Scholarship Recipient Tara Sugars Provides Update

Tara Sugars provided an update on her college career at our August 12, 2015 meeting.  Tara is a senior at Boston College; she graduated from CB West in 2012.  Tara said that last year she lived in Spain for four months and traveled throughout the country and Europe.  Tara lived with a host family and learned a lot about Spanish culture.  She went to a smaller college and took five classes about Spanish history and Spanish literature, as well as anthropology.  Some of the places she visited were Madrid, Grenada, Barcelona, London, Paris, and Athens. 

 

Back at school, Tara volunteered at the Boston Commonwealth Tennis Association, helping to give children a place to go after school, rather than staying on the streets.  Tara was elected president of the nursing school while a sophomore, and continuing with that position this year has been somewhat overwhelming for her at times. This summer Tara decided to stay in Boston rather than coming back to the area as a gymnastics coach.  She had a job there, but it did not pan out, so she did come back and has been doing odd jobs in the area. 
 
Tara said that the people she met in Spain helped her more than she helped them.  She is planning to go to Mexico again.  She said that she really appreciated the money received from the Club, which helped her do all the things she did.  She would like to go abroad again, perhaps for a full year.  She is thinking about becoming a traveling nurse when she graduates.