I have gained several skills though my 4-H experiences that I will utilize later in my life. 4-H first taught me, through my projects, time management, responsibility, and patience. I learned that starting the project just days before the fair was not ideal and caused significant stress and the possibility of having a project that I would have like to expand on. I also had to learn how to balance finishing my projects, school work, chores, and social life. With my livestock projects I learned responsibility from a young age. My father always said that if we had an animal in a pen or cage we had to provide it with everything since it had no way of doing so for itself, so that meant daily chores as with any animal, and being responsible to take
