Ideas on my first paper

Since Tom said we could blog about either our reading or our topics for our paper, i'll adress the topics. My freshman year in high school, People to People Student Ambassadors sent me a letter proposing i was a good canidate for sutdent ambassador travel. I quickly took them up on the offer. I began a series of applications and a face-to-face interview with them. They responded to me qauickly and told me that I was selected along with 39 other North Carolina students to travel to Europe the upcoming summer. The trip would last 20 days, and within that timespan we would travel to 5 different countries: England, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, and Switzerland. I was about to embark are the greatest adventure of my life. The trip was amazing! it was so good to experience something like that while i was still young. It really helped me mature and figure out who i really was. I mean, this was the first time i had been away from my family for this long, with only 4 other adults and 39 other kids whom i had just befriended a few months before. The whole trip was such a learning experience, i believe this is what i'll write about. However, another thing that i would write about is my Grandfather. He has been about the most influential person in my life. I love him so much and look up to him like no other. He was a Green Beret (special forces) in Vietnam, and since then he worked many jobs including being an accountant. He always took me places when i was little. We would go up north to watch Wake Forest University play football and basketball. He's the most generous man i know. He always stood behind me during my 9 years of baseball and always helped anyway he could. His name is Ernest, but everyone back home calls him the same as I: Poppy. Loved by many, hated by none, Poppy is my role-model. Both of these topics, I think, would churn out good writing. It'll be tough deciding...