop Drive, I observed lots of activities were happening at the park. As we were approaching our usual spot, I saw many people having BBQs with their families. Another interesting thing I noticed was a walkathon that was hosted for Diabetes research. But something very interesting I saw was many people gathered for one big circle of dancing.

I thought about what today's work day would be like. I was very excited and nervous at the same time. I knew that I and my fellow coworkers are amazing when it comes to getting something done, but our plans for today were different. Today we met the real world, the people outside Prospect Park. I tried calming myself by just keeping our prior successes in mind. We had planned the whole day ahead.